The 2nd Law World Tour

The 2nd Law World Tour
Tour by Muse

Official poster for The 2nd Law Tour in Italy.
Associated album The 2nd Law
Start date 16 October 2012
End date 19 April 2014
Legs 8
Number of shows 51 in Europe
57 in North America
7 in Asia
6 in Oceania
3 in South America
124 in Total
Muse concert chronology

The 2nd Law World Tour was a worldwide concert tour by English band Muse. It was the band's eighth concert tour, which supported their sixth studio album The 2nd Law.[1][2] The stadium tour was called The Unsustainable Tour and saw the band's biggest stadium tour to date.

Muse announced the tour via their official website and Twitter account on 7 June 2012.[3]

Furthermore, the tour has an official live release on CD/DVD/Blu-ray: Live at Rome Olympic Stadium, with the Italian date which was held on 6 July 2013 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, in front of a crowd of 60,963 people. A show in Tokyo described by drummer Dom as 'the funniest ever' was also filmed. However, a release date for this recording has yet to be confirmed, with only one song from the concert being released as a Muse website members 'Christmas present.' At the conclusion of 2013, the tour was placed on Pollstar's annual "Year End Top 20 Worldwide Tours", and appeared 13th worldwide, earning over $103 million with 79 shows in 2013.[4]

Stage show

The 2nd Law World Tour has quickly become known for its extravagant and unique stage show. For the arena tour, some of the effects used include:

The Unsustainable Tour stage in Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona, Catalonia

For the summer stadium shows, under the moniker The Unsustainable Tour, the band performed in a re-designed stage show. This show included:

Lead singer Matthew Bellamy during "Feeling Good" at Emirates Stadium London
Muse-themed banknotes (MUSO) during the ending to "Animals".

Setlist

The European arena tour setlist was based around the same general idea: If "Hysteria" was played third, "Stockholm Syndrome" would close the main set and "Knights of Cydonia" would close the first encore, with "Survival" closing the second encore. However, if "Map of the Problematique" was played third, then "New Born" closed the main set and "Knights of Cydonia" and "Survival" were switched around. This also determined when the carbon dioxide cannons were set off, as depending on the show closer, it switched between "Survival" and "Knights of Cydonia". There was usually one song from the debut album Showbiz played somewhere in the middle of the setlist, usually "Sunburn" and to a lesser extent, "Falling Down". In the latter half of the tour, for venues which had multiple shows, the setlist on the second night would often have more rarities, with tracks like "Agitated", "Yes Please", "Hyper Music" and "Butterflies and Hurricanes" making appearances.

Muse performing "Follow Me" in Manchester during The 2nd Law Tour

During the North American tour, Knights of Cydonia was played in the middle of the show, instead of the encore. Starting 10 March at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the band began shows with "The 2nd Law: Isolated System", instead of "The 2nd Law: Unsustainable". Unsustainable was played in the encore, before Uprising. Following that change, venues with back-to-back shows (i.e. Madison Saquare Garden in New York, the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, and the Bell Centre in Montreal) featured "The 2nd Law: Isolated System" as the opener on the first night and "The 2nd Law: Unsustainable" as the opener on the second night. In each case, the other song was shifted to the encore before Uprising. In Quebec City, on 26 April, the band again opened with "The 2nd Law: Unsustainable", playing Isolated System at the beginning of the first encore, before Uprising. There was also frequent rotation of several other songs, with "Bliss" and "Map of the Problematique" sometimes appearing instead of Hysteria, and both "Sunburn" and "Feeling Good" making appearances either in addition to, or in place of "Explorers".

Muse performing "Stockholm Syndrome" during The Unsustainable Tour

Matthew Bellamy performed a solo guitar version of the "Star Spangled Banner" as an introduction to songs throughout the US dates of the tour.

