Endless Forms Most Beautiful World Tour

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful World Tour
Tour by Nightwish
Nightwish South Tour 2015.jpg
Promotional poster for the Latin American tour in September–October 2015
Associated album Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Start dateApril 9, 2015
End dateOctober 9, 2016
Legs12
No. of shows
  • 65 in Europe
  • 55 in North America
  • 14 in Latin America
  • 12 in Asia
  • 5 in Oceania
  • 1 cancelled
  • 151 total
Nightwish concert chronology

The Endless Forms Most Beautiful World Tour was the sixth world tour by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, in support of their eighth studio album, Endless Forms Most Beautiful . [1]

Contents

It was the first full tour featuring lead singer Floor Jansen, who replaced Anette Olzon in late 2012, [2] and it was the first tour featuring drummer Kai Hahto, who replaced Jukka Nevalainen on hiatus due to health issues. [3]

Background

The band toured United States and Canada from April to May 2015 and in June started a series of festivals appearances across Europe, including two headlining shows in Finland; [1] In September, the band took part in the traditional Rock in Rio festival in Brazil, [4] also with additional dates for Latin America, [5] and then toured European arenas from October to November, ending the leg at the famous Wembley Arena in London. [6] In 2016, the band toured Australia in January, embarked on another North American tour in February and March, followed by Asia in April, and a small tour in Russia and Ukraine before setting off for another series of festivals. [1]

Both concerts in Tampere Stadium and Wembley Arena were recorded for a live DVD called Vehicle of Spirit which was released on December 16, 2016.

On August 20, 2016, at the Himos Park show, original Nightwish bassist Sami Vänskä joined the band on stage to play "Stargazers" with them on bass while Marko joined the crowd. [7] Jukka Nevalainen was also a guest, filling in for Kai Hahto for drums to play "Last Ride of the Day". [8]

The band made their first appearance back in South Korea since the Wishmaster World Tour fifteen years ago.

Reception

Nightwish performing in Oberhausen in 2015. 20151121 Oberhausen Nightwish Nightwish 0082.jpg
Nightwish performing in Oberhausen in 2015.

Samantha Wu from V13, gave the Toronto performance a positive review. She praised Floor Jansen's vocals and her presence on stage, citing that she "is a thrill to watch". She also praised the inclusion of old songs like "Stargazers" being added to the setlist which have not been performed in a long while, as well as the spotlight shining moment with Marko Hietala's performance of "The Islander". Samantha concluded her review by stating that that Floor was the perfect fit for the band in which she hopes she will be with the band for a long time, as well as stating their performance that night was 'simply outstanding'. [9]

Anabel from RockRevolt Magazine who attended the Greek Theater performance in Los Angeles had given the show a positive review. In their review of the concert, they pointed out the nature and traveler themed imagery and props used for the stage, used in the adventurer theme of the album itself. The reviewer praised the strong setlist, referring to the energetic songs and beautiful ballads on the set. The reviewer cited Floor Jansen's vocals as awe-inspiring in which she had stolen the show for the use of her theatrical expressions. The reviewer concluded their review, stating that the encore songs were the "icing on the cake" finish for an amazing show. [10]

Dan Shutt, a reporter from The Independent, who had attended the sold out Wembley performance, noted on the energy and excitement of the show as a spectacle, sticking to the formula with pyrotechnics and visual effects playing throughout the biggest songs. However, he criticized the lack of personalisation which was outweighed by Floor's vocals. [11]

Setlist

The following setlist was performed at the first show of the tour at Hammerstein Ballroom, and is not intended to represent all of the shows on tour. [12]

  1. "The Greatest Show on Earth "Chapter V: Sea-Worn Driftwood"" (intro)
  2. "Shudder Before the Beautiful"
  3. "Yours Is an Empty Hope"
  4. "Amaranth"
  5. "She Is My Sin"
  6. "Endless Forms Most Beautiful"
  7. "My Walden"
  8. "The Islander"
  9. "Élan"
  10. "Weak Fantasy"
  11. "Storytime"
  12. "Nemo"
  13. "I Want My Tears Back"
  14. "Stargazers"
  15. "Sleeping Sun"
  16. "The Greatest Show on Earth (Chapter II and III)"
    Encore
  17. "Ghost Love Score"
  18. "Last Ride of the Day"

