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Muse of course played the V Festival last Saturday.

Paul has kindly uploaded a bootleg featuring 3 songs and an interview recorded from the Channel 4 broadcast.

Tapers Notes:

Unfortunately due to Channel 4′s shoddy scheduling I missed the first minute or so of Supermassive Black Hole on the C4 channel (which broadcasts at a higher bitrate) So I have had to splice some footage from the C4 Music channel and merge it with C4′s.  It has taken a lot longer than I thought!

Paul.

Torrent details:

720×576 PAL 16:9

01 – Interview
02 – Supermassive Black Hole
03 – Hysteria
04 – Man With The Harmonica / Knights Of Cydonia

Size: 568.35 MB (595,956,312 bytes)

Head over and download it now!

LINK

Luke

NME.com

Muse played a spectacular headline show at the Chelmsford leg of the V Festival tonight (August 16).

The band utilised huge props, light and stage effects and played beefed-up, extended versions of their hits plus instrumental jams to create a crowd-wowing show that closed the first night of the Essex bash.

Anticipation for the show was high, with fans on site cheering the band’s name long before their stage time. Many texted pro-Muse messages to the screens sandwiching the V Stage, prompting more cheers as the audience read them.

Then, at 9:15pm (BST), six enormous satellite dishes that had been erected on and either side of the stage began spinning and glowing. They suddenly fired huge beams of light into the crowd as the band walked on stage and began playing ‘Map Of The Problematique’.

As frontman Matt Bellamy and co ended the song they began playing the riff from Led Zeppelin’s ‘Heartbreaker’, then launched into 2006 hit ‘Supermassive Black Hole’.

During the song images of robots marching were projected onto the satellites with spectacular effect as Bellamy, wearing a striking red outfit, played an extended guitar solo.

Bellamy flitted between piano and guitar for ‘New Born’. Then, as he played the guitar outro to ‘Butterflies And Hurricanes’, huge bursts of smoke began firing from the front of the stage drawing gasps from many crowd members.

During an instrumental jam later in the set, Bellamy walked up the flank of the stage and began bashing his guitar against one of the searchlights.

Then, as ‘Take A Bow’ ended, another cascade of smoke dramatically enveloped the stage as the band headed backstage.

Muse returned shortly afterwards to play an encore of ‘Starlight’, ‘Plug In Baby’ and ‘Knights Of Cydonia’, releasing scores of white balloons then a massive wall of flame and sparks to close day one of V Festival in Chelmsford.

Contactmusic.com

MUSE wowed fans at British musical festival V with an out-of-this-world performance featuring enormous spaceships – despite one of their stunts having been banned by officials.

Six enormous satellite dishes on either side of the stage began glowing and spinning shortly before the trio’s gig, closing the first night of the Chelmsford, England, leg of the outdoor festival on Saturday (16Aug08).

The audience erupted with cheers as the spacecrafts began firing huge beams of light into the crowd and the trio ran on stage.

The band had previously planned a spectacular stunt which included a UFO (unidentified flying object) landing on stage – but organisers axed the idea, claiming it breached health and safety rules.
And the rockers had clearly put the setback behind them as they played their 2006 hit Supermassive Black Hole, with huge bursts of smoke firing from the stage.

The group, led by frontman Matt Bellamy, played an encore of Starlight to rapturous applause, as scores of white balloons were released into the sky and a massive flame burst over the stage.

Mark Beaumont, a popular journalist for NME, will be publishing his biography of Muse in October, entitled “Out of this world: The Story Of Muse”.

“From a Battle of the Bands in Devon to selling out the new Wembley Stadium, the story of Muse’s stratospheric rise is one of rock’s most fascinating and incendiary tales. This book features thousands of words of exclusive, previously unprinted interview transcripts taken between 1998 and 2007. It includes account of all four of their studio albums from Showbiz to Black Holes and Revelations. The biography follows their every step from 16 year old punk kids to Wembley Stadium, all their albums and their wild nights, theories and falsettos they experienced along the way.”

Pages: 300
Released: 8th October 2008

Muse played pretty much the same set as they played at Marlay Park, good all the same!

01. Intro
02. Map Of The Problematique
03. Supermassive Black Hole
04. Dead Star (with lasers)
05. New Born
06. Hysteria
07. Butterflies & Hurricanes
08. Feeling Good
09. Space Dementia
10. Drum & Bass
11. Invincible
12. Time Is Running Out
13. Stockholm Syndrome
14. Take A Bow
15. Starlight
16. Plug In Baby
17. Knights Of Cydonia

Channel 4 broadcast three tracks from the set last night, obviously everyone was hoping for more but it is what we have come to expect nowadays with Muse broadcasts e.g. Summersonic 2006, Eurocks 2006, Pinkpop 2007, Oxegen to mention but a few!

