Explosions in the Sky's 2008 Concert History

Explosions In The Sky is an American instrumental post-rock band, which formed in Austin, Texas in 1999. Munaf Rayani, Mark Smith, and Michael James had just moved to Austin from Midland, Texas, and drummer Chris Hrasky had just moved to Austin from Rockford, Illinois.

Explosions in the Sky had 61 concerts in 2008

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 02, 2008 –
Aug 04, 2008
Lollapalooza
"Lollapalooza" / Rage Against The Machine / Steel Train / Wilco / Dierks Bentley / Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Dr. Dog / MGMT / Okkervil River / Margot & The Nuclear So and So's / Battles / The Jimmies / Naeem / Innerpartysystem / Jamie Lidell / Toadies / Broken Social Scene / The Gutter Twins / The Ting Tings / De Novo Dahl / Explosions in the Sky / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / Mason Jennings / Devotchka / Krista / The Postelles / Serena Ryder / DJ Bald Eagle / Uffie / The Dream Jam Band / Tiny Masters of Today / The Terrible Twos / Homemade Jamz' Blues Band / Witchcraft / Ferras / Foals / Booka Shade / Brand New / Lupe Fiasco / Dani Deahl / Devlin And Darko / Dash Mihok / DJ Am / Radiohead / Yeasayer / Flogging Molly / The National / Nine Inch Nails / Kanye West / Girl Talk / The Black Keys / Iron & Wine / The Raconteurs / The Black Kids Show all bands
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Grant Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Aug 01, 2008 –
Aug 03, 2008
Lollapalooza 2008
Devotchka / Kanye West / Radiohead / The Black Keys / MGMT / Lupe Fiasco / Iron & Wine / The National / Bloc Party / Grizzly Bear / Explosions in the Sky / The Ting Tings / Gnarls Barkley / Foals / Wilco / Mark Ronson / Cat Power / Duffy / The Raconteurs / Chromeo / Yeasayer / The Kills / Broken Social Scene / K'naan / Brand New / Dierks Bentley / White Lies / Flogging Molly / Girl Talk / Dr. Dog / John Butler Trio / Manchester Orchestra / Black Lips / Rogue Wave / Blues Traveler / CSS / Gogol Bordello / Black Kids / Newton Faulkner / Battles / Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Okkervil River / The Go! Team / Jamie Lidell / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / G. Love & Special Sauce / Flosstradamus / Booka Shade / The Cool Kids / The Enemy / Mates of State / Toadies / Uffie / Margot and the Nuclear So and So's / Kid Sister / Amadou & Mariam / Mason Jennings / Mark Lanegan / Brazilian Girls / Holy Fuck / Spank Rock / Love And Rockets / Serena Ryder / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Louis XIV / Saul Williams / Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Butch Walker / Innerpartysystem / The Parlor Mob / The Whigs / Jeff Tweedy / The Octopus Project / Ferras / Steel Train / Office / The Postelles / Magic Wands / Tally Hall / Ha Ha Tonka / Witchcraft / What Made Milwaukee Famous / The Gutter Twins / Bang Camaro / The Blakes / Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves / Wild Sweet Orange / Your Vegas / Tiny Masters of Today / Cadence Weapon / Electric Touch / James Curd / FreeSol / Willy Joy / De Novo Dahl / Sofia Talvik / Krista / Smalltown Djs / Glamour / Homemade Jamz Blues Band / Terrible Twos / Zebo / The Jimmies / Nicole Atkins & The Sea / DJ Mel / Franki Chan / Peter Distefano / Paul Green School Of Rock Allstars / The Dream Jam Band / Million Mano / Suzy Brack and the New Jack Lords / DJ Bald Eagle / E-six & Roan / Rage Against The Machine / Nine Inch Nails Show all bands
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Grant Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
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May 30, 2008
Explosions in the Sky Austin, Texas, United States
May 29, 2008 –
May 31, 2008
Primavera Sound Festival 2008
