The Drones World Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the English rock band Muse. Staged in support of the band's 2015 album Drones, the tour visited arenas and festivals throughout 2015 and is the tenth concert tour the band has carried out. It began on 23 May 2015 in Norwich, England at the BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend. The Drones World Tour sold over 1.2 million tickets and grossed $23M from 34 shows in 2015, plus $65.5M from 64 shows in 2016.
A live video of the tour entitled Muse: Drones World Tour, was released in cinemas worldwide on 12 July 2018.
Rehearsals Rehearsals for the Drones festival tour took part in late April and were held in Air Studios, where Muse previously rehearsed for the Origin of Symmetry anniversary concerts at Reading and Leeds festivals, and where Muse also recorded Absolution and parts of The 2nd Law, Drones and Simulation Theory.
European Festivals Muse played various festivals around Europe on the first leg of the tour, which started 23 May 2015. This leg of the tour also included Muse's debut performance at Download Festival, which they also headlined.
The second leg of the European Festivals tour began on 24 June 2016 at Glastonbury. The new stage set up featured 11 LED pillars which could be manually pushed back and forth by members of the crew to accommodate the show. Bellamy compared this set up to The Resistance tour on his Instagram. An updated version of this set was used for the remaining dates in 2017, complete with new lighting rigs and lasers.
Drones Arena Tour
Matt Bellamy confirmed that Muse would be tour North America in late 2015, and Europe in 2016. The stage setup is an 'in-the-round' setup, with a circular stage in the middle, similar to U2's 360 Tour, with catwalks on either end of the stage. Bellamy has also said that they will be flying drones over the audience during the shows. This set up was first used on 17 November 2015 in Mexico City at the start of the band's North America tour. The Arena tour dates prior in South America and Asia the band used their festival production.
The show begins with spherical drones being launched from a space station-style grid at the top of arenas, and they later re-appear during the course of the concert. There are also retractable video screens using projection, a spherical 360 screen over the main central stage, and a giant inflatable device designed to look like a Reaper drone. Confetti and streamers were also shot into the audience during performances of "Mercy".
However, the show has had technical difficulties. Two concerts in San Diego & Las Vegas were rescheduled due to "technical and logistical" challenges, while the drones were not used at all in three gigs, and one gig in Detroit saw several drones fail simultaneously.
Song Album"Sunburn"Showbiz "Muscle Museum""Showbiz""Uno""Agitated"Uno (single)"Yes Please"Sunburn (single)"New Born"Origin of Symmetry "Bliss""Hyper Music""Plug In Baby""Micro Cuts""Citizen Erased""Futurism""Feeling Good""Dead Star"Dead Star/In Your World"Apocalypse Please"Absolution "Time Is Running Out""Sing For Absolution""Stockholm Syndrome""Hysteria" (paired with Interlude)"Blackout""Butterflies & Hurricanes""Fury""The Groove"Time Is Running Out (single) "Take a Bow"Black Holes and Revelations "Starlight""Supermassive Black Hole""Map of the Problematique""Assassin""Knights of Cydonia""Glorious""Easily""Uprising"The Resistance "Resistance""Undisclosed Desires""United States of Eurasia""Supremacy"The 2nd Law "Madness""Panic Station""Prelude""The 2nd Law: Isolated System""Dead Inside"Drones "[Drill Sergeant]""Psycho""Mercy""Reapers""The Handler""[JFK]""Defector""Revolt" "The Globalist""Drones"
