Life Tour Explained

Concert Tour Name:Life Tour
Album:History of Tomorrow
Artist:Mayday
Number Of Legs:8
Number Of Shows:110 in Asia
7 in North America
2 in Europe
3 in Oceania
122 total
Gross:US $250 million
Last Tour:Just Rock It！World Tour
(2011－2020)
This Tour:Life Tour
(2017－2019)
Next Tour:Really Want to See You Tour
(2020 - 2023)

The Life Tour was the tenth concert tour by Taiwanese-band Mayday, in support of the band’s ninth studio album History of Tomorrow (2016). The tour began on March 18, 2017 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and concluded on January 6, 2019 in Taichung, Taiwan, comprising 122 concerts.

Background

On December 31, 2016, during their show in Taipei, Mayday announced their brand new headlining tour under name of Life Tour,[1] which would kick off in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on March 18, 2017.

After tickets went on sale for the Kaohsiung show on January 21, it sells-out in just few minutes, resulting in one extra date being added.[2] Furthermore, the band also announced shows in China. On May 31 the band announced seven dates for North America. In late October, the band announced shows in Paris[3] and London.[4] On March 5, 2018 the band announced shows in Melbourne and Sydney. On September 22, 2018 the band announced the last 10 shows in Taichung which will begin on December 22, 2018. The tour will be conclude on January 6, 2019.

Due to overwhelming demand, the extra shows were added in Kaohsiung, Singapore, Taoyuan, Macau, Suzhou, Changsha, Hong Kong, Tianjin and Changzhou.

Concert synopsis

The concert begin with Mayday performing "Party Animal". "Best Day of My Life", "OAOA", "Enter Battle", "Here, After, Us" and "Superman" are subsequently performed. Between sets and costume changes, interlude videos which starring Huang Bo and Mayday, were played on the LED Screen. "You’re Not Truly Happy", "Cheers", "Brotherhood" were performed next, which then seamlessly transition into "Life Co.Ltd". During this part, the band would doing acoustic performance by guitar or short talk with fans. The next act the bassist, Masa, appeared on the left of the stage, performed the first verse of "Almost Famous" with piano. The vocalist, Ashin lifted up then and performed the rest of the song. "The Unbroken Part of My Heart", "Contentment", "Sun Wukong", "Life of Planet" and covered "The Dark Knight" from the collaboration of Ashin and JJ Lin. "Tough" were performed next.

Another costume change took place, and the show continued with Mayday performing Mandarin version of "Do You Ever Shine?". The song was performed with the band members solo performances with their instruments. The collaboration of Mayday and Jam Hsiao, "Song of Ordinary People", "(Leaving the Earth's Surface (Jump!)", “Anywhere Door" and "People Life, Ocean Wild" were performed next. After Mayday down the stage, the fans shouts Jia Ban, which means overtime work in Mandarin, instead of shouts Enocre.

Mayday appeared on stage again and performed the encore part. The encore songs they played, such as "Don’ts Don’ts (Sad People Shouldn't Listen Slow Songs)" and "Stubborn", were different in every shows. Usually the band encore twice. As the concert conclude, a video with samples of "Best Day of My Life" were played to say Good-bye to the fans.

Commercial performance

This tour has visited 55 cities and comprising 122 shows in total. It has become the biggest scaled and the most attendees tour that the band ever had, nearly 90 shows were held in the massive outdoor stadiums, and attracted more than 4.15 million people. All tickets were nearly sold-out, resulting extra shows in few cities were added. Including Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Beijing, the band visited two times in this tour. The tour grossed around USD$250-275 million.

Boxscore

Filming

MAYDAY LIFE 3D

On August 26, 2018, after the show in Beijing, the band held a press conference to announce the tour will be filmed and is set to be released in theaters as a movie in 2019. At the same day's show was the last day of filming, they decided to hold the press conference on this day. The band hope to express the real feelings to the audiences, so the movie will be released in 3D.

Set list

This set list is representative of the show on March 18, 2017 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

  1. "Party Animals"
  2. "Best Day of My Life"
  3. "OAOA (Right Now is Eternity)"
  4. "Loneliness Terminator"
  5. "Enter Battle"
  6. "2012"
  7. "I Won't Let You Be Lonely"
  8. "Superman"
  9. "You're Not Truly Happy"
  10. "Here, After Us"
  11. "Song About You"
  12. "Cheers"
  13. "Brotherhood"
  14. "Life. Co Ltd."
  15. "Almost Famous"
  16. "The Yet Unbroken Part of My Heart"
  17. "Sun Wukong"
  18. "Contentment"
  19. "Life of Planet"
  20. "The Dark Knight"
  21. "Tough"
  22. "Do You Ever Shine? (Mandarin version)"
  23. "Leaving the Earth's Surface (Jump!)"
  24. "What If We Had Never Met"
  25. "Anywhere Door"
  26. "Final Chapter"
  27. "People Life, Ocean Wild"
Encore
  2. "Do Mi So"
  4. "Don'ts Don'ts (Sad People Shouldn't Listen Slow Song)"
  6. "Crazy World"
  8. "Stubborn"
  10. "Motor Rock"
  12. "This is Love"
  14. "Fool"

