Black Holes and Revelations Tour

The Black Holes and Revelations Tour was a worldwide concert tour by English rock band Muse in support of their fourth studio album Black Holes and Revelations.^[1] Lasting at over 2 years, this was the band's longest tour to date.

Black Holes and Revelations Tour

Promotional tour by Muse
Location	Europe North America Asia Australasia South America South Africa
Associated album	Black Holes and Revelations
Start date	13 May 2006
End date	17 August 2008
Legs	14
No. of shows	195
Muse concert chronology

Overview

In July 2006 the band announced that they would be going on their "biggest ever tour" in support of the album.^[2]

The tour opened with a slot at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee, Scotland, Muse's first concert since the Live 8 concerts in July 2005. During the summer of 2006 the band played their first series of shows, including a headline appearance at the Leeds and Reading Carling Weekend festivals. Following that was a tour that visited most of the world's major continents.^[2] The tour saw them travelling over most of the world, including countries such as the UK, most of Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, China and Korea.^[3] This tour also included the band's maiden visits to South-East Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, and Latin and South America.

The band's shows throughout the Black Holes and Revelations Tour became noted for their increasing usage of special effects. For their Carling Weekend shows the band used a display with neon tubes that had 10 smaller video screens in front, with 5 on the ground and 5 moving behind them. Smaller versions were used for other concerts on the 2006 European Festival circuit, plus on the first two US legs, the first Australian tour and the band's South-East Asian tour.

For the band's main European autumn/winter arena tour, Muse were originally intending to use the same set but changed their set design to a design based upon the H.A.A.R.P. installation in Alaska. The new design included a pod-style drum-riser over the top of drummer Dom Howard's drum kit on stage right while above the stage a pair of pylons carrying light-up tubes occupied the roof space and a giant video screen occupied the back wall. Originally the band wished for the pylon to extend into the audience but lack of money meant this wasn't possible. This show was modified for the 2007 European festival circuit with the drum-riser and kit moved into centre-stage and a new video screen above the riser, with 4 video 'strips' on stage with 2 either side of the drums. The riser was removed from this production at the end of the European festival shows.

Between the European arena and festival/stadium tours, the band embarked on a tour to Australia and the Far East. The band were 2nd on the bill at the 2007 Big Day Out Festival, behind headliners Tool. The band also played sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne before embarking on concerts in South East Asia, Muse's debut concerts. The South East Asia tour led to the band's biggest tour of Japan and a debut Muse show in South Korea. The band then moved to America, playing their biggest North American headline concerts at the time at the Inglewood Forum and the Palacio de los Deportes arena in Mexico City.

The biggest concert of the tour was the two nights that they played in the new Wembley Stadium on 16 and 17 June 2007. They were the first band to play at and sell out the newly rebuilt stadium.^[4] The show incorporated much more extensive special effects than other concerts, which included huge satellite dishes, "futuristic" antennas, giant white balls and thousands of lights.^[4] The encore featured two acrobats that floated high above the crowd suspended on floating white balloons during the performance of "Blackout", an album track from previous record Absolution.^[4] Footage of the latter concert was released on DVD whilst a live CD album contained a selection of recorded tracks from the two nights. Both discs were released as a joint package under the title HAARP.

Muse playing Starlight at Leeds Festival 2006

After Wembley the tour continued with Muse playing many gigs on the European festival circuits including headline appearances at Rock Werchter and the Benicàssim Festival. The tour then progressed to Muse's biggest North American tour at that point, including appearances at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Morrison's Red Rocks Amphitheatre and a headline appearance at Lollapalooza 2007.

Following that the band then did a tour of Eastern Europe in October before heading for an arena tour of Australia in November, finally ending 2007 at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas. The following year saw Muse have a much more relaxed schedule, but still saw Muse make play their first ever gigs in Dubai and South Africa at festivals, before making their gig debuts in South America on a 3-week arena tour.