MGMT / Bon Iver / Vampire Weekend / Portishead / Cat Power / Animal Collective / Caribou / Explosions in the Sky / De La Soul / Deerhunter / Public Enemy / Rufus Wainwright / Kavinsky / Dinosaur Jr. / Devo / Dirty Projectors / Simian Mobile Disco / The Cribs / Apparat / Okkervil River / Clipse / The Go! Team / Atlas Sound / fanfarlo / HEALTH / British Sea Power / The Notwist / No Age / Why? / Bill Callahan / Man Man / Nick Lowe / Tindersticks / Menomena / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / El Guincho / The Swell Season / A Place To Bury Strangers / The Sonics / Voxtrot / Sebadoh / My Brightest Diamond / Holy Fuck / Fuck Buttons / Bob Mould / Midnight Juggernauts / Boris / Mount Eerie / The Felice Brothers / The Clientele / Bishop Allen / 808 state / Les Savy Fav / Ellen Allien / Russian Red / Shellac / Autolux / Dr. Octagon / Mission of Burma / The Rumble Strips / Buffalo Tom / Lightspeed Champion / Para One / Holly Golightly / OM / Port O'Brien / The Mary Onettes / The Lions / Surkin / Pissed Jeans / The Wave Pictures / Times New Viking / Throbbing Gristle / Tiefschwarz / Alan Braxe / Digital Mystikz / Young Marble Giants / Manel / Robert Hood / Scout Niblett / Six Organs of Admittance / Polvo / Kelley Stoltz / Edan / Model 500 / DJ Assault / DJ Funk / DM Stith / Messer Chups / Kinski / Enon / Malente / Matt Elliott / Prinzhorn Dance School / Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs / Shipping News / White Williams / David Thomas Broughton / Eric's Trip / The Devastations / Manos de Topo / Supermayer / Silver Jews / Thomas Brinkmann / Tachenko / Andy Votel / The Right Ons / Träd, Gräs och Stenar / Mi And L'au / MV & EE / Voice of the Seven Woods / Awesome Color / Extraperlo / SJ Esau / The Strange Death of Liberal England / la estrella de david / Tarantula / Graham / Madee / Bob Mould Band / Unchained / Guillamino / Apparat Band / Mary Weiss / Torpedo / It's Not Not / Scarlet's Well / Kool Keith & Kutmasta Kurt / fasenuova / El Hijo / Clint / El Chico Con La Espina En El Costado / The Marzipan Man / Vortice / DJ Supermarkt / Moho / Mv & Ee With the Golden Road / Morente And Lagartija Nick / Les Aus / Dj Shir Khan / Le Petit Ramon / Gentle Music Men / Subterranean Kids / april fool's day / Grande-Marlaska / Darren Hayman & Jack Hayter / Le pianc / The Missing Leech / Juan B / Abrevadero / Bélmez / La Orquesta Del Caballo Ganador / DjCoCo / Ary Weiss of the Shangri-las / Edan & MC Dagha / Tarntula / DJ De Mierda / Twin Kranes / Bèstia Ferida Show all bands
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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
May 28, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium Le Romandie Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
May 27, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium Abart Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
May 26, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium Estragon Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
May 25, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium
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Flex Vienna, Vienna, Austria
May 23, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium Feierwerk Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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May 22, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium
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Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
May 21, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium
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Kulturkirche Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
May 20, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium
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Élysée Montmartre Paris, Île-de-France, France
May 16, 2008 –
May 18, 2008
All Tomorrow's Parties - ATP 2008
The Paper Chase / Explosions in the Sky / The Octopus Project / Drift / Iron & Wine / Beach House / A Hawk and a Hacksaw / Eluvium / Saul Williams / Constantines / The Pale Gallery / Battles / Liars / Envy / Atlas Sound / World's End Girlfriend / Tony Teardrop / Dinosaur Jr. / Lazarus / Lichens / Splashy / Four Tet / Ghostface Killah / Animal Collective / Jens Lekman / The Field / Papier Tigre / Ola Podrida / Polvo / Broken Social Scene / …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead / Okkervil River / Phosphorescent / Sunset Rubdown / Western Keys / Silver Jews / De La Soul / Raekwon / The National / Adem / Mono / Stars of the Lid Show all bands
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Butlins Minehead, England, United Kingdom
May 14, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium
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Vera Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
May 12, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Phosphorescent / Eluvium Paradiso Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
May 11, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Dirty Projectors / Eluvium

