Melbourne ABC Studios 2000 (gig)

Muse show
Venue	ABC Studios[source?] (triple j Live at the Wireless[source?])
Date	7th March 2000[source?]
Location	Melbourne, VI[source?]
Country	Australia
Songs	8[source?]
Support	-[source?]
Start (UTC+11)	Unknown
Capacity	Unknown
Price	Free[source?]
Sold out?	-[source?]

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First Muse performance in Australia.

The first of two performances recorded for triple j Live at the Wireless programme. Muse also performed two songs - including Muscle Museum - on the television programme "The 10:30 Slot" around this time.

Speech

Bellamy	Before Uno	"Hello, this is Muse".
	Before Sunburn	"This next song is called Sunburn".
	After Sunburn	"Yeah, right, it's uh, Muse, you know, we're on the radio, we're live at the wireless on triple j, urm, here we go"
	After Agitated	"Yes yes, it's all true. All the rumours, are true".
	Before Cave	"This next song, is called Cave. It's about an old friend of mine, he's not a friend any more, oh ..."
	Before Muscle Museum	"This song is called um, it's called Muscle Museum"
	Before Showbiz	"It's our last song, Showbiz. Remember the Tongs?"
	End of Ashamed	[Distorted vocals, similar to those of Execution Commentary, some Hyper Music lyrics]
	After Ashamed	"Thank you very much, thank you very much, good evening, good bye".

Media

The performance was broadcast via radio. This performance is notoriously wild in the sense that the band, in a similar fashion to the famous London Astoria 2000 performance just over a month before. The recording was made into a bootleg, which was uploaded online in lossless (FLAC) format. This recording can be heard on MuseBootlegs here as well as below.

Setlist

1. Riff + Uno [listen]
2. Sunburn (guitar) [listen]
3. Early Hyper Music riff + Agitated [listen]
4. Falling Down [listen]
5. Cave [listen]
6. Muscle Museum [listen]
7. Fillip [listen]
8. Showbiz + Ashamed outro [listen]

See also

• ABC Studio, Melbourne

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