In April 2008, the band also played a show for the Teenage Cancer Trust at London's Royal Albert Hall, which saw the band perform a much more stripped down show than usual but was also said by the band to be one of their favourite gigs of the tour. The band also performed "Megalomania", the final song from 2nd album Origin of Symmetry, for the first time since 2002, with Matt Bellamy playing the Albert Hall's famous organ.

The tour finished on 17 August 2008 when the band performed a headline slot at the Stafford leg of the British V Festival. For this show plus V's sister show in Chelmsford and a show a few days earlier at Marlay Park in Dublin, the band converted their Wembley satellite dishes into multiple video screens and also used a huge extensive light show.

Personnel

• Matthew Bellamy – lead vocals, guitar, piano
• Christopher Wolstenholme – bass, backing vocals, harmonica, guitar on "Hoodoo"
• Dominic Howard – drums, backing vocals on "Supermassive Black Hole"
• Morgan Nicholls – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, percussion, bass on "Hoodoo"

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Support
First leg: Festivals + warm-up shows I
13 May 2006	Dundee	United Kingdom	Radio 1's Big Weekend	Various
7 June 2006	Milan	Italy	Milan's Rolling Stone	None
24 June 2006	Neuhausen ob Eck	Germany	Southside Festival	Various
28 June 2006	London	United Kingdom	Shepherd's Bush Empire	None
30 June 2006	Werchter	Belgium	Rock Werchter	Various
1 July 2006	Arras	France	Main Square Festival
2 July 2006	Belfort		Eurockéennes
8 July 2006	Kristiansand	Norway	Quart Festival
Second leg: North America I
18 July 2006	San Francisco	United States	Music Concourse	The Cloud Room
19 July 2006	Los Angeles		Greek Theatre
21 July 2006	San Diego		Soma San Diego
22 July 2006	Phoenix		Celebrity Theatre
24 July 2006	Denver		Fillmore Auditorium
26 July 2006	Minneapolis		State Theatre
27 July 2006	Chicago		Aragon Ballroom
28 July 2006	Detroit		The Fillmore Detroit
30 July 2006	Toronto	Canada	The Docks Concert Theatre
31 July 2006	Montreal		Jacques Cartier Pier
2 August 2006	Boston	United States	Bank of America Pavilion
3 August 2006	New York City		Hammerstein Ballroom
4 August 2006	Philadelphia		Electric Factory
6 August 2006	Atlanta		The Tabernacle
Third leg: Festivals and warm-up shows II
East Asia
12 August 2006	Osaka	Japan	Summer Sonic Festival	Various
13 August 2006	Chiba
Europe
17 August 2006	Salzburg	Austria	Frequency Festival	Various
18 August 2006	Gampel	Switzerland	Gampel Open Air Festival
20 August 2006	Biddinghuizen	Netherlands	Lowlands Festival
22 August 2006	St Austell	United Kingdom	Eden Project	Hey Molly, Nixon and the Burn
24 August 2006	Edinburgh		Meadowbank Stadium	My Chemical Romance
26 August 2006	Reading		The Carling Weekend	Various
27 August 2006	Leeds
2 September 2006	Istanbul	Turkey	Rock'n Coke
Fourth leg: North America II
9 September 2006	Toronto	Canada	Virgin Festival	Various
10 September 2006	Cleveland	United States	Agora Theatre	The Like
11 September 2006	Columbus		Lifestyle Communities Pavilion
13 September 2006	Nashville		War Memorial Auditorium
14 September 2006	St. Louis		The Pageant
15 September 2006	Kansas City		Uptown Theatre
17 September 2006	Austin		Austin City Limits Music Festival	Various
18 September 2006	Houston		Verizon Wireless Theater	The Like
19 September 2006	Grand Prairie		Nokia Theater
21 September 2006	Paradise		The Joint
23 September 2006	Devore		Inland Invasion	Various
24 September 2006	Tucson		KFMA Fall Ball Music Festival
26 September 2006	Salt Lake City		Saltair Pavilion	The Like
28 September 2006	Davis		ARC Pavilion
30 September 2006	Mountain View		Download Festival	Various
3 October 2006	Portland		Roseland Theater	The Like
4 October 2006	Seattle		Paramount Theatre
Fifth Leg: Europe I
24 October 2006	Bilbao	Spain	Bizkaia Arena	Poet in Process
26 October 2006	Lisbon	Portugal	Campo Pequeno
