Life Tour

Life Tour

Tour by Mayday
Associated album	History of Tomorrow
Start date	March 18, 2017 (2017-03-18)
End date	January 6, 2019 (2019-01-06)
Legs	8
No. of shows	110 in Asia 7 in North America 2 in Europe 3 in Oceania 122 total
Box office	US $350 million
Mayday concert chronology

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, 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. 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 and London. 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 Wu Kong", "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 "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", "Jump!", “Dokodemo 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" and "Jue Jiang", 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$333.33 million.

Boxscore

Date	City	Region	Venue	Attendance/Capacity	Revenue
September 21, 2018	Sydney	Australia	Qudos Bank Arena	10,408/11,724	$2,739,840

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 Animal"
2. "Best Day of My Life"
3. "OAOA"
4. "Loneliness Terminator"
5. "Enter Battle"
6. "2012"
7. "I Won't Let You Be Lonely"
8. "Superman"
9. "You Are 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 Wu Kong"
18. "Contentment"
19. "Life of Planet"
20. "The Dark Knight"
21. "Tough"
22. "Do You Ever Shine?"
23. "Jump!"
24. "What If We Had Never Met"
25. "Dokodemo Door"
26. "Final Chapter"
27. "People Life, Ocean Wild"

Encore

28. "Do Mi So"
29. "Don'ts Don'ts"
30. "Crazy World"
31. "Jue Jiang"
32. "Motor Rock"
33. "This Is Love"
34. "Fool"

Special guests

• March 20, 2017 – Kaohsiung: "Song of Ordinary People" with Jam Hsiao
• April 29, 2017 – Dalian: "Peter&Mary" and "Suddenly Missing You So Bad" with Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung
• May 13, 2017 – Hong Kong: "Peter&Mary" and "Suddenly Missing You So Bad" with Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung
• May 16, 2017 – Hong Kong: "Tuo Tai Huan Gu"and "Love Trap" with Alan Tam
• May 22, 2017 – Hong Kong: "Dont's Dont's" and "Fold Up" with Richie Jen and Edmond Leung
• August 19, 2017 – Beijing: "Song of Ordinary People" and "Hills"with Jonathan Lee
• December 5, 2017 – Shanghai: "Eternal Summer"/"Hip Hop Man" with MC Jin
• January 1, 2018 – Taoyuan: "The Dark Knight" and "Shines Through The Night" with JJ Lin
• January 5, 2018 – Taoyuan: "Dont’s Dont’s" and "Eternal Summer" with Sandy Lam
• January 7, 2018 – Taoyuan: "You Are Not Truly Happy"/"Rhythm of the Rain" and "Nunchucks" with Jay Chou
• March 2, 2018 – Paris: "Song of Ordinary People" and "Hills" with Jonathan Lee
• March 4, 2018 – London: "Song of Ordinary People" and "Hills" with Jonathan Lee
• April 14, 2018 – Changsha: "Here, After, Us" and "Later"(without Ashin) with Rene Liu
• April 29, 2018 – Tianjin: "Step Aside" and "Here, After, Us" with Rene Liu
• May 11, 2018 – Hong Kong: During the show, Hong Kong actor Tony Leung appeared on stage
• May 20, 2018 – Tokyo: "Dancin' Dancin'" with GLAY
• June 2, 2018 – Singapore: "Song of Ordinary People" and "Hills" with Jonathan Lee
• July 25, 2018 – Shanghai: "Song of Ordinary People" and "Teng Ai" with Jam Hsiao
• July 27, 2018 – Shanghai: "Jump!", "Peter&Mary" and "Li Bai"(without Ashin) with "Li Ronghao"
• July 28, 2018 – Shanghai: "Dont's Dont's"/"Dancin' Dancin'" and "I'm In Love" with TERU of GLAY
• July 29, 2018 – Shanghai: "Suddenly Missing You So Bad", "Eloping To The Moon" and "Groupies"(without Ashin) with Cheer Chen
• August 24, 2018 — Beijing: "Jump!"/"Three Days and Three Nights" and "Here, After, Us" with A-mei
• August 25, 2018 — Beijing: "You Are Not Truly Happy"/"Tian Kong" and "The Great Artist" with Jolin Tsai
• August 26, 2018 — Beijing: "Don'ts Don'ts" and "Every Star" with Huang Bo
• October 6, 2018 — Bangkok: "Don'ts Don'ts" with Slot Machine
• December 22, 2018 – Taichung: "A Little Happiness"(without Ashin) and "This is Love" with Hebe Tien
• December 24, 2018 – Taichung: "Jump!", "Breaking Beart"/"I Will Miss You"/"Wonder If You Will Miss Me in That Night"/"Nunchucks" and "Stupid Child" with Jacky Wu
• December 29, 2018 — Taichung: "Live&Life" with Mickey Huang
• December 30, 2018 — Taichung: "Sun Wu Kong" and "Your Call" with Sambora of TOLAKU
• January 1, 2019 — Taichung: "Norwegian Forest" and "Viva Love" with Wu Bai
• January 4, 2019 — Taichung: "Party Boy"/"Don'ts Don'ts" and "Peter&Mary" with Show Lo

