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    2019.06.01 - London, UK - London Stadium

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    Bliss was nice, Take A Bow is always brilliant, Psycho and Break It To Me early doors were good. Plug In Baby got a huge reaction, so did Hysteria (the bass was ENORMOUS in the intro, the most enormous I can recall). But srsly, that middle section is absolute GARBAGE. UD and Madness in a row? Mercy AND Starlight? Even Time Is Running Out, a song I do genuinely love, may as well be on a tape, it sounds IDENTICAL every night.

    I still hate the medley, it's just totally unnecessary. Pick two/three of those songs and play them in full. Algorithm alt intro and Algorithm in the encore doesn't work. Just open with Algorithm proper and be done with it. Thought Contagion still sucks absolute donkey balls. Dreadful song.

    I actually enjoyed Dig Down, the acoustic/gospel version is really nice. I enjoyed what they did with it. Shame they didn't use the b-stage for 3/4 songs like that for a bit of intimacy, although it's totally apeing when Coldplay have done so well for years (and so much better than Muse do).

    Dark Side was actually really great, love that song. Pressure as de facto opener after the Algorithm playback is weak. It's just not a song you can get very stuck into. And as for all the other bells and whistles, well, they're the exact same bells and whistles that were adorning their sets 10-15 years ago. It all feels stale/formulaic.

    Hysteria > Back In Black. Medley / drop-D finale > Headup. Close Encounters > Supermassive. Etc. And the less said about Matt's stupid glasses (two sets!), LED suits, gauntlet glove, singing to the skull, giving up guitar/piano bits and so on. It just cheapens everything for me.

    Bleh. I knew I'd be humbug about this. And it's because I love this band - I know they can do so much better. This I feel is their poorest stadium production by some considerable distance. Also, why make the main screen convex? It means if you're at the slightest angle, you see across most of it rather than look at it. Such a weird choice.

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    2019.06.01 - London, UK - London Stadium

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    How would any of us know? 🤔

    They could break out Showbiz in full so far as we know.

    The two European sets so far have mirrored the US ones though, the first with the addition of Undisclosed Desires, so it’s fair to assume the UK sets are going to be fairly similar.

    There are SO many tickets on Twickets. Like hundreds for Saturday alone. You can get standing for £40-£50.

    This tour is shaping up to be a real stinker. I’m sorry, but the set they’re playing right now is garbage. It’s just about as safe and predictable as could be. The fact they’re not changing anything at all night to night (with the exception of simply adding - ergh - UD a couple of nights ago) must make it a remarkably dull show to tour too.

    Share your controversial Muse opinions II - More Radiohead talk

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    Post-Abso, I'd say I've been to a whole bunch of Muse shows, or concerts. Pre-Abso, they came across as gigs. It's hard really to communicate exactly what I mean, but when I got into Muse circa 2001/2002, and then really started taking an interest in them as a live band circa 2003/2004, it was the virtuosity that blew me away. Three guys bound onto the stage, a few screens, plenty of lights, and then just created the most astonishing amount of noise for three people (yes, I accept, there were a few backing tracks here and there).

    But the tones, the intensity of the performances, the songs (I'm always, at heart, going to be about OoS/Abso), the fact my first Muse gig was in 2004, and so on, that era just stands out to me above all else. It was the making of Muse, it was when they broke through, it's when they became a top tier act. Watching that transition between 2003 and 2005 was really exciting for someone who'd just got into them.

    I also think that era had the best performances of many of their songs - certainly songs like Stockholm, Hysteria, Citizen Erased, Muscle Museum, maybe New Born, although after it becoming dull as hell 2006-2011 (Reading was a rollocker), I think there have been some great more modern performances of it. Some others though I do think progressed well after Abso - B&H has sounded great in many different forms, Bliss has kept evolving, Showbiz keeps coming back strong, as does Dead Star.

    Idk. My fandom is rooted in that era, but as Jobby says, it obviously wasn't perfect and I appreciate the band has changed a bunch since then. This performance always stood out to me - Muse should have been the big draw at the BRITS that year, but The Darkness broke through and got all the glam and glory. Muse were reduced to just one song with basically no production. But it sounded HUGE.

     

    Simulation Theory Tour Live gig discussion — spoiler friendly

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    I think set ordering doesn’t help either. Muse have historically rotated their sets to a greater or lesser extent, but they don’t just flip it on its head every few shows like Radiohead. I know production plays a part in this, but just about every decision Muse have made on playing live in the past 15 years has conspired to make their shows feel less live. That for me is the biggest single disappointment. Simply jumbling up the set (while maintaining a bit of logic and structure) 7/8 times during the tour would make a big difference.

    Simulation Theory Tour Live gig discussion — spoiler friendly

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    Couldn't agree more with a lot of that. I can just about predict EVERY song these days because of the first guitar stab, the fuzz, the key of any intro noodling, the style of it, etc.

    I've not been GENUINELY surprised at a day-to-day Muse gig for years now. Things like Shepherd's Bush and Download don't really count because we knew they were going to be one offs.

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