Alexander DeLarge
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Lolla was confirmed when a friend ran into Matt. Not saying more because personally, I don't think that should have gone public before 2017 lineup speculation even began. Probably OSL too. The other one I'm thinking is Rock in Rio Vegas. They said they'd be back in 2017 with a big lineup and they've done well in Las Vegas so that's a possibility.
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Jesus
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I see contacting his brother as a bit over the line since he's not a public figure. Not quite sure how he got pulled into the whole Muse thing (or Matt's mom for that matter). Elle is a public figure with 52,000 followers on IG and she's responding to Muse-related comments/tweets so I don't see the harm in a little #SpiraElleStatic hashtag or a couple comments on her IG (which will probably be responded to before it even became a "campaign"). The ones she responds to aren't being spammed or anything, so she's only responding to them on her own accord. Also, I see it as a bit more casual since she's practically on tour with them versus a "Hey Matt, it's your brother, your fans keep asking about a petition?" phone call.
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Keep in mind that this is Ukraine, they've only had two shows there ever (they got B&H before, but that was at their first show in 2007) They got CE/Megalomania/Map/Take a Bow last time (2011 staples so Hysteria/Exo 1/SS as well).
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Isn't Elle's favorite song spiral static? Wouldn't now be a good time to tell her to have Matt play it? We could go through her to have Matt play a track that otherwise we would probably never hear live. Since she's really friendly with fans, I figure she'd be quite receptive to the idea and she interacts with them on her own accord regularly so I don't consider it an invasion of privacy or anything. I mean if futurism and yes please could come out of nowhere then surely this could.
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There was a lot of inner hostility between the "Muse could fart into a microphone for 2 hours and I'd be happy" kind of fans and the people who basically said "you know, I bought these tickets knowing that the Psycho Tour was a bit of a wake up call, that the festivals were great too and then all of a sudden in the US there was an unprecedented drop in set quality, I'm not happy with it". The usage of the word "toxic" got thrown around quite a bit. Of course the people who were defending the US setlists were the ones doing 15 shows here and spending thousands to go overseas to do another 15 more.
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You know, it's funny because the vast majority of hardcore fans I know were teenage girls and mothers in their 40s and 50s (and even 60s). Makes sense since most of their live fans are women. I wasn't fortunate enough to do the second leg of T2L (I wouldn't count Austin City Limits) but I loved the first leg even without the rarities because it was the right mix of pop/rock with a piano tossed in the mix and there were enough rotations to keep me interested in each show (I think I did 8 or 9?).
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The only way I'd support a rarity tour is if they did an actual tour comparable to T2L before the next album, because I think they'd greatly benefit from being surrounded by hardcore fans, playing small shows, awesome songs and getting a good crowd reaction. I would think that would improve the album. Especially when confronted with the reality that we exist everywhere. Otherwise, start playing 21-24 songs and rotate some of the staples to make room for more material next tour. Don't bother playing a ton of shows in Europe (because they already get a ton of shows, good ones too) and the East/West Coast of the United States.
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To be honest, the more discussion there is about a rarity tour, the less I want it to happen. Just play 21-24 songs a night and make a normal tour the rarity tour by playing a decent selection of songs everywhere and cut down on the production so they can tour anywhere that has 3000-4000 fans willing to pay for it. It'd be nice to start rotating the hits since there's only 2 songs left by the time they're done playing the current album material+the staples
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Was it the other 15 times it got brought up? Just sick of people dehumanizing the Brexit voters everywhere.
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Why would a guy who wrote a song titled "The Globalist" vote stay? I don't know how Matt voted but I wouldn't be surprised at all if he were to vote leave if he were to vote at all consider he posted an article about how the Brexit vote was a total joke. It is ignorant snobbery of the worst kind to assume that someone who disagrees with your assessment of a political issue is some sort of uneducated cretin. You're talking about half of the country, many of whom are probably your friends/family/associates.
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Another idea is a roulette tour (with actual randomizing results)
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This belongs in the perfect setlist thread, but what would you think of a tour structured like this where the opener starts earlier and there's two 1hr10-20 minute Muse sets with a 15-20 minute break between? I feel there's enough to keep the fans going through the first half and there's enough recognizable songs to keep the casuals going through the second half. Enough rotations to keep 5-6 nighters going as well. [Drill Sergeant] 1.)Psycho 2.)Map of the Problematique/Interlude+Hysteria 3.)Dead Inside 4.)Bliss/Plug in Baby 5.)SMBH 6.)USoE/AP/Sunburn 7.)UD/Madness 8.)CE/B&H/City of Delusion 9.)TiRO/Blackout 10.)Revolt/Defector 11.)Starlight 12.)Lies/Sign o the Times/Can't Take My Eyes Off You/Feeling Good 13.)The Globalist/Exogenesis 1/2/3 together [Drones] *15-20 minute break* [What's He Building in There with silouettes on curtains] 1.)Reapers 2.)Hyper Music/Micro Cuts/Dead Star 3.)Futurism/Fury/Glorious 4.)The Handler 5.)Muscle Museum/Uno 6.)Agitated/Ashamed/Spiral Static 7.)Endlessly/Falling Down/Megalomania 8.)Stockholm Syndrome/New Born/Unnatural Selection 9.)Assassin/The Small Print/MK Ultra 10.)Uprising/Resistance 11.)Mercy (with confetti) 12.)Knights/Survival/Take a Bow
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What they should do is bring back dealer's choice from 04-05 where certain nights, someone in the band got to pick a song to play completely at random. Get the crew involved in it too. Some of them are total fanboys.
