Glorious (live)

30%	MuseWiki ULD has 4/11 performances of this song. This is a list of missing performances.

Live information
Name	Glorious
Tours	Drones (1) Absolution (10)
First performance	22nd October 2004
Latest performance	19th August 2017
Pro-shots	None
Audience footage	2017: London (08/19/2017) 2004: London (12/20/2004) Ottawa (11/02/2004)
Audio recordings	2004: London (10/31/2004)
# of performances	11
Uno Live Database	36%

This page contains a list of all known performances of Glorious.

Analysis and Explanation

Glorious was the first song to be performed from the Black Holes and Revelations era and the first to be dropped from setlists. Glorious was performed at several October and November dates during the 2004 Absolution tour before being skipped until the Earls Court performance in December. From there it was played once more in 2005, but never again after that. It is assumed that, had the song made the international release of the album, it would have been performed far more often.

The only performances of the song are early performances that lack many parts of the song that would see the final release including the piano. Many performances of Glorious available online are actually the 10/31/2004 performance under a variety of different names, including the 11/01/2004 and 11/02/2004 gigs. You can tell this by listening carefully at the beginning of the performance for a clicking noise from digital equipment, possibly a glitch in the audio. Glorious holds the distinction of being the only Muse song played live mostly in Canada.

The likelihood of Glorious being played live again is limited due to its status as a b-side. Few songs from the Black Holes and Revelations era are played live today, further limiting the possibility of a return. Still, 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 Glorious as the most requested song to make a return to setlists. Dom revealed in a 2016 interview that he would like to see the song performed live again, but also disclosed that Matt has responded with "Fuck off".

After twelve years, Glorious was finally performed again at the 2017 London Shepherds Bush Empire show as a fan request. This version is the first and so far only performance to use the piano and the intro seen on the studio version of the song.

Drones era

2017

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
1	2017-08-19	Shepherds Bush Empire	London, UK	Watch here

Absolution era

2005

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
1	2005-04-10	Tabernacle	Atlanta, GA, USA

2004

#	Date	Venue	Location	Link
9	2004-12-20	Earls Court Exhibition Centre	London, UK	Watch here (Incomplete) [B]
8	2004-11-05	Avalon	Boston, MA, USA
7	2004-11-04	Métropolis	Montréal, QC, Canada
6	2004-11-02	Capital	Ottawa, ON, Canada	Watch here (Incomplete) [B]
5	2004-11-01	Kool Haus	Toronto, ON, Canada
4	2004-10-31	The Drink	London, ON, Canada	Listen here [B]
3	2004-10-26	Red's	Edmonton, AB, Canada
2	2004-10-25	MacEwan Hall Ballroom	Calgary, AB, Canada
1	2004-10-22	In the Venue	Salt Lake City, UT, USA

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: April 15, 2022.

Song Title	Release	'04	'05	'06	'07	'08	'09	'10	'11	'12	'13	'14	'15	'16	'17	'18	'19	'22	'23	#
Take a Bow	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	79	81	14	0	13	3	0	0	0	0	35	12	7	52	0	0	296
Starlight	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	96	101	17	50	95	17	31	93	3	59	82	33	13	61	32	57	840
Supermassive Black Hole	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	96	98	17	48	95	13	29	91	0	62	82	33	14	61	33	57	829
Map of the Problematique	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	95	97	17	36	62	8	11	31	0	5	43	6	1	0	10	11	433
Soldier's Poem	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	41	51	3	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100
Invincible	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	71	85	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	170
Assassin	Black Holes & Revelations	0	20	38	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	2	1	57	11	1	154
Exo-Politics	Black Holes & Revelations	0	21	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	28
City of Delusion	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	30	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	51
Hoodoo	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	35	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	63
Knights of Cydonia	Black Holes & Revelations	0	0	97	101	17	44	95	17	28	90	3	62	82	34	13	60	33	56	832
Glorious	Black Holes & Revelations	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	11
Crying Shame	Supermassive Black Hole	1	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Easily	Starlight	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Man of Mystery	The Supermassive Selection	0	0	0	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21

References

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