Those are some great pics, Anna :bomb:

 

And that article was funny too :lol:

I was watching the Tonight Show With Jay Leno, and he interviewed the girl that plays Alice from Twilight, and when she walked on they played a mini version of Supermassive Black Hole :smiley:

Got my tix in the mail today! :dance:

Great stuff Anna!

Here's my review+pics!

 

So everything started on Friday evening, when I left for Paris, a bit upset to miss the last party of the year.. . Do I need to mention it was so worth it?

Meeting Anna and my friends at the train station and getting excited over tomorrow :D

 

Saturday morning: A bit after 10am, we're in front of the Stade de France, takes us ages to get to our gate, and sadly already many people waiting, including some who slept there (yeah there was thunder and it rained all night long^^), and here starts a long day of queue, which actually went by really fast. The worst moment was when they were about to open the doors, everyone behind started pushing like crazy, and after a nice body search it's time to run down the stairs to the golden pitch, I was litterally flying over them^^ All the barriers were already full with people, so I chose to stand on the left (aka Matt's side), a few meters away from the barrier. Sadly Anna couldn't stay among the crowd so she went at the back of the pit.

 

The first opening band started playing at 6pm, and it wasn't that bad, but people were absolutely not moving, cause yeah it wasn't really a stadium band :tongue:

The White Lies came after, and no need to say that their set was f*cking awesome, a bit short though, they played Farewell to the fairground, To lose my life, Unfinished business, a new song and Death. Harry is such a great frontman, always so nice with the crowd (and especially with us and the few people around who were totally into them :wacky:) and you could clearly see they were having a blast!

 

Kasabian were next, I was so much looking forward to see them! So when they came on stage, you could clearly see that Tom was totally high haha, he was wearing sunglasses and when he took them off his eyes were almost closed xD And Sergio is such a brilliant guitarist, he was really impressive (with his flowery red bandana and blue shirt :awesome:)

Anyway, to me their set was brilliant, they got everyone clapping (even the 2 morons next to us who were critizising everything^^). They started with Fast fuse, then Shoot the Runner, Underdog (:dead:), Empire (omg so good), Vlad the Impaler, Fire and Club foot.

Though there were major sound problems, at the beginning you couldn't hear Tom at all, barely Sergio and the quality wasn't that good, but anyway I enjoyed it so much!

 

Finally Muse came on stage, and I already lol’d at Matt’s silver glittery outfits^^ They started with Uprising, and the crowd went crazy, well at least where I was standing! So I ended up losing my friends and being on my own, there was nothing you could do to keep your spot! I almost died during some songs like New Born, Hysteria and Plug in Baby, it was so violent I don’t even remember those >.< People were pushed in every direction and I had a hard work trying not to fall, all this cause of stupid guys who were throwing themselves on other people… I don’t know what happened but one guy was so annoying I hit his head, I scared myself a little there :uhoh:

But despite the crazy moshing which sadly spoilt some songs for me, I had a great time and I’m so glad they played Butterflies and Hurricanes, I belong to you (not my fav but Matt sang the french part :wacky:), Feeling good and Take a bow!

Was so beautiful when they asked people to raise their phones during Soldier’s poem … but Coldplay’s phone wave was still better :tongue:

Some funny parts of the show: when Dom threw his 4 drumsticks in the crowd, one fell not that far from me, and I saw at least 4 people, each one holding a part of it, almost fighting to get it!

Christmas tree Matt was hilarious and looking totally ridiculous with his flashing suit/glasses^^

 

It was such a great evening, I still can’t believe I was there!

 

 

 

Thanks for good review and awesome pics, Perrine!

I like new Matt's hairdo:cool:

 

Have they finally played Citizen Erased or Unintended?

You're welcome and thanks! :nice:

 

No they didn't play Citizen Erased at all and played Unintended at their first Paris show, sadly I wasn't there to hear it! Though they played Neutron star collision as well :uhoh:

For the second show we got Soldier's poem and Butterflies and Hurricanes

I imagine what a great moment was when Matt sang the french part of I Belong To You:rolleyes:

Nice to read that they played some of your favourites!

From Wikipedia....

