City of Delusion (live)

This page contains a list of all known performances of City of Delusion.

Analysis and Explanation

City of Delusion was performed sporadically in 2006 with no clear pattern to its performances. This continued in 2007, although with fewer performances. Alongside several other album tracks, City of Delusion made only several appearances and was not played outside of the Black Holes and Revelations Tour. The song was not played between July and October 2006, with the exception being the September 11th gig. It was performed just once in 2008, on the same date the song made its debut in 2006. For whatever reason the band did not play it particularly often, leading to very few pro-shots of this song existing (a similar fate occurred with Exo-Politics, Hoodoo and Assassin). The vocal strain felt by Matt may also be a deterrent from the song reappearing, as well as the complicated instruments (including a solo by Dan the Trumpet Man, who has not been used in many years). It is unlikely that without a replacement for Dan, City of Delusion will not return to setlists.

In a poll of 500 fans conducted in November 2015, out of a total thirty songs that had not been played since The Resistance era, fans voted City of Delusion as the eighth most requested song to make a return to setlists.

Black Holes and Revelations era

2008

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
1	2008-07-18	Auditorio Telmex	Guadalajara, Mexico	Watch here

2007

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
20	2007-09-21	Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre	Irvine, CA, USA	Watch here
19	2007-09-09	KeyArena	Seattle, WA, USA	Watch here
18	2007-08-11	Agganis Arena	Boston, MA, USA	Watch here
17	2007-08-10	Festival Pier	Philadelphia, PA, USA
16	2007-08-09	The Patriot Center	Fairfax, VA, USA	Watch here
15	2007-08-06	Madison Square Garden	New York City, NY, USA	Watch here
14	2007-07-29	Songdo Dae Woo Motors Field (Pentaport Rock Festival)	Incheon, South Korea
13	2007-06-23	Parc des Princes	Paris, France	Watch here
12	2007-06-16	Wembley Stadium	London, UK	Watch here
11	2007-06-09	Seaclose Park (Isle of Wight Festival)	Newport, UK
10	2007-04-12	Palacio de los Deportes	Mexico City, DF, Mexico	Watch here
9	2007-04-10	The Forum	Inglewood, CA, USA	Watch here
8	2007-04-09	Bill Graham Civic Auditorium	San Francisco, CA, USA	Watch here
7	2007-03-18	Sendai Zepp	Sendai, Japan
6	2007-03-16	Fukuoka Zepp	Fukuoka, Japan
5	2007-03-15	Osaka Zepp	Osaka, Japan
4	2007-03-12	International Forum	Tokyo, Japan
3	2007-03-11	Studio Coast	Tokyo, Japan
2	2007-01-31	Festival Hall	Melbourne, VI, Australia
1	2007-01-24	Hordern Pavilion	Sydney, NS, Australia

2006

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
30	2006-12-19	Sportpaleis Antwerp	Antwerp, Belgium	Watch here
29	2006-12-18	Zénith	Lille, France	Watch here
28	2006-12-17	Zénith	Nantes, France	Watch here
27	2006-12-15	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	Paris, France	Watch here
26	2006-12-14	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	Paris, France	Watch here
25	2006-12-11	Halle Tony Garnier	Lyon, France	Watch here
24	2006-12-09	Zenith	Munich, Germany
23	2006-12-06	Eishalle Deutweg	Winterthur, Switzerland
22	2006-12-04	DatchForum	Milan, Italy	Watch here
21	2006-12-02	PalaMalaguti	Bologna, Italy	Watch here
20	2006-11-28	Brabanthallen	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Watch here
19	2006-11-26	Alsterdorfer Sporthalle	Hamburg, Germany
18	2006-11-23	Wembley Arena	London, UK	Watch here
17	2006-11-22	Wembley Arena	London, UK	Watch here
16	2006-11-18	Hallam FM Arena	Sheffield, UK	Watch here
15	2006-11-17	National Ice Centre Arena	Nottingham, UK	Watch here
14	2006-11-15	National Exhibition Centre	Birmingham, UK	Watch here
13	2006-11-11	Evening News Arena	Manchester, UK	Watch here
12	2006-10-28	Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona	Badalona, Spain
11	2006-10-27	Palacio Deportes	Madrid, Spain	Watch here
10	2006-10-26	Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno	Lisbon, Portugal	Watch here
9	2006-09-11	Lifestyles Communities Pavilion	Columbus, OH, USA	Watch here
8	2006-07-31	Jacques Cartier Pier	Montreal, QC, Canada
7	2006-07-27	Aragon Ballroom	Chicago, USA	Watch here
6	2006-07-26	State Theater	Minneapolis, USA
5	2006-07-24	Fillmore Auditorium	Denver, CO, USA	Listen here
4	2006-07-22	Celebrity Theatre	Phoenix, AZ, USA
3	2006-07-21	Soma	San Diego, USA	Watch here
2	2006-07-19	Greek Theatre	Los Angeles, CA, USA	Watch here
1	2006-07-18	The Concourse	San Francisco, CA, USA	Watch here

See also

This is a table of Black Holes and Revelations-era live performances.

Note: white indicates performed at 75-100% of known setlists.

Gainsboro indicates performed at 50-75% of known setlists.

Silver indicates performed at 25-50% of known setlists.

Dark gray indicates performed at 0-25% of known setlists.

Black indicates no known performance that year.

Aqua indicates a performance in the current tour and year for which the final amount of performances is unknown.

All years with unknown setlists (1997-2004) are indicated with small font.

Last updated: December 27, 2015.

Song Title	Release	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	#
Take a Bow	Black Holes and Revelations	0	0	79	81	14	0	13	3	0	0	0	0	190
Starlight	Black Holes and Revelations	0	0	97	101	17	50	95	17	31	93	3	59	563
Supermassive Black Hole	Black Holes and Revelations	0	0	96	98	17	48	95	13	29	91	0	62	549
Map of the Problematique	Black Holes and Revelations	0	0	95	97	17	36	62	8	11	31	0	5	362
Soldier's Poem	Black Holes and Revelations	0	0	41	51	3	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	100
Invincible	Black Holes and Revelations	0	0	71	85	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	170
Assassin	Black Holes and Revelations	0	20	38	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	77
Exo-Politics	Black Holes and Revelations	0	21	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	28
City of Delusion	Black Holes and Revelations	0	0	30	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	51
Hoodoo	Black Holes and Revelations	0	0	35	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	63
Knights of Cydonia	Black Holes and Revelations	0	0	98	101	17	44	95	17	28	90	3	62	555
Glorious	Black Holes and Revelations	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Crying Shame	Supermassive Black Hole	1	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Man of Mystery	The Supermassive Selection	0	0	0	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21

References

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