The Resistance Tour

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The Resistance Tour
Promotional tour by Muse
MuseTheResistanceTour.jpg
LocationEurope, North America, South America, Asia, Australasia
Associated album The Resistance
Start date22 October 2009
End date28 August 2011
Legs7
No. of shows139
Muse concert chronology

The Resistance Tour was a worldwide concert tour by English rock band Muse in support of their fifth studio album The Resistance . The opening European leg began on 22 October 2009 and ended on 4 December 2009, comprising 30 shows. The second leg, which began on 7 January 2010, included thirteen shows, seven of which were part of the Australasian Big Day Out shows. A North American leg of 26 shows took place in early 2010. Nine stadium shows took place in Europe in 2010, with three of those dates taking place at Wembley Stadium and Old Trafford Cricket Ground. A second round of North American concerts took place throughout September and October 2010. These dates focused on secondary markets and other areas not previously hit on the tour. A return to Australasia took place throughout December 2010 and Muse are confirmed as openers for U2's 360° Tour dates in South America in spring 2011 and also played further European shows in the summer of 2011. At the conclusion of 2010, the tour was placed on Pollstar's annual "Year End Top 50 Worldwide Concert Tours", and appeared 13th worldwide, earning over $76 million with 64 shows in 2010. [1]

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Background

A promotional tour was first confirmed by Muse in March 2009 when they announced that "We are pleased to confirm that Muse will be touring in the UK, Europe and North America this autumn." [2] In June 2009, the band confirmed the dates for an opening European leg of "The Resistance Tour", which they announced would comprise 30 shows. [3] [4] [5] Tickets for the shows in the United Kingdom, Sweden and France went on sale from 5 June, [3] while tickets for other European dates went on fan pre-sale between 11 June (Netherlands) [6] and 17 June (Spain). [7] Tickets for the UK arena dates, both pre-sale and general sale, sold out within minutes of going on sale. [8] On 22 September 2009, it was announced that extra tickets for many of the European concerts would be sold beginning on 24 September. [9]

Muse performing "Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)" on Wembley Stadium, London. Muse UFO.jpg
Muse performing "Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)" on Wembley Stadium, London.

Warm-up shows

On 18 August 2009, a duo of concerts collectively entitled "A Seaside Rendezvous" was confirmed for 4 and 5 September. [10] The concerts were the first in the band's childhood hometown of Teignmouth, Devon in over ten years, as well as the first shows since the band's appearance at V Festival in August 2008 and since the completion of The Resistance . The performances included the debut appearances of five songs from the upcoming album, including lead single "Uprising", "Undisclosed Desires" and title track "Resistance". [11] [12]

The band also performed a small number of shows at other venues in Europe, before they supported Irish rock band U2 for nine dates on the North American leg of their 360° Tour in September and October [13] and in South America in March and April 2011.

DateCityCountryVenue
A Seaside Rendezvous
4 September 2009 Teignmouth EnglandThe Den
5 September 2009
Warm-Up Shows
7 September 2009BerlinGermany Admiralspalast
8 September 2009ParisFrance Théâtre du Châtelet
13 September 2009New York CityUnited States Walter Kerr Theatre
U2 360° Tour
24 September 2009 East Rutherford United States Giants Stadium
25 September 2009
29 September 2009 Landover FedExField
1 October 2009 Charlottesville Scott Stadium
3 October 2009 Raleigh Carter–Finley Stadium
6 October 2009 Atlanta Georgia Dome
9 October 2009 Tampa Raymond James Stadium
12 October 2009 Arlington Cowboys Stadium
14 October 2009 Houston Reliant Stadium
25 March 2011 Santiago Chile Estadio Nacional de Chile
30 March 2011 La Plata Argentina Estadio Ciudad de La Plata
2 April 2011
3 April 2011
9 April 2011 São Paulo Brazil Estádio do Morumbi
10 April 2011
13 April 2011

Design and setup

Muse performing Resistance at the Birmingham NIA. MuseNIA.JPG
Muse performing Resistance at the Birmingham NIA.
Muse performing at Wembley Stadium using the triangular stage. Musetheresistancetourwembleystadium.jpg
Muse performing at Wembley Stadium using the triangular stage.

