People Vs. Money Tour

Infobox concert tour
concert_tour_name = People Vs. Money Tour


image_caption= M.I.A. performing at Bonnaroo festival, 2008
artist = M.I.A.
number_of_legs = 1
album = "Arular" (2005)
"Kala" (2007)
start_date = Monterrey, Mexico, 1 March, 2008
end_date = Manchester, Tennessee, US 13 June, 2008
number_of_shows = 27
last_tour = KALA Tour
(2007)
this_tour = People Vs. Money Tour
(2008)

The People Vs. Money Tour is a 2008 M.I.A. concert tour in support of her studio album "Kala." Concerts also featured songs from her debut album "Arular". It began on 26 April, 2008.The tour featured dates in Central America, the USA and Canada. Her 2008 dates began with two performances at the MX Beat festival in Monterrey, Mexico in March, following the end of her KALA Tour. M.I.A. later cancelled the European dates of the tour, which ended at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee on 13 June, 2008. [cite web | title=M.I.A. info - June 2008 entry| url= http://s26928.gridserver.com/info/?m=200806| work = MIAUK - M.I.A. Official Website | accessdate=2008-06-06] [cite web | title=Potent Quotables:M.I.A. to go MIA| url= http://www.spinner.com/2008/06/17/potent-quotables-m-i-a-to-go-mia/| work = Spinner.com | accessdate=2008-07-16]

Tour details

The 2008 tour was announced by M.I.A. in April 2008 via her Myspace and official website. [cite web | title=M.I.A. - New Tour dates| url= http://s26928.gridserver.com/info/?m=200705| work = MIAUK - M.I.A. Official Website | accessdate=2008-06-06] A continuation of the KALA Tour, dates included concerts at music festivals, universities and club venues. The set consisted of M.I.A., back up singer Cherry, DJs Low Budget and in other concerts Million Dollar Mano, dancers and supporting vocalists. M.I.A.’s DJs also perform opening sets before her shows. She met backup dancer Cisko after viewing videos of his dances on YouTube.

Holy Fuck opened for M.I.A. from April 26th - May 6th 2008. [cite web | author=|title= MIA and Holy Fuck hit the road together| url= http://www.nme.com/news/mia/35471| work = NME | date=2008-05-27 | accessdate=2008-09-27] Egyptian Lover supported M.I.A. on a few dates during the tour, as well as Rye Rye who, along with MGMT, opened for M.I.A. on April 11, 2008.cite web |author=Murphy, Tom| title= Over the Weekend...M.I.A., the Egyptian Love, and Low B at The Fillmore| url= http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2008/05/over_the_weekendmia_the_egypti.php | work = Westword.com | date=2008-05-19 | accessdate=2008-09-27] [cite news |first= Jackson |last= Reeves |title= M.I.A.-ViCE, students prep for year's biggest concert|url= http://misc.vassar.edu/archives/2008/04/mia_vice_studen.html |work= The Miscellany News |publisher= Vassar College|date= 2008-04-10 |accessdate=2008-09-27]

Continuing with a similar set to her KALA Tour concerts during 2007, M.I.A. selects programming, beats and videos using a Lemur Input Device. [cite web | author=|title=M.I.A. travels the world on the back of a Lemur...| url= http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/news/news-story/news_id/2163| work = Dolphin Music| date=2008-06-13 | accessdate=2008-09-27] A panoramic back screen features film footage of Toyama Koichi's speech, break-dancing street kids, strippers, tigers, war, video games, political rhetoric, graphs, globes, laughing women, animated graphics of M.I.A. performing and large concert crowds from her previous shows, images of her artwork and holographic patterns.

hows

The setlist featured songs from both her studio albums "Arular" (2005) and "Kala" (2007), although M.I.A. did not perform the same setlist at every concert. The set often began with "Kala's" opening track, "Bamboo Banga." [cite web | author=Tyler, Theresa|title= Concert Review:MacEwan Hall, Calgary| url= http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/M/MIA/ConcertReviews/2008/05/29/5704596-sun.html| work = Jam! Canoe | date=2008-05-28 | accessdate=2008-08-25] M.I.A. performed at the final date of the 2008 MX Beat festival in Toluca. [cite web | author=Hernandez, David |title= Bodies moving at MX Beat| url= http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/letter-from-mexico-city/bodies-moving-at-a-mexican-mus/| work = LA Weekly blogs | date=2008-03-10 | accessdate=2008-09-27] Prior to her Coachella festival appearance in April 2008, M.I.A. filmed from her New York apartment window and posted on YouTube an incident involving a black man being apprehended by white police officers, which elicited commentary debating the force used for the arrest. [cite web | author=Gajewski, Josh |title= M.I.A. can be found at Bed Stuy (and soon at Coachella)| url= http://www.latimes.com/theguide/music/coachella/la-gd-cover24apr24,0,6975885.story| work = LA Times | date=2008-04-24 | accessdate=2008-09-16] At the show, she sang a segment from The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work", changing the lyrics to "The cops don't work, they make things worse, but I know I'll see your face again," [cite web | author=|title= MIA orchestrates mass stage invasion at Coachella| url= http://www.nme.com/news/coachella/36238| work = NME | date=2008-04-27 | accessdate=2008-09-16] after police tried to shut the set down. Stating "They were on the backside of the stage and they were trying to shut me down...I was really thinking about the situation in New York", referencing the Sean Bell shooting incident, she felt "getting people to be interactive makes me feel more and more connected to my fans." [cite web | author=Baltin, Steve |title= Concert blog - M.I.A. Bashes Cops, References Sean Bell| url= http://www.spinner.com/2008/05/06/m-i-a-bashes-cops-references-sean-bell/| work = Spinner.com | date=2008-05-06 | accessdate=2008-09-16]

