Rape of the World Tour

Rape of the World Tour
Tour by Marilyn Manson
Associated album	Eat Me, Drink Me
Start date	May 26, 2007
End date	March 2, 2008
Legs	7
Shows	122
Marilyn Manson tour chronology
Against All Gods (2004-2005) Rape of the World (2007-2008) The High End of Low (2009)

Rape of the World was a worldwide arena tour by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was the tenth tour the band embarked upon and the seventh to span over multiple legs. It was launched 10 days ahead in support of their sixth full-length studio LP, Eat Me, Drink Me, which was released on June 5, 2007 in the US. Beginning on May 26, 2007 and lasting until March 2, 2008, the tour included seven legs spanning Europe, Oceania, Japan and North America with a total of 122 completed shows.

Contents 1 Performance and show themes 1.1 Attire 2 Set lists 2.1 Opening songs 2.2 Summer European Tour 2.3 Summer North American Tour 2.4 South American Tour 2.5 Oceania Tour 2.6 Japan Tour 3 Lineup 4 Tour dates 5 References

Performance and show themes

For this tour Manson returned to the theatrics of the Grotesk Burlesk Tour, some influenced by Alice in Wonderland. These are the elements contained in the shows:

• On some occasions, the stage is filled with (presumably fake) candles during the opening song "If I Was Your Vampire".
• During the first five legs of the tour, during "The Fight Song," the stage was set up like a boxing ring, and Manson wore a boxer's entrance robe. The microphone hung from the ceiling like a ring announcer's microphone.
• During "The Dope Show," the line "the drugs, they say, are made in California" would sometimes be changed to include the name of the city or country it's being performed in (these lyrical changes were not new to this tour however). On most occasions, the name of the city is shown on the screen in the back along with the word "Drugs". A newer addition to the song's performance, beginning at the Halloween show at The Palms, was Manson singing part of The Beatles song, "Happiness is a Warm Gun" before "The Dope Show," and then using the next section of the song as an introduction to "The Reflecting God".

• A lifted tile with Manson standing on it, performing "The Reflecting God", in a similar manner much like past performances of "Cruci-Fiction in Space" (from the Guns, God and Government Tour) and "Para-Noir" (from the Grotesk Burlesk Tour).
• Backgrounds of interactive animations, including:
  • "Irresponsible Hate Anthem": A rapid-fire montage of words like "Love", "Hate", "Drugs", "Sex", "God," and "Death," which was later used for "The Reflecting God" instead and replaced with a transcription of a news story about a 2007 school shooting in Finland.
  • "Just a Car Crash Away": A heartbeat line from a life support monitor which makes two M's across the screen
  • "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3": A video of Manson's mouth singing, created in the style of the iconic red lips of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The video also contains clips of the Hindenburg disaster.
  • "The Dope Show": A continuously rotating pill with "Eat Me" written on the front and the Cross of Lorraine on the back. Later in the tour, to begin the song, a scan of Manson’s cocaine lined American Express Corporate card (with the numbers changed).
  • Others include the red eyes with hearts from the Eat Me, Drink Me booklet, and the Les Fleurs du Mal (alternate version) painting.

• A microphone in the shape of a knife.
• A huge chair for "Are You the Rabbit?"
• On some occasions, a robot of Evan Rachel Wood entered the stage during "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)". The mannequin would push a cart with a birthday cake and a bottle of Mansinthe placed on it. Also on the table is a camera that Manson used to take a Polaroid photo of the Evan robot, which he would then throw into the crowd. In some performances, Manson would take the head off of the mannequin and sing the song to it, and then take the glasses of it and wear them, throwing them into the crowd. He has also removed the mannequin's arms and put them around himself.
• In several shows, red and black confetti is blown over the crowd during "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)". Also during "The Beautiful People," sometimes white confetti is used.

• Return of the podium from the Dead to the World Tour and a bible being burnt midway through "Antichrist Superstar".
• At the culmination of the show, usually during "The Beautiful People," Manson leaves the stage and performs the song among the crowd by standing on the separation barrier. In an interview with MTV Denmark, Manson said he added the feature "so that the show doesn't become too impersonal".
• Various samples of early songs like "Sweet Tooth", "Abuse, Part 1" and "Track 99", but also spoken samples of passages from the film versions of Alice in Wonderland, Lolita and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are used as interludes while new stage props are set up in between songs.

