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i kinda get a very bad vibe from this review.. is this dude really a muse fan? it was the greatest gig ever compared to any concerts held in this country.... not onlycompared to PCD, Ill Divo and definitely no comparison to RAIN!!!
oh, i dunno about that. guy's got a bod to die for and all that.
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hi, AngeL. well met. ^_^
as a welcome present, have a cookie from japan!
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lol at this vid! dom was so cute when he stopped and turned around to the fans
like as if he was trying to scare them.at least they're nice enough to stop and 'layan' their fans.
haha, i can't help but get this impression that the moment the last bell rings, you'd be the first one out the class. then you'd make a beeline for home, not letting anybody stop you lest they slow you down or god forbid, ask you out thus putting themselves neatly and firmly before you and your computer, drop your bag at the fron entrance of your home, race to your computer, boot it up and check the boards post haste, still clad in your nice blue school pinafore (or are you the baju kurung wearing type?).
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huh, they're not staying an extra day in taipei? =(
EDIT: wow just saw those vids. so many fans at the airport. bet they totally weren't expecting that after the tumbleweed scenario in Malaysia (it was rather quiet here, wasn't it? they came and went without much fanfare right? i think it was also like that in jakarta...). it's good that the few of you who went there, did. cos otherwise it'd be so...cold and lonely. i guess we're just too lazy to form groupie cults...
EDIT 2: wow...there are REALLY well-liked there, huh. lotsa groupies...
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^Awesome account of past events there. Practice your chatting up skills, crazy, so the next time you get to meet them, you can catch their full interest with your great conversation skillz.
so anyway, crazy asked me this question via PM
did u prefer the s'pore gig or the m'sian one? can u make comparison?...and my answer got a bit lengthy. Then I figured some of you might want to know the difference as well from someone who's actually been to both so I decided to post it here instead. Please note that this is more of a personal POV kind of thing, so I don't presume to speak for others.
Put under the spoiler tag for length. So only the really curious would bother.
Well, the Singapore gig has its high points generally (it's a MUSE gig, that in itself is a high enough point, if you ask me) but on a personal scale, I'd say the KL one is more ace by miles. It did a lot more for me than the Singapore one. I didn't get high on the music like I did for the KL one and I didn't get the "Wow, I just saw MUSE live, great gig it was, too" vibe, I was more worried about how I was going to survive the next gig in KL cos I was still only holding the pitt ticket then. Hysteria, being one of my favorite MUSE tunes, was ruined because I was literally feeling it, and not in a good way since it was due to actual fear of meeting the reaper that night. And if you can recall, I was actually kind of pissed off at the band themselves for a while after that. After getting pulled from the crowd, I spent the rest of the time being half-distracted, loitering about the merch and beer stands. I did get back into the music bit by bit but I couldn't get totally immersed in it no matter how much I tried. My totally having no recollection of a couple of songs played is testament to how out of it I was.It's good to know that the crowd here made my worries null. I think I have a newfound respect for Malaysian concertgoers now. But still, I have heard that the Malaysian crowd can get pretty rowdy. Previous gig experiences as told by crazy_mary and mynameisdebbie did very little to assuage my fears. I'm not sure what the deciding factors for what makes a crowd rowdy and what makes them well-behaved here are, other than the fact that most of the people I saw who were at Stadium Negara were adults (young and old) and teenagers who seemed mature beyond their years. Perhaps it's just due to the kind of crowd MUSE attracts here, though I can't be too sure of that. It is the impression I got, though. Either way, I thought it'd be rowdier here than in Singapore (before I attended it, that is...after, I don't think Malaysians could have fared any worse). I mean after all, we /are/ Malaysians. But I guess I forgot the other thing that makes us all Malaysians. Out unpredictability--which, at times, can be aggravating, though not in this case. Turned out, everyone who turned up were pretty much laidback while the Singaporean ones exuded a more definite vibe of 'kiasuism'. I swear I'm not being biased cos I was honestly expecting a more relaxed and courteous vibe from them, which was why I was so shocked to find out that I could have been crushed and trampled to death there that night. Needless to say, that naive foreigner in me has been instantly put to sleep. I guess in any other gig, or on other occasions, they might all turn out to be great people--in fact, I'm pretty confident they are, outside of the event--but that night, I suppose eagerness overtook them all. This didn't happen so much in the KL gig. The crowd was eager, yes, but not so much as to let it rule their actions.
