World tour by The 1975 | |
Location |
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Associated album | Being Funny in a Foreign Language |
Start date | 3 November 2022 |
End date | 16 August 2023 |
Legs | 7 |
No. of shows | 93 |
Supporting act(s) | |
Website | the1975 |
The 1975 concert chronology |
At Their Very Best is the fourth concert tour by British band the 1975 in support of their fifth studio album Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022). Written and creatively directed by frontman Matty Healy, [1] the show received unanimous critical acclaim, with praise on the concept, production, boundary-pushing staging, and Healy's performance. Rolling Stone declared it as "a defining blueprint on how to do arena shows" and "the most impressive live show" of 2022. [2]
The tour commenced in Uncasville, Connecticut, United States, and is set to conclude on 14 October 2023 in Austin, Texas, United States. It has a total of seven legs with 93 cumulative shows across North America, South America, Europe, and Oceania.
A follow-up tour, with newly expanded production, will commence in arenas in North America in 2023 titled Still... At Their Very Best. [3]
The band was set to embark on the 2021 shows of Music for Cars tour but ultimately cancelled the entire dates due to little the COVID-19 pandemic. However, they have confirmed that they have been working on their fifth studio album. [4] On 29 June 2022, the band announced the album titled Being Funny in a Foreign Language , releasing it on 14 October the same year. [5] [6]
The group announced the tour along with its North American dates on 3 August 2022. [7] It was followed by UK and Ireland tour dates, announced on 1 September 2022. [8]
On 13 February 2023, the group announced a headlining concert at the Finsbury Park, deemed as their "biggest UK headline show ever". [9]
The show ran for approximately two hours with the first half characterized by The Observer as "part performance art, part stage play, part Charlie Kaufman movie about a rock star in crisis," and the second half as a traditional concert. [10]
"The first part of the show is about me. It’s about how if you’re a single guy and you’ve spent a year or so alone on the internet, you go mental. The show is about looking at masculinity, looking at being famous. It’s about what’s real and what’s sincere and not sincere."
— Healy, 2023 [11]
The concert included Healy eating a raw steak, depicting masturbation and delivering 20 press-ups in immediate succession. [12] [13] In the US leg of the tour, Healy got a tattoo on stage that read "iM a MaN". [14] Healy has also invited both male and female members of his audience to kiss him during his performance of the song "Robbers" and, on one occasion, sucked a fan's thumb. [15] [16] The Guardian said it sparked conversations regarding consent, fantasy and art in 2022, and noted that Healy asked for fans' permission first. [12]
The show was written and creatively directed by frontman Healy. The set design was done by the band's frequent collaborator, designer Tobias Rylander. [17] [18] [19]
This set list is representative of the show on 8 January 2023 in Brighton, England. It does not represent all dates throughout the tour. [20]
The show received unanimous critical acclaim with five star reviews from the Rolling Stone, NME , [26] The Observer , [10] The Telegraph , [27] Evening Standard , [28] and Metro, [29] among others.
Clips from the show went viral on TikTok and other social media platforms, prompting wide media coverage of his onstage actions. [30] [31] [32] In Rolling Stone's review of the performance, the magazine stated that Healy delivered "a subversive and surreal take on modern masculinity [that] when viewed in isolation on social media, that all-importance nuance is entirely absent." [33]
The sold-out show at Madison Square Garden on 7 November 2022 was livestreamed globally on Twitch, presented by Amazon Music. [34] A live recording was released on Amazon Prime Video and premiered on 6 January 2023. [35]
Photos taken on the tour's 14 December 2022 sold out show in Minnesota depicting a partial view of the stage design modified with Christmas lights
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