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and opening acts

Dates	City	Region	Venue	Opening acts
Leg 1 — Asia
March 18, 2017	Kaohsiung	Taiwan	National Stadium	Jia Jia
March 19, 2017				#GBOYSWAG
March 20, 2017
March 21, 2017				Jia Jia
March 25, 2017	Guangzhou	China	Guangzhou University Town Stadium
March 26, 2017				#GBOYSWAG
April 2, 2017	Xiamen		Xiamen Stadium
April 8, 2017	Hangzhou		Yellow Dragon Sports Center Stadium
April 9, 2017
April 15, 2017	Hefei		Hefei Olympic Sports Center Stadium	Jia Jia
April 22, 2017	Zhengzhou		Zhengzhou Sports Center Stadium	#GBOYSWAG
April 29, 2017	Dalian		Dalian Sports Center Stadium
May 1, 2017	Jinan		Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium
May 6, 2017	Taiyuan		Sanxi Sports Center Stadium	Jia Jia
May 10, 2017	Hong Kong		Hong Kong Coliseum	#GBOYSWAG
May 11, 2017
May 13, 2017
May 14, 2017				—
May 16, 2017
May 17, 2017
May 19, 2017				Jia Jia
May 20, 2017
May 22, 2017
May 23, 2017				—
May 27, 2017	Harbin	China	Harbin International Convention and Exhibition Center Stadium	#GBOYSWAG
July 7, 2017	Hohhot		Hohhot City Stadium	Jia Jia
July 15, 2017	Guiyang		Guiyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium
July 22, 2017	Xi'an		Shaanxi Province Stadium	#GBOYSWAG
July 29, 2017	Nanning		Guangxi Sports Center Stadium	Jia Jia
August 5, 2017	Qingdao		Qingdao Sports Center Stadium	#GBOYSWAG
August 18, 2017	Beijing		Beijing National Stadium	Jia Jia
August 19, 2017				Li Jian Qing
September 10, 2017	Shenzhen		Longgang Universiade Sports Centre Stadium	#GBOYSWAG
September 11, 2017				The Last Day of Summer
September 16, 2017	Luoyang		Luoyang Stadium	Jia Jia
October 6, 2017	Nanjing		Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre	#GBOYSWAG
October 7, 2017				Jia Jia
October 14, 2017	Fuzhou		Fuzhou Strait Olympic Sports Center Stadium	#GBOYSWAG
October 28, 2017	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	Stadium Merdeka
Leg 2 — North America
November 8, 2017	Vancouver	Canada	Rogers Arena	Jia Jia
November 10, 2017	San Jose	United States	SAP Center
November 11, 2017	Anaheim		Honda Center
November 15, 2017	Houston		Smart Financial Centre	—
November 18, 2017	Brooklyn		Barclays Center	Jia Jia
November 21, 2017	Chicago		Auditorium Theatre	—
November 26, 2017	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre
Leg 3 — Asia
December 2, 2017	Shanghai	China	Hongkou Football Stadium	Li Jian Qing
December 3, 2017
December 5, 2017				#GBOYSWAG
December 6, 2017
December 8, 2017				Cosmos People
December 15, 2017	Singapore		Singapore Indoor Stadium	#GBOYSWAG
December 16, 2017
December 17, 2017				—
December 23, 2017	Taoyuan	Taiwan	Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium	HUSH
December 24, 2017				#GBOYSWAG
December 26, 2017				Jia Jia
December 27, 2017				Cosmos People
Dacember 29, 2017
December 30, 2017				Jia Jia
