Still... At Their Very Best was the fifth concert tour by English indie art pop band the 1975 in support of their fifth studio album Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022), and a follow-up of their acclaimed At Their Very Best world tour "featuring newly expanded production".
It commenced in September 2023 with a North American leg across arenas in the United States and Canada, marking their biggest tour yet in the region. In 2024, the band staged the world's first ever "carbon-removed" events across their four shows at the O2 Arena in London.
Background In May 2023, during the band's headlining show at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Scotland, frontman Matty Healy was noted to wear a lab coat with a "Matty" name tag which was a departure from his At Their Very Best tour wardrobe. By June, the band's social media accounts posted promotional materials about a new concert tour including a poster of Healy kneeling on a patch of grass wearing a lab coat.
The fourth episode of the band's A Theatrical Performance of an Intimate Moment short film webseries shows Healy in a laboratory discarding a lab coat with the name tag "Truman Black", a known alias of Healy's, and choosing to wear the lab coat with the name tag "Matty". On 23 September, Healy posted a political campaign-type of video centering on redemption to promote the tour.
World's first "carbon-removed" events The band's four shows at the O2 Arena in London in 2024 marked the world's first-ever carbon-removed events. This involves CO2 generated by the events – from the light show to the audience – being physically sucked out of the air, as well as more traditional techniques such as planting trees and spreading CO2 absorbing volcanic rock on farmland, where it also acts as a fertiliser.
Concert synopsis The show, written and directed by Healy, is an expansion of the band's previous tour, reusing the same house-like set design by Tobias Rylander and following a similar premise and two-part structure. Additions to the show include a large LED screen behind the house set that displays concert visuals, as well as a second, smaller stage at the center of the concert venue, which resembles a square patch of grass. After crawling through a television screen on the main stage during the "Consumption" interlude, Healy emerges on the B-stage for the show's middle act (titled "Matty's Nightmare"), where he caresses and lays next to a naked wax replica of himself. The replica is then lowered beneath the stage and replaced with a guitar and microphone for Healy to perform an acoustic rendition of the track "Be My Mistake" from the band's third album, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships. Healy returns to the main stage afterwards to perform the rest of the set, but reemerges on the B-stage during the encore to perform "People", and is sometimes joined by other members of the band.
Some shows contain a second interlude titled "Social Media Pandering Parody", where Healy projects trending news clips onto the screens while reading satirical commentary on current events from a cellphone to the audience. At the October 29, 2023 show in Chicago, Healy ate a prop cellphone onstage as part of the parody segment. Meanwhile, at the October 10, 2023 in Fort Worth, Texas, Healy delivered an impassioned 10-minute speech defending the band's pro-LGBT demonstration during their performance at the 2023 Good Vibes Festival in Malaysia, where they were subsequently banned from performing. Healy particularly criticized the "liberal outrage" against the band after the incident, which he perceived as hypocritical in light of Malaysia's widespread anti-LGBT laws, and further refuted accusations against the band of "cultural insensitivity" and "colonialism", stating, "[liberals'] unconditional belief in inclusivity and tolerance has led them to indirectly support a government which is intolerant of their own existence."
Tour dates + List of 2023 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and opening act Date City Country Venue Opening acts Attendance Revenue16 September 2023 AtlantaUnited States Piedmont Park rowspan="2" rowspan="2" rowspan="2" 23 September 2023 Las Vegas Downtown Las Vegas26 September 2023 Sacramento Golden 1 CenterDora Jar — —28 September 2023 San Jose SAP Center — —30 September 2023 San Diego Pechanga Arena — —2 October 2023 Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl —5 October 2023 Glendale Desert Diamond Arena —7 October 2023 Greenwood Village Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre —9 October 2023 Fort Worth Dickies Arena —12 October 2023 New Orleans Smoothie King Center —14 October 2023 Austin Zilker Park 17 October 2023 Miami Kaseya Center Dora Jar — —18 October 2023 Tampa Amalie Arena ——20 October 2023 Charlotte Spectrum Center ——22 October 2023 Nashville Bridgestone Arena — —23 October 2023 St. Louis Enterprise Center ——25 October 2023 Kansas City T-Mobile Center ——26 October 2023 Minneapolis Target Center ——28 October 2023 Milwaukee Fiserv Forum ——29 October 2023 Rosemont Allstate Arena — —31 October 2023 Detroit Little Caesars Arena — —2 November 2023 Indianapolis Gainbridge Fieldhouse — —3 November 2023 Columbus Nationwide Arena — —5 November 2023 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena — —7 November 2023 Newark Prudential Center — —8 November 2023 Baltimore CFG Bank Arena — —10 November 2023 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center — —12 November 2023 Boston TD Garden — —14 November 2023New York CityMadison Square Garden — —15 November 2023 —17 November 2023 MontrealCanada Bell Centre — —18 November 2023 Toronto Scotiabank Arena — —20 November 2023 London Budweiser Gardens — —22 November 2023 Grand RapidsUnited States Van Andel Arena — —26 November 2023 Salt Lake City Delta Center — —27 November 2023 Boise ExtraMile Arena — —29 November 2023 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena — —1 December 2023 PortlandUnited States Moda Center — —2 December 2023 Seattle Climate Pledge Arena — —
+ List of 2024 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and opening act Date City Country Venue Opening acts Attendance Revenue13 January 2024AnaheimUnited StatesHonda Center 8 February 2024GlasgowScotlandOVO Hydro The Japanese House——9 February 2024——12 February 2024LondonEnglandThe O2 Arena——13 February 2024——14 February 2024——17 February 2024ManchesterAO Arena——18 February 2024——20 February 2024LondonThe O2 Arena——21 February 2024BirminghamResorts World Arena——26 February 2024LisbonPortugalCampo PequenoBeen Stellar——27 February 2024MadridSpainWiZink Center——1 March 2024ParisFranceLe Zénith——2 March 2024AmsterdamNetherlandsAFAS Live——3 March 2024BrusselsBelgiumForest National——5 March 2024HamburgGermanyBarclays Arena——7 March 2024OsloNorwayOslo Spektrum——8 March 2024StockholmSwedenTele2 Arena——10 March 2024CopenhagenDenmarkKB Hallen——12 March 2024BerlinGermanyMercedes-Benz Arena——13 March 2024WarsawPolandArena COS Torwar——14 March 2024PragueCzech RepublicSportovní hala Fortuna——16 March 2024ZürichSwitzerlandHallenstadion——18 March 2024MunichGermanyZenith (building)——19 March 2024MilanItalyMediolanum Forum——21 March 2024FrankfurtGermanyJahrhunderthalle——22 March 2024ColognePalladium (Cologne)——24 March 2024AmsterdamNetherlandsAFAS Live——
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