Muse Shepherds Bush Empire 28 June 2006
Wuhooo! Just won a pair of tickets for Paula and I to go see Muse at the Shepherds Bush Empire next Wednesday, 28th June 2006! Its a special small gig with only a few lucky winners going - going to be fantastic because the new album, Black Holes and Revelations, does not come out till the 3rd of July. The show is going to be filmed by MTV and broadcast by XFM!
Update!
Wow what a gig. One of the best I have ever seen. The Shepherds Bush Empire is a small venue - not what you need for Muse really - my ultimate Muse concert must be them on a satellite/space station playing to the world - their sound is big enough for that!
So we got our wristbands and tickets and adjourned to a very nice bistro around the corner and over the road where we ate good pizza and drank good wine while watching the queue go right down the road and around the next corner. This was at about 5:30. We left the bistro at 7:30 having had our fill and watched the que shrink to nothing and preceded into the venue where we picked a spot at the back where Paula could see everything and I went to the lav. Upon me return, only a couple of mins later, Paula had made friends with two people standing next to us - who were great - so hi to Jim and Karen from Bury St Edmunds.
I thought Muse were going to concentrate on their new album but no! Every other track was a Muse classic interspersed with the new albums tracks - this may not be what you get on the tour as the band were trying things out but it worked really well on the night. The whole of the crowd at the front were going for it - and I had a look round at the back and Jim and I were right behind the Back Mosh Pit as Paula and Karen went for it big time - good girls! And the trespassers onto our elevated step did not last long (long story).
And I have come up with a theory useful for newbie Muse fans (there will be loads): If Chris , the bass player, is bopping his head big and proud, then the track you are listening to is a Muse classic - that's the criteria.
So the new material. It's very good - possibly more mainstream than the core fans are used to but it should bring more fame. Recent comparisons to Radiohead are wrong (probably from journo's that think Franz Ferdinand are great and are the new Queen - you are sooooo very very wrong...) and I still believe there is no one quite like Muse at the moment.
Purchase the album when it comes out but if you ever get the chance to see them somewhere big then sell the family silver and get yourself there because this is one band you must see once in your life!
If anyone has a set list please let me know what was played as I did not know the new songs.
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