In response to a fan campaign, Muse played Dead Star at the 10 April Toronto ACC show, and again at the 16 April Madison Square Garden show when the roulette video landed on a blank green square (rather than either "New Born" or "Stockholm Syndrome"). At the 24 April show in Montreal, the roulette wheel again landed on the green square; this time the band played Micro Cuts (in response to a sign given to Matt by a fan the previous night), marking the first time the song had appeared on the tour.

During the European stadium tour, Muse have rotated Bliss and Resistance with Map of the Problematique and Hysteria, United States of Eurasia and Dead Star" with Sunburn and Butterflies & Hurricanes, and have carried over the alternation between New Born and Stockholm Syndrome from the arena tour.

The setlist of the Italian date (6 July 2013 - Stadio Olimpico, Rome) which was recorded for the official live release on DVD/Blu-ray.

Showbiz
Random 1-8
  • "Host"
  • "Agitated"
  • "Yes Please"
Origin of Symmetry
"Dead Star"/"In Your World"
Absolution
Black Holes and Revelations
The Resistance
"Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)"
The 2nd Law
Covers
Muse performing with their festival stage set for the first time

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue Opening act(s) Tickets Sold Gross Revenue
Non-Tour Dates (The 2nd Law Launch Shows)
20 September 2012[A] Cologne Germany E-Werk None
30 September 2012[B] London United Kingdom Roundhouse
2 October 2012 Paris France L'Olympia 2,000
Europe[3]
16 October 2012 Montpellier France Park&Suites Arena The Joy Formidable
18 October 2012 Paris Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
20 October 2012 Madrid Spain Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad
22 October 2012 Nantes France Le Zénith Nantes Métropole
24 October 2012 Glasgow United Kingdom Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
26 October 2012 London The O2 Arena 34,200/35,314 $2,851,580
27 October 2012
30 October 2012 Birmingham LG Arena
31 October 2012[C] London BBC Radio Theatre None
1 November 2012 Manchester Manchester Arena The Joy Formidable 18,754/19,220 $1,500,370
3 November 2012 Dublin Ireland The O2 Everything Everything
12 November 2012 Munich Germany Olympiahalle
14 November 2012 Basel Switzerland St. Jakobshalle
16 November 2012 Bologna Italy Unipol Arena
17 November 2012 Pesaro Adriatic Arena
19 November 2012 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle
20 November 2012 Budapest Hungary Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
22 November 2012 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena
23 November 2012 Łódź Poland Atlas Arena
10 December 2012 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Areena Deap Vally
11 December 2012 Tallinn Estonia Saku Suurhall Arena
13 December 2012 Riga Latvia Arena Riga
15 December 2012 Hamburg Germany O2 World Hamburg
17 December 2012 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome Andy Burrows
18 December 2012 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis
19 December 2012 Strasbourg France Zénith de Strasbourg
Asia
11 January 2013 Saitama Japan Saitama Super Arena None 55,000/55,000 $4,400,000
12 January 2013
North America
21 January 2013 San Diego United States Valley View Casino Center Band of Skulls
23 January 2013 Los Angeles Staples Center 43,836/43,836 $2,580,539
24 January 2013
26 January 2013
28 January 2013 Oakland Oracle Arena 11,431/11,431 $772,873
29 January 2013 Sacramento Sleep Train Arena 6,085/7,671 $274,303
31 January 2013 Portland Rose Garden Arena 6,824/7,364 $412,760
1 February 2013 Seattle KeyArena
3 February 2013 Edmonton Canada Rexall Place
4 February 2013 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome
