Rape of the World Tour

Rape of the World Tour

Tour by Marilyn Manson
Associated album	Eat Me, Drink Me
Start date	May 26, 2007
End date	March 2, 2008
Legs	7
No. of shows	122
Marilyn Manson concert chronology

Rape of the World was a worldwide arena tour by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was the tenth tour the band embarked upon and the seventh to span over multiple legs. It was launched 10 days ahead in support of their sixth full-length studio LP, Eat Me, Drink Me, which was released on June 5, 2007 in the US. Beginning on May 26, 2007 and lasting until March 2, 2008, the tour included seven legs spanning Europe, Oceania, Japan and North America with a total of 122 completed shows.

Performance and show themes

For this tour Manson returned to the theatrics of the Grotesk Burlesk Tour, some influenced by Alice in Wonderland. These are the elements contained in the shows:

Manson performing "If I Was Your Vampire" in Florence.

• On some occasions, the stage is filled with (presumably fake) candles during the opening song "If I Was Your Vampire".
• During the first five legs of the tour, during "The Fight Song", the stage was set up like a boxing ring, and Manson wore a boxer's entrance robe. The microphone hung from the ceiling like a ring announcer's microphone.
• During "The Dope Show", the line "the drugs, they say, are made in California" would sometimes be changed to include the name of the city or country it's being performed in (these lyrical changes were not new to this tour however). On most occasions, the name of the city is shown on the screen in the back along with the word "Drugs". A newer addition to the song's performance, beginning at the Halloween show at The Palms, was Manson singing part of The Beatles song, "Happiness is a Warm Gun" before "The Dope Show", and then using the next section of the song as an introduction to "The Reflecting God".
• A lifted tile with Manson standing on it, performing "The Reflecting God", in a similar manner much like past performances of "Cruci-Fiction in Space" (from the Guns, God and Government Tour) and "Para-Noir" (from the Grotesk Burlesk Tour).
• Backgrounds of interactive animations, including:
  • "Irresponsible Hate Anthem": A rapid-fire montage of words like "Love", "Hate", "Drugs", "Sex", "God", and "Death", which was later used for "The Reflecting God" instead and replaced with a transcription of a news story about a 2007 school shooting in Finland.
  • "Just a Car Crash Away": A heartbeat line from a life support monitor which makes two M's across the screen
  • "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3": A video of Manson's mouth singing, created in the style of the iconic red lips of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The video also contains clips of the Hindenburg disaster.
  • "The Dope Show": A continuously rotating pill with "Eat Me" written on the front and the Cross of Lorraine on the back. Later in the tour, to begin the song, a scan of Manson's cocaine-lined American Express Corporate card (with the numbers changed).
  • Others include the red eyes with hearts from the Eat Me, Drink Me booklet, and the Les Fleurs du Mal (alternate version) painting.
• A microphone in the shape of a knife.
• A huge chair for "Are You the Rabbit?"
• On some occasions, a robot of Evan Rachel Wood entered the stage during "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)". The mannequin would push a cart with a birthday cake and a bottle of Mansinthe placed on it. Also on the table is a camera that Manson used to take a Polaroid photo of the Evan robot, which he would then throw into the crowd. In some performances, Manson would take the head off of the mannequin and sing the song to it, and then take the glasses of it and wear them, throwing them into the crowd. He has also removed the mannequin's arms and put them around himself.
• In several shows, red and black confetti is blown over the crowd during "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)". Also during "The Beautiful People", sometimes white confetti is used.
• Return of the podium from the Dead to the World Tour and a bible being burnt midway through "Antichrist Superstar".
• At the culmination of the show, usually during "The Beautiful People", Manson leaves the stage and performs the song among the crowd by standing on the separation barrier. In an interview with MTV Denmark, Manson said he added the feature "so that the show doesn't become too impersonal".
• Various samples of early songs like "Sweet Tooth", "Abuse, Part 1" and "Track 99", but also spoken samples of passages from the film versions of Alice in Wonderland, Lolita and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are used as interludes while new stage props are set up in between songs.

