CarrieB Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I think the OoS stage was absolutely brilliant. I think Tom had been working on it for a while. I remember him tweeting when he was going to start. And he should get loads of credit for his work and anyone working with him. He appeared to use the OoS booklet for inspiration and it worked so well. It does seem a shame that it will only be used for two shows. I wonder whether if, now they have played rarer OoS songs again, they might insert them at times in the next tour and be able to reuse the stage graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee3Dee Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I think the OoS stage was absolutely brilliant. I think Tom had been working on it for a while. I remember him tweeting when he was going to start. And he should get loads of credit for his work and anyone working with him. He appeared to use the OoS booklet for inspiration and it worked so well. It does seem a shame that it will only be used for two shows. I wonder whether if, now they have played rarer OoS songs again, they might insert them at times in the next tour and be able to reuse the stage graphics. They seriously need to start playing Dark Shines next tour. It was crazy beefy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WutDaFucksy Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 All they need is a screen in any shape or form. The OoS stage was the best of the lot for me and the visuals were the best I've seen, New Born had a new dimension added to it by them. Brilliant stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deborafraga Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Amazing stage I still can't believe I was there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearAndPanic Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Hopefully the new visuals with live on with their respective songs assuming that they are played next tour. New Born and Bliss were amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 The visuals were fantastic because they were just a backdrop really, they didn't draw spectators attention away from the music much. Hyper Music and Screenager and Dark Shines were my favourite visuals. Oh and Space Dementia was cool with the Bliss single artwork One of the reasons I think this stage was so good was because the screen took up the whole stage...it didn't look so much like a screen, more like a landscape since it occupied so much of your view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan. Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I hope they continue with this kind of stage design for the next album tour... it looked really impressive but the 'show' aspects didn't take the limelight away from the actual music. The visuals were also by far the best I've ever seen them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tofu Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Agree, the OoS stage is probably my favorite stage from them ever. Looks incredibly impressive without being intrusive either. <3 I remember Matt mentioning something about how for the 6th tour they were thinking of playing with just a screen behind them and a few lights, and it obviously works very well. Here's hoping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LyraSilvertongue Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 The visuals were fantastic because they were just a backdrop really, they didn't draw spectators attention away from the music much. Hyper Music and Screenager and Dark Shines were my favourite visuals. Oh and Space Dementia was cool with the Bliss single artwork One of the reasons I think this stage was so good was because the screen took up the whole stage...it didn't look so much like a screen, more like a landscape since it occupied so much of your view Agree. the visuals were amazing but they only enhanced the music, they didn't detract from it. Best. Gig. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donmorgan Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Agree. the visuals were amazing but they only enhanced the music, they didn't detract from it. Best. Gig. Ever. Second that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren. Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Agree, the OoS stage is probably my favorite stage from them ever. Looks incredibly impressive without being intrusive either. <3 I remember Matt mentioning something about how for the 6th tour they were thinking of playing with just a screen behind them and a few lights, and it obviously works very well. Here's hoping! Ooh I hope so. They needn't worry about an extravagant stage setup like the TR tour, people generally go to concerts for the music, not the lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyper_chondriac_muser Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 I hope they continue with this kind of stage design for the next album tour... it looked really impressive but the 'show' aspects didn't take the limelight away from the actual music. The visuals were also by far the best I've ever seen them! Agree. the visuals were amazing but they only enhanced the music, they didn't detract from it. Best. Gig. Ever. These! It was simple yet powerful, which is what they couldn't quite master for the Resistance tour - it felt a bit OTT at times for that tour. But the stage design for this was just the pitchfork things with amazing visuals that complemented the songs perfectly and enhanced them. They didn't overpower them at all. Just fucking awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levichea Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Agree. the visuals were amazing but they only enhanced the music, they didn't detract from it. Best. Gig. Ever. This! and for all the dark shines lovers, here come the visuals http://vimeo.com/29083643 http://colinfong.net/blog/ Dork Shines So earlier in the year Brooke and I were asked to make live visuals for Muse’s upcoming tour ar Leeds and Reading festival, based on our work for Molecules by Russia It’s Winter. Before taking on this project, we had already made another shadow puppet video, and were thinking of ways to make things technically better this time around. The first time we filmed in a