6 February 2013 Vancouver Rogers Arena
8 February 2013[D] Los Angeles United States The Grammy Museum None
Europe
18 February 2013[E] London United Kingdom O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire The Vaccines
North America
22 February 2013 Sunrise United States BB&T Center Dead Sara 6,470/7,235 $390,380
23 February 2013 Tampa Tampa Bay Times Forum 7,697/12,964 $459,675
25 February 2013 Orlando Amway Center 5,786/6,331 $350,020
27 February 2013 Cincinnati US Bank Arena 4,983/7,050 $220,523
28 February 2013 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena
2 March 2013 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
4 March 2013 Chicago United Center 12,760/14,654 $650,119
5 March 2013 Columbus Value City Arena
7 March 2013 Minneapolis Target Center 6,904/8,500 $411,832
8 March 2013 St. Louis Chaifetz Arena 7,708/7,708 $461,930
10 March 2013 Tulsa BOK Center 7,735/7,735 $466,705
12 March 2013 Houston Toyota Center 10,314/10,314 $632,620
13 March 2013 Dallas American Airlines Center
16 March 2013 Phoenix US Airways Center
17 March 2013 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center
6 April 2013[F] Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park Flo Rida, Ludacris, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Yacht Rock Revue N/A N/A
9 April 2013 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre Biffy Clyro
10 April 2013
12 April 2013 Boston United States TD Garden
13 April 2013 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena Circa Survive
15 April 2013 New York City Madison Square Garden Biffy Clyro
16 April 2013
19 April 2013 East Rutherford Izod Center Dead Sara
23 April 2013 Montreal Canada Bell Centre
24 April 2013
26 April 2013 Quebec City Colisée Pepsi We Are Wolves
The Unsustainable Tour : Europe
22 May 2013 Coventry United Kingdom Ricoh Arena Dizzee Rascal, Bastille 24,000 $1,956,000
25 May 2013 London Emirates Stadium 100,000/100,000 $8,150,000
26 May 2013 Dizzee Rascal, The 1975
1 June 2013 Manchester Etihad Stadium Dizzee Rascal, Bastille 48,000 $3,912,000
2 June 2013[G] London Horse Guards Parade None N/A N/A
4 June 2013 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena Biffy Clyro, Bastille 40,000 $3,260,000
7 June 2013 Barcelona Spain Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys You Don't Know Me, L.A 35,000 $2,765,000
10 June 2013 Porto Portugal Estádio do Dragão We Are the Ocean 45,000 $3,667,500
15 June 2013 Bern Switzerland Stade de Suisse Arcane Roots, We Are the Ocean 45,000/45,000 $3,960,000
18 June 2013 Werchter Belgium Werchter Festival Grounds Balthazar, SX 35,000 $2,852,500
21 June 2013 Paris France Stade de France Paramore, Fun. 150,936/150,936 $12,311,700
22 June 2013 Biffy Clyro, Dizzee Rascal, Polly Money
26 June 2013 Nice Stade Charles-Ehrmann Skip the Use, Biffy Clyro 50,000 $4,075,000
28 June 2013 Turin Italy Stadio Olimpico di Torino Arcane Roots, We Are the Ocean 65,228/65,228 $5,316,0820
29 June 2013 Biffy Clyro, Calibro 35
6 July 2013 Rome Stadio Olimpico Arcane Roots, We Are the Ocean 60,963/60,963 $5,181,855
12 July 2013 Sankt Goarshausen Germany Freilichtbühne Loreley Deaf Havana
14 July 2013 Berlin Waldbühne Biffy Clyro
19 July 2013 Bergen Norway Brann Stadion Datarock 16,000 $1,304,000
24 July 2013 Oslo Telenor Arena 17,000 1,385,500
27 July 2013 Helsinki Finland Helsinki Olympic Stadium Mew, French Films 26,000 $2,119,000
Asia
10 August 2013[H] Osaka Japan Maishima Sports Island Mr. Children, The Smashing Pumpkins, John Legend, Misia, Imagine Dragons, Zebrahead, Man With A Mission, MY FIRST STORY
11 August 2013[H] Tokyo Chiba Marine Stadium Mr. Children, The Smashing Pumpkins, John Legend, Misia, Imagine Dragons, Zebrahead, Man With A Mission
13 August 2013[I] Zepp Diver City None
