Will of the People World Tour

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Official tour poster
Mexican dates poster
U.S. & Europe dates poster
Mexico shows stage design
U.S./Indoor arena stage design



The "Will of the People World Tour" is the current headlining tour, set to take place in until the summer of this year.

Information

The first gigs of the tour were announced on August 19th, 2022. Four gigs were announced in total, all in the UK, and all appearing to be outdoor stadium gigs. With the tour being called the "World Tour", it was expected that more tour dates in other countries would be announced in the future. Bellamy mentioned, in an interview with Zane Lowe in August of 2022, that the tour was planned to take place between January and July of 2023, starting in Mexico, continuing in the U.S. and Canada, and finishing in Europe, as appears to be the case.[1]

These first UK gigs that were announced will take place in Plymouth's Home Park, Huddersfield's John Smith's Stadium, Glasgow's Bellahouston Park and Milton Keynes's National Bowl.

The tour will feature Muse's first show in the city of Wiener Neustadt, Austria, and Muse's first performance at Milton Keynes. The last time Muse were at Milton Keynes was during the rehearsals for The Resistance stadium tour in 2010. Additionally, Muse are set to go back to The Hague, Netherlands after almost 23 years, for the show at Malieveld, and Lyon, France, after more than a decade.

The U.S. & Canadian portion of the tour was finally announced on September 29th, 2022. U.S. shows are set to take place indoors, right after the Mexico leg, beginning in Chicago's United Center on February 25th, and closing in Salt Lake City's Vivint Smart Home Arena on April 20th. Two additional gigs in Montreal and Quebec were announced on October 6th, while additional gigs in St. Louis and Oakland were announced on October 17th.

Mexican dates were announced on October 7th, and included stops in Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City, An additional date in Mexico City was announced on October 27th, 2022. All gigs took place before the second, U.S. leg.

Two more additional European dates have been announced on January 20th, 2023, including the first show of the tour in Spain, in Santander's El Sardinero on July 4th, and a gig at Nancy's Zénith amphitheatre on July 6th, where they'll be playing a headlining show, as part of the Nancy Open Air festival.

After being teased on February 16th by the band on social media, the band announced the only Asian gig of the tour in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, on February 22nd. The open-air gig will take place at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian Resort.[2][3] It will be the band's first time in the country since 2007.

Additional information

While no new songs were played during the January leg in Mexico, the second U.S. leg, starting in Chicago, in February, recieved live premieres of Verona and The Dark Side (Alternate Reality Version) (Instrumental). Simulation Theory Theme was played by the band for the first time in its shortened form, while Resistance and the shortened version of Isolated System also recieved their tour debuts, both being played for the first time since 2018. Additionally, Kill or Be Killed's Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation version was played from tape, as an interstitial. Later throughout the U.S. leg, Undisclosed Desires was put into the setlists, aswell as Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses), making the WOTP World Tour the second big headlining tour to feature Assassin, outside of the Black Holes And Revelations Tour, with it previously being only played during The Drones World Tour 2015/16.

Supporting acts

For the UK shows (exception being the Glasgow one), Royal Blood were announced as the support band. Royal Blood were also announced as the support band for the rest of the European shows (exception being the Nancy one). For the U.S. shows, Evanescence were announced as the support band. Additional support acts for U.S. shows were announced on November 9th, 2022; One Ok Rock will be supporting Muse during the first half of the U.S. leg (between Chicago and Philadelphia gigs), while Highly Suspect will be supporting Muse during the second half of the U.S. leg (between the Phoenix and Salt Lake City gigs).[4] On January 13th, 2023, The Warning were announced as the support act for the Mexico gigs.[5]

So far, it is unknown who will be supporting Muse at Glasgow and Nancy.

Production

As with the previous large headlining tour, the Simulation Theory World Tour, this tour features indoor, outdoor and festival shows. The stage set-up in general is a hybrid between the 2022 festivals tour and the autumn theatre tour setups. It includes an inflatable rotating figure of Will the Hacker as a backdrop, together with abig grid of lights, similar to the one from the theatre tour.

Similar to during the Simulation Theory World Tour in 2019, the Mexican shows got a festival set-up, which bore more resemblance to the 2022 festival setup, in terms of lighting fixtures, and the show itself. For the second leg, the U.S. arena tour, more songs were added, a few songs were swapped, and the setup recieved additional elements, which include an addition of six moving light-glass panels, hung above the band, more lights on the back grid, lights underneath the stage, a B-stage with a retractable floor, and an addition of another baphomet-like inflatable figure, named by Bellamy as "Baph", which gets erected during the final encore.

