The Smoke Mirrors Tour is the second world concert tour by American alternative rock band Imagine Dragons to support their second studio album Smoke Mirrors (2015). The tour has a preview show in Sydney, Australia, on March 17, 2015, before the official tour begins in Santiago, Chile, on April 12, 2015. Continue through America, Asia, Oceania and Europe until February 5, 2016, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The band played 108 shows. For Pollstar's Year End Top 200 North American Tours in 2015, it ranks forty-one, and earns $ 25.2 million.
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Background and development
In 2012, Imagine Dragons released their debut studio album Night of the Night, which launched the band into an international commercial mainstream success. To promote the recording, the band embarked on a world tour, named Night Visions Tour , consisting of over 170 performances worldwide. During this tour, the band has worked on their second album.
On December 16, 2014, Imagine Dragons announced that their second album Smoke Mirrors will be released on February 17, 2015 and the tour was announced shortly thereafter.
The arena tour in the United Kingdom was announced on January 30, 2015. On the same day, the rest of Europe's legs were revealed through the official Facebook band with "more dates to come". North American legs were announced a week later, while performances in Australia and New Zealand were confirmed in mid-February.
The show, which took place in Toronto, Ontario on July 4, was recorded and released as a concert DVD, Imagine the Dragon: Living Mirror Smoke .
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Critical reception
North America
The concert at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus received a positive review from Curtis Schieber from The Columbus Dispatch, saying that while "no wheels were recreated during the Imagine Dragons concert" he admitted that it "provided all that drama enough with the precision of a bull-eye in a very interesting package featuring a charismatic lead singer, an expert four-person band [...] and a relatively controlled set that looks like a million dollars and a proficient momentum built. "Gene Stout of < The Seattle Times generally has a positive review of the Tacoma Dome concert in Tacoma, which states that "high-powered songs as" On Top of the World "," Radioactive "and drum -laden" I Bet My Life "is a bit of an exaggeration, but fans love them." Stout notes that "concert goers span the generations, from kids attending their first concert to a middle-aged rocker who found the band in Vegas" as well praised the opening act, Metric and Halsey, calling them "bonuses".
Oceania
George Palathingal of The Sydney Morning Herald gave a performance at Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney four stars, concluding that "These dragons are indeed inhaling fire". He also commented "I'm So Sorry" and "Friction" as highlights, with the latter eliminating "the fear that the Imagine Dragons might be a bit too" pop "and not nearly" rock "enough". Rachel Bache from The New Zealand Herald gave a concert at the Vector Arena in Auckland positive reviews from the opening of the band's "Shots" "out of energy", while also saying that "the bright white light is a bit excessive".
Opening action
Set list
This set of sets represents the performance on July 4th, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It does not represent all concerts during the duration of the tour.
Tour dates
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References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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