The High End of Low - The High End of Low Tour

The High End of Low Tour

To support the release of The High End of Low, Marilyn Manson staged a worldwide stadium tour, titled The High End of Low Tour. It is the band's twelfth tour and it is also the band's eighth tour to span over multiple legs. The tour spanned from June 3, 2009 until December 21, 2009. The only known tour date of the tour's seventh leg in 2010 has been cancelled, and during the last show in France Manson announced that there would be no further tour dates in 2010.

In the vein of the album themes and imagery revolving around Manson's conception of life as a movie, the live counterpart of the album reflects this theatricality by simulating each song in the live tour as a different act. Replete with cinema-derived stage lighting illuminating Manson, the separation between "backstage"/"onstage" has been lifted to portray this cinematic effect; Manson reapplies his makeup front-and-center onstage, stagehands assist with wardrobe changes in full view of the audience, and the final illustration of this concept is that prior to each song's commencement afterwards, a stagehand emerges and signifies that each new act has begun by use of a clapperboard in front of Manson, as if to convey the filmic mantra of "lights, camera, action" and the song begins.

A new theatric stage was revealed within the first European leg of "The High End Of Low Tour". During "Great Big White World" Manson performed within an over-sized white lightbox. The entirety of the song was sung behind the semi-transparent sheet, removed from the audience. "If I Was Your Vampire", which also deals with a similar lovelorn isolation, was alternately performed with this theatrical device on early dates of the tour.