KALA Back to P.O.W.A. Tour
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| KALA Back to P.O.W.A. Tour | ||
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| Tour by M.I.A. | ||
| Supporting album | Kala (2007) Arular (2005) |
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| Start date | Coney Island, United States July 21, 2007 | |
| End date | Philadelphia, United States December 1, 2007 | |
| M.I.A. tour chronology | ||
| Arular Tour (2005) |
KALA Back to P.O.W.A. Tour (2007) |
People Vs. Money Tour (2008) |
The KALA Back to P.O.W.A. Tour is a 2007 global M.I.A. concert tour performed in support of her studio album Kala, released in 2007.
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[edit] Tour details
The tour features dates across Europe, North America, Canada and Asia. M.I.A. began performing in support of Kala at Radio 1's Big Weekend on May 20, 2007. She made sporadic appearances at venues in the US during late 2006, including performances at Gotham Hall in New York City on August 31, 2006 with Cee-Lo and The Rapture, and at McCarren Pool on September 3, 2006 with Spank Rock and Amanda Blank. This tour followed the Arular Tour, which ended in February 2006 with performances in Japan. The 2007 Kala tour was announced by M.I.A. on her official website and Myspace page. The setlist featured songs heard for the first time from her studio album Kala (2007), and also included songs from previous album Arular (2005). Dates included concerts at music festivals, universities, colleges and club venues around the world. [1]
Concerts during the tour often began with an Asian political leader on a panoramic screen delivering an anarchic speech, ordering the overthrow of a government. The setlist often began with Kala's opening track "Bamboo Banga." M.I.A. selected programming, beats and videos during her set using a Lemur Input Device on stage, and performed dates with back up singer Cherry, a DJ and supporting vocalists. On the back screen, disembodied images and film footage of break-dancing street kids, strippers, tigers, war, video games, political rhetoric, graphs, globes, laughing women and large concert crowds from her previous shows are played throughout the show.[2] Her date at the House of Blues in Chicago, US was performed with Lupe Fiasco and Emily King, whilst her dates at the Arena of Nîmes in France and at the Fox Theater in the US were performed with Björk.[3] More dates were added to her US tour after September 2007 due to high demand. M.I.A. ended 2007 with a mini-tour of venues across the U.K.[4] She and her label XL Recordings made available a tour diary of her late 2007 UK dates in different parts to view on YouTube. [5] [6] Opening acts throughout her tour included The Gray Kid, Rye Rye, Santogold, The Cool Kids, Soko, Radioclit, Buraka Som Sistema and Afrikan Boy. Her DJs also often played opening sets before her shows.
M.I.A. has collaborated with her friend CassettePlaya to make tour clothes specifically for her. She also chose to wear her own designs and a wide selection of contrasting clothes as with her previous Arular Tour. The tour ended in December 2007, and was followed by M.I.A.'s People Vs. Money Tour in 2008.
[edit] Set list
M.I.A. did not follow the same setlist at every show, but played combinations of the following songs. “Galang” and “Paper Planes” were variably chosen as the final songs she played depending on the venue.
- ”Bamboo Banga”
- ”World Town”
- ”XR2”
- ”Pull Up The People”
- “Fire Fire”
- ”Sunshowers”
- ”20 Dollar”
- ”Hussel”
- ”Jimmy”
- ”10 Dollar”
- ”U.R.A.Q.T.
- ”Bucky Done Gun”
- ”Birdflu”
- ”Boyz”
- ”Paper Planes”
- ”Galang”
[edit] Tour dates
[edit] References
- ^ M.I.A. adds shows with The Cool Kids. Pitchforkmedia (2007-10-01). Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ CMJ: This is Another Piece about M.I.A. at Terminal 5. The Village Voice (2007-10-22). Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ M.I.A. adds U.S. dates to Summer Tour. Pitchforkmedia (2007-06-28). Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ M.I.A. UK Tour dates announced. AngryApe (2007-10-18). Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ M.I.A. UK Tour Part 1. XL Recordings on YouTube. Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ M.I.A. UK Tour Part 2. XL Recordings on YouTube. Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
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