27 October 2006	Madrid	Spain	Palacio de Deportes
28 October 2006	Barcelona		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona
30 October 2006	Toulouse	France	Le Zénith
27 October 2006	Bordeaux		Patinoire Mériadeck
3 November 2006	Dublin	Ireland	Point Theatre	Noisettes
4 November 2006	Belfast	United Kingdom	Odyssey Arena
6 November 2006	Aberdeen		AECC
7 November 2006	Glasgow		SECC
10 November 2006	Manchester		Evening News Arena
11 November 2006
12 November 2006	Cardiff		Cardiff International Arena
14 November 2006	Birmingham		National Exhibition Centre
15 November 2006
17 November 2006	Nottingham		National Ice Centre
18 November 2006	Sheffield		Hallam FM Arena
19 November 2006	Newcastle		Metro Radio Arena
21 November 2006	London		Wembley Arena
22 November 2006
23 November 2006
25 November 2006	Berlin	Germany	Treptow Arena	The Noisettes
26 November 2006	Hamburg		Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
28 November 2006	's-Hertogenbosch	Netherlands	Brabanthallen
29 November 2006	Böblingen	Germany	Sporthalle
1 December 2006	Rome	Italy	PalaLottomatica
2 December 2006	Bologna		PalaMalaguti
4 December 2006	Milan		DatchForum
5 December 2006	Geneva	Switzerland	SEG Geneva Arena
6 December 2006	Winterthur		Eishalle Deutweg
8 December 2006	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle
9 December 2006	Munich	Germany	Zenith
11 December 2006	Lyon	France	Halle Tony Garnier
13 December 2006	Düsseldorf	Germany	Philipshalle
14 December 2006	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	Razorlight
15 December 2006
17 December 2006	Nantes		Le Zénith
18 December 2006	Lille		Zenith de Lille
19 December 2006	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis
Sixth leg: Asia/ Australasia
16 January 2007	Singapore	Singapore	Fort Canning Park	None
19 January 2007	Auckland	New Zealand	Big Day Out	Various
21 January 2007	Gold Coast	Australia
23 January 2007	Sydney		Hordern Pavilion	Ground Components
24 January 2007
25 January 2007			Big Day Out	Various
28 January 2007	Melbourne
30 January 2007			Festival Hall	Ground Components
31 January 2007
2 February 2007	Adelaide		Big Day Out	Various
4 February 2007	Perth
23 February 2007	Jakarta	Indonesia	Istora Senayan	None
25 February 2007	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	Stadium Negara
28 February 2007	Taipei	Taiwan	Spirit of Taiwan	Various
3 March 2007	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	AsiaWorld–Expo	None
7 March 2007	Seoul	South Korea	Jamsil Arena
10 March 2007	Tokyo	Japan	Shinkiba Studio Coast
11 March 2007
12 March 2007			Tokyo International Forum
14 March 2007	Osaka		Zepp
15 March 2007
16 March 2007	Fukuoka
18 March 2007	Sendai
19 March 2007	Nagoya
Seventh leg: North America III
9 April 2007	San Francisco	United States	Bill Graham Civic Auditorium	Immigrant
10 April 2007	Inglewood		The Forum
12 April 2007	Mexico City	Mexico	Palacio de los Deportes	None
15 April 2007	Frisco	United States	Edgefest	Various
5 May 2007	East Rutherford		The Bamboozle
Eighth leg: Europe II
Europe
26 May 2007	Esch-sur-Alzette	Luxembourg	Rockhal	Montevideo
27 May 2007	Landgraaf	Netherlands	Pinkpop Festival	Various
30 May 2007	Florence	Italy	Piazzale Michelangelo	Juliette and the Licks
1 June 2007	Nürburg	Germany	Rock am Ring	Various
2 June 2007	Nuremberg		Rock im Park
9 June 2007	Newport	United Kingdom	Isle of Wight Festival
16 June 2007	London		Wembley Stadium	The Streets, Dirty Pretty Things, Rodrigo y Gabriela
17 June 2007				My Chemical Romance, Biffy Clyro, Shy Child
23 June 2007	Paris	France	Parc des Princes	Biffy Clyro, We Are Scientists, Archive
28 June 2007	Werchter	Belgium	Rock Werchter	Various
30 June 2007	Gdynia	Poland	Open'er Festival
2 July 2007	Riga	Latvia	Arena Riga	None
7 July 2007	Punchestown	Republic of Ireland	Oxegen	Various
8 July 2007	Roskilde	Denmark	Roskilde Festival
7 July 2007	Monaco	Monaco	Stade Louis II	Kaiser Chiefs, Second Sex
