The Resistance Tour

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The Resistance Tour was a worldwide tour that took place between October 2009 and August 2011 in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia in support of the album The Resistance. It took place in both indoor arenas, aswell as stadiums and festivals.

Warm-up gigs & U2 360° Tour

The tour began with a series of warm up gigs. The first two notable homecoming concerts, called "A Seaside Rendezvous", took place in Muse's childhood town, Teignmouth, on 4th and 5th of September, 2009. These were the band's first performances in the town, in ten years. Following the homecoming gigs were three intimate shows, in Berlin's Admiralspalast, Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet and New York City's Walter Kerr Theatre - the latter of which was filmed for MTV World Stage. All three gigs took place in September, right after the Teignmouth shows.

Following the warm up shows and a series of promotional TV performances came the infamous U2 360° Tour, during which Muse supported U2. First half of Muse's support gigs took place in autumn of 2009 in the U.S., with the last half of support gigs taking place in early 2011, straight after the indoor leg of the main tour, in South America.

Europe - Indoor shows

After finishing the first series of U2 360° Tour support gigs, Muse began with the main headlining tour in late October of 2009. The first leg of indoor concerts began with the performance at Helsinki's Hartwall Areena on October 22nd, and ended with a gig at Turin's Palasport Olimpico on December 4th, 2009.

U.S. festivals & Australasia

After finishing the European leg, the band went on to perform a run of holiday gigs in the States, making stops at festivals such as Oakland's Oracle Arena for Live 105's Not So Silent Night, Los Angeles's Gibson Amphitheatre for KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas. Right after the Christmas holidays, they headed out to Japan in January of 2010, to perform gigs at Seoul's Olympic Park, Osaka's jō Hall, Nagoya's Aichi Taiiku-Kan and Tokyo's Nippon Budōkan.

Between January and the beginning of February, 2010, the band travelled to Australia to perform at a series of Big Day Out festivals across the country. The gigs took place at several cities in Australia, including Auckland, Sydney and Perth. After the Australian, Muse made two more stops in Asia, in Singapore and Hong Kong.

United States & Mexico - Indoor shows

On February 27th, 2010, Muse returned to the U.S., starting with the gig at Atlanta's Gwinett Arena. The U.S./Mexican run, which also included performances at a few festivals like Coachella and South By Southwest, ended with the only Mexican show of the tour, at Mexico City's Foro Sol.

Stage Set-Up

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Indoor stage set-up for The Resistance tour

The towers. Three towers.

Typical setlist

• We Are The Universe (intro music) + Uprising
• Resistance
• New Born
• Map of the Problematique
• Supermassive Black Hole
• Guiding Light
• Interlude + Hysteria
• United States of Eurasia
• Cave / Feeling Good
• Helsinki Jam + Undisclosed Desires
• Starlight
• Plug in Baby
• Time is Running Out
• Unnatural Selection

Encore 1

• Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)
• Stockholm Syndrome
• Knights of Cydonia

Variation

• Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture) was used as the opener on the second night of the tour at Stockholm. It is suspected that this was due to a technical issue with the towers. It would be used as an opener a few more times in the tour, mostly towards the end.
• The other two movements of Exogenesis were never played during the tour. Part 3 (Redemption) would be played once during the following tour, leaving Part 2 (Cross-Pollination) as one of the few studio tracks to never be played live, a title previously held only by Falling Away With You.
• Unintended was occasionally played before Helsinki Jam.
• During the Amnéville-les-Thermes gig, Nishe was played before United States of Eurasia. It would remain for the vast majority of the tour.
• On rare occasions, Unnatural Selection replaced Map of the Problematique, Stockholm Syndrome closed the main set and Plug in Baby was played after Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture).
• MK ULTRA made it's live debut at Birmingham. It would make regular appearances throughout the rest of the tour, replacing, or being played in addition to, Guiding Light.
• Butterflies & Hurricanes was played at the Turin gig after Hysteria, as was Sunburn which replaced Cave / Feeling Good. Both would make rare appearances throughout the remainder of the Resistance tour.