I knew it would be a better gig the moment I turned up with my friend to park his car at 11 in the morning and the place was still void of fans. The ones who did turn up early found the place so deserted they decided to venture elsewhere to kill time and come back when there are more fans gathered. And there weren't any until after three. I love it. I love how... tak hadap...the fans here are. And it's not like most showed up last minute either cos that would be a little too laidback, to the point of disinterest even, but people only really started steadily trickling in 2-3 hours before the show, which is a more than reasonable time to start showing up.
This isn't a bad thing at all and is just an observation, but in Singapore, I heard people started turning up at seven-ish, eight-ish in the morn (which was why I wanted to turn up early when I was still holding a Pitt ticket, which I gave up partially due to not wanting to show up that early and suffer through hours of idle waiting after all--the latter of which I have already experienced in Singapore--cos I thought it was going to be the same here) and by one in the afternoon, the queue was about 100 people strong, and multiplying by the hour. Of course there were latecomers as well, those who brought mats and didn't mind being the last few to go in as all they wanted to do was to enjoy the gig from far anyway. Those guys were cool. Wish I had thought of doing that myself. But there were also the latecomers who took advantage of the disorganized way the organizers were letting the crowd into the venue and jumped the queue.
See the diff? Don't get me wrong, I was actually impressed by the enthusiasm. Still am. Malaysians seemed really slacky by comparison . xD Though, like I said earlier, I love that as well. Anyway, great pre-gig enthusiasm in Singapore. Just not really impressed by what it blew up, and in a sense, degenerated, into later on during the start of the gig.
Certainly the band themselves were great back then as well but for me, there's just this vibe and camaraderie the KL gig had that the Singaporean one didn't. And by now, you should know that I think it has more to do with the crowd and the way the organizer ran things than the band themselves, though they did seem to have put in a little more effort to please the crowd in the KL gig which I didn't see as much of in the Singaporean one.
There you go. Lengthy read, I know but those are the differences I've observed and my thoughts based no them.
p/s: Glad you've enjoyed the vid, crazy. There are actually more where those came from, hehe.
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hey Tired.Unhappy (tho you don't seem so tired and unhappy anymore xD), nice of you to put all those up. the audio is really ace. what phone is that you're using, if you don't mind my asking? o.O
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u should've seen the galaxy people's faces when i first arrived, they were looking at me up and down.. sure hell, thinking " wat? org mcm ni pun bole minat muse ker??":LOL: i'm so embarrsed rite now.
eh, sucks to be them, then. dunno a good thing when they see one. you sure it's not all just in your mind tho? you're one of the most self-depreciating person i know, you know? give youself some credit sometimes.
either way, i think you look rad, babe~ and i'm not saying that just to be nice. it really is a cool dose of local tradition you've provided there.
k. faz! we were both from work! lol! Matt actually thought i work at KLIA! n i was wearing my tag too n he was like 'whats this'? while holding my tag! he's so damn CUTE!!! im loving my tag now! LOL!what? you mean to tell me that you don't work there? o.O cos that's what i kinda thought too, when I saw those pictures of you...
actually, he kind of said maybe next year, as i recall! And didn't all three of us made him promise and he said I promise? (Or am I just going crazy now?)
I hope Matt really means it when he says they might be coming back next year. Cannot wait!.
actually, this could mean a lot of things, one of them being a personal trip. this time next year, it would be the aptly-called in-between albums period, which is basically a much-deserved time off from a year and a half's worth of hard touring. he DID say in an interview once that he plans on backpacking to several places once the tour is over. so...yeah. a concert is nice and all, and while the chances aren't exactly 0%, rationally speaking, what are the possibilities, really? however, if he likes our country enough to want to visit it on a personal basis when there's more time and leisure on his hands (there's lots to see eastwards), that's good, too. maybe he'll bring some friends and family along, eh? this is a good place for family trips, so maybe wolstenholme will bring his as well. expose the wife and kids to some real sun and tropical beaches, you know? xD
hahaha and you guys are all so cute. i'm not just glad you got to meet MUSE, i'm glad MUSE got to meet you, as well. ^___^
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hey Meteora.stan, more than that, you guys enjoy your gig saturday, k?