Attire

Initially, Manson took to the stage wearing a leather jacket with cut-off gloves and a black, long-sleeved shirt to perform the opener, "If I Was Your Vampire" and the follow-up, "Disposable Teens". When first performed as an encore on the European tour, Manson took to the stage for either "Are You the Rabbit?" or "The Nobodies" (and in the case of Paris, "EAT ME, DRINK ME"), wearing a striped white-gold, long-sleeved shirt. Manson later replaced the long-sleeve shirt for a black T-shirt with cut off sleeves. When the butcher's knife microphone debuted, Manson performed the first song like this but also wore black, elbow-length gloves. On certain dates, Manson wore silver pants with his black shirt. "If I Was Your Vampire" then began to be performed in a black frilly shirt and a black feather boa and pink gloves for "Are You the Rabbit?".

Following on from his appearance with Alice Cooper, Manson began to take to the stage in a T-shirt depicting a cartoon of a bunny rabbit, or on later occasions, a cut-off T-shirt with a skeleton chest on. Costume changes on these dates after the distinctly nontheatrical European tour first leg featured a top hat and striped pants (occasionally a leather trench coat and jacket) for "mOBSCENE", a jacket with ‘333 HALF EVIL’ patched onto it, and even at some dates, a boxing gown for "The Fight Song" with the iconic twisted heart on the front and the bleeding MM logo on the back, as well as a white jacket, reminiscent of Elvis Presley, for "Rock Is Dead" at later dates. Contrasting these changes, Manson still performed "Antichrist Superstar" in the navy blue-red suit, sometimes changed into a silver version of the rabbit shirt for later performances of "The Beautiful People" on dates on the European tour.

Set lists

The following list contains the most commonly played songs in the order they were most generally performed:

1. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello" (Intro)
2. "Cruci-Fiction in Space"
3. "Disposable Teens"
4. "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3"
5. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
6. "Great Big White World"
7. "Are You the Rabbit?"
8. "mOBSCENE"
9. "Mechanical Animals"
10. "If I Was Your Vampire"
11. "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
12. "The Love Song"
13. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" / "Lunchbox" (Medley)
14. "Rock N Roll Nigger"
15. "Tourniquet"
16. "Little Horn"
17. "The Fight Song"
18. "Putting Holes in Happiness"
19. "Just a Car Crash Away"
20. "Tainted Love"
21. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"
22. "The Dope Show"
23. "Rock Is Dead"
24. "Coma White" / "Coma Black (a) Eden Eye"
25. "Track 99"
26. "The Reflecting God"
27. "Prelude (The Family Trip)" (Tease)
28. "The Beautiful People" (contains the intro from "Baby You're a Rich Man")
29. "Antichrist Superstar"
30. "1996"
31. "The Nobodies"
32. "This Is Halloween"
33. "Eat Me, Drink Me"
34. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello" (Outro)

Opening songs

Marilyn Manson performing "The Nobodies", during the "Rape of the World", June 2007.

• "If I Was Your Vampire" (Summer European tour and Winter European tour legs only)
• "Cruci-Fiction in Space" (Winter North American tour leg only)

Summer European Tour

Summer European Set list 

1. "If I Was Your Vampire"
2. "Disposable Teens"
3. "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3"
4. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
5. "mOBSCENE"
6. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
7. "Putting Holes in Happiness"
8. "Just a Car Crash Away"
9. "Rock Is Dead"
10. "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
11. "Tainted Love"
12. "The Dope Show"
13. "Great Big White World"
14. "The Fight Song"
15. "The Beautiful People"
16. "The Nobodies"

Note: Six songs are from the album Eat Me, Drink Me.

