Oh man, what a night.
Holy crap, it was amazing. I had to rush out of work at 6:30 to be home in time to head out and be there before 8. When we had to punch out, I nearly bowled over some Spanish guy. Then me and my dad hightailed it to Mike's house, where we picked him up and were at The Docks within half an hour, surprisingly. I kept pointing out things downtown and getting them wrong. "Oh, I've been there. Isn't that near Union station?" "Uh...no."
The opening band, The Cloud Room, was kinda meh...not too bad, but not enough of a hyper band to get us pumped up for Muse. Everyone kept yelling things. "Where's Muse?!" "Who are you?!"
After they were done, Muse took about a day and a half to finish setting up (okay, not a day and a half...about half an hour). Me and Mike were on the right side of the stage at that point, and about 10 minutes before they came onstage I saw them (well, at least Matt and Dom) standing around and talking near the stage entrance.
And THEN they showed up. They opened with Map of the Problematique, no surprise since I'd heard that was their opener anyway. I didn't enjoy that one as much as I should have, though, there were too many people and I was stuck. After that they played Hysteria, and I moshed with the crowd. Hooray. It was hard to, though, it was so crowded! All I basically did was get pushed forwards and backwards with the crowd. I didn't think there were that many Muse fans in this city. Then there was Supermassive Black Hole, and although there was no room for me to dance, I did jump up and down like a nutter.
When they got to A Soldier's Poem and Invincible, the two slow songs they played back to back, I asked Mike if we could go to Matt's side of the stage, and that we did, Mike basically pushing sideways everyone who was in front of us. I gotta say, that was pretty funny. When we got to Matt's side of the stage, we were a bit farther back then when we were on Chris' side of the stage, but I could pretty much see Matt perfectly. Couldn't take my eyes off of him actually, he's incredible. He's got one of those captivating stage presences you hear about, even when he's not doing much you can't look away from him. The wind was even blowing in his hair...well, not wind, it was a fan. =P Doesn't hurt that in real life, 15 feet away, he's gorgeous. And yes, quite short. But that's okay. Dom is good-looking too, very cute and blond. At one point, for absolutely no reason, during the concert, he yelled, "Fuck yeah!" and everyone started to laugh and cheer. I thought Chris was cute too. Very scruffy, and he had a chubby face. He was headbobbing like a giant pigeon, I was scared to look at him too long for fear I'd get whiplash.
Butterflies and Hurricanes was really cool, Matt pounding away on that giant white piano. At the end of Plug in Baby, Matt played the whole solo behind his back - haha, he's a showoff. But in a pleasant way. New Born was similarily awesome, Mike lifted me up right near the end and I got a perfect view of Matt hamming it up with that guitar, standing on a platform and just going nuts. That was one image that's gonna stay in my head for awhile.
They played Stockholm Syndrome at the end, and then the lights went out and they left. Of course, I knew they'd probably do an encore, so we all cheered for them to come back. They did, but what I didn't expect was them to do THREE songs as an encore: Take a Bow, which I didn't like at first on the album, but live it was incredible, Matt with his "You will burn in hells," and Time is Running Out, which I had gotten tired of by this point (it was basically their only North American hit), but again, live, it was amazing. All through the song, the crowd sang louder than Matt, and he let us all sing the "Bury it, I won't let you bury it..." part.
I'd been wondering the whole concert why they hadn't played Knights of Cydonia yet (since I heard during this tour they usually ended with Stockholm Syndrome anyway), but there it was, the last song. On the big screens behind them there were horses! And "No one's going to take me alive" in massive letters. (During Bliss, on the screens there were little cartoons of grinning anime people. It was hilarious)
It was one of those lifelong memory moments: Matt singing the "Ah-ah-ahhhhhs," everyone in the crowd singing along with every word, yelling as loud as they could "No one's going to take me aliiiiive," then going crazy and jumping around during the hyper parts. Mike lifted me up again when they were done, and all I see is Matt just there, grinning, waving at people, looking incredibly happy.
Ahh. It was kickass. That's gonna be a tough concert to beat in future, I gotta say.
The opening band, The Cloud Room, was kinda meh...not too bad, but not enough of a hyper band to get us pumped up for Muse. Everyone kept yelling things. "Where's Muse?!" "Who are you?!"
After they were done, Muse took about a day and a half to finish setting up (okay, not a day and a half...about half an hour). Me and Mike were on the right side of the stage at that point, and about 10 minutes before they came onstage I saw them (well, at least Matt and Dom) standing around and talking near the stage entrance.
And THEN they showed up. They opened with Map of the Problematique, no surprise since I'd heard that was their opener anyway. I didn't enjoy that one as much as I should have, though, there were too many people and I was stuck. After that they played Hysteria, and I moshed with the crowd. Hooray. It was hard to, though, it was so crowded! All I basically did was get pushed forwards and backwards with the crowd. I didn't think there were that many Muse fans in this city. Then there was Supermassive Black Hole, and although there was no room for me to dance, I did jump up and down like a nutter.
When they got to A Soldier's Poem and Invincible, the two slow songs they played back to back, I asked Mike if we could go to Matt's side of the stage, and that we did, Mike basically pushing sideways everyone who was in front of us. I gotta say, that was pretty funny. When we got to Matt's side of the stage, we were a bit farther back then when we were on Chris' side of the stage, but I could pretty much see Matt perfectly. Couldn't take my eyes off of him actually, he's incredible. He's got one of those captivating stage presences you hear about, even when he's not doing much you can't look away from him. The wind was even blowing in his hair...well, not wind, it was a fan. =P Doesn't hurt that in real life, 15 feet away, he's gorgeous. And yes, quite short. But that's okay. Dom is good-looking too, very cute and blond. At one point, for absolutely no reason, during the concert, he yelled, "Fuck yeah!" and everyone started to laugh and cheer. I thought Chris was cute too. Very scruffy, and he had a chubby face. He was headbobbing like a giant pigeon, I was scared to look at him too long for fear I'd get whiplash.
Butterflies and Hurricanes was really cool, Matt pounding away on that giant white piano. At the end of Plug in Baby, Matt played the whole solo behind his back - haha, he's a showoff. But in a pleasant way. New Born was similarily awesome, Mike lifted me up right near the end and I got a perfect view of Matt hamming it up with that guitar, standing on a platform and just going nuts. That was one image that's gonna stay in my head for awhile.
They played Stockholm Syndrome at the end, and then the lights went out and they left. Of course, I knew they'd probably do an encore, so we all cheered for them to come back. They did, but what I didn't expect was them to do THREE songs as an encore: Take a Bow, which I didn't like at first on the album, but live it was incredible, Matt with his "You will burn in hells," and Time is Running Out, which I had gotten tired of by this point (it was basically their only North American hit), but again, live, it was amazing. All through the song, the crowd sang louder than Matt, and he let us all sing the "Bury it, I won't let you bury it..." part.
I'd been wondering the whole concert why they hadn't played Knights of Cydonia yet (since I heard during this tour they usually ended with Stockholm Syndrome anyway), but there it was, the last song. On the big screens behind them there were horses! And "No one's going to take me alive" in massive letters. (During Bliss, on the screens there were little cartoons of grinning anime people. It was hilarious)
It was one of those lifelong memory moments: Matt singing the "Ah-ah-ahhhhhs," everyone in the crowd singing along with every word, yelling as loud as they could "No one's going to take me aliiiiive," then going crazy and jumping around during the hyper parts. Mike lifted me up again when they were done, and all I see is Matt just there, grinning, waving at people, looking incredibly happy.
Ahh. It was kickass. That's gonna be a tough concert to beat in future, I gotta say.