Drones Festivals Tour 2016

Stage design

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The Drones Festivals Tour began with Muse headlining at the Glastonbury Festival 2016 on June 24th 2016. It lasted throughout the Summer and ended with the Krakow Live festival. The tour included European festivals, plus a special one-off gig at Reykjavik's Laugardalsholl.

Information

The festivals tour began shortly after the arena tour ended, with Muse headlining the Glastonbury Festival for the third time. The setlists of the tour were based around the 360/arena tour sets, but accomodated for the festival stage.

The tour went as planned, however, the Istanbul gig, planned to take place in July, was cancelled for safety reasons, due to a coup attempt.

Stage Design/Production

The overall design of the stage was minimalistic and stripped back, compared to previous festival stage designs, while still providing an interesting show. Behind the band were eleven cuboid monoliths, with video screens at the front, and see-through panels, at the sides which allow them to be lit up from the insides. Each of them can move forward or backward independently. According to Matt, it was all controlled by hand, with roadies behind the monoliths, and no machines are used in the process of controlling them. During the Reykjavik gig, the movable monoliths were replaced with a big LED screen due to the size of the stage.

Morgan had his keyboard placed on a movable boom arm, which was connected to Dom's drum riser. Matt's feedback amp, which wasn't present on the 360 tour, returned. The piano was only used for The Globalist, and was always (apart from the last gig), the upright piano. Like the rest of the tour, no CO2 cannons where used during, or at the end of the show. Confetti and streamers were used during Mercy. Pyro was used once, during the Glastonbury gig, for The Globalist.

Due to the tour taking place in outside areas, Muse weren't able to bring in physical drones, which were present during the arena tour. This was done for health and safety reasons, as outside elements would made the drones easier to loose control and fall into the crowd.

Typical Setlist

• Drill Sergeant + Psycho

• Plug in Baby (extended outro)

• Interlude + Hysteria

• Bliss / Stockholm Syndrome / Butterflies and Hurricanes / Citizen Erased / Map of the Problematique

• Isolated System (shortened)

• The Handler

• Supermassive Black Hole

• Munich Jam (fast ending)

• Madness

• Dead Inside (if not played earlier)

• Starlight

• Time is Running Out

• The Globalist

• Drones

Encore

• Uprising (extended outro)

• Mercy

• Knights of Cydonia

Notes

• Sometimes an additional song was played before Isolated System such as Map of the Problematique.
• For the first four gigs, Starlight was played after Supermassive Black Hole. After that, Starlight and Hysteria's slots were swapped.
• Assassin was played two times at the fourth slot at U-Park and Krakow Live.
• Map of the Problematique
• Butterflies and Hurricanes was played two times at the third slot at U-Park and Gurtenfestival
• The setlist used for Glastonbury Festival was slightly different than the rest of the tour as it featured Reapers after Psycho, Stockholm Syndrome before The Globalist, Starlight played after Supermassive Black Hole and JFK preceding Hysteria which was played later in the set.
• Dead Inside was moved to later in the set after the Eiffel Tower gig.
• Bliss was played at the third slot at Garorock.
• Montreux Jazz Festival had a one-off special set including rarities such as Fury and The Groove.
• Lowlands had a shorter setlist, a couple songs had to be cut and Time is Running Out was played earlier.

Stats

Album	# of songs	Songs played
Showbiz	0	-
Origin of Symmetry	6	Bliss, Hyper Music, Plug in Baby, Citizen Erased, Micro Cuts, Futurism
Absolution	6	Time Is Running Out, Stockholm Syndrome, Interlude, Hysteria, Butterflies and Hurricanes, Fury
Black Holes and Revelations	5	Starlight, Supermassive Black Hole, Map of the Problematique, Assassin, Knights of Cydonia
The Resistance	3	Uprising, Resistance, Undisclosed Desires
The 2nd Law	3	Madness, Panic Station, The 2nd Law: Isolated System
Drones	9	Dead Inside, [Drill Sergeant], Psycho, Mercy, Reapers, The Handler, [JFK], The Globalist, Drones
Other	3	Agitated, The Groove, Munich Jam

Gigs

Date	Venue	Location
2016-08-21	Krakow Live	Krakow, Poland
2016-08-20	Rock am See	Konstanz, Germany
2016-08-19	Lowlands Festival	Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
2016-08-13	Sziget Festival	Budapest, Hungary
2016-08-06	Laugardalsholl	Reykjavik, Iceland
2016-07-29	Rock The City	Bucharest, Romania
2016-07-26	Istanbul Blue Night	Istanbul, Turkey
2016-07-23	Ejekt Festival	Athens, Greece
2016-07-19	Paléo Festival	Nyon, Switzerland
2016-07-18	Nîmes Festival	Nîmes, France
2016-07-16	Festival Internacional de Benicàssim	Benicàssim, VC, Spain
2016-07-14	Gurten Festival	Berne, Switzerland
2016-07-08	U-Park Festival	Kyiv, Ukraine
2016-07-02	Auditorium Stravinski (Montreux Jazz Festival)	Montreux, Switzerland
2016-06-30	Garorock Festival	Marmande, France
2016-06-28	Eiffel Tower	Paris, France
2016-06-24	Worthy Farm (Glastonbury Festival)	Pilton, UK

See Also

• Moment Factory working on the Drones Festivals Tour 2016

References

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