Weeze Flughafen Niederrhein 2000 (gig)

Festival poster

Bellamy and Wolstenholme

Muse backstage

Letter written by Muse

Low-resolution setlist picture

Muse show
Venue	Flughafen Niederrhein (en: Weeze Airport) (Bizarre Festival)
Date	18th August 2000
Location	Weeze, NW
Country	Germany
Songs	9
Support	Coldplay
Supported	Ween
Start	15:50
Capacity	28.000
Price	Unknown
Sold out?	Unknown

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Information

This is one of Muse’s more well known performances from their early days. Matt was very hyper during this gig. The performance featured several crazy screams and antics throughout.

Foo Fighters, Limp Bizkit, Beck, Blink-182, Placebo, and Coldplay were also present at the festival. Chris Martin (Coldplay’s frontman) can be seen congratulating Muse as they come off stage after finishing their set. This era is remembered fondly by older fans of both Muse and Coldplay, since the two bands supported each other frequently in their early days.

The Show

This gig marked the debut of Bliss. According to Bellamy, the intro of Bliss, played on the keyboard, sounded like the sound from an old Game Boy game. Bliss was known on the setlist as "New New 1".

Unintended was on the setlist but was not played. There were guitar problems in the middle of Fillip, which Bellamy quickly avoided by making abnormal noises into the microphone.

Plug In Baby featured a much faster intro. Bellamy finished off the performance by throwing the microphone and jumping into the drum set.

Speech

After Yes Please	"Thank you."
After Sunburn	"Thank you."
Before Muscle Museum	"Der nächste Song ist Muscle Museum (The next song is Muscle Museum)."
After Muscle Museum	"Cheers."
During into of Bliss	[laughs] "Dunno what I'm looking for."
After Bliss	"Ha ha ha. Yeah, we've never played that ever before."
Before New Born	"This is another new one. A bit more keyboard."
After New Born	"Cheers."
After Cave	"Cheers."
After Fillip	"Cheers."
Before Plug In Baby	"This is another new song. This song is called Plug In Baby."
After Plug In Baby	"Thanks."
Before Agitated	"Thank you very much. We're called Muse, this is our last song, this is called Agitated."

Media

The whole performance was broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk. This full gig is available here. MuseBootlegs also has two audio options available here in a "lossy sourced" compilation from various sources, and a "remaster" attempt found here - although neither source had available seeds when last checked.

You can also watch the entire gig here or song by song below.

Setlist

1. Yes Please (watch)
   ^{(Gibson Les Paul DC Lite, Tobacco Sunburst Pedulla Bass)}
2. Pre-Sunburn Riff + Sunburn (guitar) (watch)
   ^{(Gibson Les Paul DC Lite, Tobacco Sunburst Pedulla Bass)}
3. Muscle Museum (watch)
   ^{(Gibson Les Paul DC Lite, Green Pedulla Bass)}
4. Bliss (keyboard) (watch)
   ^{(Roland Juno 60, Green Pedulla Bass)}
5. New Born (watch)
   ^{(Roland Juno 60, Gibson Les Paul DC Lite, Tobacoo Sunburst Pedulla Bass)}
6. Cave (watch)
   ^{(SG/Les Paul with Deluxe Lyre Vibrola, Green Pedulla Bass)}
7. Fillip (watch)
   ^{(SG/Les Paul with Deluxe Lyre Vibrola, Green Pedulla Bass)}
8. Blues Jam + Plug In Baby (watch)
   ^{(Gibson Les Paul DC Lite, Green Pedulla Bass)}
9. Agitated (watch)
   ^{(Gibson Les Paul DC Lite, Tobacco Sunburst Pedulla Bass)}

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See also

• Flughafen Niederrhein, Weeze

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