17 August 2013[J] Seoul South Korea Olympic Stadium Iggy and the Stooges, The Used, Chang Kiha and the Faces 35,000 $2,800,000
North America
3 September 2013 Charlotte United States Time Warner Cable Arena Cage the Elephant
4 September 2013 Duluth Arena at Gwinnett Center
6 September 2013 Nashville Bridgestone Arena
8 September 2013 Pittsburgh Consol Energy Center
9 September 2013 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center
11 September 2013 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center
South America
LA} Rio de Janeiro Brazil City of Rock Florence and the Machine, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Capital Inicial
North America
17 September 2013 Denver United States Pepsi Center Cage the Elephant
19 September 2013 Salt Lake City EnergySolutions Arena
20 September 2013[L] Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena Tiësto, Chris Brown, Benny Benassi
4 October 2013[M] Austin Zilker Park Arctic Monkeys, Local Natives, Jimmy Eat World, Widowspeak, Wild Nothing
7 October 2013 Guadalajara Mexico Arena VFG The Ruse
9 October 2013 Monterrey Monterrey Arena
11 October 2013[M] Austin United States Zilker Park Arctic Monkeys, Local Natives, Jimmy Eat World, Widowspeak, Wild Nothing
South America
13 October 2013[N] Buenos Aires Argentina Estadio G.E.B.A. Albert Hammond, Jr., Airbag, La Armada Cósmica, Leandro Fresco[5]
North America
18 October 2013 Mexico City Mexico Palacio de los Deportes The Ruse
19 October 2013
20 October 2013
22 October 2013
Asia
2 November 2013[O] Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates Yas Arena None 25,000
Oceania
30 November 2013 Perth Australia Perth Arena Birds of Tokyo
4 December 2013 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
6 December 2013 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
7 December 2013
10 December 2013 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
13 December 2013 Sydney Allphones Arena
South America
5 April 2014[P] São Paulo Brazil Autódromo José Carlos Pace Phoenix, Julian Casablancas, Capital Cities, Vespas Mandarinas 80,000
North America
12 April 2014[Q] Indio United States Empire Polo Club Queens of the Stone Age, Foster the People, MGMT, Kid Cudi, City and Colour, Cage the Elephant, Graveyard, Unlocking the Truth 140,000
19 April 2014[Q]
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
A This concert was a part of "1Live Radiokonzert"
B This concert was a part of "iTunes Festival"
C This concert was a part of "Radio 2 in Concert"
D This concert was a part of "War Child BRITs Show 2013"
E This concert was a part of "KROQ's GRAMMY Pre-Party"
F This concert was a part of "2013 Big Dance Concert Series"
G This concert was a free concert for the promotion of World War Z
H This concert was a part of "Summer Sonic Festival"
I This concert was a part of "Summer Sonic Extra Special"
J This concert was a part of "Hyundai Card Super Concert 19 City Break"
K This concert was a part of "Rock in Rio"
L This concert was a part of "iHeartRadio Music Festival"
M This concert was a part of "Austin City Limits Music Festival"
N This concert was a part of "Personal Fest"
O This concert was a part of "Yasalam F1 After-Race Concerts"
P This concert was a part of "Lollapalooza"
Q This concert was a part of "Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival"
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
5 December 2012 Oslo Oslo Spektrum Cancelled. Later rescheduled to 24 July 2013 and moved to Ullevaal Stadion and later moved again to Telenor Arena.[6]
6 December 2012 Stockholm Ericsson Globe Cancelled.
7 December 2012 Malmö Malmö Arena Cancelled.
21 April 2013 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Cancelled.
3 April 2014 São Paulo, Brazil Grand Metropole Cancelled.