Attire

Initially, Manson took to the stage wearing a leather jacket with cut off gloves and a black, long-sleeved shirt to perform the opener, "If I Was Your Vampire" and the follow-up, "Disposable Teens". When first performed as an encore on the European tour, Manson took to the stage for either "Are You the Rabbit?" or "The Nobodies" (and in the case of Paris, "EAT ME, DRINK ME"), wearing a striped white-gold, long-sleeved shirt. Manson later replaced the long-sleeve shirt for a black t-shirt with cut off sleeves. When the butcher’s knife microphone debuted, Manson performed the first song like this but also wore black, elbow-length gloves. On certain dates, Manson wore silver pants with his black shirt. "If I Was Your Vampire" then began to be performed in a black frilly shirt and a black feather boa and pink gloves for "Are You the Rabbit?".

Following on from his appearance with Alice Cooper, Manson began to take to the stage in a t-shirt depicting a cartoon of a bunny rabbit, or on later occasions, a cut-off t-shirt with a skeleton chest on. Costume changes on these dates after the distinctly nontheatrical European tour first leg featured a top hat and striped pants (occasionally a leather trench coat and jacket) for "mOBSCENE", a jacket with ‘333 HALF EVIL’ patched onto it, and even at some dates, a boxing gown for "The Fight Song" with the iconic twisted heart on the front and the bleeding MM logo on the back, as well as a white jacket, reminiscent of Elvis Presley, for "Rock Is Dead" at later dates. Contrasting these changes, Manson still performed "Antichrist Superstar" in the navy blue-red suit, sometimes changed into a silver version of the rabbit shirt for later performances of "The Beautiful People" on dates on the European tour.

Set lists

The following list contains the most commonly played songs in the order they were most generally performed:^[1]

1. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello" (Intro)
2. "Cruci-Fiction in Space"
3. "Disposable Teens"
4. "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3"
5. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
6. "Great Big White World"
7. "Are You the Rabbit?"
8. "mOBSCENE"
9. "Mechanical Animals"
10. "If I Was Your Vampire"
11. "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
12. "The Love Song"
13. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" / "Lunchbox" (Medley)
14. "Rock 'n' Roll Nigger"
15. "Tourniquet"
16. "Little Horn"
17. "The Fight Song"
18. "Putting Holes in Happiness"
19. "Just a Car Crash Away"
20. "Tainted Love"
21. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"
22. "The Dope Show"
23. "Rock Is Dead"
24. "Coma White" / "Coma Black (a) Eden Eye"
25. "Track 99"
26. "The Reflecting God"
27. "Prelude (The Family Trip)" (Tease)
28. "The Beautiful People" (With "Baby You're a Rich Man" intro)
29. "Antichrist Superstar"
30. "1996"
31. "The Nobodies"
32. "This Is Halloween"
33. "Eat Me, Drink Me"
34. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello" (Outro)

Opening songs

• "If I Was Your Vampire" (Summer European tour and Winter European tour legs only)
• "Cruci-Fiction in Space" (Winter North American tour leg only)