Short tour documentaries

Muse got a new photographer and videographer, Johann Ramos (who is perhaps most known as "The Work of Jar") onboard the tour, replacing their long-time photographer, Hans Peter van Velthoven. A series of short documentaries is set to be released throughout the tour itself, shot and edited by Ramos himself, posted on Muse's YouTube channel. So far, there have been two such documentaries. The first one is a recap of the first leg of the tour in Mexico, while the second one goes over the rehearsals, which took place in California's Ontario, aswell as the Chicago show.

Average Setlist

Mexican Shows Set

Encore

U.S. Shows Set

Encore

Notes & Exceptions

Stats

Album # of songs Songs played
Showbiz - -
Origin of Symmetry 4 New Born, Bliss, Plug In Baby, Citizen Erased
Absolution 4 Interlude, Hysteria, Stockholm Syndrome, Time Is Running Out
Black Holes and Revelations 5 Supermassive Black Hole, Map of the Problematique, Starlight, Knights of Cydonia, Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses)
The Resistance 3 Uprising, Resistance, Undisclosed Desires
The 2nd Law 3 Prelude, Madness, Isolated System
Drones 3 Drill Sergeant, Psycho, JFK
Simulation Theory 3 Pressure, Thought Contagion, The Dark Side (Alternate Reality Version)
Will of the People 9 Will of the People, Kill or Be Killed, You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween, We Are Fucking Fucked, Won't Stand Down, Compliance, Verona, Kill or Be Killed (Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation), Liberation
Other 3 The Gallery, Behold, The Glove, Simulation Theory Theme

Gigs

The list will be updated as more gigs are announced

Date Venue Location
2023-07-29 Bukit Kiara Equestrian Resort Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2023-07-22 San Siro Stadium Milan, Italy
2023-07-18 Stadio Olimpico Rome, Italy
2023-07-15 Stade Orange Vélodrome Marseille, France
2023-07-12 BernExpo Areal Bern, Switzerland
2023-07-08 Stade de France Paris, France
2023-07-06 Zénith de Nancy (Nancy Open Air) Nancy, France
2023-07-04 Campos de Sport de El Sardinero Santander, Spain
2023-07-01 Festivalpark Werchter (Rock Werchter) Werchter, Belgium
2023-06-29 Matmut Atlantique Bordeaux, France
2023-06-25 The National Bowl Milton Keynes, UK
2023-06-23 Bellahouston Park Glasgow, UK
2023-06-20 John Smith's Stadium Huddersfield, UK
2023-06-18 Flugplatz Neuhausen (Southside Festival) Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany
2023-06-17 Eichenring (Hurricane Festival) Scheessel, Germany
2023-06-15 Groupama Stadium Lyon, France
2023-06-11 Park 360 (Rock for People) Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
2023-06-09 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne, Germany
2023-06-07 Malieveld The Hague, Netherlands
2023-06-03 Stadion Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt, Austria
2023-06-?? Eskelunden (NorthSide) Århus, Denmark
2023-05-27 Home Park Plymouth, UK
2023-05-06 Central Park (Shaky Knees Music Festival) Atlanta, GA, USA
2023-04-20 Vivint Arena Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2023-04-18 Climate Pledge Arena Seattle, WA, USA
2023-04-16 Moda Center Portland, OR, USA
2023-04-14 Oakland Arena Oakland, CA, USA
2023-04-12 Honda Center Anaheim, CA, USA
2023-04-10 Pechanga Arena San Diego, CA, USA
2023-04-08 T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas, NV, USA
2023-04-06 Crypto.com Arena Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023-04-04 Ball Arena Denver, CO, USA
2023-04-02 Desert Diamond Arena Phoenix, AZ, USA
2023-03-19 Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia, PA, USA
2023-03-17 Madison Square Garden New York City, NY, USA
2023-03-15 Centre Bell Montreal, QC, Canada
2023-03-14 Centre Bell Montreal, QC, Canada
2023-03-12 Centre Vidéotron Québec City, QC, Canada
2023-03-11 Centre Vidéotron Québec City, QC, Canada
2023-03-09 Scotiabank Arena Toronto, ON, Canada
2023-03-07 Nationwide Arena Columbus, OH, USA
2023-03-05 Chaifetz Arena St. Louis, MO, USA
2023-03-03 Dickies Arena Fort Worth, TX, USA
2023-03-02 Toyota Center Houston, TX, USA
2023-02-28 Moody Center Austin, TX, USA
2023-02-26 Target Center Minneapolis, MN, USA
2023-02-25 United Center Chicago, IL, USA
2023-01-23 Foro Sol Mexico City, Mexico
2023-01-22 Foro Sol Mexico City, Mexico
2023-01-20 Arena V.F.G. Guadalajara, Mexico
2023-01-18 Estadio Banorte Monterrey, Mexico

References


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  1. ↑ https://youtu.be/AMvtyphl9rA?t=2297
  2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMk5jDBxEG/
  3. ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1628321276896112641
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1590403848077803520/photo/1
  5. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXcXiNNSFy/
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