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The BH&R sets were great. The 2006 arena tour had the most variety of any Muse tour ever, and the sets were usually 17-20 songs a night.
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Also, Muse tickets are XX for no reason other than they can be. The band don't have a say in the charges either - I just hope/wish the band would take the price set by their promoters into account when they think about the show... but at 14/15 songs a night at times, it doesn't really seem they do
.Promoters will charge whatever they think they can get away with and obviously selling out the O2 Arena twice at £45-£50 a pop is feasible so they do. Doesn't make it right or good or preferable but it boils down to business.
If anything, it's the punters' fault for not being perhaps as discerning as they could be.
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Since pretty much forever
.They're a hugely popular band who write popular songs and while I know someone is going to point of 'Pop' is indicative of a genre of music these days, Muse still tick that box pretty accurately with somes like Undisclosed Desires, Uprising, Resistance, Starlight, Time Is Running Out, Supermassive Black Hole, etc.
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That's not that unusual for a band their size though. I'm hoping a stripped down show will lead to a reduced ticket price, but I doubt it.
Perhaps not, but it's inflated massively over the last few years to the point where it is pricing a lot of people out of going all together.
It's all well and good putting on massive shows so lots of people can go but at nearly £50 a pop, they begin to look increasingly like massive cash cows.
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Ticket prices are a huge thing too., of course.
The last arena tour (2009) I paid £45 for my ticket after fees. Before that, I had seen Muse at Earls Court for £25 (2004), Eden for £33 (2006), Wembley Stadium for £40 (2007), Teignmouth for £40 (2009) and RAH for £45 (2008). All totally unique and yet cheaper or at least equitable with a bog standard tour gig.
If it's priced the same this time for tour shows, I ain't going. Simple as.
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Hehe. I was 14 I think when I first saw them, my second ever gig and probably to this day the greatest set I've seen from them. Just wish it was fresher in my mind... eight years ago, jeez
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I hope people like you know how freaking lucky you are. I've been a fan for 3 years and yet to see them live
Once a year for the last eight is NOTHING compared with a lot of people here
. Plus, any more and it would feel like overkill.It's just worked out quite well in terms of locations/dates and having a student loan to blow.
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But at the end of the day with smaller gigs don't more people get disappointed that they couldn't go.
I don't disagree that they be better but I'd rather go to a big gig that not go to a smaller one.
And? Tough shit for them
.Sick of bands hawking their latest wares at every big venue under the sun at every conceivable opportunity. How about coming up with a quirky or original idea for a tour? That's why the two Teignmouth gigs were so good - they were unique.
I've seen Muse eight times now in last eight years and the two worst by a country mile were the two bog-standard arena gigs - Manchester MEN 2006 and London O2 Arena 2009. Both dull as dishwater compared with Eden Project 2006, Teignmouth 2009 and Reading 2011. Those gigs stick with me because they were special.
Tbh, I rarely go to gigs these days unless there is a very compelling reason to do so. Otherwise, they just become a mulch in my brain, especially if you see the same band over and over again.
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I never understand why people want big gigs?
.I'd much rather Muse did some small warm up gigs and fight for tickets. I'd rather try for those and miss out than go and see Muse again at another enormous gig. They're boring.
Festivals, fine, but please no more O2 arena shite - they were awful back in November 2009 compared with say Reading last year.
Brixton Academy would be awesome for some warm ups. 2/3 nights there
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I think Resistance will go. It was crap live and it was a crap single.
In fact, Uprising was the only remotely successful release from The Resistance. I can it and USOE surviving but not much else.
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If Invincible comes back, I quit.
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Glasto '04 tone > all other points of Muse history.
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shrinking universe. I love the way it explodes towards the end...
Most of the songs on Hullabaloo do that - Recess and Nature_1 in particular.
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Just listened to Hullabaloo for the first time in years. It sounds like a brand new album after all this time
. Forgot just how good and raw some of the tracks are.Muse really did go all-out in their outros back then, the ends of Shrinking Universe, Recess and Nature_1 are insane.
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Just listen to Bliss and compare it with nearly anything Muse have done since. It sounds so bright and spacious
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Paranoid Android #1
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Muse were in Outnumbered this week.
26:07 if you want to see it!
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Me
.None of this 'Murican nonsense here
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Showbiz
Sunburn x2
Muscle Museum x1
Cave x2
Showbiz x2
Unintended x1
Origin Of Symmetry
New Born x8
Bliss x6
Space Dementia x1
Hyper Music x1
Plug In Baby x8
Citizen Erased x4
Micro Cuts x3
Screenager x1
Darkshines x1
Feeling Good x5
Megalomania x2
Absolution
Apocalypse Please x1
Time Is Running Out x8
Sing For Absolution x1
Stockholm Syndrome x8
Hysteria x8
Blackout x2
Butterflies & Hurricanes x5
The Small Print x1
Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist x1
Ruled By Secrecy x1
Black Holes & Revelations
Take A Bow x4
Starlight x7
Supermassive Black Hole x7
Map Of The Problematique x6
Soldier's Poem x1
Invincible x4
City Of Delusion x2
Hoodoo x2
Knights Of Cydonia x7
The Resistance
Uprising x3
Resistance x3
Undisclosed Desires x3
United States Of Eurasia x2
Guiding Light x1
Unnatural Selection x2
MK Ultra x1
Exogenesis Pt. 1: Overture x1
Others
Dracula Mountain x1
Dead Star x1
Crying Shame x1
Forced In x2
Man Of Mystery x1
Fury x1
Osaka Jam x1
Popcorn x1
Man With A Harmonica x3
Nishe x1
Helsinki Jam x2
I think that's it.
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Silly 'Muricans
.Don't rob us Brits of our 'titbits'.
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Hate This & I'll Love You.
One of Muse's finest, dare I say, 'lost' gems.
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Also, wtf happened to the whole 'oh, the towers restrict the setlist argument'?
.Fucking joke; can anyone who backed them before now see where we're coming from? Eh?
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Isn't there rumours they might play at Reading 2011?
If you say there are, there are. Nature of rumours, innit?
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Speculation on future gigs/tours
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I've just realised...
I saw pretty much the first and last shows of the TR tour - Teignmouth #2 and Reading.
They were both ace, the tour show in the middle less so... I don't think it was a gash tour, just a very predictable, overly safe, overly rehearsed one. It still packed a punch and made for a spectacle.