We wanted to be close enough to watch Matt Bellamy play, so we zipped from space to space until we were about 8 or so people behind the barrier right in front of Matt Bellamy by the middle of the night. It was a magnificent sight to behold! Muse were in rock god mode last night, and watching Matt shredding on his guitar was so awesome. There was also the awesome piano, which was transparent and lighted-up at times, and when the camera threw up on the big screen Matt's fingers on the keys during the spectacular piano solo during the middle of Butterflies and Hurricanes it was a musical epiphany for me.
Muse seem to have a certain backbone to their set list where they cycle certain songs within that framework, and it seemed the energy levels didn't spike until New Born, when the mosh really picked up. I was glad for the slowed down period in the middle with the ballads, to focus on listening to the lovely music and Matt’s unearthly voice - Ruled by Secrecy was absolutely beautiful live - and watch him play from a good distance without the frenzy of the mosh getting in the way.
The highlight for me was Time Is Running Out and Bliss back to back, with the pretty pink confetti balloons making a reappearance, the songs sounding crazy fierce with awesome energy and the crowd mightily appreciative all around me. The first encore was good too, another dose of joy and energy from hearing two well-loved songs. It was an interesting set overall, pretty evenly distributed with songs from the last three albums (*nothing* from Showbiz though other recent set lists have seen Sunburn substituted for Invincible), with lot of extended intros and outros between songs of riffs from (mostly) b-sides, an appeasement for the hardcore fans seeing them for the second time within a year.
I was massively dehydrated by the end and yet soaked in sweat, my legs sore and shaking as we walked out of the Ent Cent. But during the dying moments of Knights of Cydonia, I looked across to this tiny girl near me and we just got each other - we were both wrecked and sore but we had matching smiles because, yeah, it was an awesome experience.
Take A Bow
Map of the Problematique
New Born
Butterflies and Hurricanes
Supermassive Black Hole
Citizen Erased
Feeling Good
Ruled by Secrecy
Invincible
Hysteria
Fury
Starlight
Time is Running Out
Bliss
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Plug In Baby
Stockholm Syndrome
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Knights of Cydonia
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