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Flying High To Get Weird Tour

The Flying High to Get Weird Tour was the third and the first worldwide tour by British girl group Little Mix, in support of their third studio album, Get Weird and later Flying High, the solo debut album by group member Lily-Rose Anderson, announced in July 2015. It began on 13 March 2016 in Cardiff, Wales and ended on 30 August 2016 in Miami, Florida. The group performed at sold-out shows across North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia with a total of 77 shows selling approximately 501,475 tickets and grossed a total of $28.7 million. In March 2016, Little Mix was awarded a plaque to commemorate them having the highest selling UK arena tour of 2016 at that time, selling over 300,000 tickets in the UK alone.

Background:

Little Mix released "Black Magic" as the lead single of their third studio album in May 2015. On 17 July 2015, the group announced an extensive arena tour to commence in March 2016 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. 21 extra shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland were added due to high demand. In October 2015, the group announced dates in Oceania, making this the first time the group would headline a world tour. In December 2015, North American and Asian dates were announced. In February 2016, further European dates were announced, including shows in Sweden, France and Spain. Group members Lily-Rose Anderson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock announced that they the tour will also support Lily's debut album for the tour with 11 songs (previously seven) in the setlist. Gigs in and were moved to bigger venues as a result of the high demand, as well as the extension of the UK tour. The tour started in March 2016 with Nathan Sykes, Jagmac and Joey Devries supporting in Europe and supporting in Oceania. One Direction and G.R.L. were opening acts for the North American tour. The Sam Willows were the support act in Asia and was the tour support in Europe, as well as the re-arranged Belfast gigs.

Concert Synopsis:

The show begins with a large screen showing fog rising. A book materializes, with sparks falling upon it. The book opens, flipping through the pages before landing on one. The right page lists the names of the group, while the camera zooms in on the blank left page. Sentences appear, eluding to the book calling the girls of band, with a background voice reading them out. The book fades, replaced by four hooded women who appear after each other and each say of name of one of the members. The screen abruptly cuts to black, before a man with black face paint stares into the audience. Suddenly, ominous music starts as sparks and fog fill the screen, with voices hissing. The screen rises to reveal the girls sitting on the floor in a circle, hands outstretched to each other. They then are flown up, and flail around as the man appears on the risen screen and says a phrase. The members are then lowered down as the lights are off. The same hooded women appear one after the other in a line whispering an incantation reminiscent of the lead single of the album, "Black Magic". The lights are switched on to reveal the girls standing up in brightly colored costumes before an intro. Right before the song begins, the background dancers rip off the pajamas, revealing the group in red and pink outfits and starting performing the sixth track on Get Weird, "Grown". It ends with extended dance breakdown making a transition to perform the next song placed on the setlist, "Hair". After the first interaction with fans, the group leads to perform "Change Your Life", following by "A.D.I.D.A.S." sitting on huge chairs whilst doing the choreography. They started to sing and dance to "Stand Down" and "Red Planet", later ending the first act with debut single, "Wings".

The second act of the show starts with the first on the screen, showing the band getting into a to head to a club. In the video they're asking the taxi driver to change the and eventually changes into multiple song such as "Move", the lead single from group's second studio project, Salute, "OMG" or the third single from Get Weird, "Secret Love Song". Unfortunately the taxi car stops in the dark forest, that is scaring the members, then it drives away. The interlude introduces the group for the second time within starting first song from the next act, "Lightning" along with "DNA", which includes a choreography at the beginning, and extended outro. After that, the members of the group are adding one detail to their current outfits, starts the second conversation with fans, and performs "Secret Love Song, Pt. II", a solo version of the track without the feature from Jason Derulo . It comes with a transition to eight song from Get Weird, "OMG" where the background dancers wear suits and huge bunny heads, resembling in half Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" music video, where the singer is dancing with a giant, white bear on her back with others. They then start to do combine two to three songs starting with Competition and Mr. Loverboy from their second album, Madhouse and A Different Beat from their debut and second album, I Love You, Love Me or Leave Me and Always Be Together from their debt and third album, and Clued Up and Going Nowhere. After the performance of it, the girls are starting talking to fans for third time before performing a of multiple songs as "Apache (Jump On It)" by American hip hop group The Sugarhill Gang, "Crazy in Love" by American singer Beyonce featuring American rapper Jay-Z, "Fester Shake" by English rapper featuring Dutch electro producer Lethal Bizzle, the snippet of "Where Are U Now" by American EDM duo Jack U featuring Canadian singer Justin Bieber and "Ring The Alarm", second song from the medley by Beyoncé. The second act is ended by performance of two last singles from group's second studio album, Salute respectively, "Salute" and "Little Me" with additional ending, that contains the elements of "Lightning". During it, the backup dancers shield the girls with a cloak as the girls drop through the stage, giving the illusion of them disappearing when they are hidden with a cloak.