Muse 25/05/2013

"Come ride with me, through the veins of history"

 

This weekend (may 25th/26th) has been incredible. I've seen my two favourite bands of all time one day after each other. Saturday was the UK's Muse, on the second night of their "Unsustainable Tour". 

I've seen Muse once before, back in october last year, at the O2 arena in London. This time however, they were at the Emirates Stadium, and I was standing, rather than "seated"!

A nice small, intimate venue!

 Set: Supremacy (2nd Law Unsustainable vocal intro)

      Supermassive BlackHole

             Panic Station

      Bliss

      Resistance

      Animals

      Knights of Cydonia

      Drum & Bass Jam

      United States of Eurasia

      Dead Star

      Monty Jam

      Feeling Good

      Follow Me

      Liquid State

      Madness

      Time is Running Out

      New Born

   

      Unintended

      Blackout 

      Guiding Light

      Undisclosed Desires

      2nd Law: Unsustainable

      Plug in Baby

      Survival

      2nd Law: Isolated System

      Uprising

      Starlight

Muse are renowned for their extravagant live shows, and this tour certainly doesn't dissapoint. The stage was massive, with six huge flame spouting chimmneys, and huge screens. Pyrotechnics played a large part in the show, and even though were in the middle of the standing area, we could feel the heat of the flames from quite a distance away. As well as tonnes of fire, we were also treated to a giant floating lightbulb, complete with suspended ballarenia, which sailed over the audience during Blackout. During Unsustainable, a giant robot, complete with menacing red eyes appeared on stage.

The set was pretty similar to last year's tour, but there were a few songs thrown in that I didn't hear last time (Bliss, Dead Star, United States, Unintended, Blackout, Guiding Light) and it was nice to see the return of the more chilled songs of Blackout and Unintended. Aside from a minor slip up during Supermassive BlackHole (Matt and Chris didn't actually start playing, Matt shouted "FUCK!" and they restarted) the boys' playing was excellent, and the sound quality was much better than last time. 

They also had lights. Lots and lots of lights.

 After two and a half hours of driving rock beats, balls of flame and guitar throwing, the show finally ended, and several thousand people all tried to squeeze their way through the small doors of the Emirates Stadium.

All in all, a fantastic gig with an excellent stage set up and some great playing by the band. The audience too were in good spirits, which really helped round of a great night. Tomorrow night's band would need to pull out all the stops to impress me more than Muse's performance did....