Les Nuits Botanique 2008

Cirque Royal / Koninklijk Circus Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
Show Duplicate for May 11, 2008
May 10, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium
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Uebel & Gefährlich Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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May 09, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium Lido Berlin, Berlin, Germany
May 07, 2008
Explosions in the Sky
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VEGA Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
May 06, 2008
Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium
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Debaser Malmö Malmo, Skåne, Sweden

Videos from 2008 View All 2008 Videos

Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium
May 6, 2008
 Malmo, Skåne, Sweden
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Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium
May 21, 2008
 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Photos from 2008 View All 2008 Photos

Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium / El May on Feb 16, 2008 [808-small]

Explosions in the Sky / Eluvium / El May
Feb 16, 2008
 Richmond, Victoria, Australia
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Explosions in the Sky / Lichens on Mar 28, 2008 [716-small]

Explosions in the Sky / Lichens
Mar 28, 2008
 Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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Lollapalooza 2008 on Aug 1, 2008 [811-small]

Lollapalooza 2008
Aug 1 - 3, 2008
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Lollapalooza 2008 on Aug 1, 2008 [812-small]

Lollapalooza 2008
Aug 1 - 3, 2008
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Lollapalooza 2008 on Aug 1, 2008 [813-small]

Lollapalooza 2008
Aug 1 - 3, 2008
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Genres:

United States
Experimental
Ambient
Instrumental
Post-Rock
Compositional Ambient
Melancholia
Texas
Instrumental Post-Rock
American Post-Rock
Cinematic Post-Rock
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Latest Setlist (02/29/2024):

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  1. First Breath After Coma
  2. The Birth and Death of the Day
  3. Loved Ones
  4. Greet Death
  5. It’s Never Going to Stop
  6. Magic Hours
  7. Your Hand in Mine
  8. The Fight
  9. The Only Moment We Were Alone

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Concerts Per Year:

2024 29 concerts
2023 37 concerts
2020 12 concerts
2019 30 concerts
2018 6 concerts
2017 60 concerts
2016 95 concerts
2015 12 concerts
2014 9 concerts
2013 40 concerts
2012 51 concerts
2011 88 concerts
2010 6 concerts
2009 24 concerts
2008 61 concerts
2007 86 concerts
2006 8 concerts
2005 20 concerts
2004 34 concerts
2003 10 concerts
2002 10 concerts
2001 7 concerts
2000 2 concerts

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many concerts has Explosions in the Sky had?

Explosions in the Sky has had 737 concerts.

What genre is Explosions in the Sky?

Explosions in the Sky is most often considered to be United States, Experimental, Ambient, Instrumental, Post-Rock, Compositional Ambient, Melancholia, Texas, Instrumental Post-Rock, American Post-Rock, and Cinematic Post-Rock.

When is the next Explosions in the Sky concert?

The next Explosions in the Sky concert is on May 19, 2024 at Powerstation in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

When was the last Explosions in the Sky concert?

The last Explosions in the Sky concert was on February 29, 2024 at JioSpace, Petaling Jaya in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

What setlist does Explosions in the Sky play live?

The songs that Explosions in the Sky performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the February 29, 2024 concert at JioSpace, Petaling Jaya in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia:

  1. First Breath After Coma
  2. The Birth and Death of the Day
  3. Loved Ones
  4. Greet Death
  5. It’s Never Going to Stop
  6. Magic Hours
  7. Your Hand in Mine
  8. The Fight
  9. The Only Moment We Were Alone

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