Los Angeles Staples Center 2010 - 26th (gig)
| Muse show | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Staples Center[1][2][3] |
| Date | 26th September 2010[1][2][3] |
| Location | Los Angeles, CA[1][2][3] |
| Country | USA |
| Songs | 18[source?] |
| Support | Passion Pit[3] |
| Start (UTC−8) | 19:30[2][3] |
| Capacity | Unknown |
| Price (USD) | ≤47.80–79.35†[2][3] |
| Sold out? | No[2] |
| Gig nav | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staples Center – 25th | ← | Staples Center – 26th | → | Arco Arena |
Information
Muse performed inside Staples Center in September 2010,[1][2] this being the second of two consecutive nights.[1] There were three ticket pre-sales.[1] The first took place through Concertmaps on the 13th of July from 10:00,[1] the second through Livenation on the 15th from 10:00[1] to 22:00[2] and the third through KROQ on the 16th from 10:00[1] to 22:00.[2] General sale started through Ticketmaster on the 17th at 10:00.[1][2][3] and through the Staples Center ticket office on the 26th.[3] There was a limit of 8 tickets per household.[2]
The Show
The gig experienced some notable malfunctions, predominately with the towers. Christopher Wolstenholme's curtain failed to drop at the start of Uprising, thus meaning multiple stage techs had to come onto the stage to get the curtain down manually. Meanwhile, Matthew Bellamy's curtain got caught on his guitar rack - when the stage tech's came and pulled the curtain down off the tower, they inadvertently pulled the guitar rack down along with it. The resulting fall caused the Manson Red Glitter to be become permanently damaged, rendering it unusable. This meant that the towers came down by the end of the song so that Bellamy could get the Doubleneck (which had also fell from his tower but was still usable) for the next song. As a result, both Resistance and New Born were played on the floor. The towers functioned normally again by the time the piano section arrived however.
The outro riffs to Stockholm Syndrome lasted over 8 minutes and included 10 different riffs, making it one of the longest (if not the longest) riff session in the history of Muse gigs. When asked, Dominic Howard said the jam was lead by Bellamy playing riffs they had not played in years. This jam was not on the set-list and was possibly played to make up for the towers malfunctioning earlier on in the show.
This gig marks the first performance of Bliss in the US since Boston Agganis Arena in 2007 and the last performance of Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever) until 2013.
Price details
| Description | Vendor | Base price | Booking fee | Transaction fee | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor-level seating | Ticketmaster | 65.00 | 11.85 | 2.50‡ | 79.35 |
| Lower-level seating | 35.00 | ≤10.30§ | ≤47.80 | ||
| Lower-level seating | 65.00 | 11.85 | 79.35 | ||
| Lower-level 'Premier Level' seating | |||||
| Upper-level seating | 35.00 | ≤10.30§ | ≤47.80 | ||
| Upper-level seating | 45.00 | 10.30 | 57.80 |
‡ This was the transaction fee when printing tickets out oneself. Other options included collection at the venue's ticket office—which cost 0—and via post, for which the cost is unknown, due to price information being retrieved when posting was no longer possible. The option of posting is likely to have cost the most.
§ All tickets which had a base price of $35 were sold out when price information was fetched. The booking fee for these tickets is likely to have been equal to or less than that for $45 tickets, i.e. ≤$10.30
Speech
| After Uprising | Bellamy | "Thank you Los Angeles!" |
| After New Born | Howard | "Thank you. How you guys doing Los Angeles? It's good to see you again." |
| After United States of Eurasia | Bellamy | "Woo! Thanks very much, cheers." |
| Before Bliss | "We're gonna play uh, play an older song now, a song we haven't played in LA before, I don't think? Maybe, maybe. Have we played it? ... So this song's off our second album, 'Origin of Symmetry'." | |
| After Undisclosed Desires | "Thanks very much. Thanks a lot for coming to see us live by the way. It means a lot to us. Thanks. | |
| Before Starlight | "How're you guys doing, alright?" | |
| Howard | "It's great to be here in this great venue, home of the Lakers. One day we'll see them play. This next track. I wanna say thanks to Passion Pit for playing today. I always watch them and their great." | |
| After Unnatural Selection | Bellamy | "Thank you LA!" |
| After Knights of Cydonia | " Thank you so much! We love you guys! Thanks so much for coming out!" | |
| Howard | "You guys rock LA! We love you. It's good to see you guys again. Cheers." |
Media
An audience audio recording can be found here[registration needed], in mp3 format.
Setlist
- Uprising (riff version)
(Manson Mirror) - Resistance
(Manson Doubleneck) - New Born + Headup riff
- Supermassive Black Hole
- Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)
(Manson M1D1 Black) - The Star-Spangled Banner riff + Interlude + Hysteria + Back in Black outro
- Nishe
- United States of Eurasia
- Ruled By Secrecy
- Bliss (extended)
- Helsinki Jam
- Undisclosed Desires
- Starlight
- Plug In Baby
- House of the Rising Sun intro + Time Is Running Out + Power of Soul riff + Jimmy Jam
- Unnatural Selection
Encore
- Exogenesis: Symphony Part I (Overture)
- Stockholm Syndrome + School riff + Early Psycho riff + Execution Commentary riff + Township Rebellion riff + Agitated intro riff + Agitated outro riff + War Within a Breath riff + Negative Creep riff + Dead Star riff + Endless Nameless riff [watch] [watch] [watch]
- Man With a Harmonica intro + Knights of Cydonia
(Manson Chrome Bomber)
References
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j (2010-0?). [Concert information page]. Muse website. Retrieved 2010-09-26 from muse.mu.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k (2010). [Information and ticket purchase page]. Ticketmaster. Retrieved 2010-09-26 from www.ticketmaster.com.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h (2010). [Concert information page]. Staples Center website. Retrieved 2010-09-26 from staplescenter.com.