In revealing news of the tour, music magazine NME quoted the band as saying "We are coming up with a different and exciting stage set and production which will encompass our fans", suggesting that the stage will be placed in the middle of each arena, with the audience surrounding the band, [4] a technique first used by prog-rock band Yes in 1978.[ citation needed ] On 22 July, via their Twitter page, the band revealed that they were "working on set design", hinting at fans to "Expect an 8" stone 'enge"." [14] In September 2009, the BBC quoted drummer Dominic Howard as revealing that the band members will "be on these three pillars moving up and down", adding that "There might be a loose narrative that we're trapped in some kind of institution and we're trying to break out of it", which he promises will "look impressive." [15] Music website Drowned in Sound also spoke to Howard, publishing the following quotes regarding stage setup:

There's going to be some good video usage. We're going to be on some big moving LED structures, so we're all going to be moving up and down at different levels and actually playing quite high up in the air, which is something we've never done. We're going to be on these floating cubes of video *laughs maniacally*. Individual cubes, all like moving around. They're like massive towers and there's three of them with lots of video. [...] I think we're going to be doing a few shows where we're going to have fans all around us. Not in the middle of the room but we've designed the stage in a way so that the crowd can fit all around us. Everyone's going to have a great view and get the whole show, even if you're sitting behind us, not just the back of our heads. There's going to be lots of spinning around and stuff like that. [...] Most of our ideas get shot down by health and safety and it starts out much more ambitious than it ends up being but we're always trying to push it to the limits of the laws. [16]

For the stadium performances, the band changed the set design completely. Like the arena tour, the design was based on the book 1984 by George Orwell but this time the new design featured the band on a triangular-pyramid shaped stage. The stage was designed and built by the Belgian company Stageco (who also designed the stage for U2's 360° Tour). [17] It features a ball on the top which is said to be the "All Seeing Eye" from the book 1984. On the pyramid itself there are separated blocks, with most of them being screens which project animations and also turn inside out occasionally. There is a catwalk-like structure leading from the front of the stage into the crowd, with an elephant lift at the end which moves 10m in the air and 15m forward, with space for 3 people. This so-called elephant lift would rise into the air and over the audience during performances of Undisclosed Desires and Take a Bow (the latter of which involved frontman Matthew Bellamy wearing an LED suit). During performances of "Exogenesis Symphony: Part I – Overture" a U.F.O is released into the crowd with an acrobat hanging from the rear of it reaching for the people. However this has not been used in all stadium performances.

The band's festival performances have been different from both these stage performances. For the shows in Australasia in early 2010 and the headline appearance at Coachella the band used 3 video strips in a similar arrangement to the top halves of the pillars but on the back wall of the stage. The festival stage was redesigned for the 2010 European festival shows with 3 groups of hexagonal video screens on the back wall of the stage and different visuals to those used earlier in the year for some songs, although for one show in Latvia and two shows in Asia Muse used only one solo screen. Also on one occasion, the UFO was used, in Germany. For the band's headlining set at Glastonbury Festival 2010, U2 guitarist The Edge was invited on stage to play "Where The Streets Have No Name" with Muse, seeing as U2 had cancelled their planned slot for the previous day due to Bono's back injury from rehearsals weeks earlier.