1. On the Big Day Out tour of 2004, on which Muse played down the bill, Metallica would set up a rehearsal tent next to the main stage in which to warm up before they went on. Often Muse would come offstage to hear Metallica warming up by playing ‘New Born’.

2. Being such a small lad – he’s 5’7″ – Matt Bellamy used to take advantage of his trips to Japan to have silk shirts specially tailored for him.

3. In his time off from Muse, bassist Chris Wolstenholme plays drums in a local pub band in the Devon town of Teignmouth, where he lives with his Kelly and their three children Alfie, Frankie and Ava-Jo.

4. Drummer Dominic Howard’s earliest memory is of being on a rubber ring at the beach as it burst.

5. The band are keen poker players and once fleeced Robert Smith of The Cure for a hefty wad of cash.

6. After Matt was famously shocked to be given a painting of himself naked with a heart covering his privates and with a crow on one shoulder, Russian fans made it up to him on his next visit to the country by presenting him with a full-sized astronomer’s telescope.

7. When requesting permission to play one of the biggest church organs in Europe in order to finish recording ‘Megalomania’ from ‘Origin Of Symmetry’, the priest at the church asked to see the lyrics to the song to ensure the band weren’t devil worshippers.

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Setlist
01. Intro
02. Map Of The Problematique
03. Supermassive Black Hole
04. Dead Star (with lasers)
05. New Born
06. Hysteria
07. Butterflies & Hurricanes
08. Feeling Good
09. Space Dementia
10. Drum n Bass
11. Invincible
12. Bliss
13. Time Is Running Out
14. Stockholm Syndrome
15. Take A Bow (with lasers)
16. Starlight
17. Plug In Baby (with balloons)
18. Knights Of Cydonia

Gig Review:

http://www.cluas.com/music/gigs/peter-gabriel-crowded-house-dublin-9665.htm

It wasn’t looking good for MUSE at Marlay Park. Monsoon like conditions over the past week would surely render conditions unsuitable for anything other than pigs and ducks. Not so. The first surprise of the evening was that parking was a breeze, as was gaining access to the arena. The biggest surprise o

f all though was the condition of the arena. Where were the anticipated mud baths? No where to be seen, in fact you’d have hardly known it had rained non-stop for the past two weeks.

Despite me labelling them a singles band on more than one occasion I was quite excited about seeing Muse live for the first time. I’d heard reports of their live performances before but had no idea of the visual and audio bombardment that lay in store. Opening with Map of the Problematique, Supermassive Blackhole and Dead Star, Bellamy and Co. had the audience firmly in their grip from the start. Accompanied by lasers, satellite dishes and some of the best on stage camera work I’ve ever seen, each song becomes an almost cinematic experience in the live arena.

Definite highlights for me were Invincible and the sing-along version of Time is Running Out, though an honourable mention must go to Feeling Good as I’ve never heard so many people attempt to sing falsetto before. Lets just say there were lots of canines covering their ears last night in the Marlay Park area! Any band that want to have two encores better have some good songs to go with it and in Starlight, Plug in Baby (encore one) and Knights of Cydonia (encore two), MUSE certainly have more than enough tools with which to work a crowd.

And with that the balloons, the lasers, the smoke machines were all gone and we encountered the only problem of the evening. When it takes you longer to walk a kilometre to your car than it does to drive 20 kilometres home you know you have a problem. It’s a problem MCD could sort by opening more exits but is a minor complaint given how enjoyable this gig was. Gig of the year by a long way.

Steven O’Rourke

Luke

The previously rumoured spaceship stunt has been banned by V Festival health and safety officials. Unfortunately it isn’t the first idea to be rejected by these party-pooping suits. Muse previously planned to arrive on stage via jet-packs and helicopters, but have subsequently suffered the same fait.

Matt had this to say; “We’re trying to get a UFO to come in.” “Health and Safety are as usual ruining it.” “I’m not sure V are quite prepared for us.” “We’ve redesigned the whole stage and we’re bringing in loads of props that won’t be on stage but around the venue.” He also added: “We’ve written a lot of new songs but we’ve bottled out of playing them live because, from past experience, we’ve ended up hating some of our favourites by the time we recorded them.”

A strange contradiction from Matt’s previous statements on playing new songs live.

Meanwhile, Matt hinted that the band might invite Mike Skinner on stage to perform their joint new tune Who Knows Who.

“We’d be happy to do it if he is.” “If people like it, maybe he’ll come and play.”

Luke: So no new songs.. but maybe a collaboration?

Luke