Reading Little John's Farm 2006 (gig)

Matthew Bellamy

Line-up poster

Bellamy

Weekend ticket

Dominic Howard

Line-up poster photograph

Muse show
Venue	Little John's Farm[source?] (Carling Weekend—main stage - headline[source?])
Date	26th August 2006
Location	Richfield Avenue, Reading
Country	United Kingdom
Songs	16[source?]
Support	Arctic Monkeys, The Streets, Feeder[source?]
Start (UTC+1)	22:15[source?]
Capacity	80,000[capacity][source?]
Price (GBP)	>60–>135‡[source?]
Sold out?	Yes

Muse headlined the Reading main stage on Saturday. Their allotted time was from 22:00 to 23:30, but they started ~15 minutes late.[source?] Mike Skinner (The Streets) said at the beginning of his performance "hello Glastonbury! We're Muse ... Just kidding".[source?] A second encore was planned between Stockholm Syndrome and Take a Bow, however, as Matthew Bellamy described during the post-gig interview on BBC Radio 1, he couldn't bring himself to leave the stage.[source?].

Bellamy wore a white t-shirt that bore the text "Google Video: Terror Storm". Search for this on Google Video to watch a documentary about how some terrorist acts were inside jobs to set up more authoritarian laws such as imposing ID cards etc. The documentary was made by Alex Jones.

Price details

Duration	Base price (GBP)
1 day	90
weekend with camping	135

Speech

After Hysteria	Bellamy	"Thank you Reading! How's it going?"
Before Showbiz	Howard	"Thank you very much Reading. You're looking good".
	Bellamy	"We'll play a very, very old song now, off our first album".
After Bliss		"Thanks a lot".
After Butterflies & Hurricanes	Howard	"Thank you very much indeed Reading".
After Take a Bow	Bellamy	"Thank you Reading! Thanks very much, cheers".
	Wolstenholme	"Cheers".

Media

The BBC broadcast this show on BBC3 and BBC2. BBC Radio 1's website also broadcast the performance live. On this broadcast, Butterflies & Hurricanes was incorrectly titled as 'Bliss'.

The performance, aside from Stockholm Syndrome which was not broadcast, can be found on the microcuts.net download section. A video of this performance, including interviews, can be found here[registration needed].

Setlist

1. Knights of Cydonia + Space Dementia outro [watch]
   ^{( Manson Chrome Bomber, Rickenbacker 4003)}
2. Hysteria [watch]
   ^{( Manson Chrome Bomber, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
3. Supermassive Black Hole (Kaoss Pad solo) [watch]
   ^{( Manson M1D1 Mirror, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
4. Showbiz [watch]
   ^{( Manson Chrome Bomber, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
5. Map of the Problematique + Maggie's Farm outro [watch]
   ^{( Manson M1D1 Mirror, Rickenbacker 4003)}
6. Forced In (instrumental) [watch]
   ^{( Manson M1D1 Black, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
7. Bliss (extended, octave higher final chorus) [watch]
   ^{( Manson M1D1 Black, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
8. Butterflies & Hurricanes [watch]
   ^{( Manson Mirror, red Fender Jazz Bass, white Kawai)}
9. Feeling Good [watch]
   ^{( White Kawai, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
10. Invincible [watch]
    ^{( Manson M1D1 Black, white Fender Jazz Bass)}
11. Jimmy Jam + Starlight [watch]
    ^{( Manson 007, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
12. Plug In Baby [watch]
    ^{( Manson Mirror, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
13. New Born + Ashamed outro [watch]
    ^{( White Kawai, black Fender Jazz Bass, Manson M1D1 Mirror)}

    Encore

14. Adagio in G minor intro + Time Is Running Out [watch]
    ^{( Manson M1D1 Black, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
15. Riff[which?] + Stockholm Syndrome + riffs[which?]
    ^{( Manson M1D1 Mirror, black Fender Jazz Bass)}
16. Take a Bow [watch]
    ^{( Manson M1D1 Black, red Fender Jazz Bass)}

See also

• Little John's Farm, Reading
• Gallery

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