13 July 2007	Aix-les-Bains	France	Musilac Festival	Various
14 July 2007	Locarno	Switzerland	Moon and Stars Festival
16 July 2007	Verona	Italy	Verona Arena	None
18 July 2007	Nîmes	France	Arena of Nîmes
20 July 2007	Angoulême		Festival Garden Nef Party	Various
23 July 2007	Benicàssim	Spain	Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
23 July 2007	Nyon	Switzerland	Paléo Festival
East Asia
27 July 2007	Naeba Ski Resort	Japan	Fuji Rock Festival	Various
29 July 2007	Incheon	South Korea	Pentaport Rock Festival
Ninth leg: North America IV
1 August 2007	Mississauga	Canada	Arrow Hall	Cold War Kids
2 August 2007	Sterling Heights	United States	CIMX-FM Annual Birthday Bash	Various
4 August 2007	Chicago		Lollapalooza
6 August 2007	New York City		Madison Square Garden	Cold War Kids
9 August 2007	Fairfax		Patriot Center
10 August 2007	Philadelphia		Philadelphia Festival Pier
11 August 2007	Boston		Agganis Arena
9 September 2007	Seattle		KeyArena	Juliette and the Licks
10 September 2007	Portland		Rose Garden
11 September 2007	Orem		David O. McKay Events Center
15 September 2007	Austin		Austin City Limits Music Festival	Various
16 September 2007	Grand Prairie		Nokia Theater	Juliette and the Licks, Immigrant
18 September 2007	Morrison		Red Rocks Amphitheatre
20 September 2007	Mesa		Mesa Amphitheatre
21 September 2007	Irvine		Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
22 September 2007	Chula Vista		Street Scene	Various
Tenth leg: Europe III
4 October 2007	Athens	Greece	Terra Vibe Park	None
6 October 2007	Bucharest	Romania	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf	Brett Anderson
7 October 2007	Belgrade	Serbia	Belgrade Arena	None
9 October 2007	Zagreb	Croatia	Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall
10 October 2007	Budapest	Hungary	László Papp Budapest Sports Arena	30Y
13 October 2007	Kyiv	Ukraine	Palace of Sports	None
15 October 2007	Moscow	Russia	Luzhniki Palace of Sports
17 October 2007	Helsinki	Finland	Helsinki Ice Hall	Manboy
19 October 2007	Saint Petersburg	Russia	Ice Palace	None
20 October 2007	Trondheim	Norway	Dødens Dal	Inglow
21 October 2007	Stockholm	Sweden	Hovet	Stalingrad Cowgirls
23 October 2007	Oslo	Norway	Oslo Spektrum
24 October 2007	Copenhagen	Denmark	Forum Copenhagen	Dúné
Eleventh leg: North America
28 October 2007	Las Vegas	United States	Vegoose	Various
Twelfth leg: Australasia
10 November 2007	Perth	Australia	Supreme Court Gardens	The Checks
14 November 2007	Adelaide		Adelaide Entertainment Centre
15 November 2007	Melbourne		Rod Laver Arena
17 November 2007	Sydney		Sydney Entertainment Centre
21 November 2007	Brisbane		Riverstage
23 November 2007	Auckland	New Zealand	Trusts Stadium
25 November 2007	Christchurch		Westpac Arena
Thirteenth leg: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas
9 December 2007	Los Angeles	United States	Gibson Amphitheatre	Various
Fourteenth leg: Festivals + Charity event
3 March 2008	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Dubai Desert Rock Festival	Various
21 March 2008	Johannesburg	South Africa	My Coke Fest	Various
24 March 2008	Cape Town
12 April 2008[A]	London	United Kingdom	Royal Albert Hall	The Futureheads
6 June 2008	Lisbon	Portugal	Rock in Rio	Various
Fifteenth leg: Latin America
16 July 2008	Monterrey	Mexico	Monterrey Arena	Sexy Marvin
18 July 2008	Zapopan		Telmex Auditorium	None
20 July 2008	Bogotá	Colombia	Palacio de los Deportes	The Hall Effect
23 July 2008	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Teatro Gran Rex	None
24 July 2008
26 July 2008	Santiago	Chile	Teatro Caupolicán
30 July 2008	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Vivo Rio
31 July 2008	São Paulo		HSBC Brasil
2 August 2008	Brasília		Porão do Rock	Various
Sixteenth leg:UK/ Ireland
13 August 2008	Dublin	Republic of Ireland	Marlay Park	Kasabian, Glasvegas
16 August 2008	Chelmsford	United Kingdom	V Festival	Various
17 August 2008	Weston-under-Lizard

