Fortunately, the show itself was excellent – perhaps the best visual spectacle I’ve seen. Muse’s spacey paranoia and lack of annotation may limit how much I can connect with their songs, but as a concert, it was top notch.
Here’s a bulleted rundown of the night:
--- All ten tickets BOUGHT. Giant sigh of relief.
--- Whoa, Ed Walinsky and Tyler Branscome are here! Tom Swindell and Aren Sharp too! Who will show up next? Apparently, on stage, Elliot, from Elliot in the Morning.
--- “Psycho”: a light romantic ballad to start... Awesome floating bubble drones. Hark: “I like the visuals.” I like that the words weren't fully audible, so there were fewer poisoned young ears! ;)
--- “Dead Inside”: nice change of pace.
--- “Hysteria”!!! It's not even one of my favorite songs, and I'm flipping out. Such pent-up anxiety after Givers. Time to just kick back and enjoy it; this will deliver!
--- “Map of the Problematique.” Less good, still good.
--- Um, I can't tell what the song was, but I can tell it was not good.
--- “Isolated System.” Meh.
--- “The Handler.” The giant, manipulatable puppet was cool.
--- “Supermassive Black Hole”!!! I cannot sit. I am propelled up. Sickkk hook.
--- “Starlight”!! Exploding concrete balls! Love how the kids look on in suspense to see when they'll burst.
--- “Apocalypse Please.” More like this, please.
--- Some unknown amazing instrumental!! Aww at TK's head bob.
--- “Madness.” Lies. Sounds far too sane. Picks up a bit by the end though -- soaring vocal -- nice. Cool U2 360 vibe. Totally brought me around.
--- “Resistance.” Also strong -- well sequenced.
--- “Reapers” is decent. Lackluster verses, cool beats.
--- “Time is Running Out”!! Lol, now JS is full head banging as well.
--- “Uprising”! The vocals are oddly a little hard to hear. Hark serves as a backup singer. He is not hard to hear. Hark is never hard to hear.
--- Silly that they haven't talked to the crowd once yet. Really would move it to the next level.
--- “The Globalist.” Awesome whistle intro. So pure and cool. I think it sounds like an intro to The Hateful Eight; Hark thinks it sounds like Titanic. Our marriage...
--- Four minutes of Matt Bellamy's sleep-inducing drones... The literal space shuttle that flies around stage redeems it. As do the two minutes of red blasts that follow. Gah, four more minutes of soporific drones. Hark: “Beautiful.” Whoa, unexpected.
--- Equally unexpected? Finding out that this is the last show of the North American tour. Glad they made it to us.
--- “Mercy.” Love that they put this on the tour setlist after the bombing in Paris. Confetti!
Grade: A
Yessssssss. So good. I'm doing the pit next time. ~ Tom
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