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 concert 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.

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:

Manson performing "If I Was Your Vampire" in Florence.

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

Manson performing at 2007's Eurockéennes.

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" (contains the intro from "Baby You're a Rich Man")
  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

Marilyn Manson performing "The Nobodies", during the "Rape of the World", June 2007.

Summer European Tour

Summer North American Tour

South American Tour

Oceania Tour

Japan Tour

Lineup

Marilyn Manson
Supporting acts
  • Slayer (North American tour leg only)
  • Bleeding Through (North American tour leg only)
  • The Spazzys (Oceania tour leg only)
  • Turbonegro (Winter European tour leg only)
  • OURS (Winter North American tour leg only)

Broadcasts & Recordings

Only two venues have been confirmed as filmed for future DVD purposes, the December 15, 2007 performance in Stockholm, Sweden and the October 23, 2007 performance in Osaka, Japan. In September 2009, the band's official message board began taking requests for which songs or particular performances fans would most like to see featured in the film,[1] indicating that the project has not been abandoned and the band has in fact continued to record footage while touring. As of 2013, the project and footage remain archived.

Tour dates

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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Rape of the World". Manson Wiki. Retrieved 2011-06-08.