Summer North American Tour

Set list 

1. "If I Was Your Vampire"
2. "Disposable Teens"
3. "mOBSCENE"
4. "Are You the Rabbit?"
5. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)/Lunchbox"
6. "Just a Car Crash Away"
7. "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
8. "Rock Is Dead"
9. "The Dope Show"
10. "Putting Holes in Happiness"
11. "The Love Song"
12. "The Fight Song"
13. "The Beautiful People"
14. "Antichrist Superstar"

South American Tour

Set list 

1. "If I Was Your Vampire"
2. "Disposable Teens"
3. "mOBSCENE"
4. "Just a Car Crash Away"
5. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"/"Lunchbox"
6. "The Fight Song"
7. "Putting Holes in Happiness"
8. "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
9. "The Dope Show"
10. "Rock Is Dead"
11. "The Reflecting God"
12. "The Beautiful People"

Oceania Tour

Set list 

1. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello"
2. "If I Was Your Vampire"
3. "Disposable Teens"
4. "mOBSCENE"
5. "Tourniquet"
6. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
7. "Are You the Rabbit?"
8. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"/"Lunchbox" (Medley)
9. "The Fight Song"
10. "Putting Holes in Happiness"
11. "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
12. "The Dope Show"
13. "The Reflecting God"
14. "Antichrist Superstar"
15. "The Beautiful People"

Japan Tour

Set list 

1. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello"
2. "If I Was Your Vampire"
3. "Disposable Teens"
4. "mOBSCENE"
5. "Tourniquet"
6. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
7. "Are You the Rabbit?"
8. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"/"Lunchbox" (Medley)
9. "The Fight Song"
10. "Putting Holes in Happiness"
11. "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
12. "The Dope Show"
13. "The Reflecting God"
14. "Antichrist Superstar"
15. "The Beautiful People"

Winter European Tour

Set list 

1. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello" (Set Start or see below)
2. "If I Was Your Vampire"
3. "Disposable Teens"
4. "mOBSCENE"
5. "Tourniquet"
6. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
7. "Are You the Rabbit?"
8. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"/"Lunchbox" (Medley)
9. "The Fight Song"
10. "Putting Holes in Happiness"
11. "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
12. "Rock Is Dead"
13. "The Dope Show"
14. "The Reflecting God" (with "Track 99" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" intro)
15. "Antichrist Superstar"
16. "The Beautiful People"
17. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello" (Set End or see above)

Winter North American Tour

Set list 

1. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello" (Set Start or see below)
2. "Cruci-Fiction in Space"
3. "Disposable Teens"
4. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
5. "Great Big White World"
6. "mOBSCENE"
7. "If I Was Your Vampire"
8. "Mechanical Animals"
9. "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
10. "The Love Song"
11. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
12. "Rock N Roll Nigger"
13. "Tourniquet"
14. "Little Horn"
15. "The Fight Song"
16. "Putting Holes in Happiness"
17. "The Dope Show" (with "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" intro)
18. "Rock Is Dead"
19. "Come White" (with "Coma Black (a) Eden Eye" outro)
20. "The Reflecting God" (with "Track 99" outro)
21. "1996"
22. "Antichrist Superstar"
23. "The Beautiful People" (with "Prelude (The Family Trip)" intro)
24. "Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello" (Set End or see above)

Lineup

Marilyn Manson Vocals: Marilyn Manson Guitar: Tim Sköld (From the beginning of the tour, until December 12, 2007), Rob Holliday (From January 19, 2008, until the end of the tour) Bass: Rob Holliday (From the beginning of the tour, until December 12, 2007), Twiggy Ramirez (From January 19, 2008, until the end of the tour) Keyboards: Chris Vrenna Drums: Ginger Fish

Supporting acts Slayer (North American tour leg only) Bleeding Through (North American tour leg only) The Spazzys (Oceania tour leg only) Turbonegro (Winter European tour leg only) OURS (Winter North American tour leg only)

