Twisted Logic Tour
| Tour by Coldplay | |
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| Associated album | X&Y |
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| Start date | 29 April 2005 |
| End date | 4 March 2007 |
| Legs | 7 |
| No. of shows | 136 |
| Coldplay concert chronology | |
The Twisted Logic Tour was a global concert tour by British alternative rock band Coldplay in support of their third studio album, X&Y (2005). The year-long tour took the band across Europe and their native United Kingdom, as well as to the United States and Canada. The main legs of the tour concluded in July 2006 after shows in Asia & Australia, with the band resting for a lengthly period of time, and beginning production of their fourth studio album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends in November. In the beginning of 2007, a final leg in Latin America concluded the tour entirely in March, after about a dozen shows. Pollstar reported that the 2005 North American leg grossed an estimated $24.1 million. The second leg of the North American tour ended 6 April 2006 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia.
This is Coldplay's first (and their only to date) tour not named after the album it was promoting; the tour is named after a song on X&Y that has never been played live at any of the concerts.
The Twisted Logic Tour is noted for its use of extravagant stage effects. Strobe lights and other fixtures were used to create an elaborate light show. The back of the stage contained a two-story panoramic video panel that displayed live footage and computer-generated images, from video of a bear wandering aimlessly during "Talk" to a montage of coloured blocks from the cover of X&Y during the song "Clocks".
Other concert highlights include:
The Twisted Logic Tour's set list was heavily weighted towards tracks from X&Y, which was as expected because of the tour being in support and promotion of the album. The remaining material was mostly from A Rush of Blood to the Head with songs such as "Politik", In My Place "Clocks", and "The Scientist", and to a lesser extent "Don't Panic", "Yellow", and "Trouble" being the only holdovers from Parachutes played with regularity. The only new song played on the tour was "How You See the World No. 2" which was from the "Help: A Day in the Life" benefit album. Earlier tours such as those in the Parachutes era debuted work-in-progress versions of tracks that would appear on A Rush of Blood to the Head. Likewise, Coldplay's newest compositions during the A Rush of Blood to the Head Tour such as 'Gravity', 'Proof' and 'Things I Don't Understand' were included as B-sides to X&Y's singles.
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