London Shepherds Bush Empire 2017 (gig)
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| Venue | Shepherds Bush Empire[1] |
| Date | 19th August 2017[1] |
| Location | London[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Sold out? | Yes |
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| Osheaga Festival | ← | Shepherds Bush Empire | → | Belfast Vital |
A benefit show, happening outside of the North American Summer Amphitheatre Tour.
Information
Confirmed by the band on Annie Mac's show on BBC Radio 1 on July 3rd, 2017, Muse will be doing an intimate at Shepherds Bush Empire. The show is in aid of The Passage, London’s largest voluntary sector resource centre for homeless and vulnerable people. The last time Muse played on this venue was in 2013.
The show is by request, ticket holders will be able to choose their top ten tracks and all votes submitted will be collated and used to make the setlist for the night.
Presale for fan club will be available on July 5th at 9am and general sale on July 7th also at 9am.
Voting
Since the show is by request, ticket holders are able to vote for what songs will be on the setlist. Since the announcements, multple Reddit threads and Facebook groups were made to help choose which songs. A well-informed and constructed thread was made on Reddit about how to vote carefully for rare songs.
On July 11th, 2017, ticket holders received emails about the gig and its vote. Each ticket holder received a link to Set the Set, a website where you can vote for songs for the setlist, and a unique code to validate your choices. You could vote for songs in a pre-determined list of 62 songs on the website, at first. Some songs were surprisingly omitted from this list, like Uno, Blackout or Apocalypse Please, who were played recently in 2015-2016. This was fixed the next day on July 12th. Some songs that were never played live or haven't been played for more than 10 years, are on this list, like Invincible, Showbiz, Do We Need This, Nature_1, Map of Your Head, Easily, Glorious or Eternally Missed.
After fixing and adding the missing songs, the list has 83 songs up for voting,
Song Choices
Bold are songs that were never played live. Italic are songs that haven't been played since 2012. Both bold and italic are songs that haven't been played since 2006.
- Uprising
- Psycho
- Supermassive Black Hole
- Starlight
- Feeling Good
- Madness
- Knights Of Cydonia
- Hysteria
- Time Is Running Out
- Dead Inside
- Mercy
- Plug In Baby
- Dig Down
- New Kind of Kick
- Undisclosed Desires
- Reapers
- Panic Station
- Supremacy
- The Handler
- Resistance
- Stockholm Syndrome
- New Born
- Map Of The Problematique
- Defector
- Survival
- Revolt
- Follow Me
- Bliss
- Butterflies and Hurricanes
- Muscle Museum
- Aftermath
- Animals
- Assassin
- Invincible
- Sing For Absolution
- The 2nd Law: Isolated System
- Citizen Erased
- Unintended
- The Globalist
- Sunburn
- Unnatural Selection
- Take a Bow
- Guiding Light
- The 2nd Law: Unsustainable
- United States Of Eurasia
- Exo-Politics
- Hyper Music
- Sign O' The Times
- Fury
- The Groove
- Easily
- Eternally Missed
- Micro Cuts
- Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)
- Map Of Your Head
- Nature_1
- Yes Please
- Agitated
- Showbiz
- Futurism
- Dead Star
- Do We Need This?
- Falling Down
- Space Dementia
- Cave
- Apocalypse Please
- Screenager
- Falling Away With You
- Uno
- Darkshines
- Megalomania
- The Small Print
- Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
- Soldier's Poem
- Ruled By Secrecy
- City Of Delusion
- Blackout
- Glorious
- Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)
- Save Me
- Endlessly
- Liquid State
- Forced In
Stats
Bold are songs that were never played live. Italic are songs that haven't been played since 2012. Both bold and italic are songs that haven't been played since 2006.