Box office score data

Venue City Tickets Sold / Available Gross Revenue
The O2 Arena London 34,200 / 35,314 (97%) $2,851,580
Manchester Arena Manchester 18,754 / 19,220 (98%) $1,500,370
The O2 World Hamburg 13,885 / 13,885 (100%) $830,727
Sportpaleis Antwerp 20,630 / 20,636 (99%) $1,413,490
Staples Center Los Angeles 43,836 / 43,836 (100%) $2,580,539
Oracle Arena Oakland 11,431 / 11,431 (100%) $772,873
Sleep Train Arena Sacramento 6,085 / 7,671 (79%) $274,303
Rose Garden Portland 6,824 / 7,364 (94%) $412,760
BBandT Center Sunrise 6,470 / 7,235 (89%) $390,380
Tampa Bay Times Forum Tampa 7,697 / 12,964 (59%) $459,675
Amway Center Orlando 5,786 / 6,331 (91%) $350,020
U.S. Bank Arena Cincinnati 4,983 / 7,050 (71%) $220,523
United Center Chicago 12,760 / 14,654 (87%) $650,119
Schottenstein Center Columbus 5,568 / 6,100 (91%) $269,206
Target Center Minneapolis 6,904 / 8,500 (81%) $411,832
Chaifetz Arena St. Louis 7,708 / 7,708 (100%) $461,930
US Airways Center Phoenix 9,578 / 10,500 (91%) $429,999
American Airlines Center Dallas 10,719 / 10,719 (100%) $638,140
Toyota Center Houston 10,314 / 10,314 (100%) $632,620
BOK Center Tulsa 7,735 / 7,735 (100%) $466,705
TD Garden Boston 12,187 / 12,187 (100%) $729,695
Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville 4,970 / 5,715 (86%) $299,610
Bell Centre Montreal 24,939 / 25,000 (99%) $1,359,740
Colisee Pepsi Quebec City 10,398 / 11,815 (88%) $590,067
Air Canada Centre Toronto 22,526 / 22,526 (100%) $1,336,500
Stade de France Paris 150,936 / 150,936 (100%) $12,311,700
Stadio Olimpico Turin 65,228 / 65,228 (100%)
Stadio Olimpico Rome 60,963 / 60,963 (100%)
Gwinnett Center Duluth 6,749 / 9,500 (71%) $394,876
Bridgestone Arena Nashville 7,010 / 8,463 (83%) $426,820
Verizon Center Washington, D.C. 10,255 / 10,255 (100%) $587,359
Arena VFG Guadalajara 11,963 / 11,984 (99%) $866,928
Palacio de los Deportes Mexico City 95,533 / 98,220 (97%) $4,954,975
Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia 10,643 / 12,500 (85%) $575,175
Izod Center East Rutherford 14,073 / 14,073 (100%) $729,435
Perth Arena Perth 12,585 / 13,456 (94%) $1,278,210
Allphones Arena Sydney 16,106 / 16,337 (99%) $1,581,640
Brisbane Entertainment Centre Brisbane 9,789 / 10,373 (94%) $1,035,520
Estadio Dragao Porto 50000+/-
Stade de Suisse Bern 45000/45000 (100%)
Emirates Stadium London 60000/60000(1 date)(100%)
Werchter Festival Ground 35000
Estadio Olimpico Lluis Conpanyes Barcellona 35000/?
Perth Arena Perth 16000+
Amsterdam Arena Amsterdam 53196
Stade Charls Ehrmann Nice 45000
TOTAL 1,031,932 / 1,069,698 (95%) $45,098,391

References

  1. ↑ "Muse announce UK arena tour for October – ticket details". NME. 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
  2. ↑ "Muse announce European tour dates as they gear up to release new album The 2nd Law". STV. 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
  3. 1 2 "UK & European Tour Announced". Muse. 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
  4. ↑ "2013 YearEnd: Top 20 Worldwide Tours" (PDF). Pollstar's. 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  5. ↑ http://www.personalfest.com.ar/#line-up
  6. ↑ http://www.festivalrykten.se/muse-intar-telenor-arena/

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