Imagine Dragons ‘Loom’ Tour Finale Is Out Of This World

When Imagine Dragons decided to add a fourth and final show to its late October run at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the band knew it wanted to go out with a bang.

In a way, the band took its show to the moon – at least for one song.

For its Oct. 27 tour finale, Imagine Dragons enlisted the Los Angeles Film Orchestra to perform with them through not just their hits and songs from their latest album, Loom, but also invited famed film, TV and video game composer Inon Zur to conduct “Children of the Sky (A Starfield Song),” from the “Starfield” video game.

Not only was this the first live performance of the tune, but, in collaboration with Bethesda Game Studios and Lonestar Data Holdings, the song will become the first transmitted to Earth from the moon.

As Imagine Dragons’ manager (and brother of Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds) Mac Reynolds explains, “Lonestar has an upcoming mission to send the first data center to the surface of the moon. There will certainly be all sorts of high value and interesting data kept there, but our song will be a small part of the payload. The data center has the capacity to broadcast/transmit data back to earth as well, so we will be able to have the first song played from the moon to the earth.”

Lonestar, the first company in the world to provide a commercial service from the surface of the moon, announced in April it has successfully established a lunar data center near the moon’s South Pole.

“Lonestar invited us to have the first song housed on (and later broadcast from) the moon, and we could think of no better fit than ‘Children of the Sky,’ Reynolds says. “Space is like music – it’s a great unifier. It transcends cultural and geopolitical barriers. With that in place, we brought in our friends at Bethesda to have the first game on the moon with ‘Starfield.’ There’s some sort of cliche here about stars aligning, but it really was a fortuitous chain of events that brought everything together in the end.”

Omar Al-joulani, Live Nation Concerts president of touring, took note of Imagine Dragons’ success, saying, “Imagine Dragons’ record-setting four nights at the Hollywood Bowl drew in over 67,000 fans, a testament to their long-standing impact and connection with fans. Their music continues to evolve, and their ability to fill venues and draw multigenerational audiences around the globe only continues to grow.”

It certainly made for an over-the-moon finale of Imagine Dragons’ “Loom World Tour.” Initially intended as a one-night event at the Hollywood Bowl, the team quickly realized the ticket demand was “going to go the distance and then some,” according to the band’s agent, Wasserman Music EVP & Managing Executive Corrie Martin.

When the shows went clean virtually at onsale, Martin and her team “realized that we had a really special moment on our hands. And so we were shockingly lucky and fortunate enough to get the Saturday (Oct. 26) and Sunday (Oct. 27) cleared to be able to add those shows. Then, the discussion around the fourth was to do something really special – it’s the end of the tour. It’s the Hollywood Bowl.

Imagine Dragons had performed with an orchestra before, but not for a full show. “Ultimately, they were able to get it together with the L.A. Film Orchestra, we launched that and let that have its own moment. It’s been really fun,” Martin says.
Imagine Dragons takes a break now, having performed 36 shows in just less than three months, before embarking on an international (and possibly cislunar) trek that kicks off Nov. 21 at the National Hockey Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and runs through Asia until Dec. 8 in Vietnam.

“We’re pretty bad at self-reflection and celebrating big moments, to be honest. It’s something about the hunger and drive you get from being a poor scrappy artist for so long before you break,” Mac Reynolds says. “You’re always thinking about what comes next. But I can honestly say this was a rare moment where we sat and really soaked in what a special thing it was to have four shows at the Hollywood Bowl and finish them in such a beautiful one-night celebration with an orchestra. It was a show none of us will forget anytime soon.”