Broadcasts & Recordings

Only two venues have been confirmed as filmed for future DVD purposes, the December 15, 2007 performance in Stockholm, Sweden and the October 23, 2007 performance in Osaka, Japan. In September 2009, the band's official message board began taking requests for which songs or particular performances fans would most like to see featured in the film, indicating that the project has not been abandoned and the band has in fact continued to record footage while touring. As of 2013, the project and footage remain archived.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
Summer European Tour
With: Slayer and Bleeding Through
May 26, 2007	Landgraaf	Netherlands	PINKPOP
May 28, 2007	Milan	Italy	PalaSharp
May 29, 2007	Florence		PalaSport
May 31, 2007	Toulon	France	Zenith-Toulon
June 2, 2007	Lorca	Spain	Lorca Rock Festival
June 4, 2007	Lyon	France	Halle Tony Garnier
June 5, 2007	Paris		Palais Omnisport
June 9, 2007	Derby	England	Download Festival
June 11, 2007	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Rockhal
June 13, 2007	Prague	Czech Republic	T-Mobile Arena
June 15, 2007	Interlaken	Switzerland	Greenfield Festival
June 16, 2007	Nickelsdorf	Austria	Nova Rock Festival
June 17, 2007	Chemnitz	Germany	Woodstage Festival
June 20, 2007	Ljubljana	Slovenia	Krizanke Monastery
June 22, 2007	Neuhausen	Germany	Southside Festival
June 23, 2007	Scheebel		Hurricane Festival
June 24, 2007	Berlin		Zita Rock Festival
June 26, 2007	Dortmund		Westfalenhalle
June 28, 2007	Werchter	Belgium	Rock Werchter
June 29, 2007	Belfort	France	Eurockéennes de Belfort
July 1, 2007	Bucharest	Romania	B'estival
July 2, 2007	Istanbul	Turkey	Radar Festival
July 4, 2007	Sofia	Bulgaria	Akademik Stadium
July 7, 2007	Bobital	France	Terre Neuvas Festival
Summer North American Tour
July 25, 2007	West Palm Beach	United States	Sound Advice Amphitheatre
July 27, 2007	Tampa		Ford Amphitheatre
July 28, 2007	Atlanta		HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
July 30, 2007	Columbia		Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 31, 2007	Cleveland		Tower City Amphitheatre
August 2, 2007	Philadelphia		Tweeter Center
August 4, 2007	Worcester		DCU Center
August 5, 2007	Holmdel		PNC
August 7, 2007	Quebec	Canada	Centre de Foire
August 8, 2007	Montreal		Bell Centre
August 10, 2007	Toronto		Molson Amphitheatre
August 11, 2007	Detroit	United States	DTE Music Theatre
August 13, 2007	Rosemont		Allstate
August 14, 2007	Minneapolis		Xcel
August 16, 2007	Lincoln		Pershing Center
August 18, 2007	Denver		Coors Amphitheatre
August 21, 2007	Sacramento		Sleep Train Amphitheatre
August 23, 2007	Concord		Sleep Train Pavilion
August 24, 2007	Los Angeles		Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
August 25, 2007	San Diego		San Diego Sports Arena
August 27, 2007	Phoenix		Cricket Pavilion
August 28, 2007	Albuquerque		Journal Pavilion
August 30, 2007	Grand Prairie		Nokia Theatre
August 31, 2007	Houston		Reliant Arena
September 1, 2007	Selma		Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
South American Tour
September 18, 2007	Mexico City	Mexico	Salón Vive Cuervo
September 19, 2007
September 21, 2007	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires
September 22, 2007	Bogotá	Colombia	Megaeventos
September 25, 2007	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Fundicao