December 31, 2017				Wonfu
January 1, 2018				#GBOYSWAG
January 5, 2018				Jia Jia
January 6, 2018				Cosmos People
January 7, 2018				#GBOYSWAG
January 26, 2018	Macau		CotaiArena	—
January 27, 2018
January 28, 2018
February 1, 2018
Leg 4 — Europe
March 2, 2018	Paris	France	AccorHotels Arena	—
March 4, 2018	London	England	The O2 Arena
Leg 5 — Asia
March 24, 2018	Quanzhou	China	Quanzhou Sports Center Stadium	Jia Jia
April 6, 2018	Suzhou		Suzhou Sports Center Stadium	Cosmos People
April 7, 2018				#GBOYSWAG
April 14, 2018	Changsha		Helong Sports Center Stadium	Li Jian Qing
April 15, 2018				#GBOYSWAG
April 21, 2018	Jinhua		Jinhua Stadium	Cosmos People
April 29, 2018	Tianjin		Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium	Li Jian Qing
April 30, 2018				Jia Jia
May 4, 2018	Hong Kong		Fantasy Road Outdoor Venue Hong Kong Disneyland	—
May 5, 2018
May 6, 2018
May 11, 2018
May 12, 2018
May 13, 2018
May 19, 2018	Tokyo	Japan	Nippon Budokan
May 20, 2018
May 26, 2018	Shenyang	China	Shenyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium	Xiao Bing Chih
June 2, 2018	Singapore		Singapore National Stadium
June 23, 2018	Shijiazhuang	China	Hebei Olympic Sports Center Stadium
June 30, 2018	Foshan		Century Lotus Stadium	Cosmos People
July 1, 2018				Xiao Bing Chih
July 7, 2018	Kunming		Kunming Tuodong Stadium	Li Jian Qing
July 8, 2018				Ann
July 13, 2018	Changzhou		Changzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium	Xiao Bing Chih
July 14, 2018				HUSH
July 20, 2018	Chengdu		Shuangliu Sports Centre Stadium	Xiao Bing Chih
July 21, 2018				Li Jian Qing
July 25, 2018	Shanghai		Jinshan Sports Centre Stadium	Cosmos People
July 27, 2018				Ann
July 28, 2018				Ezu
July 29, 2018				Xiao Bing Chih
August 11, 2018	Xiangyang		Xiangyang Sports Center Stadium	Cosmos People
August 18, 2018	Nanchang		Nanchang Olympic Sports Centre Stadium	HUSH
August 24, 2018	Beijing		Beijing National Stadium	Xiao Bing Chih
August 25, 2018				Ezu Li Jian Qing
August 26, 2018				Cosmos People
September 8, 2018	Seoul	South Korea	Olympic Hall	#GBOYSWAG
Leg 6 — Oceania
September 18, 2018	Melbourne	Australia	Melbourne Arena	—
September 21, 2018	Sydney		Qudos Bank Arena
September 23, 2018	Auckland	New Zealand	The Trusts Arena
Leg 7 — Asia
October 6, 2018	Bangkok	Thailand	IMPACT Exhibition Hall 1	Xiao Bing Chih
Leg 8 — Asia
December 22, 2018	Taichung	Taiwan	Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium	Ann
December 23, 2018				Ezu
December 24, 2018				Jia Jia
December 29, 2018				Mickey Huang
December 30, 2018				Xiao Bing Chih
December 31, 2018				Ann
January 1, 2019				Jia Jia
January 4, 2019				Ann
January 5, 2019				Ezu
January 6, 2019				Xiao Bing Chih

Cancelled shows

Date	City	Country	Venue	Reason
May 29, 2017	Chongqing	China	Chongqing Olympic Sports Center	Venue Grass Damaged