American rock outfit Thirty Seconds To Mars took over Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena last night, kicking off their Australian tour dates with a bang.
Joined by Sydney rockers Yours Truly, fans were set for a huge night of music. The headliners provided buckets of fun for those in attendance due to nostalgia and shared some new music.
If you don’t like setlist spoilers, look away now because we’re about to dig into what Thirty Seconds To Mars played in Melbourne last night and what you’ll likely hear in Sydney and Brisbane.
Playing just two songs from their latest album, It’s The End Of The World, But It’s A Beautiful Day, released last year, brothers Jared (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass) and Shannon Leto (drums, percussion) and touring guitarist/bassist Stevie Aiello knew what fans wanted to hear: the hits.
And hits they delivered, playing classics like The Kill (Bury Me), Attack, and From Yesterday from A Beautiful Lie, Closer To The Edge, Hurricane and Kings And Queens from This Is War, City Of Angels and Up In The Air from Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams, as well as tracks from 2018’s AMERICA. You can check out the setlist below.
Thirty Seconds To Mars @ Margaret Court Arena on Thursday, 12 September 2024 – Setlist
Up In The Air
Kings And Queens
Walk On Water
Rescue Me
Seasons
Hail To The Victor
Hurricane
This Is War
Remedy (Sung by Shannon Leto)
Stay (Mikky Ekko cover)
City Of Angels
From Yesterday
Attack
Encore:
Stuck
The Kill (Bury Me)
Closer To The Edge
Thirty Seconds To Mars’ Australian tour continues at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena tomorrow (14 September) and ends at Brisbane’s Riverstage on Tuesday, 17 September. The tour marks the band’s first Australian jaunt since Soundwave Festival in 2011 and comes a year after they released their latest LP.
For the official world tour announcement last November, Jared Leto decided to scale New York City’s Empire State Building, spiderman-style. In a statement about the feat, he said:
“The building is a testament of all the things that can be done in the world if we put our minds to it, which is largely the inspiration behind our most recent album, It’s The End Of The World, But It’s A Beautiful Day.”