September 26, 2007	São Paulo		Via Funchal
September 29, 2007	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Estadio Pepsi Music
Oceania Tour
October 3, 2007	Auckland	New Zealand	Auckland Town Hall
October 5, 2007	Melbourne	Australia	Festival Hall
October 6, 2007	Sydney		Hordern Pavilion
October 8, 2007	Brisbane		Brisbane Entertainment Centre
October 11, 2007	Adelaide		Adelaide Thebarton Theatre
October 13, 2007	Perth		Perth Challenge Stadium
Japan Tour
October 16, 2007	Fukuoka	Japan	ZEPP
October 17, 2007	Nagoya		ZEPP
October 18, 2007	Tokyo		Studio Coust
October 21, 2007	Saitama		Saitama Super Arena
October 23, 2007	Osaka		Jo Hall
Winter European Tour
November 10, 2007	St. Petersberg	Russia	SKK Arena
November 13, 2007	Moscow		B1 Maximum Club
November 14, 2007	Moscow		B1 Maximum Club
November 17, 2007	Montpellier	France	Zenith Sud
November 19, 2007	Lisbon	Portugal	Atlantic Pavilion
November 20, 2007	Madrid	Spain	Palacio Deportes
November 22, 2007	Barcelona		Pavello Olympic Badalona
November 23, 2007	Bilbao		BEC
November 26, 2007	Vienna	Austria	Stadhalle
November 27, 2007	Munich	Germany	Zenith
November 29, 2007	Zürich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion
November 30, 2007	Böblingen	Germany	Sporthalle
December 2, 2007	Hamburg		Sporthalle
December 3, 2007	Offenbach		Stadthalle
December 5, 2007	London	England	Wembley Arena
December 6, 2007	Manchester		Central
December 8, 2007	Glasgow	Scotland	Braehead Arena
December 9, 2007	Birmingham	England	NEC Arena
December 11, 2007	Brussels	Belgium	Vorst Nationaal
December 12, 2007	Den Bosch	Netherlands	Brabanthallen
December 15, 2007	Stockholm	Sweden	Hovet
December 17, 2007	Gothenburg		Scandinavium
December 18, 2007	Oslo	Norway	Spektrum
December 20, 2007	Helsinki	Finland	Ice Hall
December 22, 2007	Tallinn	Estonia	Saku Arena
Winter North American Tour
Bassist Twiggy Ramirez rejoins the band just before this leg, major setlist changes are added.
January 19, 2008	Orlando	United States	Hard Rock Live
January 20, 2008	Miami		The Fillmore
January 22, 2008	Atlanta		The Tabernacle
January 24, 2008	Baltimore		Rams Head Live!
January 26, 2008	Boston		Orpheum Theatre
January 27, 2008	Philadelphia		Electric Factory Ballroom
January 29, 2008	New York City		Hammerstein Ballroom
January 30, 2008	New York		Hammerstein Ballroom
February 1, 2008	Cleveland		House of Blues
February 2, 2008	Columbus		Promowest Pavilion
February 4, 2008	Detroit		State Theatre
February 5, 2008	Chicago		Aragon Ballroom
February 7, 2008	Milwaukee		Eagles Ballroom
February 8, 2008	Minneapolis		Myth Live Event Center
February 10, 2008	St. Louis		The Pageant
February 11, 2008	Kansas City		Uptown Theater
February 13, 2008	Denver		Fillmore Auditorium
February 15, 2008	Salt Lake City		The Great Saltair
February 16, 2008	Vancouver	Canada	Orpheum Theatre
February 17, 2008	Vancouver		Queen Elizabeth Theatre
February 18, 2008	Seattle	United States	Paramount Theatre
February 20, 2008	San Francisco		The Warfield Theatre
February 22, 2008	Los Angeles		The Wiltern
February 23, 2008	Los Angeles		The Wiltern
February 25, 2008	San Diego		House of Blues
February 27, 2008	Phoenix		Dodge Theatre
February 29, 2008	Dallas		House Of Blues
March 1, 2008	Austin		Austin Music Hall
March 2, 2008	Houston		Verizon Wireless Theatre

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