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueSupport S
First Leg: Europe I & US Festivals
Europe
22 October 2009 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Arena None1
24 October 2009 Stockholm Sweden Hovet The Horrors [18] 2
25 October 2009 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum 3
26 October 2009 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium 4
28 October 2009 Hamburg Germany Color Line Arena
29 October 2009Berlin O2 World 3
31 October 2009 Liévin France Stade Couvert Régional 4
1 November 2009 Amnéville Galaxie Amnéville 5
2 November 2009 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis 6
4 November 2009 Sheffield England Sheffield Arena The Big Pink [19]
5 November 2009 Liverpool Echo Arena Liverpool 5
6 November 2009 Dublin Ireland The O2 None6
9 November 2009 Glasgow Scotland SECC The Big Pink7
10 November 2009 Birmingham England National Indoor Arena 8
12 November 2009London The O2 Arena 9
13 November 200910
14 November 2009 Rotterdam Netherlands Rotterdam Ahoy Biffy Clyro [19] 11
16 November 2009 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena
17 November 2009ParisFrance Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy 10
18 November 2009 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 11
20 November 2009 Munich Germany Olympiahalle
21 November 2009 Bologna Italy Futurshow Station 10
22 November 2009 Lyon France Halle Tony Garnier 11
24 November 2009 Barcelona Spain Palau Sant Jordi 12
25 November 2009 Toulouse France Le Zénith 13
28 November 2009 Madrid Spain Palacio de Deportes 12
29 November 2009 Lisbon Portugal Pavilhão Atlântico 11
1 December 2009 Limoges FranceLe Zénith14
2 December 2009 Dijon Le Zénith15
4 December 2009 Turin Italy Torino Palasport Olimpico 16
US Holiday Festivals
11 December 2009 Oakland United States Oracle Arena Various17
12 December 2009 Las Vegas The Joint 18
13 December 2009Los Angeles Gibson Amphitheatre 19
15 December 2009 Seattle WaMu Theater 20
Second Leg: Asia/Australasia
East Asia
7 January 2010 Seoul South Korea Olympic Park None21
9 January 2010 Osaka Japan Osaka-jō Hall 22
11 January 2010 Nagoya Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium 23
12 January 2010Tokyo Nippon Budokan 24
Australia
15 January 2010 Auckland New Zealand Big Day Out Various25
17 January 2010 Gold Coast Australia26
22 January 2010Sydney27
23 January 201028
26 January 2010 Melbourne 29
29 January 2010 Adelaide 30
31 January 2010 Perth 31
3 February 2010SingaporeSingapore Singapore Indoor Stadium Saosin, Rise Against 32
6 February 2010Hong KongHong Kong AsiaWorld–Expo None33
Third Leg: North America I
27 February 2010 Duluth United States Arena at Gwinnett Center Silversun Pickups 34
1 March 2010 Fairfax Patriot Center 35
2 March 2010 Philadelphia Wachovia Center
3 March 2010 Baltimore 1st Mariner Arena 36
5 March 2010New York City Madison Square Garden 37
6 March 2010 Boston TD Garden 35
8 March 2010 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre
10 March 2010 Montreal Bell Centre
12 March 2010ChicagoUnited States United Center 38
13 March 2010 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 39
15 March 2010 Nashville Bridgestone Arena
17 March 2010 Fort Worth Fort Worth Convention Center
18 March 2010 Houston Toyota Center 38
19 March 2010 Austin Stubb's (South by Southwest) Metric 40
29 March 2010 Edmonton Canada Rexall Place Silversun Pickups41
30 March 2010 Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome 42
1 April 2010 Vancouver Pacific Coliseum 43
2 April 2010 Seattle United States KeyArena 44
3 April 2010 Portland Rose Garden Arena 45
5 April 2010 West Valley City E Center 43
9 April 2010 Phoenix US Airways Center 45
10 April 2010Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center 43
11 April 2010 Tucson KFMA DayVarious46
14 April 2010 Oakland Oracle Arena Silversun Pickups47
17 April 2010 Indio Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Various48