 

Main set:

 

1. "Uprising"

2. "Supermassive Black Hole"

>>>>> 3. "New Born" <<<<<

4.

* "Map of the Problematique"

* "MK Ultra"

5.

* "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)"

* "Butterflies and Hurricanes"

6. "Guiding Light"

7. "Interlude" + "Hysteria"

8. "Nishe" + "United States of Eurasia"

9.

* "I Belong to You"

* "Back in Black" (Feat. Nic Cester of Jet)

* "Bliss"

10. "Feeling Good"

11. "MK Jam" + "Undisclosed Desires"

12. "Resistance"

13. "Starlight"

14. "Time Is Running Out"

15. "Unnatural Selection"

 

Encore 1:

 

16.

* "Unintended"

* "Soldier's Poem"

17. "Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)"

18. "Stockholm Syndrome"

 

Encore 2:

 

19. "Take a Bow"

20. "Plug In Baby"

21. "Man with a Harmonica" + "Knights of Cydonia"

 

 

That's good enough for me :D

Where did they play Bliss? :bigcry:

 

I imagine what a great moment was when Matt sang the french part of I Belong To You:rolleyes:

Nice to read that they played some of your favourites!

Yes it was! Though he could speak french better, but it's cute :tongue:

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From Wikipedia....

 

2. "Supermassive Black Hole"

>>>>> 3. "New Born" <<<<<

4.

* "Map of the Problematique"

* "MK Ultra"

 

Why >>>New Born are so special<<<?

 

Where did they play Bliss? :bigcry:

 

 

Yes it was! Though he could speak french better, but it's cute :tongue:

 

Cute video, thanks Perrine! especially ending:rolleyes:

There's a really interesting new article:

 

Large Muse Feature from The Times

 

 

I've just finished reading it.

:bigcry: and :wtf: at the same time.

Last nights setlist was the best I've seen in a long time! Citzen Erased, Bliss, MK Ultra & Map of The Problematique all in one set! :D

 

1.Uprising

2.Supermassive Black Hole

3.New Born

4.Map of the Problematique

5.MK ULTRA

6.Bliss

7.Guiding Light

8.Interlude + Hysteria

9.Nishe

10.United States of Eurasia

11.Feeling Good

12.MK Jam

13.Undisclosed Desires

14.Resistance

15.Starlight

16.House of the Rising Sun riff + Time Is Running Out

17.Unnatural Selection Encore 1

18.Citizen Erased

19.Stockholm Syndrome Encore 2

20.Take a Bow

21.Plug In Baby

22.Man with a Harmonica intro + Knights of Cydonia

^They should stick to that setlist, that's almost perfect.

 

Why >>>New Born are so special<<<?

 

It's their best song :D

^They should stick to that setlist, that's almost perfect.

 

Agreed. Swap Feeling Good with Butterflies and Hurricanes and Replace Guiding Light with a Showbiz song and Bingo! :D

They played Bliss! :bigcry:

^ :stunned: *jealousy kicks in* :bomb:

*prays for Bliss at the first Aussie show*

 

Can't see it happening though... :sad:

Hey, there are new pics from the Stade de France. Click here.

There's also a pic gallery of people who were at the concert.

 

 

Did anyone read the Times article?

I knew about the death of Dom's dad after Glastonbury but that Chris had an alcohol problem was new to me and made me sad. Fingers crossed he'll stay fine.

Oh god that setlist. They'd better play Citizen Erased and Bliss in Finland too.

I'm hoping Wembley this year will have a setlist like the '07 gigs. Sunburn, Micro Cuts, City of Delusion... :awesome:

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There's also a pic gallery of people who were at the concert.

 

 

Did anyone read the Times article?

I knew about the death of Dom's dad after Glastonbury but that Chris had an alcohol problem was new to me and made me sad. Fingers crossed he'll stay fine.

 

I can't understand anything on that site! :P

 

What? I knew about Dom's dad, but Chris. . . :sad: Do you mean a current alcohol problem or one that happened after Glastonbury?

What? I knew about Dom's dad, but Chris. . . :sad: Do you mean a current alcohol problem or one that happened after Glastonbury?

