The Drones World Tour 2015/16

The Drones World Tour will officially begin on November 17th, 2016 in Palacio de Los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico. Muse have also released an official trailer for the Drones World Tour which can be seen here.

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Information

The tour will being in fall of 2015 and end in summer of 2016.

This is also the first time the band will be performing in the middle of the arena on a 360 stage, with the audience surrounding them. As said to muse.mu "The Drones World Tour will see the band perform for the first time “in the round” from the middle of the arena. This stage design and configuration will give fans a true 360 degree audio/visual sensory experience."

According to Matt, this is going to be their version of the famous Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Stage and Tour Design

The stage will consist of a round circle in the middle of the arena with two runways, spanning across the entire arena, each one with a hammerhead on the end. The runways are low, so the band can get intimate with the crowd. According to Glen Rowe, the circle in the middle moves one revolution per hour; "The idea is Matt starts there and an hour later he comes back so in the show everyone sees him (upclose) twice."

The tour will also include a swarm of 16 custom made self-controlled drones. According to Muse's tour designer Oli Metcalfe, they've been able to work with a Dutch company that have written a piece of software which can control a whole swarm of robots, controlled by a computer and tracking systems.

The visual aspects of the tour will be held by Moment Factory, a Montreal-based new media and entertainment studio which create multimedia enviroments with a combination of lights, animation, sound and special effects. They've made several multimedia art installations and projects and they've also worked with other musical artists such as Bon Jovi, Madonna, Imagine Dragons and Nine Inch Nails.

Gigs

Date	Venue	Location
2016-06-06	Barclaycard Arena	Hamburg, Germany
2016-06-04	O2 Arena	Prague, Czech Republic
2016-06-03	Mercedes Benz Arena	Berlin, Germany
2016-05-18	Mediolanum Forum	Milan, Italy
2016-05-17	Mediolanum Forum	Milan, Italy
2016-05-15	Mediolanum Forum	Milan, Italy
2016-05-14	Mediolanum Forum	Milan, Italy
2016-05-12	Hallenstadion	Zurich, Switzerland
2016-05-11	Hallenstadion	Zurich, Switzerland
2016-05-09	Wiener Stadthalle	Vienna, Austria
2016-05-06	Barclaycard Center	Madrid, Spain
2016-05-05	Barclaycard Center	Madrid, Spain
2016-05-02	MEO Arena	Lisbon, Portugal
2016-04-17	SSE Hydro	Glasgow, Scottland
2016-04-15	O2 Arena	London, England
2016-04-14	O2 Arena	London, England
2016-04-12	O2 Arena	London, England
2016-04-11	O2 Arena	London, England
2016-04-08	Manchester Arena	Manchester, England
2016-04-06	The SSE Arena	Belfast, Northern Ireland
2016-04-05	3Arena	Dublin, Ireland
2016-03-31	Olympiahalle	Munich, Germany
2016-03-12	Palais 12	Brussels, Belgium
2016-03-09	Ziggo Dome	Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016-03-06	Lanxess Arena	Cologne, Germany
2016-03-04	Bercy Arena	Paris, France
2016-03-03	Bercy Arena	Paris, France
2016-03-01	Bercy Arena	Paris, France
2016-02-29	Bercy Arena	Paris, France
2016-02-27	Bercy Arena	Paris, France
2016-02-26	Bercy Arena	Paris, France
2015-12-19	Staples Center	Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015-12-18	Staples Center	Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015-12-16	Valley View Casino Center	San Diego, CA, USA
2015-12-15	Oracle Arena	Oakland, CA, USA
2015-12-13	Moda Center	Portland, OR, USA
2015-12-10	Rogers Arena	Vancouver, BC, Canada
2015-11-20	Palacio de los Deportes	Mexico City, Mexico
2015-11-18	Palacio de los Deportes	Mexico City, Mexico
2015-11-17	Palacio de los Deportes	Mexico City, Mexico