02 Arena, London | 20/10/2024

[Deadeye21]

Still, kinda cool that they start with Metropolis and then have Home as the encore. Bicol bit of late show reprisal

[axeman90210]

Spirit

[jonny108]

The Spirit Carries On

[Jamesman42]

Beet of Times

Or the Root of All Evil

[Deadeye21]

Awwwwww booo

[Mladen]

Beautiful.

[Elite]

The Spirit Carries On

That's a weird closing song if you ask me, but whatever. Great setlist overall!

Strange how it featured nothing from SDOIT

[Deadeye21]

So, no BC&SL, no Six Degrees and no WDADU from the MP era, plus no love for DT12, Astonoshing and View.

That's a bit of a shame.

[TheCountOfNYC]

That's a weird closing song if you ask me, but whatever. Great setlist overall!

Strange how it featured nothing from SDOIT

This just makes it even more likely that we get the entire 12SS on the next tour IMO.

EDIT: the lack of WRaDU is the most surprising thing to me considering Charlie's passing late last year.

[ResultsMayVary]

The next question is if they roll with this setlist or start swapping songs in and out over the next several shows.

[Deadeye21]

Guess we'll find out in a couple of days. There's gotta be one more though. Surely.

[tuto]

The next question is if they roll with this setlist or start swapping songs in and out over the next several shows.

As long as they don't even think of swapping SoC or Octavarium, I'm golden

[faizoff]

That's a weird closing song if you ask me, but whatever. Great setlist overall!

Strange how it featured nothing from SDOIT

I don't know, it was a great setlist closer when I saw them at Dreamsonic, granted they had a ton of musicians, but it had a great vibe as a closer. I love this setlist, I'm sure it's going to shuffle around during the tour but this is an extremely solid set of songs.

[TheCountOfNYC]

Guess we'll find out in a couple of days. There's gotta be one more though. Surely.

They're gonna close with Raw Dog

[Mladen]

The next question is if they roll with this setlist or start swapping songs in and out over the next several shows.

This is actually a good question. I forgot about this possibility.

Also, Spirit will be a tremendous closer. I don't mind it at all.

[jonny108]

Pull Me Under

[Deadeye21]

That'll do it. Yuck, such a waste of an encore after that second set!

[TheCountOfNYC]

Not surprising, they kind of had to.

[Jamesman42]

I wouldn't be surprised if they swap in some SDOIT and BCSl and other MM songs in the rotation.

[jk47]

Yup. It is the 40th anniversary tour, after all.

I don't hate this setlist at all, I hope this is what we get on the US tour.

[lonestar]

Hopefully the crowd handles the chorus 

[TheCountOfNYC]

That'll do it. Yuck, such a waste of an encore after that second set!

Maybe they thought fans would be too emotional to drive home after those final three songs in the second set so they decided to make the encore less epic to give fans a chance to calm down.

[faizoff]

Pull Me Under

Nice, even though this song gets super overplayed, it's great to hear live. 

[Skeever]

Home, the Spirit Carries On, and Pull Me Under is a bad encore?

Jesus Christ you people do not deserve nice things lol

[TheCountOfNYC]

Home, the Spirit Carries On, and Pull Me Under is a bad encore?

Jesus Christ you people do not deserve nice things lol

It's not a bad encore, but when the final three songs of the main set are Vacant going into Stream of Consciousness followed by f**king Octavarium, the three encore songs seem a little less cool. I also think Pull Me Under's abrupt ending makes it an awkward show ender.

[Deadeye21]

Literally when the whole set before those last three songs are all big bangers and then we get Spirit and Pull it's like "yeah, the show ended already. This is for the casuals.l

[Jamesman42]

It's not a bad encore, but when the final three songs of the main set are Vacant going into Stream of Consciousness followed by f**king Octavarium, the three encore songs seem a little less cool. I also think Pull Me Under's abrupt ending makes it an awkward show ender.

What songs would make it not awkward? Encores tend to be well-known songs

[jk47]

What songs would make it not awkward? Encores tend to be well-known songs

Space Dye Vest

[TheCountOfNYC]

What songs would make it not awkward? Encores tend to be well-known songs

Swap PMU and TSCO. I personally think TSCO is a stronger show closer. I would have no issue with PMU being in every setlist until they retire. It's their most famous song and it's a great song.  I just don't personally like it as the last song of the night. It would be

[SeRoX]

It'so surprising not to have WDADU song.

[Dave_Manchester]

So for the people who were there, what was the attendance like? How was the crowd energy?

[winter_rosean]

More than anything I would like to check from fellow forum colleagues who went to concert in what form the band members are, especially Labrie? In their personal opinion of course.

[brakkum]

It'so surprising not to have WDADU song.

This was honestly my biggest surprise, I figured they'd start the encore with Afterlife or something

[brakkum]

So for the people who were there, what was the attendance like? How was the crowd energy?

I was about two sections back, first row of the bowl. Seeing only the die hards in front of me I assume, it was great. But behind me, standing was seemingly rare unless you were on the floor. It was not as insane as I thought it might be, but it was not by any means a dud crowd. The into of Metropolis got me teared up, everyone lost it.

[MinistroRaven]

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