Hi!

I linked to the article above, it had been published last weekend.

Here it is again: http://board.muse.mu/showthread.php?t=75410

I know it's long but it's good. :)

Thanks! :wacko:

 

so concerned by the threat of impending planet-wide doom that he’s stockpiled a two-year supply of freeze-dried emergency rations

 

:laugh4:

 

If you find Radiohead too cool, Coldplay too soppy and U2 a bit past it

 

:mean:

 

To compound matters, Wolstenholme became “a raging alcoholic”. He reveals this to me, unbidden and unprompted, at the end of our first interview, in the band’s opulent hotel in Desert Springs, a few miles from the Coachella Festival site. “I was worse on tour in the early days. But at home it got to a point where I realised I didn’t have to stay sober ’cause I didn’t have a gig to do. So it was just a licence to drink all the time. I was waking up in the morning and filling up a pint glass half full of whatever spirit I had in the house and then topping it up with squash so no one knew what I was drinking,” he confesses.

 

He’d follow this “breakfast” with a chaser of “10 to 15 pints during the day, even when I was at home. Then in the evening I’d go on to wine: two bottles of wine. Then I’d normally finish the day as I started it: take the pint glass up to bed, drink half, so there was always something by the bedside for me in the morning, ha ha,” he laughs, nervously.

 

Wolstenholme repeats this account of the depths of his addiction, almost word for word, when we speak again backstage at the Foro Sol stadium in Mexico City. His eagerness to tell all is a mark of the bluff amiability of the sturdy, tattooed bass player (he’s a good foot taller than the compact Bellamy and Howard), and of how Muse barely do any interviews these days; they don’t need to, and their heavyweight US management company, Q Prime (also shepherds to Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica), forms a ridiculously protective phalanx around them. After eight months on tour he’s perhaps starved of outside conversation. And, I suspect, Wolstenholme’s chattiness is also an aspect of the painful rehab/therapy process that he initiated midway through the making of The Resistance.

 

“I was pretty bad. But I had a realisation one day: my dad died when he was 40 from alcoholism. And I was well on the way to that. I was in such a bad way it’s questionable whether I’d be alive now.” Wolstenholme’s therapist told him that his drinking “was my way of dealing with any kind of negativity whatsoever in my life”. As he detoxed, “I had a good week of no sleeping, shaking, feeling like I was gonna pass out. It was pretty horrible. But luckily I had five months before going on tour to get all that out of my system.

 

“I felt like I was really getting somewhere with it,” Wolstenholme continues, clutching an iced coffee (“My new drug”), his fingernails bitten to the quick. “Then we started touring and it was like giving up all over again. I had to have the minibar in my hotel room cleared. I got my own tour bus so I didn’t have to be around [the band]. I didn’t want to be one of those killjoys. It’s my problem; it’s not fair to drag everybody else into it.” He says he still finds it difficult. “There is a lot of partying on tour. You feel a bit left out sometimes. You can’t join in. But you have to think about the more important things in life, like your family, your kids [a fifth child is on the way].”

 

Aww, that's so sad. He always seems so quiet, it's hard to believe he was so chatty to this interviewer! It's good that he woke up and got help; he was digging himself in a hole there.

 

 

And the first picture! :laugh4: Matt's so much shorter than Chris! :lol:

Last nights setlist was the best I've seen in a long time! Citzen Erased, Bliss, MK Ultra & Map of The Problematique all in one set! :D

 

1.Uprising

2.Supermassive Black Hole

3.New Born

4.Map of the Problematique

5.MK ULTRA

6.Bliss

7.Guiding Light

8.Interlude + Hysteria

9.Nishe

10.United States of Eurasia

11.Feeling Good

12.MK Jam

13.Undisclosed Desires

14.Resistance

15.Starlight

16.House of the Rising Sun riff + Time Is Running Out

17.Unnatural Selection Encore 1

18.Citizen Erased

19.Stockholm Syndrome Encore 2

20.Take a Bow

21.Plug In Baby

22.Man with a Harmonica intro + Knights of Cydonia

 

They played Citizen Erased!:shocked2: Gods, I'd die to hear it live!!!