Festivals and other miscellaneous performances

^A This concert was a part of "Teenage Cancer Trust 2008"

Support shows

Muse performed slots for Depeche Mode in Sweden and My Chemical Romance in the United States. Muse were also due to support My Chemical Romance for another seven dates in the United States, however due to the illness of both bands as they had been struck down with food poisoning, these gigs were canceled.

Date	City	Country	Venue
Touring the Angel
7 July 2006	Stockholm	Sweden	Olympic Stadium
The Black Parade World Tour
14 April 2007	Houston	United States	Reliant Arena
16 April 2007	San Antonio		AT&T Center
18 April 2007	Pensacola		Civic Center
19 April 2007	Tampa		St. Pete Times Forum
22 April 2007	Fort Lauderdale		BankAtlantic Center
24 April 2007	Duluth		Gwinnett Arena
25 April 2007	Nashville		Municipal Auditorium
26 April 2007	Charlotte		Cricket Arena
27 April 2007	Columbia		Merriweather Post Pavilion
28 April 2007	Williamsburg		The College of William and Mary

Below is a list of songs played on the Black Holes and Revelations tour:

Album	Song	Times
Showbiz (1999)	"Sunburn"	82
	"Muscle Museum"	19
	"Showbiz"	11
	"Unintended"	15
Unintended (2000)	"Nishe"	1
Origin of Symmetry (2001)	"New Born"	191
	"Bliss"	100
	"Space Dementia"	6
	"Plug in Baby"	196
	"Citizen Erased"	44
	"Micro Cuts"	12
	"Feeling Good"	128
	"Megalomania"	1
Hullabaloo Soundtrack (2002)	"Forced In"	71
	"Dead Star"	10
Absolution (2003)	"Apocalypse Please"	64
	"Time is Running Out"	207
	"Sing for Absolution"	19
	"Stockholm Syndrome"	208
	"Hysteria"	204
	"Blackout"	4
	"Butterflies & Hurricanes"	176
	"Fury"	11
	"Ruled by Secrecy"	6
Absolution Tour (2005)	"The Groove"	6
Black Holes and Revelations (2006)	"Take a Bow"	176
	"Starlight"	208
	"Supermassive Black Hole"	204
	"Map of the Problematique"	202
	"Soldier's Poem"	96
	"Invincible"	169
	"Assassin"	54
	"Exo-Politics"	7
	"City of Delusion"	51
	"Hoodoo"	63
	"Knights of Cydonia"	209

References

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