Tour dates + List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue Date City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue Leg 1 — European Festivals (Leg 1) 23 May 2015NorwichEnglandBBC Radio 1's Big Weekendrowspan="13" rowspan="22" rowspan="22" 29 May 2015MunichGermanyRockavaria 30 May 2015GelsenkirchenRock Im Revier 5 June 2015ViennaAustriaRock In Vienna 6 June 2015BielSwitzerlandSonisphere Festival 12 June 2015LandgraafNetherlandsPinkpop Festival 13 June 2015Castle DoningtonEnglandDownload Festival 14 June 2015WarsawPolandOrange Warsaw Festival 19 June 2015MoscowRussiaPark Live Festival 21 June 2015St. PetersburgTuborg GreenFest 24 June 2015SeinäjokiFinlandProvinssirock 26 June 2015NorrköpingSwedenBråvalla Festival 28 June 2015WerchterBelgiumRock Werchter 30 June 2015CologneGermanyGloria TheaterRoyal Blood 2 July 2015RoskildeDenmarkRoskilde Festivalrowspan="8" 4 July 2015ArrasFranceMain Square Festival 5 July 2015RoeserLuxembourgRock-a-Field 9 July 2015LisbonPortugalNOS Alive 11 July 2015BilbaoSpainBilbao BBK Live 13 July 2015Aix-les-BainsFranceMusilac Music Festival 16 July 2015CarhaixVieilles Charrues Festival 18 July 2015RomeItalyRock in Roma Leg 2 — Asia 25 July 2015NaebaJapanFuji Rock Festival Leg 3 — Europe 11 September 2015LondonEnglandElectric Ballroomrowspan="3" rowspan="3" rowspan="3" 13 September 2015BerlinGermanyLollapalooza Berlin 16 September 2015BrusselsBelgiumAncienne Belgique Leg 4 — AsiaBox score 19 September 2015BeijingChinaMasterCard Center rowspan="2" 7,573 / 7,573 $753,180 21 September 2015ShanghaiMercedes-Benz Arena Shanghai10,122 / 10,122$1,058,479 23 September 2015BangkokThailandImpact Arena The Ruse 6,711 / 7,902 $623,301 26 September 2015 SingaporeSingapore Indoor Stadium 9,558 / 9,558 $1,094,708 28 September 2015Hong KongChinaAsiaWorld–Expo 9,066 / 9,066 $894,088 30 September 2015SeoulSouth KoreaOlympic Gymnastics Arena 10,595 / 10,837 $974,494 Leg 5 — South America 15 October 2015SantiagoChileMovistar Arena rowspan="6" rowspan="6" 17 October 2015Buenos AiresArgentinaComplejo Al RíoUtopians 19 October 2015CórdobaOrfeo Superdomo 22 October 2015Rio de JaneiroBrazilHSBC Arena 24 October 2015São PauloAllianz Parque 27 October 2015BogotáColombiaParque Deportivo 222 Telebit Leg 6 — North America (First official leg of Drones World Tour)Box score 17 November 2015Mexico CityMexicoPalacio de los DeportesThe New Regime rowspan="3" rowspan="3" 18 November 2015 20 November 2015 21 November 2015Corona Capital 1 December 2015HoustonUnited StatesToyota CenterPhantogram7,482 / 11,224$551,820 2 December 2015DallasAmerican Airlines Center9,924 /11,163$643,334 5 December 2015GlendaleGila River ArenaPhantogram6,714 / 11,225$415,490 10 December 2015VancouverCanadaRogers Arenarowspan="8" rowspan="8" 12 December 2015SeattleUnited StatesKeyArena 13 December 2015PortlandModa Center 15 December 2015OaklandOracle Arena 18 December 2015Los AngelesStaples Center 19 December 2015 7 January 2016San DiegoValley View Casino Center 9 January 2016Las VegasMandalay Bay Events Center 13 January 2016ChicagoUnited CenterX Ambassadors13,439 / 13,439$819,321 14 January 2016DetroitJoe Louis Arena8,748 / 13,109$518,330 16 January 2016TorontoCanadaAir Canada Centre 18 January 2016Quebec CityCentre Videotron27,279 / 29,250$1,468,520 20 January 2016MontrealBell Centre28,475 / 29,660$1,315,450 21 