Summer European Tour

Summer North American Tour

South American Tour

Oceania Tour

Japan Tour

Lineup

Tour dates

#	Date	City	Country	Venue
Summer European Tour[1]
With: Slayer and Bleeding Through
1	May 26, 2007	Landgraaf	Netherlands	PINKPOP
2	May 28, 2007	Milan	Italy	PalaSharp
3	May 29, 2007	Florence		PalaSport
4	May 31, 2007	Toulon	France	Zenith-Toulon
5	June 2, 2007	Murcia	Spain	Lorca Rock Festival
6	June 4, 2007	Lyon	France	Halle Tony Garnier
7	June 5, 2007	Bercy		Palais Omnisport
8	June 9, 2007	Derby	England	Download Festival
9	June 11, 2007	Luxembourg City	Luxembourg	Rockhal
10	June 13, 2007	Prague	Czech Republic	T-Mobile Arena
11	June 15, 2007	Interlaken	Switzerland	Greenfield Festival
12	June 16, 2007	Nickelsdorf	Austria	Nova Rock Festival
13	June 17, 2007	Chemnitz	Germany	Woodstage Festival
14	June 20, 2007	Ljubljana	Slovenia	Krizanke Monastery
15	June 22, 2007	Neuhausen	Germany	Southside Festival
16	June 23, 2007	Scheebel		Hurricane Festival
17	June 24, 2007	Berlin		Zita Rock Festival
18	June 26, 2007	Dortmund		Westfalenhalle
19	June 28, 2007	Werchter	Belgium	Rock Werchter
20	June 29, 2007	Belfort	France	Eurockéennes de Belfort
21	July 1, 2007	Bucharest	Romania	B'estival
22	July 2, 2007	Istanbul	Turkey	Radar Festival
23	July 4, 2007	Sofia	Bulgaria	Akademik Stadium
24	July 7, 2007	Bobital	France	Terre Neuvas Festival
Summer North American Tour[1]
1	July 25, 2007	West Palm Beach, Florida	United States	Sound Advice Amphitheatre
2	July 27, 2007	Tampa, Florida		Ford Amphitheatre
3	July 28, 2007	Atlanta, Georgia		HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
4	July 30, 2007	Columbia, Maryland		Merriweather Post Pavilion
5	July 31, 2007	Cleveland, Ohio		Tower City Amphitheatre
6	August 2, 2007	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania		Tweeter Center
7	August 4, 2007	Worcester, Massachusetts		DCU Center
8	August 5, 2007	Holmdel, New Jersey		PNC
9	August 7, 2007	Quebec	Canada	Centre de Foire
10	August 8, 2007	Montreal		Bell Centre
11	August 10, 2007	Toronto		Molson Amphitheatre
12	August 11, 2007	Detroit, Michigan	United States	DTE Music Theatre
13	August 13, 2007	Chicago, Illinois		Allstate
14	August 14, 2007	Minneapolis, Minnesota		Xcel
15	August 16, 2007	Lincoln, Nebraska		Pershing Center
16	August 18, 2007	Denver, Colorado		Coors Amphitheatre
17	August 21, 2007	Sacramento, California		Sleep Train Amphitheatre
18	August 23, 2007	Concord, California		Sleep Train Pavilion
19	August 24, 2007	Los Angeles, California		Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
20	August 25, 2007	San Diego, California		San Diego Sports Arena
21	August 27, 2007	Phoenix, Arizona		Cricket Pavilion
22	August 28, 2007	Albuquerque, New Mexico		Journal Pavilion
23	August 30, 2007	Dallas, Texas		Nokia Theatre
24	August 31, 2007	Houston, Texas		Reliant Arena
25	September 1, 2007	San Antonio, Texas		Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
South American Tour[1]
1	September 18, 2007	Mexico City	Mexico	Salón Vive Cuervo
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3	September 21, 2007	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires
4	September 22, 2007	Bogota	Colombia	Megaeventos
5	September 25, 2007	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Fundicao
6	September 26, 2007	Sao Paulo		Via Funchal
7	September 29, 2007	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Estadio Pepsi Music
Oceania Tour[1]
1	October 3, 2007	Auckland	New Zealand	Auckland Town Hall
2	October 5, 2007	Melbourne	Australia	Festival Hall
3	October 6, 2007	Sydney		Hordern Pavilion
4	October 8, 2007	Brisbane		Brisbane Entertainment Centre
5	October 11, 2007	Adelaide		Adelaide Thebarton Theatre
6	October 13, 2007	Perth		Perth Challenge Stadium
Japan Tour[1]
1	October 16, 2007	Fukuoka	Japan	ZEPP
2	October 17, 2007	Nagoya		ZEPP
3	October 18, 2007	Tokyo		Studio Coust
4	October 21, 2007	Saitama		Saitama Super Arena
5	October 23, 2007	Osaka		Jo Hall

References

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