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Rebel Diamonds Tour

The Rebel Diamonds Tour is the seventh major concert tour by American rock band The Killers. The tour supports their second greatest hit album Rebel Diamonds (2023), which features select songs from each of their studio albums.

Rebel Diamonds Tour
Tour by The Killers
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Japan
Associated album
Start dateJune 12, 2024
End dateOctober 8, 2024
Legs3
No. of shows
  • 17 in Europe
  • 11 in North America
  • 1 in Japan
  • 29 in total
Supporting acts
The Killers concert chronology

The tour began at the 3Arena in Dublin on June 12, 2024 and is currently scheduled to encompass 29 dates across the UK, Ireland, Spain, Japan, United States, Canada and Mexico.[1][2][3][4][5]

Background

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The tour was announced in December 2023, ahead of the release of Rebel Diamonds, initially spanning ten concerts in arenas across the UK and Ireland.[6] This was later extended to 16 dates due to demand.[7] The band later added a number of dates in North America, as well as a number of festival performances in Europe, Japan and the United States.

This tour saw founding member and guitarist Dave Keuning return to perform live with the band, following his hiatus since 2017.[8]

Critical reception

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The UK and Ireland leg of the tour received widespread acclaim from music critics. Aidan McCartney of the Manchester Evening News gave the band's performance at Co-Op Live a five-star review, praising "the band's ability to deliver unexpected delights after all this time" and stating that they are "still at the peak of their powers twenty years on."[9] Writing for the i newspaper, Craig McLean noted that the band's set was shorter and more intimate than other similar artists touring at the same time in the UK, but nonetheless noted that "the band were in roaring form from the off", with particular praise for Dave Keuning's "exultant moves on his trapezoidal guitar" in a four-star review.[10] Reviewing the same Manchester concert as McCartney, Andrew Steel of The Yorkshire Post was similarly complimentary of the band's downsizing of the "relative... intimacy" of the band's arena performances in comparison to their stadium shows during the Imploding the Mirage Tour in 2022, claiming it allowed the band to appeal more to hardcore, as well as casual, fans.[11] Dave Simpson of The Guardian gave the band's Co-Op Live show four stars, commenting that the band "set the pace with a series of big hitters" and that frontman Brandon Flowers "comes over like a cross between a young Elvis Presley and a fairground compere".[12]

Set list

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The UK and Ireland leg of the tour has generally rotated between three different set lists, with minor changes between nights.

The first set list was used on the tour's opening night in Dublin on June 12, 2024, and for all subsequent opening nights in other cities, as well as the band's fourth night in Manchester. It features "Read My Mind" as the opening song, and closes with "Mr. Brightside". The encore also features a cover of Erasure's "A Little Respect".[13]

  1. "Read My Mind"
  2. "Somebody Told Me"
  3. "Spaceman"
  4. "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine"
  5. "Smile Like You Mean It"
  6. "Shot at the Night"
  7. "This River Is Wild"
  8. "Running Towards a Place"
  9. "On Top"
  10. "The Man"
  11. "A Dustland Fairytale"
  12. "Be Still"
  13. "Runaways"
  14. "All These Things That I've Done"
  15. "When You Were Young"
  16. "Caution"
  17. "Dying Breed"

Encore

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  1. "Your Side of Town"
  2. "boy"
  3. "A Little Respect"
  4. "Human"
  5. "Mr. Brightside"

The second set list has been used for the tour's second night at each venue. This set opens with "My Own Soul's Warning", which was used as the opening song during the previous Imploding the Mirage Tour, and closes with "Exitlude", the first time this song has been played regularly since the Sam's Town Tour in 2006-07.[14][15]

  1. "My Own Soul's Warning"
  2. "Enterlude"
  3. "Human"
  4. "The Way It Was"
  5. "Somebody Told Me"
  6. "Shot at the Night"
  7. "Smile Like You Mean It"
  8. "For Reasons Unknown"
  9. "Dying Breed"
  10. "Bones"
  11. "Come Dancing"
  12. "Caution"
  13. "Runaways"
  14. "Read My Mind"
  15. "Your Side of Town"
  16. "Andy, You're A Star"
  17. "Spirit"
  18. "All These Things That I've Done"

Encore

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  1. "Pressure Machine"
  2. "Mr. Brightside"
  3. "When You Were Young"
  4. "Exitlude"

The third and final set list was played on the third night of the tour in each city. It opens with "Mr. Brightside" and closes with either "Battle Born" or "All These Things That I've Done" (the former serving as the closing song in Dublin and the latter in Manchester).[16][17] This marks the first time that "Battle Born" has been performed live since 2013, when it was the closing track for the Battle Born World Tour.[18]

  1. "Mr. Brightside"
  2. "Spaceman"
  3. "Shot at the Night"
  4. "Run for Cover"
  5. "Human"
  6. "boy"
  7. "Here With Me"
  8. "Miss Atomic Bomb"
  9. "A Dustland Fairytale"
  10. "Runaways"
  11. "Read My Mind"
  12. "Smile Like You Mean It"
  13. "My Own Soul's Warning"
  14. "When You Were Young"

Encore

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  1. "Lightning Fields"
  2. "All These Things That I've Done"
  3. "Battle Born"

Notes

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Tour dates

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List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, attendance, and gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Opening act(s) Attendance Revenue
Leg 1 — Europe [24]
June 12, 2024[5] Dublin Ireland 3Arena Travis[25] — —
June 14, 2024[26]
June 15, 2024
June 18, 2024[27] Manchester England Co-op Live — —
June 19, 2024
June 21, 2024
June 22, 2024[25]
June 25, 2024[28] Glasgow Scotland OVO Hydro — —
June 26, 2024
June 27, 2024
July 4, 2024 London England The O2 Arena — —
July 5, 2024
July 7, 2024
July 8, 2024
July 10, 2024
July 11, 2024
July 13, 2024[a][29] Madrid Spain Iberdrola Music N/A — —
Leg 2 - Asia
July 26, 2024[b][30] Yuzawa Japan Naeba Ski Resort N/A — —
Leg 3 - North America
August 3, 2024[c][31] Chicago United States Grant Park N/A — —
August 9, 2024[d][32] San Francisco Golden Gate Park
September 7, 2024[33] Camden Freedom Mortgage Pavilion TBA
September 8, 2024[34] Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion
September 10, 2024 Toronto Canada Budweiser Stage
September 11, 2024
September 14, 2024[35] New York City United States Forest Hills Stadium
September 15, 2024
October 3, 2024[36] Guadalajara Mexico Estadio 3 de Marzo
October 5, 2024[36] Mexico City Estadio GNP Seguros
October 8, 2024[36] Monterrey Estadio Borregos

Notes

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  1. ^ This show was part of the 2024 Mad Cool Festival.
  2. ^ This show was part of the 2024 Fuji Rock Festival.
  3. ^ This show was part of the 2024 Lollapalooza Festival.
  4. ^ This show was part of the 2024 Outside Lands Festival.

References

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