London Earls Court Exhibition Centre 2004 - 20th (gig)
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Venue | Earls Court Exhibition Centre[1][2][source?] |
Date | 20th December 2004[1][2][source?] |
Location | London[source?] |
Country | UK |
Songs | 20[source?] |
Support | Secret Machines, The Zutons[3][source?] |
Start | Unknown |
Capacity | 19,000[3][source?] |
Price | 25.00 GBP[2][source?] |
Sold out? | Yes[3][source?] |
The concert was announced on the 21st of October,[4] the reason citing "unbelievable" demand for the previous night's pre-sale.[4] General sale started on the 23rd October 2004 at 09:00.[4] More tickets were put on sale on the 19th of November at 09:00 through gigsandtours.com.[5]
This was the 'black jacket' gig and featured a slightly different set list to the night before.
Dominic Howard and Christopher Wolstenholme opened up the gig, while Matthew Bellamy ran around backstage with a camera (as he did the previous night).[3] However, this time Matthew Bellamy had a monkey hand puppet on which he danced around on camera.[3]
After The Small Print, Bellamy broke the Ibanez guitar he was playing, picked it up, walked to the edge of the stage and threw his guitar into the audience.[3] The Micro Cuts ending slowed down to an almost complete stop. Thomas Kirk said that Blackout "was fucking ace", in response to the question "how cool was blackout! ;)".[6]
These were the last performances of Glorious, Ruled by Secrecy and The Small Print in the UK.
Speech
After Apocalypse Please | Bellamy | "Thank you [?]". |
After Hysteria | "Thank you". | |
After The Small Print | Howard | |
After Sing for Absolution | "How's it going Earls Court? [crowd cheers] Nice to see you again". | |
After Space Dementia | "Thank you". | |
After New Born | Bellamy | "Thank you very much. Cheers". |
After Butterflies & Hurricanes | "Thank you". | |
After Plug In Baby | "Thank you!" | |
After Time Is Running Out | "Cheers!" | |
Before Blackout | Bellamy | "Thank you very much, cheers [...] Ok, this next song, instead of getting your lighters out, everyone get out their mobile phones and switch their lights on". |
Before Stockholm Syndrome | Bellamy | "Thank you very much Earls Court! Thank you very much for coming, it's been a fucking great pleasure to play for you. Means a lot coming home to a big crowd like this, so thanks very much for coming. This is uh, we'd like to say, a very merry Christmas and a happy new year". |
Howard | "Merry Christmas. [...] Cheers. We'll see you next time, this song is called Stockholm Syndrome". | |
After Stockholm Syndrome | "Thank you very much Earls Court! You guys have been amazing". | |
Wolstenholme | "Cheers". | |
Howard | "Cheers, we'll see you next time". |
Media
The Small Print and Stockholm Syndrome feature on the Absolution Tour DVD.
Butterflies & Hurricanes and Ruled by Secrecy from this performance were the first videos released of the two nights, along with The Small Print from the day before - these were put on Muse.mu. XFM broadcast the gig[7][8] in its entirety aside from Glorious, which was replaced by a recording of Dead Star from the previous night. A recording of this broadcast can be found in Muselive.com's media section. This recording contains extensive artefacting and low lowpass. An audience bootleg was also made.
Set list
- Dracula Mountain (instrumental)
- Intro + Apocalypse Please
- Hysteria
- The Small Print (watch)
(Ibanez Destroyer, ?) - Sing for Absolution
- Micro Cuts
- Citizen Erased
- Take a Bow (instrumental)
- Space Dementia
- Ruled by Secrecy (watch)
- Piano interlude + Sunburn (piano)
- New Born
- Butterflies & Hurricanes (watch)
- Muscle Museum
- Bliss
- Plug In Baby
Encore 1: - Glorious
- Time Is Running Out
Encore 2: - Blackout
- Stockholm Syndrome + Execution Commentary + Hyper Chondriac Music outro (watch)
References
- ↑ a b Standing ticket
- ↑ a b c Seated ticket stub
- ↑ a b c d e f Reference needed!
- ↑ a b c London Gig #2 (2004-10-22). Retrieved from Crikey. Need a domain here, kthnxbye.
- ↑ MicroCuts. (2004-11-17). More Muse tickets on sale from Friday. Retrieved from Crikey. Need a domain here, kthnxbye.
- ↑ muselive.com 20050302
- ↑ Muse Earls Court gig on XFM (2004-12-14). Retrieved from Crikey. Need a domain here, kthnxbye.
- ↑ XFM 2004-12
See also
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