Will of the People World Tour

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Mexico dates poster
U.S. dates poster
Europe dates poster
Malaysian show 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 outdoor stadium gigs. As expected, more tour dates were announced throughout the following months, leading up to the tour itself. Bellamy mentioned, in an interview with Zane Lowe in August of 2022, that the tour is planned to take place between January and July of 2023, starting in Mexico, continuing in the U.S. and Canada, and finishing in Europe.[1]

Mexico

Mexican dates were announced on October 7th, 2022. The tour included stops at Monterrey's Estadio Banorte, Guadalajara's Arena VFG and Mexico City's Foro Sol, spreading over two dates, on both 22nd and 23rd of January. The additional date in Mexico City, on 23rd, was announced on October 27th, 2022.

The short Mexican leg took place before the U.S. legs.

United States & Canada

Taking place after the short Mexican leg, U.S. and Canada legs exclusively featured indoor shows, with the only exception being the gig at Shaky Knees festival in Atlanta. Most tour dates were announced on September 29th, 2022. 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.

The tour featured two legs and one "lone" show. The first leg began at Chicago's United Center on February 25th, and ended at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center on March 19th. The second leg started with the show at Phoenix's Desert Diamond Arena on April 2nd, ending with a gig at Salt Lake City's Vivint Smart Home Arena. The final show in the U.S. took place on May 6th, at the afforementioned Shaky Knees festival.

Europe

As mentioned above, the first gigs of the tour that were announced were the UK gigs. These will take place in Plymouth's Home Park on May 27th, Huddersfield's John Smith's Stadium on June 20th, Glasgow's Bellahouston Park on June 23rd and Milton Keynes's National Bowl on June 25th. The rest of the tour was announced afterwards. 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.

The rest of the European dates were announced soon afterwards. The European leg will feature Muse's first shows in the cities of Wiener Neustadt, Austria and Santander, Spain. Additionally, the show at Milton Keynes's National Bowl is going to be Muse's first live show at the site. 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, and Lyon, France after about a decade.

The European tour will feature all outdoor productions, and will include both stadium and festival shows.

Travel packages

Three travel packages are available to buy for three dates off of the European leg of the tour; Cologne (June 9th), Paris (July 8th) and Milan (July 22nd). Each travel package includes, together with two tickets, a two-night stay at a hotel (king or twin bed rooms options are available). Hotels which are included are Cologne's Pullman, Paris's Marriott Ambassador and Milan's Marriott. An optional third night add-on is also included in each package, for additional cost. Additionally, two exclusive posters, commemorating Muse's performance at each venue in the city (RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, Stade de France in Paris and San Siro in Milan) are included in each travel package, as are on-site hosts, and, for the Cologne gig, a roundtrip fare on the metro to the stadium.

More on the travel packages can be seen here.

Asia

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.

The gig will take place at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian Resort.[4][5] It will be the band's first time in the country since 2007.

Supporting acts

Thje first support act to be announced were Royal Blood. They are set to support Muse during the open-air/European leg (exceptions being the Nancy and Glasgow gigs, aswell as festivals). For the U.S. shows, Evanescence were announced as the main opening act. Additional support acts for U.S. shows were announced on November 9th, 2022; One Ok Rock supported 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).[6] On January 13th, 2023, The Warning were announced as the support act for the Mexico gigs.[7]

On March 22nd, both The Warning and One Ok Rock were announced as additional support acts for select European dates. The Warning will support Muse on the U.K. leg (plus one stop in Lyon, France), while One Ok Rock will be supporting Muse on the rest of the European leg (excluding festivals, and the Glasgow gig). Joining the two is Twin Atlantic, who are set to support Muse together with The Warning on the afforementioned Bellahouston Park gig in Glasgow.[8]

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.

A picture of the stage being set up for the gig in Plymouth surfaced on social media on May 20th,[9] leading fans to believe that the outdoor set up will be similar to the Mexican set up, in terms of it being more akin to a festival set up, rather than having its own elaborate stage design, like the previous stadium tours. More pics started to appear online as the set up began. It's speculated that the outdoor production might be the same (or almost the same) as the arena production, in terms of the stage set up. It is unknown whether or not European festivals will have the same production as the standalone stadium gigs.

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 three such documentaries. The first one is a recap of the first leg of the tour in Mexico, the second one goes over the rehearsals, which took place in California's Ontario, aswell as the Chicago show, while the third one looks back at week one of the U.S. leg of the tour.

Average Setlist

During the January leg in Mexico, the setlist remained relatively unchaged from the shows off of the 2022 festivals tour. This changed with leg 1 in the U.S., starting in Chicago, in February, when the show was updated, in turn bringing in a new setlist format. This first indoor leg in the U.S. brought in live premieres of Verona and The Dark Side (Alternate Reality Version) (Instrumental). STT Interstitials 1 and 3 returned as Simulation Theory Theme, which was played from tape, mashed up with [JFK], acting as an intro to Kill or Be Killed. Additionally, Kill or Be Killed's Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation version was played from tape, as an interstitial, before Compliance. Also returning after several years were Resistance, Undisclosed Desires and the shortened version of Isolated System. Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses) was also played, making this the second big headlining tour to feature Assassin, played in full since the Black Holes And Revelations Tour, with it previously being only played during The Drones World Tour 2015/16.

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 Stadio Giuseppe Meazza 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

  1. ↑ https://youtu.be/AMvtyphl9rA?t=2297
  2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMk5jDBxEG/
  3. ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1628321276896112641
  4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMk5jDBxEG/
  5. ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1628321276896112641
  6. ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1590403848077803520/photo/1
  7. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXcXiNNSFy/
  8. ↑ https://twitter.com/muse/status/1638587091020914713/photo/1
  9. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CsZn26TSifb/


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