It is believed the concerts were scrapped because the band used an image of the Dalai Lama as a backdrop at a gig in Taiwan in 2010, the Financial Times reported.
But for months now, out of the public eye, an iron gate rises every Friday afternoon, and with the outside rumblings of construction at ground zero as a backdrop, hundreds of Muslims crowd inside, facing Mecca in prayer and listening to their imam read in Arabic from the Koran.
The band used their newly designed logo as a backdrop at concerts.
Even some very non-EDM acts, like Meghan Trainor and Fifth Harmony, used the genre's synthesized steel-drums and loping tempos as a backdrop at Wango.
All of this serves as a backdrop for "Circa 1986" at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill.
Youth unemployment was only one of many grievances fuelling the Arab Spring and was at best a backdrop to the London riots, which were sparked by a police shooting.
This dark setting is enhanced by the fact that the entire game takes place at night, a backdrop that adds to the atmosphere of conspiracies and stealth.
"Y Viva España" is more regularly sung at them against a backdrop of Spain flags than it is chanted at Espanyol.
America, or India, or the world at large remained a backdrop, more or less faint, as the characters maneuvered through their heavy psychological landscape, but the narrow focus rarely felt like weakness.
He peers at us from a backdrop so rich in gloom that it might as well be the nether depths of Hell — which, for anyone wishing to pinpoint Rochester's current location, remains the most plausible place to begin.
