London Earls Court Exhibition Centre 2004 - 19th (gig)

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Promotional poster
Bellamy and Wolstenholme during Citizen Erased
Hand-held camera during Dracula Mountain
Bellamy and Howard
Balloons, CO2 and lighting
Muse show
Venue Earls Court Exhibition Centre[1][source?]
Date 19th December 2004[1][source?]
Location London[source?]
Country UK
Songs 19[1][source?]
Support Soulwax,[2] The Zutons[3][source?]
Start Unknown
Capacity 19,000[2][source?]
Price 25.00 GBP[2][source?]
Sold out? Yes[2][source?]


This was the 'red jacket' gig, with the Mexican wave. This was their first gig back home after a long USA tour.

Dominic Howard and Christopher Wolstenholme opened up the gig, while Matthew Bellamy ran around backstage with a camera which was linked to the big screens on stage.[2] He ran up to (and embarrassed) security guards and make 'rock' gestures with his hand in front of the lens.[2] Finally, he ran in front of the audience, many of whom had their faces on the big screens, before handing the camera to a stage-hand and started Hysteria.[2]

After The Small Print ended, Bellamy threw around his guitar, picked it up, walked to the stage's edge in front of audience, and threw his guitar into the audience, a video of this can be found. The Micro Cuts ending slowed down to an almost complete stop.[2] Crying Shame was performed live for the first time, and for the only time in the UK.[2] Bellamy commented in the XFM interview preceding the next day's concert that the new song went down "like a tonne of bricks".[2]

Tom Kirk commented that the new songs, Crying Shame included along with Dead Star and Micro Cuts, were his favourite moments at the Earls Court gigs.[4]

Speech

After Hysteria Bellamy "Thanks very much! It's good to be home!".
Before Stockholm Syndrome "Thank you very much for coming today! We're home, this is our home, it's great to be back. We're called Muse by the way. And er, what can I say? Merry Christmas!".

Media

A video recording of Hysteria, made by Thomas Kirk was made available to the fans via the web site as a 'Christmas Present from Muse' in December 2005. Dead Star was broadcast in place of Glorious on XFM the following night. An audience audio recording exists, in FLAC and mp3 format.

Set list

  1. Dracula Mountain (instrumental)
  2. Hysteria
  3. Butterflies & Hurricanes
  4. New Born
  5. Sing for Absolution
  6. Crying Shame
  7. Muscle Museum
  8. Citizen Erased
  9. Ruled by Secrecy
  10. Piano interlude + Sunburn (piano)
  11. Thoughts of a Dying Atheist
  12. The Small Print + riff
  13. Heartbreaker riff + Time Is Running Out
  14. Plug In Baby
  15. Bliss (extended)
    Encore 1:
  16. Dead Star
  17. Micro Cuts
    Encore 2:
  18. Intro + Apocalypse Please
  19. Stockholm Syndrome + riff + Hyper Chondriac Music outro

References

  1. ↑ a b c Earl's Court set-list (2004-12-20). MicroCuts. Retrieved 2007-11-24 from microcuts.net.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j
    Reference needed!

  3. ↑ Promotional poster
  4. ↑ muselive.com 20050302

See also


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