Asia

A string of gigs were performed in South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong in early 2010. Despite a few minor mutations in the placement of certain songs in the set, the performances were similar to those of the European leg. However there were some (notable) exceptions.

• Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture) was not played in Seoul.
• Bliss was played for the first time on the tour at Osaka, replacing Stockholm Syndrome. It would make rare appearances throughout the rest of the tour.
• Citizen Erased debuted at the Nagoya gig, also replacing Stockholm Syndrome. Like Bliss, it would show up from time to time.
• During the Tokyo gig Can't Take My Eyes Off You was played for the first time since 2002. Dead Star also made it's tour debut at this gig with the Micro Cuts ending riff replacing the second half. They replaced MK ULTRA and Stockholm Syndrome.
• Dead Star was played again at the Hong Kong gig, also with the Micro Cuts riff at the end. This is the last time Dead Star would be seen until The 2nd Law Tour in 2013.

A series of festival dates in Australia and New Zealand took place between the Japan and Singapore gigs. Despite some oddities in the order of the setlist, these were identical to previous gigs, albeit shorter.

North America + Mexico

There were very few changes on this leg of the tour. However,

• Ruled By Secrecy returned to setlists for the first time since 2007 at the Edmonton gig. It was played again at Seattle.

European Festival + Stadium tour

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Stage Set-Up for The Resistance Stadium tour

A small gig for competition winners was performed in Paris. This gig marked the debut performances of both I Belong To You and Neutron Star Collision.

Setlist polls were organised by Muse's management on the official Muse website, allowing fans to vote for the top 5 songs they wanted to hear at each gig. Not all of their repertoire was included in this, however. Dead Star, and some other tracks were absent. In many cases only one or two of the top 5 songs were played. In some cases none were played. Due to the popularity of Citizen Erased and Bliss in these polls, they both made very regular appearances throughout the tour.

Take a Bow made it's tour debut at Stade de Suisse.

Stadium Tour Setlist

• We Are The Universe (Riot Version)
• Uprising
• Supermassive Black Hole
• New Born
• Map of the Problematique / MK ULTRA
• Neutron Star Collision / Butterflies & Hurricanes
• Guiding Light
• Interlude + Hysteria
• Nishe
• United States Of Eurasia
• I Belong To You
• Feeling Good
• MK Jam + Undisclosed Desires
• Resistance
• Starlight
• Time is Running Out
• Unnatural Selection

Encore 1

• Unintended / Soldier's Poem
• Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)
• Stockholm Syndrome

Encore 2

• Take A Bow
• Plug In Baby
• Knights of Cydonia

Variation

• Citizen Erased was played instead of both Unintended and Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture) at Nijmegen.
• Unintended / Solider's Poem were not played at Manchester
• Back in Black was performed at the Milan gig.
• The second London gig featured a significantly different setlist than the previous night. During the gig, all of Map of the Problematique, MK ULTRA, Bliss, Citizen Erased and Ruled By Secrecy were played. This is an example of the infamous "second night syndrome".

Festival Tour Setlist

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Stats

Album	# of songs	Songs played
Showbiz	3	Sunburn, Cave, Unintended
Origin of Symmetry	6	New Born, Bliss, Plug in Baby, Citizen Erased, Feeling Good, Megalomania
Absolution	6	Time Is Running Out, Stockholm Syndrome, Interlude, Hysteria, Butterflies and Hurricanes, Ruled By Secrecy
Black Holes and Revelations	6	Take a Bow, Starlight, Supermassive Black Hole, Map of the Problematique, Soldier's Poem, Knights of Cydonia
The Resistance	9	Uprising, Resistance, Undisclosed Desires, United States of Eurasia, Guiding Light, Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra, I Belong To You, Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)
Other	11	Nishe, Dead Star, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Popcorn, Neutron Star Collision, Helsinki Jam, Glasgow Jam, MK Jam, America, Back in Black, Where The Streets Have No Name