Pilton Worthy Farm 2016 (gig)

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Confetti and streamers during Mercy

Matt at Glastonbury 2016

Setlist

Muse show
Venue	Worthy Farm (Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts—Pyramid stage)
Date	24th June 2016
Location	Pilton
Country	United Kingdom
Songs	19
Support	Foals et al.
Start (GMT)	22:15
Capacity	90,000
Price
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First gig of the Drones Festivals Tour 2016

Information

After another 6 years, Muse were headlining the Glastonbury Festival once again. The gig has been hinted by the band on their Facebook profile when they released this video. It was finally confirmed in March of 2016 that Muse will be headlining Glastonbury 2016, together with Coldplay and Adele.

The Show

The Globalist was played at a festival for the first time, and was also televised for the first time.

Back In Black was supposed to be performed with Brian Johnson at this gig (the band had previously hinted at a special guest joining them at some point during the gig in an interview shown before it was televised) but the song was scribbled off of the setlist and was consequently not played. The collaboration ultimately came to life during Muse's Reading Festival performance in 2017. The reasons of this cancellation/postponement remained unknown until Brian Johnson released an autobiography named The Lives of Brian in 2022 in which he explained in detail what happened:

Four months after leaving the AC/DC tour, I flew back to Britain to see my family and some friends – but no sooner had I arrived in Newcastle with my wife Brenda than the phone rang.‘Hello Brian, it’s Peter Mensch. I’m managing Muse now.’It was great to hear Peter’s voice after so many years. I told him I thought Muse were a really solid band.‘Well, they’ll be glad to hear that... because they’d love you to sing “Back in Black” with them.’‘What? Really? When?’‘Tomorrow. At Glastonbury.’ Now, by this point my hearing had got a lot better, but I hadn’t performed on stage since the AD/DC show in Kansas before I flew home for Brendan Healy’s funeral. I looked over at my wife, Brenda, who’d overheard the conversation, and she gave me a ‘just do it’ look.

Next thing I knew, I was with the boys from Muse, running through the song behind a curtain at one of the backstage areas of the festival. But it was loud enough for people to overhear, and the second I walked out, there was a mob of promoters – a guy from Germany, in particular – all wanting to know what I was doing there. That was when I realized it would probably be a good idea to let AC/DC know what I was doing. So, I phoned George Fearon in New York, and he asked me if I could give him twenty minutes to talk to the band’s lawyers to see if there’d be any legal issues. And, of course, this being the music business... there were legal issues. Lots and lots – and lots – of legal issues. I couldn’t do it. I had to back out. I felt terrible, especially after Peter and Muse had gone out of their way to ask me to sing. ‘Well, how about Reading next year?’ asked Peter. ‘We’ll sort out all the legal stuff by then.’‘If you remember . . . I’ll do it,’ I told him. He did remember. And although I was nervous before I went on, it was wonderful – and when we had finished Matt Bellamy came over and gave me a great hug on stage. That’s when it all came flooding back. The excitement. The fun. The noise. There’s nothing like playing live rock’n’roll, and I got my life back – it just flew out there over all these kids in the audience, college-age kids who’d been singing along, because somehow they knew every word. My daughters were crying. My wife was crying. ‘I wish all my sets were this short,’ I told Matt, laughing with relief. It was only one song but after two years of silence, it felt like a victory.

The set contained the last performance of Reapers in full to date, as well as the last performance of JFK until 2023.

This gig saw the debut of the Manson Stealth Bomber and the final time the Manson DR-1 #00 was used (subsequent gigs used the DR-1 #03).

Set Times

• 11:00AM - The Orchestra of Syrian Music with Damon Albarn & Guests

• 12:30PM - Rokia Traoré

• 1:45PM - Skepta

• 3:00PM - Two Door Cinema Club

• 4:30PM - Jess Glynne

• 6:15PM - ZZ Top

• 9:15PM - Foals

• 10:15PM - Muse

Speech

After Psycho	Bellamy	"Thank you Glastonbury! Let's do this!"
After Plug In Baby		"Thank you."
After Supermassive Black Hole		"Thank you Glastonbury!"
During Starlight		"Come on Glastonbury."
After Munich Jam		"Yes! That's the rhythm section. Lets hear it for Dominic Howard on the drums, and Chris Wolstenholholholme on the bass."
After Madness		"Thank you Glastonbury!"
After Time Is Running Out		"Cheers!"
Before Mercy		"Put your hands in the air!"
After Mercy		"Yes! How you guys doing?"
After Knights of Cydonia		"Thank you Glastonbury, we love you so much! This is us coming here for the third time, have a great weekend!"
	Howard	"Thank you Glastonbury, you guys are fucking amazing, its so great to be back, thank you we love you! Have a great weekend, cheers, take care, see you."

Media

The show was televised and can be partially seen here. Mercy can be seen here, while Plug In Baby and Knights of Cydonia are the only missing proshots.

Setlist

1. [Drill Sergeant] + Psycho
   ^{(Manson DR-1, woven chrome finish tricolor-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
2. Reapers
   ^{(Manson DR-1, woven chrome finish tricolor-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
3. Plug In Baby (extended)
   ^{(Manson Mirror, aqua blue finish white-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
4. Dead Inside
   ^{(Manson Matt Black Stealth, aqua blue finish white-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
5. Map of the Problematique + Who Knows Who riff + Maggie's Farm riff
   ^{(Manson Matt Black Stealth, woven chrome finish tricolor-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
6. Isolated System (shortened)
7. The Handler
   ^{(Manson Matt Black Stealth, woven chrome finish tricolor-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
8. Supermassive Black Hole
   ^{(Manson M1D1 Stealth, aqua blue finish white-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
9. Starlight
   ^{(graphite finish red-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
10. Munich Jam (fast ending)
    ^{(aqua blue finish white-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
11. Madness
    ^{(Manson Matt Black Stealth, Status Kitara Doubleneck Bass)}
12. [JFK] + Interlude + Hysteria + Heartbreaker riff + Back in Black outro
    ^{(Manson Stealth Bomber, aqua blue finish white-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
13. Time is Running Out
    ^{(Manson Matt Black Stealth, aqua blue finish white-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
14. Stockholm Syndrome + Township Rebellion riff + Execution Commentary riff + Endless Nameless riff
    ^{(Manson Matt Black 2.0, woven chrome finish tricolor-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
15. The Globalist
    ^{(Fender Aluminum Stratocaster, Status Graphite Slipstream, woven chrome finish tricolor-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
16. Drones

    Encore

17. Uprising (extended)
    ^{(Manson Matt Black Stealth, graphite finish blue-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
18. Mercy [watch]
    ^{(Manson Matt Black Stealth, woven chrome finish tricolor-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}
19. Man With a Harmonica + Knights of Cydonia
    ^{(Manson Stealth Bomber, woven chrome finish tricolor-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}

See also

• Worthy Farm, Pilton

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