Summer Festivals Tour 2018

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This tour was a short tour of Summer festivals around the world (before the break and the subsequent album drop), including their first shows at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park after 8 years. Despite being unofficially called the "Summer festivals tour", half of the tour took place during Spring time. The tour began in Mexico and ended in Portugal.

Information

As mentioned above, the short tour began with the performance at the Pa'l Norte festival in Monterrey, Mexico, and ended with the Rock in Rio festival in Lisbon, Portugal.

Like the previous tour (the North American Summer Amphitheatre Tour), the stage design was kept the same as the Drones Festivals Tour, with the monolith screens behind the band. Also like the NA Summer Amphitheatre tour, the stage outfits were changed from the Drones costumes to ones which fit better with the new songs/album cycle. The sets were, however, changed, featuring less Drones songs, and instead more popular songs, and, of course, Dig Down and Thought Contagion.

Average Setlist

• Thought Contagion
• [Drill Sergeant] + Psycho
• Interlude + Hysteria + Back in Black riff outro
• Plug in Baby (extended outro)
• Isolated System
• Dig Down
• Showbiz / The Handler / Undisclosed Desires / Resistance
• Supermassive Black Hole
• Stockholm Syndrome
• Munich Jam / Unsustainable
• Madness
• Starlight
• Time is Running Out
• Mercy

• Take a Bow
• Uprising (extended)
• Man With a Harmonica + Knights of Cydonia

Exceptions

• At Carolina Rebellion, Drill Sergeant + Psycho opened, and Thought Contagion was played after Hysteria, followed by the tour's only performance of Map of the Problematique, before going onto Plug in Baby. Dig Down, Madness, Starlight and Mercy weren't played. Stockholm Syndrome was moved further down the setlist to close the main set.

• At Bottlerock, Unsustainable and Resistance were played between Supermassive Black Hole and Stockholm Syndrome - no other setlist spots were affected and the rotation spot and Munich Jam were still played.

• At Bonnaroo, Unsustainable was played in the place of Isolated System. The rotation and Munich Jam/Unsustainable spots weren't performed.

Stats

Album	# of songs	Songs played
Showbiz	1	Showbiz
Origin of Symmetry	1	Plug in Baby
Absolution	4	Time is Running Out, Stockholm Syndrome, Interlude, Hysteria
Black Holes and Revelations	5	Take a Bow, Starlight, Supermassive Black Hole, Map of the Problematique, Knights of Cydonia
The Resistance	3	Uprising, Resistance, Undisclosed Desires
The 2nd Law	3	Madness, Isolated System, Unsustainable
Drones	4	[Drill Sergeant], Psycho, Mercy, The Handler
Simulation Theory	2	Dig Down, Thought Contagion
Other	1	Munich Jam

Gigs

Date	Venue	Location
2018-06-23	Bela Vista Park (Rock in Rio)	Lisbon, Portugal
2018-06-08	Great Stage Park (Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival)	Manchester, TN, USA
2018-06-03	Zeppelinfeld (Rock Im Park)	Nuremberg, Germany
2018-06-02	Nürburgring (Rock Am Ring)	Nürburg, Germany
2018-05-25	Valley Expo (BottleRock Napa Valley)	Napa, CA, USA
2018-05-06	Motor Speedway (Carolina Rebellion)	Charlotte, NC, USA
2018-04-20	Parque Fundidora (Pa'l Norte)	Monterrey, NL, Mexico

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