The Clockwork Angels Tour was a concert tour in support of the 2012 album, ''
Clockwork Angels
''Clockwork Angels'' is the nineteenth and final studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on June 12, 2012, on Roadrunner Records. During the band's year-and-a-half break following its Snakes & Arrows Tour, the group decided to write a ...
'', by the Canadian rock band
Rush. The tour included shows in Canada, the United States and throughout Europe. A nine-piece string ensemble accompanied the band during the second set of each performance, which highlighted songs from ''Clockwork Angels''.
Setlist
Standard Setlist:
Set One
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Subdivisions
Subdivision may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Subdivision (metre), in music
* ''Subdivision'' (film), 2009
* "Subdivision", an episode of ''Prison Break'' (season 2)
* ''Subdivisions'' (EP), by Sinch, 2005
* "Subdivisions" (song), by Rush ...
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The Big Money
"The Big Money" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, originally released on their 1985 album ''Power Windows''. It peaked at #45 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #4 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and has been included on several compilation albu ...
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Force Ten"
# "Grand Designs"
# "The Body Electric" or "Middletown Dreams" or "
Limelight
Limelight (also known as Drummond light or calcium light)James R. Smith (2004). ''San Francisco's Lost Landmarks'', Quill Driver Books. is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. An intense illumination is created whe ...
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# "Territories"
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The Analog Kid"
# "Bravado" or "
The Pass"
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Where's My Thing? (Part IV, "Gangster of Boats" Trilogy)"
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Far Cry
''Far Cry'' is an anthology franchise of first-person shooter games, all of which have been published by Ubisoft. The first game, '' Far Cry'', was developed by Crytek to premiere their CryEngine software, and released in March 2004. Subsequen ...
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Set Two
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Caravan
Caravan or caravans may refer to:
Transport and travel
*Caravan (travellers), a group of travellers journeying together
**Caravanserai, a place where a caravan could stop
*Camel train, a convoy using camels as pack animals
*Convoy, a group of veh ...
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# "Clockwork Angels"
# "The Anarchist"
# "Carnies"
# "The Wreckers"
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Headlong Flight"
# "Halo Effect"
# "Seven Cities of Gold" or "Wish Them Well"
# "The Garden"
# "Manhattan Project" or "
Dreamline
"Dreamline" is a song by the Canadian rock band Rush. It was released as a single and on their 1991 album '' Roll the Bones''. The song peaked at number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and was a staple for live performances by Rush, ...
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Red Sector A
"Red Sector A" is a song by Rush that provides a first-person account of a nameless protagonist living in an unspecified prison camp setting. "Red Sector A" first appeared on the band's 1984 album '' Grace Under Pressure''.
Lyricist Neil Peart ...
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YYZ"
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The Spirit of Radio"
Encore
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Tom Sawyer
Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), ''Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894), and ''Tom Sawyer, Dete ...
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2112: Overture/The Temples of Syrinx/Grand Finale" or "
Working Man"
Leg One
Leg Two
Tour dates
;Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
Success
*Top 200 North American Tours 2012: Rush, #33
*Total Gross: US $27.2 million
*Total Attendance: 340,766
*No. of concerts: 35
*Top 100 North American Mid Year Tours 2013: Rush, #69
*Total Gross: US $4.4 million
*Total Attendance: 55,117
*No. of concerts: 14
*Top 100 Worldwide Mid Year Tours 2013: Rush, #69
*Total Gross: US $11.3 million
*Total Attendance: 127,280
*No. of concerts: 23
*Top 100 Worldwide Tours 2013: Rush, #82
*Total Gross: US $21.2 million
*Total Attendance: 268,252
*No. of concerts: 34
*In summary
*Total Gross: US $48.4 million
*Total Attendance: 609,018
*No. of concerts: 69
References
Bibliography
* Daly and Hansen. ''Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth: The Official Touring History''. Insight Editions, 2019.
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