Tour dates

List of 2015 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and support act(s)
DateCityCountryVenueSupport Act(s)
April 9, 2015New York CityUnited States Hammerstein Ballroom Sabaton [13]
Delain [14]
April 10, 2015 Philadelphia Electric Factory
April 11, 2015 Worcester Palladium Center
April 13, 2015 Quebec City Canada Capitole Theatre
April 14, 2015 Toronto Phoenix Theatre
April 16, 2015 Buffalo United StatesTown Ballroom
April 17, 2015 Cleveland Agora Theatre
April 18, 2015ChicagoConcorde Music Hall
April 19, 2015 Clive 7 Flags Center
April 21, 2015 Denver Ogden Theatre
April 22, 2015 Salt Lake City In the Venue
April 24, 2015 Spokane Knitting Factory Club
April 25, 2015 Vancouver Canada Orpheum
April 26, 2015 Portland United States Crystal Ballroom
April 28, 2015San Francisco Warfield Theatre
April 30, 2015 Las Vegas House of Blues
May 1, 2015Los Angeles Greek Theatre
May 2, 2015 Tempe Marquee Theatre
May 3, 2015 El Paso Tricky Falls
May 5, 2015 Dallas The Bomb Factory
May 6, 2015 Houston Warehouse Live
May 8, 2015 Orlando House of Blues
May 9, 2015 Fort Lauderdale Revolution Club
May 11, 2015 Nashville Marathon Music Works
May 12, 2015 Louisville Expo Five
May 13, 2015 Charlotte The Fillmore Charlotte
May 14, 2015 Silver Spring The Fillmore Sliver Spring
June 6, 2015 Joensuu Finland Laulurinne Autodrome Children of Bodom
Sonata Arctica
Insomnium [15]
June 8, 2015 Turku Baltic Princess Cruise—
June 9, 2015
June 13, 2015 Nickelsdorf Austria Nova Rock Festival
June 14, 2015 Banská Bystrica Slovakia Bystrica Amphitheatre
June 19, 2015 Hinwil Switzerland Rock the Ring Festival
June 21, 2015 Clisson France Hellfest Open Air
July 12, 2015 Vizovice Czech Republic Masters of Rock Festival
July 15, 2015 Budapest Hungary Petőfi Hall
July 23, 2015 Barcelona SpainBarcelona Rock Fest
July 25, 2015 Oulu Finland Qstock
July 31, 2015 Tampere Tampere Stadium Sonata Arctica
Children of Bodom
August 8, 2015 Kortrijk Belgium Alcatraz Festival—
August 9, 2015 Hildesheim Germany M'era Luna Festival
August 15, 2015 Dinkelsbühl Summer Breeze Open Air
August 26, 2015 Trondheim Norway Sverresborg Arena The Sirens
September 23, 2015 Fortaleza BrazilDragão do Mar Auditorium—
September 25, 2015 Rio de Janeiro Rock in Rio VI
September 26, 2015 São Paulo HSBC Hall
September 27, 2015 Curitiba Masters Hall
September 29, 2015 Porto Alegre Opinião Club
October 2, 2015 Buenos Aires Argentina Luna Park Stadium
October 4, 2015 Santiago Chile Teatro Caupolicán
October 6, 2015 Lima Peru San Marcos Stadium Delain
October 8, 2015 Quito Ecuador Teleférico Center
October 10, 2015 Bogotá Colombia Teatro Royal Center
October 13, 2015 Monterrey MexicoEscena Arena
October 14, 2015 Mexico City Teatro Metropólitan
October 15, 2015
October 17, 2015 Guadalajara Diana Theatre
November 13, 2015 Espoo Finland Barona Areena Beast in Black
November 15, 2015 Stockholm SwedenArenan Amorphis
November 16, 2015 Copenhagen Denmark Falconer Amphitheatre Arch Enemy
Amorphis
November 18, 2015 Hamburg Germany Barclaycard Arena
November 19, 2015 Amsterdam Netherlands Heineken Music Hall
November 20, 2015
November 21, 2015 Oberhausen Germany König Pilsener Arena
November 23, 2015 Lyon France Halle Tony Garnier
November 25, 2015Paris Bercy Arena
November 26, 2015 Toulouse Le Zénith
November 28, 2015 Basel Switzerland St. Jakobshalle
November 29, 2015 Bologna Italy Unipol Arena
December 1, 2015 Munich Germany Zenith
December 3, 2015 Stuttgart Schleyer-Halle
December 4, 2015 Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle
December 5, 2015 Nuremberg Nuremberg Arena
December 7, 2015 Prague Czech Republic Tipsport Arena
December 8, 2015 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle
December 10, 2015 Bucharest Romania Romexpo