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Idea for a show that starts earlier and two sets with a 15-20 minute break between. Give them the hits in the earlier half and expose them to a different side of the band in the second half with a bunch of rock mixed in with some heavier hits. [Drill Sergeant] 1.)Psycho 2.)Map of the Problematique/Interlude+Hysteria 3.)Dead Inside 4.)Bliss/Plug in Baby 5.)SMBH 6.)USoE/AP/Sunburn 7.)UD/Madness 8.)CE/B&H/City of Delusion 9.)TiRO/Blackout 10.)Revolt/Defector 11.)Starlight 12.)"This one is a cover song" Lies/Sign o the Times/Can't Take My Eyes Off You 13.)The Globalist/Exogenesis 1/2/3 together [Drones] *15-20 minute break* [What's He Building in There with silouettes on the 360 curtains] 1.)Reapers 2.)Hyper Music/Micro Cuts/Dead Star 3.)Futurism/Fury/Glorious 4.)The Handler 5.)Muscle Museum/Uno 6.)Agitated/Ashamed/Spiral Static 7.)Endlessly/Falling Down/Megalomania 8.)Stockholm Syndrome/New Born/Unnatural Selection 9.)Assassin/The Small Print/MK Ultra 10.)Uprising/Resistance 11.)Mercy (with confetti) 12.)Knights/Survival/Take a Bow
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They've been surprised that there's a demand for songs before.
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Tie registration for the voting to the website/forums. Don't include guaranteed staples like last time either (people were voting for Knights of Cydonia in 2010)
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If they weren't setting up the stage 5 minutes before we got into the venue, I'd suggest an earlier opener (for the sake of sound curfews), 1hr20 minutes of Muse, 15-20 minute break and do another 1hr20 minutes. Let people decide when they've had enough like people do when they see The Cure. I saw The Cure recently, they did 37 songs and those guys are in their late 50s doing some pretty strenuous material.
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I expect Ukraine to an above average set because the crowds are really good there and they rarely play there.
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Only supporting this if it's actually a tour and not another case of pandering to places that already get good shows, and a lot more shows than anywhere else.
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Buying tickets, getting to the show, lining up, sitting through the opener, possibly traveling/taking off work? That's a lot of effort to get largely the same thing once every three years. If these arenas largely consist of repeat audiences. How many times are these people going to sit through a show with 5 different songs and a different production before losing interest? It's in their best interests to mix it up assuming people have seen them more than once, which is certainly not just a couple percent.
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I don't think we're the minority anymore though. In the seats and people behind in the queue/pit, I heard plenty of "Yeah it was good but I've seen all this before" Who wants go to a show where they're seeing the same stuff with a different stage for $80 once every three years? Even the casuals are getting annoyed by it. If you did TR/T2L tour, you heard Psycho/Reapers/The Handler/Mercy/The Globalist and if you got lucky, maybe Apocalypse Please.
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Why not? One of the biggest complaints about that song is that it takes too long to build up to something good. Dead Inside is a vastly better Madness anyways.
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I don't mind the hits when they're not taking up literally every single song on the set outside of whatever latest album they're touring (which consists of many hits as well) After this tour... Madness should be rotated with Dead Inside Resistance should be rotated with Uprising Starlight should be rotated with Mercy Hysteria should be rotated with TiRO (preferably TiRO can fuck off entirely) and SMBH Are fans entitled to hear every single hit they've ever had? Personally, I don't think so. Especially considering the fact that these songs have generally been played every night since they've come out. You can see the problem where Dead Inside/Resistance/UD/Starlight/Mercy/SMBH/Hysteria/TiRO/Plug In Baby/Uprising/Knights of Cydonia are played (this was a common thing in the US). That's 11 songs. That leaves 6 other songs and that's not counting Psycho/Reapers (assuming it wasn't dropped for Revolt)/The Globalist/The Handler... Leaving two song left, which ended up being Revolt and Feeling Good. This is not an isolated incident, swap out FG with USoE/Apocalypse Please and put Map of the Problematique in there replacing Hysteria some nights and you generally have the entirety of the US tour (assuming you weren't one of the unlucky bastards that did the shows slightly before/after Canada where they started playing 16 songs, went up to Canada, immediately jumped up to 17 playing CE/Bliss and when they came back down, the set went back down to 16 again until New York and those songs were dropped until the very last show here in DC where they got CE/Map/AP/Reapers)
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If they're unhappy with the audience they have, the best way to shift things in a different direction is putting the Psycho/Montreux/Zepp stuff on the DVD and start playing the more obscure material regularly.