London Earls Court Exhibition Centre 2004 - 20th (gig)

The Small Print

Pyrotechnics during Butterflies & Hurricanes

Muscle Museum

Standing ticket

Seated ticket stub

Muse show
Venue	Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Date	20th December 2004
Location	London[source?]
Country	United Kingdom
Songs	20[source?]
Support	Secret Machines, The Zutons[source?]
Start (UTC)	Unknown, 18:00 (doors)
Capacity	19,000[source?]
Price (GBP)	25.00
Sold out?	Yes[source?]

The concert was announced on the 21st of October, the reason citing "unbelievable" demand for the previous night's pre-sale. General sale started on the 23rd October 2004 at 09:00. More tickets were put on sale on the 19th of November at 09:00 through gigsandtours.com.

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).[source?] However, this time Matthew Bellamy had a monkey hand puppet on which he danced around on camera.[source?]

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.[source?] 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! ;)".

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 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.

Setlist

1. Dracula Mountain (instrumental)
2. Intro + Apocalypse Please
3. Hysteria
4. The Small Print (watch)
   ^{(Ibanez Destroyer, ?)}
5. Sing for Absolution
6. Micro Cuts
7. Citizen Erased
8. Take a Bow (instrumental)
9. Space Dementia
10. Ruled by Secrecy (watch)
11. Piano interlude + Sunburn (piano)
12. New Born
13. Butterflies & Hurricanes (watch)
14. Muscle Museum
15. Bliss
16. Plug In Baby
    Encore 1
17. Glorious
18. Time Is Running Out
    Encore 2
19. Blackout
20. Stockholm Syndrome Execution Commentary + Hyper Chondriac Music outro (watch)

See also

• Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London

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