Muse...

[Khrz]

Well, since Muse seems to have left the Radiohead channel to cruise the Queen one instead, at least NIN and Muse will be able to cover "Get Down Make Love" together !

[JessicaSarahS]

I had no idea about this either. NIN and Muse co-headling tour? MAKE IT HAPPEN ALLESANDRO!

I think I'd die from the awesomeness. :P

NIN and Muse used in trailers for Arkham Knight too. BRB... dying.

[slave2thewage]

First batch of tour dates for the European arena tour next year have just been announced:

5 April | Dublin, Ireland | 3Arena Dublin
8 April | Manchester, England | Manchester Arena
11 April | London, England | The O2
12 April | London, England | The O2
17 April | Glasgow, Scotland | SSE Hydro
2 May | Lisbon, Portugal | MEO Arena
5 May | Madrid, Spain | Barclaycard Center
14 May | Milan, Italy | Mediolarum Forum
15 May | Milan, Italy | Mediolarum Forum
4 June | Prague, Czech Republic | O2 Arena

Dublin is the only definite for me, might try and squeeze in Glasgow as well.

[redwingsrock]

Looks like a nice gap in their schedule between now and then.... NA tour please?!!

I read that it is going to be in the round though....Might not be worth general admission. Glad I got to see them at Webster Hall earlier this year.

[bobbie solo]

Finally saw Muse live Friday night at the Prudential Center in Newark. Other than the song Madness, I have pretty much hated their last two albums. So i was excited when Drones showed a return to some heavier guitar work and songs with some balls. And while Bellamy goes a bit overboard with the conspiracy theories, I did like the overall message of the album too. With that, I told myself I would finally catch them live.

Couldn't find anyone to go with me for $75 (saved $30 by grabbing a solo ticket at the box office a few weeks back) & none of my regular hook-ups could get me a free ticket. So I went solo and had perfect seats. I was in the 5th row off the floor a little off-center, which was almost perfect for this 360, in the round tour. Here's the setlist:

Drones [pre-recorded]
Psycho
Dead Inside
Interlude
Hysteria (Led Zeppelin's 'Heartbreaker' outro)
Map of the Problematique ('Who Knows Who' riff )
The 2nd Law: Isolated System
The Handler
Supermassive Black Hole ('Voodoo Child' intro)
Prelude
Starlight
United States of Eurasia
Munich Jam
Madness
Resistance
Reapers
Time Is Running Out
Uprising
The Globalist
Drones [pre-recorded]
Encore:
Mercy
Knights of Cydonia

Show was excellent. Bellamy's voice was impeccable. Band was tight. Really impressive watching Bellamy riff & solo all night, while singing, and then occasionally sit down on the piano too. helluva musician. I read complaints that the old songs played were the same old, same old...but for me it was great b/c I've seen them.

Upper bowl of the arena was closes off similar to the Seton Hall game I attend there. Has that been the case the rest of this tour?

They have a large online/fan club/ETS-esque group of fans that got to the venue early and got rail spots. They all had signs, were rocking out and clearly knew each other. Cool to see. Makes sense b/c Muse is a huge band, I just never gave it much though before.

Visuals & stunts were over the top as you'd expect. Their theatrics are 2nd to none. I won't spoil them, but they've gone full Pink Floyd in parts & alot of the lighting and video were ripping off LITS/Tension/Moment Factory in general NIN imo (but who doesn't nowadays really?). They were great though.

Highlight of the show for me was Knights. Been wanting to see that song live forever.

[slave2thewage]

Well, Moment Factory designed the visuals for the show and the band have acknowledged the influence of NIN on the tour, so...

[bobbie solo]

ah. Well there ya go. I didn't know that.

[Failure]

Drones [pre-recorded]
Psycho
Dead Inside
Interlude
Hysteria (Led Zeppelin's 'Heartbreaker' outro)
Map of the Problematique ('Who Knows Who' riff )
The 2nd Law: Isolated System
The Handler
Supermassive Black Hole ('Voodoo Child' intro)
Prelude
Starlight
United States of Eurasia
Munich Jam
Madness
Resistance
Reapers
Time Is Running Out
Uprising
The Globalist
Drones [pre-recorded]
Encore:
Mercy
Knights of Cydonia
.

Wow! Not a single song off Origin Of Symmetry. That is sad.

[slave2thewage]

Wow! Not a single song off Origin Of Symmetry. That is sad.

Citizen Erased, Feeling Good, Plug In Baby and Bliss have popped up in the US so far. This just seems to be a 'meh' setlist night.