In May 2008, she stated in an interview "I figured I might as well do a few more shows in America before I may not be allowed back in or ever get a chance to come back again - It's nice to tour around America and do every gig like it's your last gig." [cite web | author=Lindsay, Cam|title=M.I.A. To Move To Canada?| url= http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=115&csid2=844&fid1=31658| work = Exclaim!| date=2008-05-28 | accessdate=2008-05-30]

M.I.A. performed additional dates during her tour. On May 3 2008 she performed at the JazzFest in New Orleans, U.S.,cite web | title= Jazz Fest at Night| work= Allaboutjazz.com | url= http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=18564| date= 17 May 2008 | |accessmonthday=5 June | accessyear=2008] and at an afterparty for the MTV Movie Awards in West Hollywood, U.S. on June 1 2008. At the show, Arulpragasam pledged, with the money she earn't from the gig, to build new schools in Liberia, telling the crowd "It costs $52,000 to build a school in Liberia for 1000". [cite web | author=Wappler, Margaret|title=The Guide:Los Angeles Time Soundboard| url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/soundboard/2008/06/mia-gets-paid-a.html| work = | date=2008-06-02 | accessdate=2008-07-18] [cite web | author=Baltin, Steve|title=M.I.A. Takes the Money....for Charity| url= http://www.spinner.com/2008/06/04/m-i-a-takes-the-money-for-charity/| work = Spinner.com| date=2008-06-04 | accessdate=2008-07-18] She also performed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, U.S. in June 2008, during which Mos Def performed with her onstage. Other performers there included past tour mates LCD Soundsystem. Proceeds from the event were donated towards benefitting the museum's general operating fund. [cite web | author=O'Connell, Michael|title= BizBash New York - Rock Garden| url= http://www.bizbash.com/newyork/content/editorial/e11523.php| work = BizBash | date=2008-06-12 | accessdate=2008-09-27] [cite web | author=|title= Moma.org - Party in the Garden honouring Donald B. Marron and Mike Nichols| url= http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=7955| work = MOMA.org | date=2008-06-10 | accessdate=2008-09-27] [cite web | author=|title= M.I.A. to build schools in Liberia| url= http://www.nme.com/news/mia/37104| work = NME | date=2008-04-27 | accessdate=2008-09-16] Arulpragasam announced her engagement at her Edmonton Events Centre concert in Canada.cite web | author= MacNeil, Jason | title= M.I.A. to W.E.D. | work= edmontonsun.com | url=http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/Music/2008/05/31/5731066-sun.html | date=2008-05-31 | accessdate=2008-09-16] Curating his first ever New American Music Union in August 2008, Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers described in an interview in May being very keen on Arulpragasam playing at the US festival, remarking "I think she's a rocking live performer. She wanted to play, she was very into it" but that she cancelled as she was getting married. [cite web | author=Anderson, Kyle|title=Q&A: Anthony Kiedis| url= http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20861357/qa_anthony_kiedis/2| work = Rolling Stone | date=2008-05-19 | accessdate=2008-09-16]

Clothes

Clothes worn during this tour were inspired by prints and artwork Arulpragasam created for her websites, her album cover for "Kala" and songs such as "Birdflu", and were taken from her clothing line. [cite web |author=Roberts, Michael| title= Q&A with M.I.A.| url= http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2008/05/qa_with_mia.php| work = Westword.com | date=2008-05-14 | accessdate=2008-05-30] [cite web | author=Sperounes, Sandra| title= More on M.I.A.| url= http://communities.canada.com/edmontonjournal/blogs/pluggedin/archive/2008/05/27/more-with-mia.aspx| work = Edmonton Journal | date=2008-05-27 | accessdate=2008-05-30] In 2008, she launched a limited edition fashion line held to reflect her personal style. [cite web | author=Sung, Hannah| title=M.I.A. is back in action| url= http://music.aol.ca/article/MIA/130/| work = AOL Music Canada| year=2007 | accessdate=2008-05-30] [cite web | title=10 Deep’s Women’s Collection Resembles M.I.A.’s Style Aesthetic| url= http://www.grooveeffect.com/post/060807-10-deeps-womens-collection-resembles-mias-st.php| work = Groove Efeect| date=2007-08-06 | accessdate=2008-05-30] The limited edition "KALA Tour/Okley Run" line included Mexican and Afrika jackets and leggings, Islamic hoodies as well as tour-inspired designs including "People Vs. Money Tour Tees" and "KALA Tour Tees". In some concerts, she wore T-shirts imprinted with images of artists such as Ian Curtis.

et list

Below is the set list of Arulpragasam's concert at the Maplewood Myth. Throughout the People Vs. Money Tour, she played various combinations of these songs.

*"Video Introduction"
*"Bamboo Banga"
*"World Town"
*"XR2"
*"Pull Up The People"
*"Sunshowers"
*"20 Dollar"

All Girls Went Up on Stage
*"10 Dollar"
*"Jimmy

All boys went up on stage
*"Boyz"

*"Bucky Done Gun"
*"Galang"

Encore
*"Birdflu"
*"Paper Planes"

*"Amazon", "U.R.A.Q.T." and "Banana Skit" were performed at select shows.

Tour dates

Cancelled dates

References

External links

* [http://www.miauk.com Official site]
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* [http://diariodefiestas.blogspot.com/2008/03/ddf-video-report-03-mia.html M.I.A. interview at the 2008 MX Beat Festival, by DDF]