| Album | # of songs | Songs available | Songs excluded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Showbiz | 7 | Sunburn, Muscle Museum, Falling Down, Cave, Showbiz, Unintended and Uno | Fillip, Sober, Escape, Overdue, Hate This & I'll Love You and Spiral Static |
| B-sides from Showbiz | 4 | Agitated, Yes Please, Do We Need This? and Forced In | Jimmy Kane, Pink Ego Box, Twin, Host, Coma, Con-Science, Minimum, Ashamed, Recess and Nishe |
| Origin of Symmetry | 12 | New Born, Bliss, Space Dementia, Hyper Music, Plug in Baby, Citizen Erased, Micro Cuts, Screenager, Darkshines, Feeling Good, Futurism and Megalomania | -- |
| B-sides from Origin of Symmetry | 2 | Nature_1 and Map of Your Head | Execution Commentary, Bedroom Acoustics, Shrinking Universe, Piano Thing, The Gallery, Hyper Chondriac Music, Shine and Please Please Please, Let Me Get What I Want |
| Hullabaloo | 1 | Dead Star | In Your World and Can't Take My Eyes Off You |
| Absolution | 13 | Apocalypse Please, Time Is Running Out, Sing for Absolution, Stockholm Syndrome, Falling Away With You, Interlude + Hysteria, Blackout, Butterflies & Hurricanes, Fury, The Small Print, Endlessly, Thoughts of a Dying Atheist and Ruled by Secrecy | -- |
| B-sides from Absolution | 2 | The Groove and Eternally Missed | -- |
| Black Holes and Revelations | 11 | Take a Bow, Starlight, Supermassive Black Hole, Map of the Problematique, Soldier's Poem, Invincible, Assassin, Exo-Politics, City of Delusion, Knights of Cydonia and Glorious | Hoodoo |
| B-sides from Black Holes and Revelations | 1 | Easily | Crying Shame |
| The Resistance | 7 | Uprising, Resistance, Undisclosed Desires, United States of Eurasia, Guiding Light, Unnatural Selection and Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture) | MK Ultra, I Belong to You, Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination) and Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption) |
| B-sides from The Resistance | 0 | -- | Who Knows Who, Popcorn, Prague |
| The 2nd Law | 10 | Supremacy, Madness, Panic Station, Survival, Follow Me, Animals, Save Me, Liquid State, Unsustainable and Isolated System | Prelude, Explorers, Big Freeze |
| Drones | 9 | Dead Inside, Drill Sergeant + Psycho, Mercy, Reapers, The Handler, JFK + Defector, Revolt, Aftermath, The Globalist | -- |
| Other songs | 4 | Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever), Sign o' the Times, New Kind of Kick, Dig Down | Man of Mystery, America, Back in Black, Lithium, Lies |
Practice Session
Aug 18, 2017- Muse posted pictures and video of their practice sessions for SBE. Included in one of the images was a blurry setlist. The Italian Musers Do It Better Facebook Page group used Photoshop on the list to come up with some of the songs they believe will be played. Tomorrow will tell how accurate they were.
Muscle Museum
Easily
Butterflies
Glorious
Dead Star
Showbiz (Half Step Down)
Futurism (Half Step Down)
Fury (Half Step Down)
Interlude Hysteria
Song information
- Easily was played for the first time ever. Matt commented that he loved the track, and said that it only missed being on Black Holes & Revelations due to being written too late.
- Glorious was played for the first time since 2005. Dom introduced the track by saying he's been trying to get Matt to play it "for 7 years".
- Showbiz was played for the first time since 2006. Matt stated that the track won the voting "by a mile" and that it "might be back", implying it could be played at later shows.
- Sing for Absolution was played for the first time since 2007. Matt said that he was surprised that the song was in the top 10.
- Assassin opened a show for the first time since 2007.
- Yes Please was an abbreviated version - first verse and chorus only.
- Muscle Museum, Showbiz, Fury, and Futurism were all played half a step down.
- New Born was played for the first time in 2 years, and was notably faster than usual.
- No songs were played that were released after 2006.
Setlist
- Assassin (Grand Omega Bosses outro)
- Dead Star
- Muscle Museum
- Easily
- Glorious
- Glastonbury riff + Butterflies & Hurricanes
- Citizen Erased
- Munich Jam
- Showbiz + Ashamed outro
- Fury
- Interlude + Hysteria + Back in Black outro
- New Born + Micro Cuts outro + Agitated intro + Agitated outro
- Yes Please + Reapers outro + Freedom outro
Encore 1
- Sing for Absolution
- Plug in Baby
Encore 2
- Too Many Puppies riff + Futurism
- Man With a Harmonica + Knights of Cydonia
Voting Results
On Sunday, Aug 20, 2017, Matt tweeted out the results of the voting:
| Number | Song | # of Votes | % of Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Showbiz | 683 | 47.1 |
| 2 | Muscle Museum | 629 | 43.38 |
| 3 | Assassin | 437 | 30.14 |
| 4 | Fury | 433 | 29.86 |
| 5 | Dead Star | 413 | 28.48 |
| 6 | Citizen Erased | 400 | 27.59 |
| 7 | Easily | 391 | 26.97 |
| 8 | Sing for Absolution | 373 | 25.72 |
| 9 | Glorious | 357 | 24.62 |
| 10 | Butterflies & Hurricanes | 356 | 24.55 |
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