This set list is representative of the show on June 23, 2018 in Shijiazhuang, China. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

  1. "Party Animals"
  2. "Don'ts Don'ts (Sad People Shouldn't Listen Slow Song)"
  3. "OAOA (Right Now is Eternity)"
  4. "Enter Battle Song"
  5. "Here, After Us"
  6. "Superman"
  7. "You're Not Truly Happy"
  8. "Tenderness"
  9. "Cheers"
  10. "Brotherhood"
  11. "Life. Co. Ltd."
  12. "Almost Famous"
  13. "The Yet Unbroken Part of My Heart"
  14. "Contentment"
  15. "Life of Planet"
  16. "The Dark Knight"
  17. "Tough"
  18. "I Will Carry You (A Sole Faith)"
  19. "Song of Ordinary People (Jonathan Lee cover)"
  20. "Leaving the Earth's Surface (Jump!)"
  21. "OK La!"
  22. "Anywhere Door"
  23. "People Life, Ocean Wild"
Encore
  2. "Beginning of the End"
  4. "I Won't Let You Be Lonely"
  6. "Final Chapter"
  8. "Love ing"
  10. "Onion (Aska Yang cover)"
  12. "Suddenly I Miss You"
  14. "Stubborn"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and opening acts
DatesCityRegionVenueOpening acts
Leg 1 — Asia
March 18, 2017KaohsiungTaiwanNational StadiumJia Jia
March 19, 2017
  1. GBOYSWAG
March 20, 2017
March 21, 2017Jia Jia
March 25, 2017GuangzhouChinaGuangzhou University Town Stadium
March 26, 2017
  1. GBOYSWAG
April 2, 2017XiamenXiamen Stadium
April 8, 2017HangzhouYellow Dragon Sports Center Stadium
April 9, 2017
April 15, 2017HefeiHefei Olympic Sports Center StadiumJia Jia
April 22, 2017ZhengzhouZhengzhou Sports Center Stadium
  1. GBOYSWAG
April 29, 2017DalianDalian Sports Center Stadium
May 1, 2017JinanJinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium
May 6, 2017TaiyuanSanxi Sports Center StadiumJia Jia
May 10, 2017Hong KongHong Kong Coliseum
  1. GBOYSWAG
May 11, 2017
May 13, 2017
May 14, 2017rowspan=3
May 16, 2017
May 17, 2017
May 19, 2017Jia Jia
May 20, 2017
May 22, 2017
May 23, 2017
May 27, 2017HarbinChinaHarbin International Convention and Exhibition Center Stadium
  1. GBOYSWAG
July 7, 2017HohhotHohhot City StadiumJia Jia
July 15, 2017GuiyangGuiyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium
July 22, 2017Xi'anShaanxi Province Stadium
  1. GBOYSWAG
July 29, 2017NanningGuangxi Sports Center StadiumJia Jia
August 5, 2017QingdaoQingdao Sports Center Stadium
  1. GBOYSWAG
August 18, 2017BeijingBeijing National StadiumJia Jia
August 19, 2017Li Jian Qing
September 10, 2017ShenzhenLonggang Universiade Sports Centre Stadium
  1. GBOYSWAG
September 11, 2017The Last Day of Summer
September 16, 2017LuoyangLuoyang StadiumJia Jia
October 6, 2017NanjingNanjing Olympic Sports Centre
  1. GBOYSWAG
October 7, 2017Jia Jia
October 14, 2017FuzhouFuzhou Strait Olympic Sports Center Stadium
  1. GBOYSWAG
October 28, 2017Kuala LumpurMalaysiaStadium Merdeka
Leg 2 — North America[6]
November 8, 2017VancouverCanadaRogers ArenaJia Jia
November 10, 2017San JoseUnited StatesSAP Center
November 11, 2017AnaheimHonda Center
November 15, 2017HoustonSmart Financial Centre
November 18, 2017BrooklynBarclays CenterJia Jia
November 21, 2017ChicagoAuditorium Theatrerowspan="2"
November 26, 2017TorontoCanadaAir Canada Centre
Leg 3 — Asia [7]
December 2, 2017ShanghaiChinaHongkou Football StadiumLi Jian Qing
December 3, 2017
December 5, 2017
  1. GBOYSWAG
December 6, 2017
December 8, 2017Cosmos People
December 15, 2017SingaporeSingapore Indoor Stadium
  1. GBOYSWAG
December 16, 2017
December 17, 2017
December 23, 2017TaoyuanTaiwanTaoyuan International Baseball StadiumHUSH
December 24, 2017
  1. GBOYSWAG
December 26, 2017Jia Jia
December 27, 2017Cosmos People
