Sydney Showground 2010 - 22nd (gig)

Rehearsal with Nic Cester

Muse show
Venue	Sydney Showground[source?] (Big Day Out)
Date	22nd January 2010
Location	Sydney, NS
Country	Australia
Songs	15[source?]
Support	The Mars Volta et al†
Start (UTC+10)	Unknown, 11:00[source?] (doors)
Capacity	Unknown
Price (AUD)	140.00[source?]
Sold out?	Yes[source?]

Muse headlined Big Day Out 2010 in Australia, including their first Sydney show on 22nd January. Tickets went on sale 7th October at midnight through the official site and 09:00 through other ticket outlets.

The Kaoss Pad failed to work for the solo in Supermassive Black Hole, forcing Matt to improvise.

At the start of the encore, Nic Cester from the band Jet came on stage. He and Muse performed a cover of AC/DC's "Back in Black" with Matthew Bellamy playing lead guitar, Morgan Nicholls playing rhythm guitar and Christopher Wolstenholme playing bass.

Schedule

• 21:10–22:30 - Muse
• 19:00–20:00 - The Mars Volta
• 17:00–18:00 - Dizzee Rascal
• 15:20–16:10 - Eskimo Joe
• 13:45–14:30 - Mastodon
• 12:15–13:00 - Bluejuice

Speech

Before Back in Black

Howard

"We're gonna do a cover song now, from our favourite Australian band, who have never played at this festival incidentally...and to help us do that, we're gonna invite a special guest on stage, Mr. Nic Cester. Give him a big hand, come on".

During the opening of Unnatural Selection (replacing the line "and I want the truth" || Matt Bellamy || "Get these people some fucking water!" (referring to the crowd who had endured temperatures of up to 40 degrees during the day and had begun chanting "water" prior to the song).|}

Setlist

1. Uprising
2. Supermassive Black Hole
3. New Born + Headup riff
4. Undisclosed Desires [watch]
5. Interlude + Hysteria
6. Nishe
7. United States of Eurasia [watch]
8. Helsinki Jam
9. Resistance
10. Riff + Starlight [watch]
    ^{(Black Midi Manson)}
11. Burning Bridges + Time Is Running Out
12. Unnatural Selection

    Encore

13. Back in Black (feat. Nic Cester) [watch]
    ^{(007 Manson, Black Gibson SG (Morgan), Red Fender Jazz Bass)}
14. Plug In Baby
15. Man With a Harmonica intro + Knights of Cydonia

See also

• Sydney Showground

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