I’m wondering if you could give us (I’m hoping I’m not alone with these lacunae) a quick overview of the 1D tours in chronological order, album they were promoting AND the aesthetics (that sofa? the cartoon graphics? the jungle gym stage?). It’s still a bit of a “long time ago” jumble for me… and I can kinda tell by how long Harry’s hair is or how flowery his outfits when something happened, but I’ve never sat down to piece it together. And the way I imagine you to be, you’ll just know it off the top of your head!
If it’s no trouble, of course.
Many thanks in advance (hehe!)
Ailo
Hey Ailo <3,
So I am going to make this small so it fits better. So before we had Up All Night, which was their first album in 2011, that started with WMYB as its main single, One Direction was on the XFactor Tour, which ran from February to April of 2011. They didn't really have any special arrangements for their stage there because they were not the only act performing.
Following the release of Up All Night in November of 2011, the boys embarked on their Up All Night Tour in December 2011, with the UK and Ireland tour. They spent the first half of the year on this Tour, going around the world and touring with Big Time Rush in the United States. This was the tour that had the boys sitting on a couch. It also had plenty of silly moments due to the introduction of Twitter questions.
This tour went on until July of 2012, which was in line with the next release. LWWY came out in August of 2012, leading to a massive push to break the United States with Little Things in October and a set of concerts in Madison Square Garden in December 2012.
The next tour was the Take Me Home Tour which was named after the album that came out in Nov. 2012. The tour began on 23 February 2013 in London, England, and concluded on 3 November 2013 in Chiba, Japan. This was the tour of the crazy superhero graphics and the floating stage between the A stage and B stage in the crowd.
The final stage set was the massive jungle gym-looking set used for the Where We Are tour and the On The Road Again Tour. It featured a bunch of insane-looking pathways to run around on and a B stage that rose from stage level to about a story up so the entire stadium could see them. This stage was used during the stadium tours, with its massive screens and walkway allowing the boys to run around and be seen by everyone. The behind-the-scenes for the movie from San Siro shows just how huge the stage was. The stage colors changed from red to blue and yellow between the two tours.
Apparently today is the 9 year anniversary of when one direction was last in Australia and I got invited to go with my friends and I was like “nah they’ll come back next year”