Sydney Sydney Showground Stadium 2010 - 22nd (gig)

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Big Day Out 2010 poster
Rehearsal with Nic Cester
Muse show
Venue Sydney Showground Stadium (Big Day Out[1]—Blue Stage[1])
Date 22nd January 2010[1]
Location Sydney, NS[1]
Country Australia
Songs 16
Support The Mars Volta et al.[1]
Start (UTC+10) 21:10[1], 11:00 (doors)
Capacity 23.500
Price (AUD) 140.00
Sold out? Yes




Part of the Australasian leg of The Resistance Tour.

Information

Muse headlined Big Day Out 2010 in Australia, including their first of two Sydney shows, on the 22nd of January. Tickets went on sale 7th October, 2009, at midnight through the official website, and at 9AM through other ticket outlets.[2]

The show

At the start of the encore, Nic Cester from the band Jet came on stage. He and Muse performed a cover of AC/DC's Back in Black, with Bellamy playing lead guitar, Morgan playing rhythm guitar and Chris playing bass. This happened again on January 23rd show. This weren't Muse's only full performances of the song; In 2017, the band were joined by Brian Johnson himself, performing the song at Reading Festival.

Schedule

  • 21:10–22:30 – Muse
  • 19:00–20:00 – The Mars Volta
  • 17:00–18:00 – Dizzee Rascal
  • 15:20–16:10 – Eskimo Joe
  • 13:45–14:30 – Mastodon
  • 12:15–13:00 – Bluejuice[1]

Speech

During Unnatural Selection Bellamy "Get these people some fucking water!"[3]
Before Back in Black Howard "We're gonna do a cover song now, from our favourite Australian band, who have never played at this festival incidentally...and to help us do that, we're gonna invite a special guest on stage, Mr. Nic Cester. Give him a big hand, come on".[4]
After Back in Black Bellamy "Cheers".[5]

Media

An interview from this gig is available here.

The show was filmed for TV. Pro-shots of Undisclosed Desires, United States of Eurasia and Starlight can be seen here. Pro-shot of Back in Black can be seen here or via the link in the setlist below.

Setlist

References

  1. a b c d e f g (2010-01-05). [Schedule document]. Big Day Out website. Retrieved 2010-01-22 from www.bigdayout.com.
  2. Big Day Out newsletter (2009-10-02). Big Day Out website. Retrieved 2009-12-08 from www.bigdayout.com.
  3. Vicky 'celebratetheirony'. (2010-01-23). Muse - Unnatural Selection (Sydney BDO). YouTube. Retrieved 2010-01-26 from www.youtube.com.
  4. fillywinkle1. (2010-01-22). Muse (feat. Nic Cester) - Back In Black (live sydney BDO). YouTube. Retrieved 2010-01-22 from www.youtube.com.
  5. Vicky 'celebratetheirony'. (2010-01-24). Muse (Feat. Nic Cester) - Back In Black (Sydney BDO). YouTube. Retrieved 2010-01-26 from www.youtube.com.

See also


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