December 12, 2015 Budapest Hungary Sports Arena
December 14, 2015 Leipzig Germany Leipzig Arena
December 15, 2015 Berlin Max-Schmeling-Halle
December 16, 2015 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg Rockhal
December 17, 2015 Antwerp Belgium Lotto Arena
December 19, 2015LondonEngland Wembley Arena
List of 2016 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and support act(s)
DateCityCountryVenueSupport Act(s)
January 6, 2016 Brisbane AustraliaTivoli Theatre Voyager Australia
Taberah
January 9, 2016 Sydney Enmore Theatre
January 11, 2016 Melbourne Forum Theatre
January 13, 2016 Adelaide HQ Club
January 15, 2016 Fremantle King's Theatre
January 18, 2016SingaporeHard Rock Hotel—
February 19, 2016 Sayreville United States Starland Ballroom Sonata Arctica
Delain
February 20, 2016 Hartford Webster Theater
February 21, 2016 Montreal Canada Metropolis Hall
February 22, 2016 London London Music Hall
February 24, 2016 Pittsburgh United States Carnegie Library of Homestead
February 25, 2016 Columbus Lifestyle Communities Pavilion
February 26, 2016 Royal Oak Royal Oak Music Theatre
February 27, 2016 Milwaukee Rave Club
February 29, 2016 Minneapolis First Avenue
March 1, 2016 Winnipeg Canada Burton Cummings Theatre
March 2, 2016 Saskatoon O’Briens Events Centre
March 3, 2016 Edmonton Francis Winspear Centre
March 5, 2016 Calgary MacEwan Hall
March 6, 2016 Missoula United States Wilma Theatre
March 7, 2016 Seattle The Showbox
March 10, 2016 Reno Cargo's Ballroom
March 11, 2016 San Jose City National Civic
March 12, 2016 Anaheim Grove Club
March 14, 2016 Tucson Rialto Theatre
March 15, 2016 Colorado Springs Colorado Springs City Auditorium
March 16, 2016 Kansas City Uptown Theater
March 18, 2016 Oklahoma City Diamond Ballroom
March 19, 2016 San Antonio Aztec Theatre
March 20, 2016 New Orleans Civic Center
March 21, 2016 Birmingham Iron Live Club
March 23, 2016 Tampa Ritz Club
April 12, 2016BeijingChinaM. Zone Center—
April 14, 2016ShanghaiQSW Culture Center
April 16, 2016 Taipei Taiwan NTUT Auditorium
April 17, 2016Hong KongKitec Rotunda Centre
April 19, 2016TokyoJapanEx Theater
April 21, 2016 Osaka Big Cat Club
April 22, 2016Tokyo AgeHa Club
May 15, 2016 Yekaterinburg Russia DIVS Arena
May 18, 2016 Voronezh Event Hall
May 20, 2016Moscow Crocus City Hall
May 22, 2016 Kyiv Ukraine Palace "Ukraine"
May 24, 2016 St. Petersburg Russia Yubileyny Sports Palace
May 27, 2016 Munich GermanyRockavaria Festival
May 28, 2016 Dortmund Rock im Revier
June 1, 2016 Košice Slovakia Košice Amphitheatre
June 3, 2016 Plzeň Czech Republic Metalfest Open Air
June 5, 2016 Vienna Austria Rock in Vienna
June 8, 2016 Rome Italy Rock in Roma
June 10, 2016 Interlaken Switzerland Greenfield Festival
June 12, 2016 Leicestershire England Download Festival
June 18, 2016 Dessel Belgium Graspop Metal Meeting
June 30, 2016 Seinäjoki Finland Provinssirock
July 2, 2016 Norrköping Sweden Bråvalla Festival
August 6, 2016 Montreal Canada Heavy Montréal
August 20, 2016 Jämsä Finland Himos Park Arch Enemy
Delain
Sonata Arctica
Silentium
August 26, 2016 Straszęcin Poland Czad Festival—
September 3, 2016 Havířov Czech Republic Havířovské Slavnosti
September 8, 2016 Lisbon Portugal Coliseu LisboaKandia
September 10, 2016 Madrid Spain Barclaycard Center Alquimia
September 12, 2016 Mantua ItalyPalabam Temperance
September 14, 2016 Sofia Bulgaria Arena Armeec —
October 2, 2016 Seoul South Korea Samsung Blue Square
October 5, 2016 Shenzhen ChinaA8 Live House
October 7, 2016ShanghaiQSW Culture Center
October 9, 2016TokyoJapan Loud Park Festival

Cancelled dates

Original DateCityCountryVenue
March 8, 2016 [16] Boise United StatesKnitting Factory Club

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