Neon Nature Tour
| Tour by Marina and the Diamonds | |
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| Associated album | Froot |
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| Start date | October 12, 2015 |
| End date | March 20, 2016 |
| Legs | 3 |
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| Marina and the Diamonds concert chronology | |
The Neon Nature Tour is the third concert tour by Welsh recording artist Marina and the Diamonds in support of her third studio album, Froot (2015). The tour was officially announced three months after the release of the album, on June 23, 2015. The tour began on October 12, 2015 in Houston, Texas at the Revention Music Center and concluded on March 20, 2016 in Santiago, Chile, with a total of fifty-one shows over the course of six months.
After the release of Froot, Diamandis embarked on a promotional concert tour that was mostly composed of festival performances during the spring and summer of 2015. During the series of promotional concerts, Diamandis expressed an interest in doing a formal concert tour in the fall of that year. In April 2015, when speaking about the tour, Diamandis said "I think I’m calling my tour the Neon Nature tour. Creating this cyber garden on-stage, something exotic, but electrical."
Two months after the initial idea was expressed, on June 23, 2015, the tour's North American leg was officially announced with nineteen dates over the span of two months. About two weeks after the tour's initial announcement, on July 6, 2015, the tour's European leg was announced with ten dates across the United Kingdom and Ireland. As the tour began to develop, additional dates were added to both legs of the tour.
On April 5, 2016, Diamandis posted a picture to Instagram following the conclusion of her tour, along with a statement on Twitter, marking the end of the Froot era with Weeds being the only track of 51 shows never performed once live in the entirety of the Froot Era and her career.
In the months leading up to the tour, Diamandis began to tease what the tour's visual concept and theme would be. In an interview, Diamandis stated, "With the Neon Nature Tour, I really like the idea of taking natural things and blending them. I feel like it's something I’m always interested in anyway, and I feel like it's also something a lot of people connect to, like, 'How can you live a life that's natural while still progressing and being part of the technological world.' So the themes for Neon Nature involve a lot of flowers, fruit, very surreal elements … but it's definitely the biggest kind of tour I’ve ever done production-wise. I want to see what people think." She also revealed how the set list would be structured as well as what type of merchandise will be for sale on the tour. When speaking of the set list for the tour, Diamandis stated, "I have three acts in the show. My first act is devoted to my first album (The Family Jewels), the second is my second album, and the third is Froot. It's something I’ve wanted to do for a while. Each era has such a defined look that it didn’t make sense for me to mix them. I quite like theatre, and this is a theatrical show. It felt good to put it into three acts. I don’t think that often happens in alternative shows." When discussing what the merchandise stand would consist of, Diamandis exclaimed, "Well, I plan to go one up from what I’ve done in the past. I really want to do scratch and sniff T-shirts. Maybe those Global Hypercolor ones. I want to put my colour palette onto eye shadows and nail varnish. I also want glow in the dark T-shirts that people can buy and then be part of the show."
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