20 April 2010 Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol Rey Pila47
Fourth Leg: Festivals & Stadiums
Europe II
25 May 2010ParisFrance Casino de Paris None49
27 May 2010LisbonPortugal Rock in Rio Various50
2 June 2010 Bern Switzerland Stade de Suisse Editors, [20] The Big Pink51
5 June 2010 Nürburg Germany Rock am Ring Various52
6 June 2010 Nuremberg Rock im Park 53
8 June 2010 Milan Italy San Siro Kasabian, [20] Friendly Fires, Calibro 3554
11 June 2010 Saint-Denis France Stade de France Editors, The Big Pink, I Am Arrows [21] 55
12 June 2010Kasabian, White Lies, DeVotchKa 56
16 June 2010 Madrid Spain Vicente Calderón Stadium Editors, The Big Pink57
19 June 2010 Nijmegen Netherlands Goffertpark Editors, Ghinzu 58
26 June 2010 Pilton England Glastonbury Festival Various59
29 June 2010 Arendal Norway Hove Festival 60
1 July 2010 Werchter Belgium Rock Werchter 61
3 July 2010 Roskilde Denmark Roskilde Festival 62
5 July 2010 Hradec Králové Czech Republic Rock for People 63
9 July 2010 Kinross Scotland T in the Park 64
10 July 2010 Naas Ireland Oxegen 65
15 July 2010 Carhaix-Plouguer France Vieilles Charrues Festival 66
17 July 2010 Salacgrīva Latvia Positivus Festival 67
19 July 2010HelsinkiFinland Kaisaniemi Park White Lies, Manna68
23 July 2010 Bergen Norway Koengen White Lies, Magnet
Asia II
30 July 2010 Niigata Japan Fuji Rock Festival Various69
1 August 2010 Icheon South Korea Jisan Valley Rock Festival 70
Europe III
15 August 2010 Budapest Hungary Sziget Festival Various71
19 August 2010 Sankt Pölten Austria Frequency Festival 72
21 August 2010 Kraków PolandCoke Live Music Festival73
27 August 2010 Santiago de Compostela SpainFestival Xacobeo74
4 September 2010 Manchester England Old Trafford Cricket Ground Editors, Band of Skulls, Pulled Apart by Horses 75
10 September 2010London Wembley Stadium Lily Allen, The Big Pink, White Rabbits 76
11 September 2010Biffy Clyro, White Lies, I Am Arrows77
Fifth Leg: North America II
22 September 2010 San Diego United States Viejas Arena Passion Pit 78
23 September 2010 Anaheim Honda Center 79
25 September 2010Los Angeles Staples Center 80
26 September 201081
28 September 2010 Sacramento ARCO Arena 82
1 October 2010 Rio Rancho Santa Ana Star Center
2 October 2010 Denver Pepsi Center 83
5 October 2010 Minneapolis Target Center 84
6 October 2010 Milwaukee Bradley Center 85
8 October 2010 Oklahoma City Ford Center 86
9 October 2010Austin Austin City Limits Music Festival Various87
11 October 2010 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena Metric88
12 October 2010 Columbus Value City Arena 89
21 October 2010 Quebec City Canada Colisée Pepsi 90
23 October 2010 Uniondale United States Nassau Coliseum
24 October 2010 Newark Prudential Center 91
26 October 2010 Raleigh RBC Center 92
27 October 2010 Charlottesville John Paul Jones Arena 93
29 October 2010 New Orleans Voodoo Experience Various94
Sixth Leg: Australia II
5 December 2010 Brisbane Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre Dead Letter Circus 90
6 December 201095
9 December 2010Sydney Acer Arena Biffy Clyro96
10 December 201097
14 December 2010Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 96
15 December 201097
19 December 2010Perth Bassendean Oval 98
Seventh Leg: 2011 tour
Eastern Europe
20 May 2011 Saint Petersburg Russia Saint-Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex We Are Scientists
22 May 2011Moscow Olympic Stadium
24 May 2011 Kyiv Ukraine Palace of Sports
Festivals (Origin of Symmetry Tenth Anniversary)
30 July 2011Los AngelesUnited States Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (L.A. Rising)Various
3 August 2011 Noblesville Verizon Wireless Music Center Cage the Elephant, Middle Class Rut
5 August 2011Chicago Lollapalooza Various
6 August 2011 Kansas City Kanrocksas Music Festival
13 August 2011San Francisco Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival
26 August 2011 Leeds England Reading and Leeds Festivals
28 August 2011 Reading