Europe is apparently getting the debut of Aftermath. People I know in the fandom heard it being soundchecked and the tour managed reported that it was rehearsing it for the European shows, so hopefully the setlist will get an overhaul for here. I think they're concentrating more on non-US markets this era, since there was lots of bitching about them focusing on the US for the last two albums.

[halo eighteen]

https://muse-cdn.warnerartists.com/u...6_original.jpg

This is sure to cause some controversy hah.

[GibbonBlack]

Although it's nothing new I really like Dig Down

[Haysey_Draws]

Dig Down sounds very much like Muse

I'm not blown away by it but i think it'll grow on me.

[Alexandros]

Dig dowwwwn. Dig dowwwwn. Dig dowwwwwn. You've gotta give for what you taaaake!

[fillow]

Ugh. This song is a carbon copy of Madness. Where are the god damn guitars, Matt? Stop wasting your talent on this wobwobbing.

[miss k bee]

Well for Dig Down I like the video but the music itself is nothing new.

[ryanmcfly]

The song is enjoyable, but I can't help but hear Dick Down instead of Dig Down.

[GibbonBlack]

I can't help but hear Dick Down instead of Dig Down.

awww man this song just got loads better for me

[slave2thewage]

Matt said Dig Down was written in an hour and the production/mixing of the song took five days.

It shows.

[eversonpoe]

The song is enjoyable, but I can't help but hear Dick Down instead of Dig Down.

awww man this song just got loads better for me

...loads better, eh?

[GibbonBlack]

...loads better, eh?

Wink wink.


I will say that even though I do love this song. Every complaint I've heard about it is fully justified.

[halo eighteen]

"Fan Request" show in London last night... maybe this band will finally wake up, but I doubt it.

8-19-2017 - London, UK - O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses version)
Dead Star
Muscle Museum
Easily
Glorious
Butterflies & Hurricanes
Citizen Erased
Munich Jam
Showbiz (+Ashamed riff outro)
Fury
Interlude/Hysteria (+AC/DC Back in Black riff outro)
New Born (+Micro Cuts/Agitated riffs)
Yes Please (shortened version +Reapers/RATM Freedom riffs)
----
Sing for Absolution
Plug In Baby (+GNR Sweet Child O Mine riff outro)
----
Futurism (Primus Too Many Puppies intro)
Knights of Cydonia (Man with a Harmonica intro)

[bobbie solo]

Wow. Thats great. Lucky fans to see some of those gems from this band in 2017. That being said, I liked the last album Drones almost the whole way through. It was an actual rock album with some balls (for them, of course). Here was my setlist from the one time I've ever seen them:

1. Drones
2. Psycho
3. Dead Inside
4. Interlude
5. Hysteria
   (Led Zeppelin's 'Heartbreaker'… more )
6. Map of the Problematique
   ('Who Knows Who' riff + Rage… more )
7. The 2nd Law: Isolated System
   (Shortened)
8. The Handler
9. Supermassive Black Hole
   (The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 'Voodoo Child' intro)
10. Prelude
11. Starlight
12. United States of Eurasia
13. Munich Jam
14. Madness
15. Resistance
16. [JFK]
17. Reapers
18. Time Is Running Out
    (Status Quo's 'Burning Bridges' intro)
19. Uprising
20. The Globalist
21. Drones(Reprise)
22. Mercy
23. Knights of Cydonia
    (Ennio Morricone's 'Man With a Harmonica' intro)

[slave2thewage]

Seeing them on Wednesday in Belfast. Hoping that they'd keep some of the rarities (namely Glorious and Showbiz), but I'm not holding my breath.

[neorev]

Muse drop in some trap beats and 80s nostalgia visuals...

[thelastdisciple]

Another blase Muse song.

Cool video though, the music would have been much more interesting if it was more along the lines of synthwave.

[BrokenSpiral]

Another underwhelming one. Unfortunate that Matt described the song as, “Rocking, heavy”. If that’s his definition of rocking and heavy, we are probably in store for more of this.


Agree that some 80’s vibe synthwave would’ve been cool.

[halo eighteen]

I think it's way better than Dig Down, but what's up with him using the lyric "brace for the final solution" ?

erm.. Oh, Matt.

[Krazy]

That sounds like it should be a Manson song.

[Haysey_Draws]

I think it's alright. Not exactly blown away, but not disappointing.

[GibbonBlack]

I don't want to be a nay sayer but that sucked

The way Matt was singing reminded me of Corey Feldman on the today show. And using the millennial whoop is lame.


(Full disclosure, I've only been up 10 minutes and that usually skews my opinion on things)