January 2016 23 January 2016 Quebec City Centre Videotron 25 January 2016BostonUnited StatesTD Garden11,111 / 16,372$740,815 27 January 2016BrooklynBarclays Center14,916 / 14,916$874,783 29 January 2016NewarkPrudential Center 31 January 2016PhiladelphiaWells Fargo Center13,103 / 13,563$586,933 1 February 2016Washington, D.C.Verizon Center10,865 / 17,144$801,188 Leg 7 — EuropeBox score: 26 February 2016ParisFranceAccorHotels Arena X Ambassadors108,182 / 108,182$7,787,807 27 February 2016 29 February 2016Phantogram 1 March 2016 3 March 2016Nothing But Thieves 4 March 2016 6 March 2016CologneGermanyLanxess Arena rowspan="10" rowspan="10" 7 March 2016AmsterdamNetherlandsZiggo Dome 9 March 2016 10 March 2016 12 March 2016BrusselsBelgiumPalais 12 13 March 2016 15 March 2016The Van Jets 16 March 2016 31 March 2016MunichGermanyOlympiahalle De Staat 2 April 2016BirminghamEnglandBarclaycard Arena BirminghamNothing But Thieves 3 April 2016LondonThe O2 Arena 92,167 / 92,167 $8,119,590 5 April 2016DublinIreland3Arena rowspan="2" rowspan="2" 6 April 2016BelfastNorthern IrelandSSE Arena 8 April 2016ManchesterEnglandManchester Arena 37,777 / 38,058 $3,214,350 9 April 2016Phantogram 11 April 2016LondonThe O2 Arena 12 April 2016PhantogramMy Vitriol 14 April 2016 15 April 2016Phantogram 17 April 2016GlasgowScotlandThe SSE Hydro22,069 / 22,760$2,000,800 18 April 2016Nothing But Thieves30 April 2016IschglAustriaTop of the Mountainrowspan="6" rowspan="6" 2 May 2016LisbonPortugalMEO ArenaDe Staat 3 May 2016 5 May 2016MadridSpainBarclaycard Center Madrid 6 May 2016 9 May 2016ViennaAustriaWiener Stadthalle 11 May 2016ZürichSwitzerlandHallenstadion26,000 / 26,000$2,869,240 12 May 2016 14 May 2016MilanItalyMediolanum Forum rowspan="8" rowspan="8" 15 May 2016 17 May 2016 18 May 2016 20 May 2016 21 May 2016 3 June 2016BerlinGermanyMercedes-Benz Arena Berlin Jack Garratt 4 June 2016PragueCzech RepublicO2 Arena Prague 6 June 2016HamburgGermanyBarclaycard Arena Hamburg9,316 / 11,943$622,544 8 June 2016CopenhagenDenmarkForum Copenhagen — — 9 June 2016The New Regime 11 June 2016StockholmSwedenEricsson Globe — — 12 June 2016OsloNorwayTelenor Arena — — 14 June 2016HelsinkiFinlandHartwall Arena — — 16 June 2016RigaLatviaArena Riga My Vitriol — — 17 June 2016KaunasLithuaniaŽalgiris Arena — — 21 June 2016MoscowRussiaOlimpiyskiy — — Leg 8 — European Festivals (Leg 2) 24 June 2016PiltonEnglandGlastonbury Festival28 June 2016ParisFranceEiffel Tower X Ambassadors — — 30 June 2016MarmandeGarorock rowspan="9" rowspan="9" rowspan="9" 2 July 2016MontreuxSwitzerlandMontreux Jazz Festival 8 July 2016KyivUkraineU-Park Festival 14 July 2016BernSwitzerlandGurten Festival 16 July 2016BenicàssimSpainFestival Internacional de Benicàssim 18 July 2016NîmesFranceLe Festival de Nîmes 19 July 2016 Nyon Switzerland Paléo Festival 23 July 2016AthensGreeceEjekt Festival 29 July 2016BucharestRomaniaRock The City 6 August 2016 Reykjavík Iceland Laugardalshöll — — — 13 August 2016 Budapest Hungary Sziget Festival rowspan="4" rowspan="4" rowspan="4" 19 August 2016 Biddinghuizen Netherlands Lowlands Festival 20 August 2016 KonstanzGermany Rock am See 21 August 2016 KrakówPoland Live Music Festival Total 315,794 / 349,554(90%)$24,057,848
Cancelled shows + List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation Date City Country Venue Reason 26 July 2016 Istanbul Turkey Nebula Festival 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
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References
External links
Muse Official Website