bedroom, with a shower curtain stretched across a painters frame, and between two storage units to prop it up. We used a house lamp to light it, and puppeteering was like a game of twister. For this job we were given a piece of artwork from the album Origin of Symmetry and told to base the video on it. After drafting a rough storyline and 30 second test footage it was approved. After a month of drawing, tracing and cutting robots, friends and myself in weird poses were finally ready to shoot. With the knowledge that we were actually going to be paid this time around, we hired a couple of people to help us puppeteer this time around over three nights in the living room. Brooke and I also bought some Timber from bunnings so we could give our shower curtain screen some legs this time around, so Puppeteering wouldn’t be such a pain. While the end results aren’t as good as Limbo, I’m pretty happy with the results, although if we had time, I would have liked to have given the robots more joints and the mosh bit crowd limbs. At the end of the day we figured most people would be paying attention to the band anyway. And this is our video at Leeds- edited for timing. Although the narrative is gone now, it looks so good up on the big screen that we didn’t really care. I’d also love to give a special shout out to our crew Patrick Gatling & Shannon Howat for helping us make this video, and to Simon and Clare for getting us the job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furygirl Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Hey cool! Thanks for sharing that behind-the-scenes info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dekza Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I hope they keep this kind of simple yet awesome style for the next tour. hope se too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinSM Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 This kind of set-up would be amazing on the next arena tour. The OOS stage is the best they've ever had. It got the balance just right; big and powerfull, but not intrusive and distracting. The stadium tour can have the big, mad stages, I loved the pyramid, but for arenas, something like the R&L stage would be perfect, save the moving towers and stuff for the stadiums. It was like watching a different band at Reading compared to some arena gigs, they looked so energetic and free not having to worry about all the lights and visuals and things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee3Dee Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Lights, lasers and a big fucking screen behind them. It's so simple, yet effective. Focus on the music, not the stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom//P Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 This kind of set-up would be amazing on the next arena tour. The OOS stage is the best they've ever had. It got the balance just right; big and powerfull, but not intrusive and distracting. The stadium tour can have the big, mad stages, I loved the pyramid, but for arenas, something like the R&L stage would be perfect, save the moving towers and stuff for the stadiums. It was like watching a different band at Reading compared to some arena gigs, they looked so energetic and free not having to worry about all the lights and visuals and things. I don't see the problem with the towers; I mean they lowered them for the faster songs (so they could jump around etc etc..), then for the slower songs/piano songs they were raised up so the crowd had a better view of them. What's wrong with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan. Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 I also have a fondness for stages which incorporate the album artwork into the stage setup. Origin of Symmetry pitchforks at Reading, hexagons for TR tour festivals... They've both been very simple stages but both worked really well in my opinion. Considering whenever I listen to OoS, I always look for the artwork say on iTunes, my iPod, the CD etc... So seeing the pitchforks in a massive 3D environment with the music interacting with the pitchfork lights and the booklet artwork does give the impression of it sort of 'coming to life' as Muse themselves described it. At least it's made me look at artwork in a whole new way now, like it's suddenly iconic to me. I know I sound crazy, whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 The forks lighting up to the PiB feedback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furygirl Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Lights, lasers and a big fucking screen behind them. It's so simple, yet effective. Focus on the music, not the stage. So much cheaper and easier too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 I also have a fondness for stages which incorporate the album artwork into the stage setup. Origin of Symmetry pitchforks at Reading, hexagons for TR tour festivals... They've both been very simple stages but both worked really well in my opinion. Considering whenever I listen to OoS, I always look for the artwork say on iTunes, my iPod, the CD etc... So seeing the pitchforks in a massive 3D environment with the music interacting with the pitchfork lights and the booklet artwork does give the impression of it sort of 'coming to life' as Muse themselves described it. At least it's made me look at artwork in a whole new way now, like it's suddenly iconic to me. I know I sound crazy, whatever. There was also the Absolution Tour, where the first half of the show was done in front of nothing more than a curtain of the falling men on the cover. So the Origin stuff indeed did look awesome. I'd love to see them have a go at a much more simplified stage on the next tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Muse Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Does anyone know who actually worked on the visuals? I would love to know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zolic Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Does anyone know who actually worked on the visuals? I would love to know! Some guy named Colin Fong made the visuals for Darkshines. (but Kirky reworked it a bit ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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