Setlists

Throughout the vast majority of the tour, every arena concert would commence with a performance of "Uprising", with the main set ending with either "Unnatural Selection" or "Plug in Baby" and an encore consisting of Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture), Stockholm Syndrome and Knights of Cydonia concluding the set. However, towards the end of the tour, Exogenesis Part 1 would sometimes be used as an opener. Also at these shows, Knights of Cydonia would be performed early in the set, signalling the first time this song would not be used as a concert opener or closer since 2006. Uprising would also be played to similar effect at these shows, with that also only being performed as the opening song in concerts prior to the ones opening with Exogenesis Part 1.

Concerts taking place within arenas would include roughly between 16 and 18 songs on average, while stadium shows were roughly 21 songs long.

Average setlist for tour:

1.)Uprising
2.)New Born
3.)Map of the Problematique
4.)Supermassive Black Hole
5.)Resistance
6.)Interlude/Hysteria
7.)Niche
8.)United States of Eurasia
9.)Feeling Good

(Anthony Newley cover)

10.)Undisclosed Desires
11.)Helsinki Jam
12.)Starlight
13.)Time Is Running Out
14.)Unnatural Selection
15.)Plug in Baby
Encore
16.)Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1 :Overture
17.)Stockholm Syndrome
18.)Knights of Cydonia

Box office score data

CityVenueTickets Sold / AvailableGross Revenue
AntwerpenSportpaleis18,033 / 18,033 (100%)$961,067 [22]
LondonThe O238,130 / 38,240 (99%)$2,173,260 [23]
RotterdamAhoy10,940 / 10,940 (100%)$622,112 [24]
ParisPalais Omnisports Bercy16,390 / 16,390 (100%)$1,138,500 [25]
BarcelonaPalau Sant Jordi14,896 / 17,960 (83%)$769,177 [24]
MadridPalacio de Los Deportes15,954 / 15,954 (100%)$834,134 [24]
DuluthGwinnett Center11,267 / 11,267 (100%)$498,890 [26]
FairfaxPatriot Center7,500 / 7,500 (100%)$385,500 [26]
PhiladelphiaWachovia Center15,380 / 16,186 (95%)$683,712 [27]
Baltimore1st Mariner Arena8,462 / 8,462 (100%)$385,887 [26]
BostonTD Banknorth Garden14,770 / 14,770 (100%)$737,795 [28]
TorontoAir Canada Centre15,537 / 15,537 (100%)$730,279 [24]
MontrealBell Centre15,818 / 16,477 (96%)$821,705 [29]
ChicagoUnited Center16,284 / 16,284 (100%)$812,638 [29]
NashvilleBridgestone Arena7,721 / 7,721 (100%)$339,687 [29]
Fort WorthConvention Center9,836 / 11,011 (89%)$494,607 [22]
EdmontonRexall Place8,876 / 11,030 (80%)$511,917 [28]
CalgaryPengrowth Saddledome7,648 / 11,256 (69%)$434,316 [30]
SeattleKeyArena13,873 / 13,964 (99%)$573,693 [28]
PortlandRose Garden9,167 / 10,343 (89%)$430,274 [28]
West Valley CityE Center10,072 / 10,072 (100%)$336,852 [26]
PhoenixUS Airways Center9,877 / 9,877 (100%)$457,765 [28]
ParadiseMandalay Bay Events Center11,154 / 11,154 (100%)$519,928 [31]
OaklandOracle Arena15,805 / 15,805 (100%)$678,912 [32]
Los AngelesStaples Center32,031 / 32,264 (99%)$1,691,980 [33]
Rio RanchoSanta Ana Star Center4,915 / 7,500 (65%)$229,415 [34]
MinneapolisTarget Center7,794 / 8,254 (94%)$359,642 [34]
MilwaukeeBradley Center5,838 / 8,000 (73%)$282,270 [34]
ColumbusSchottenstein Center7,833 / 10,000 (78%)$354,290 [35]
Quebec CityColisée Pepsi13,467 / 13,467 (100%)$709,157 [33]
NewarkPrudential Center12,505 / 13,847 (90%)$643,970 [33]
BrisbaneBrisbane Entertainment Centre18,810 / 27,370 (69%)$2,306,030 [36]
SydneyAcer Arena29,845 / 29,845 (100%)$3,391,810 [36]
TOTAL456,428 / 485,604 (94%)$26,301,171

Cancelled dates

DateCityCountryVenue R
6 April 2010 Broomfield United States 1stBank Center 1
21 July 2010 Stockholm Sweden Zinkensdamms IP 2
2 November 2010 Kansas City United States Sprint Center 3
3 November 2010 St. Louis Scottrade Center
5 November 2010 Columbus Value City Arena
6 November 2010 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena
  1. Performance in Broomfield cancelled due to heavy snow on the Vail pass blocking the way to the venue. Muse immediately announced a new date for the Denver area to take place at the Pepsi Center on 2 October 2010.
  2. Performance in Stockholm, Sweden cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
  3. Performances in Kansas City and St. Louis were cancelled due to the pending birth of bassist Chris Wolstenholme's fifth child. This also affected the band's performances in Cincinnati and Columbus, which were rescheduled to 11 October 2010 and 12 October 2010, respectively.

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