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*chuckles* some of us have thought of it. we just didn't think to actually act on it. at least it's good for them to know that they won't get mobbed here. a few fans here and there just to show they aren't totally unknown beyond their music but not so many as to be a bother to them.
but hey at least some of us got to meet them. really glad for you guys =D thanks for sharing all those nifty, nifty piccharz. and i think it's fantastic that crazy wore her baju kurung as I'm sure it's a real taste of malaysian tradition for the dudes. you look nice, btw, babe.
and howard's clothing color scheme is nice. against the pretty much dim background he really shone. i guess this makes up for the lack of yellow trousers, huh?
huhu, was bellamy just pointing or was he striking a Saturday Night Fever pose there (referring to the skylight...? skybridge..? sky...something picchar)? no, really. i honestly can't tell...
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^hey, those pictures are pretty nice. your camera must be pretty ace. ^_~
p/s: you know, i'm still wondering why they couldn't have included Manila and Bangkok in their itenerary. they could've used some lovin' from MUSE there, too. lots of fans there, I heard.
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no, you looked like the dream fan I assume MUSE have always hoped their music would pull. in fact any band would be lucky to have you as a fan. ^_~
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hahaha, hey crazy_mary, I was looking through my clips and during Invincible, they had a close-up on you on the screens. You were so totally singing along. I remember seeing that while vidcamming during the gig and chuckling a little then but when i saw it again just now, i couldn't help the really wide grin on my face...
i'm glad MUSE has fans like you, you know?
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i believe the BHAR cd + dvd was going for RM90(?) with free poster and muse "pick" card..
that pick card is actually a fan...which a whole bunch of us at the seats got for free when the ushers handed them out to help alleviate the heat a little.
and the posters were also given out for free after the concert.
but wait...this would mean the dvd was actually available at the concert. and i totally missed it. buuuuu.
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limited tour edition dvd...? were they selling it at the venue...? i know the BHAR album was on sale @ RM45 per piece. crap, don't tell me that's the one...cos i was thinking what a rip off it was for them to sell the album at that price...
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uhu dee-yamn...i thought they left yesterday. if i had known it's today, i'd have tagged along just to say thanks for the memories. really should have gotten my system upgraded, huh? did any of you guys get them a present to remember their malaysian gig by?
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there were. quite a bit of them, in fact. came out from both sides sometime during the end of SS.
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^when you said no balloons, do you mean as in none got to you?
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it was white? i could've sworn it was black...............cos i kinda tried to take extra notice...for a certain debbie...maybe i need to get my eyes checked...
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^^ ah, no wonder your footage all look pretty decent. I was on one of the numbered seats on the lower tier, on the other side. My row was the highest on the lower tier.
the one i uploaded is the KoC one, which you already have so maybe you don't need it anymore?
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Salutations!
Sorry for bailing out on you guys to settle for a seat (some of you will know what I'm talking about). But hey look, I made myself somewhat useful so please forgive. I've taken the liberty to upload it to a host so all you have to do is click.
It's, of course, nicer in its original untarnished .mov format but it was much too large. Anyway, it's rather meh quality (made further so by compression) but it's something that'll help to relive the experience some...I hope.
I originally uploaded it to YT but have since taken it off cos it dumbed everything down to grainy bits and it made the audio and visual out-of-sync, to boot. Should've done this right from the start rather than wait three and a half blasted hours for YT to process it, only to have the effort wasted. Bleh. Anyway, shinies!
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^D= that's almost the entire gig...2/3, prolly. You should prolly cut them into separate footages. Anyway, looking forward to see your stuff. =D
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sankyuu! the screams were most interesting. heheheh
youtube's still processing mine. it's been processing for...two and a half hours now. does it take longer if your clip is longer?
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Oh...that long ago huh. So she actually came here twice in a span of three years? Incredible...
MUSEflash from our resident hippy aunty, coolest teacher there ever was, now will ever be:
Omg' date=' omg am freaking out rite now. Am at airport just shook hands wif matt n dom. Guess my stalking plan worked.[/quote']she said to expect picchars tonite.
over and out. beep!
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i went to alanis 1st concert here way back in 1996 in stadium negara, i was in 2nd tier...
yes i don't have to squint my eyes, but people on the stage looked small,most of the time i have to watch her perform on the giant screen...
i don't remember i;m sweating in the stadium back then ....not sure how about now since it was 10 years ago:D
oh...was it stadium negara? i was under the impression she played in stadium shah alam. now why did i think that?
like as if he was trying to scare them.
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w00t! if it is, yay for you guys!! let's hope for it to be true...
...and that that won't happen.