December 29, 2017
December 30, 2017Jia Jia
December 31, 2017Wonfu
January 1, 2018
  1. GBOYSWAG
January 5, 2018Jia Jia
January 6, 2018Cosmos People
January 7, 2018
  1. GBOYSWAG
January 26, 2018MacauCotaiArenarowspan="4"
January 27, 2018
January 28, 2018
February 1, 2018
Leg 4 — Europe
March 2, 2018ParisFranceAccorHotels Arenarowspan="2"
March 4, 2018LondonEnglandThe O2 Arena
Leg 5 — Asia
March 24, 2018QuanzhouChinaQuanzhou Sports Center StadiumJia Jia
April 6, 2018SuzhouSuzhou Sports Center StadiumCosmos People
April 7, 2018
  1. GBOYSWAG
April 14, 2018ChangshaHelong Sports Center StadiumLi Jian Qing
April 15, 2018
  1. GBOYSWAG
April 21, 2018JinhuaJinhua StadiumCosmos People
April 29, 2018TianjinTianjin Olympic Center StadiumLi Jian Qing
April 30, 2018Jia Jia
May 4, 2018Hong KongFantasy Road Outdoor Venue
Hong Kong Disneyland		rowspan="8"
May 5, 2018
May 6, 2018
May 11, 2018
May 12, 2018
May 13, 2018
May 19, 2018TokyoJapanNippon Budokan
May 20, 2018
May 26, 2018ShenyangChinaShenyang Olympic Sports Center StadiumXiao Bing Chih
June 2, 2018SingaporeSingapore National Stadium
June 23, 2018ShijiazhuangChinaHebei Olympic Sports Center Stadium
June 30, 2018FoshanCentury Lotus StadiumCosmos People
July 1, 2018Xiao Bing Chih
July 7, 2018KunmingKunming Tuodong StadiumLi Jian Qing
July 8, 2018Ann
July 13, 2018ChangzhouChangzhou Olympic Sports Centre StadiumXiao Bing Chih
July 14, 2018HUSH
July 20, 2018ChengduShuangliu Sports Centre StadiumXiao Bing Chih
July 21, 2018Li Jian Qing
July 25, 2018Shanghai Jinshan Sports Centre StadiumCosmos People
July 27, 2018Ann
July 28, 2018Ezu
July 29, 2018Xiao Bing Chih
August 11, 2018XiangyangXiangyang Sports Center StadiumCosmos People
August 18, 2018NanchangNanchang Olympic Sports Centre StadiumHUSH
August 24, 2018BeijingBeijing National StadiumXiao Bing Chih
August 25, 2018Ezu
Li Jian Qing
August 26, 2018Cosmos People
September 8, 2018SeoulSouth KoreaOlympic Hall
  1. GBOYSWAG
Leg 6 — Oceania
September 18, 2018MelbourneAustraliaMelbourne Arenarowspan="3"
September 21, 2018SydneyQudos Bank Arena
September 23, 2018AucklandNew ZealandThe Trusts Arena
Leg 7 — Asia
October 6, 2018BangkokThailandIMPACT Exhibition Hall 1Xiao Bing Chih
Leg 8 — Asia
December 22, 2018TaichungTaiwan Taichung Intercontinental Baseball StadiumAnn
December 23, 2018Ezu
December 24, 2018Jia Jia
December 29, 2018Mickey Huang
December 30, 2018Xiao Bing Chih
December 31, 2018Ann
January 1, 2019Jia Jia
January 4, 2019Ann
January 5, 2019Ezu
January 6, 2019Xiao Bing Chih

Cancelled shows

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tour Dates. Mayday' Life Tour Official Website. September 10, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170404184515/http://www.bin-music.com/events/mayday/2017MaydayLiFE/. April 4, 2017. dead.
  2. Web site: Mayday added one extra show in Kaohsiung. sent.com. February 5, 2017.
  3. Web site: Accueil Culture Concert/Musique Mayday en concert à l'AccorHotels Arena Bercy de Paris en mars 2018 MAYDAY EN CONCERT À L'ACCORHOTELS ARENA BERCY DE PARIS EN MARS 2018. October 27, 2017.
  4. Web site: Mayday announce O2 Arena show on Life World Tour - how to get tickets. 13 November 2017 . November 13, 2017.
  5. Current Boxscore | Billboard. Billboard. September 25, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180925233841/https://www.billboard.com/biz/current-boxscore. September 25, 2018 . live .
  6. Mayday Talks 20-Year Career. .
  7. Web site: Mayday will held 10-shows in the end of the year.

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