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Alexander DeLarge
Dec 20, 2013
I was lucky enough to see them at the NYC/iheart/Mayan gigs and the new stuff is some of the best live material they've done (seen them 25 times since Absolution Tour). Psycho doesn't translate on the album that well, but holy poo poo, it's one hell of a live song.

The Handler is awesome live too (during soundcheck at least). I'm just hoping Mercy replaces Starlight and Dead Inside replaces Madness because it'd be pretty redundant to have all four in one gig.

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Alexander DeLarge
Dec 20, 2013
New stage design is awesome, glad I get to see them 5 times in December (conveniently in town for each of those dates)
https://www.instagram.com/p/-OKpmYBWWp/?tagged=muse

Also they played The Globalist and it seems like it'll be rotated with Citizen Erased

Alexander DeLarge
Dec 20, 2013

Paperback Writer posted:

the Psycho setlists were so good too.

I know it's still going to be a blast when I see them in Portland but man.

Got lucky at the Mayan, three of us held up signs for Hyper Music and he decided to play it spur of the moment. Toss in Assassin+AP+Bliss+NB with piano+Stockholm (it's a rarity now it seems lol) and I walked out pretty happy. Third best Muse gig I've seen, and it happened in 2015.

I really hope that they're playing it safe for the first show of the tour. Can't blame them if that's why considering how much went into this.

Hedrigall posted:

There's a bit of anger in the Muse fan communities because Matt didn't play guitar on Uprising or Dead Inside last night, he only sang.

Friend just messaged me about Mexico, Matt started playing Uprising about half way through. Trust her over some periscope streams and YouTube videos from odd angles since she was there on the barrier. Still, the fact that Madness gets guitar but Dead Inside doesn't is a loving crime.

Alexander DeLarge fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Nov 18, 2015

Alexander DeLarge
Dec 20, 2013

Hedrigall posted:

Full setlists for Mexico City, if you want to compare:




I'm cool with AP/United States being rotated, but I'd be pissed if I got Plug In Baby over Bliss.

I hope that eventually The Globalist will be rotated with Citizen Erased (plus one rarity like uh The Groove or Agitated or The Small Print since TG is 10 minutes and CE is 7)

Alexander DeLarge
Dec 20, 2013

Langolas posted:

I'm really surprised SLC doesnt have a tour date yet since they tend to sell out the venue every time they come through town.

But after seeing these initial setlists, I would be super disappointed at a show with that list. Drones twice and all the rest, play a good real set with 25+ songs. I saw The Cure and Muse at ACL a few years ago, Muse is always awesome but The Cure was stunning. I can't believe how great of a show they played for their age, I plan on catching them again on this next tour because it was so fun.

I was at ACL both weekends, saw The Cure both and they blew Muse away, 25 songs at festivals and 37-41 at their own shows? loving incredible.

Also, my friends ran into Matt Bellamy down in Mexico, this is the only US leg. There won't be any more dates.

Alexander DeLarge
Dec 20, 2013
Good news, Vegas/San Diego confirmed for best shows of the tour
and I won't have to drive from Phoenix to Vegas overnight lol

quote:

Due to unforeseen logistical and technical challenges with setting up this huge show, moving arena scoreboards in order to play in the round and the difficulty encountered moving the production between back to back shows with long journeys in between, unfortunately we are forced to reschedule the following shows:

December 6, 2015 show in Las Vegas at The Mandalay Bay Events Center has now been rescheduled to January 9, 2016

Tickets for the December 6th show will be valid for January 9th. Fans who wish to receive a refund will need to go through their original point of purchase.

December 16, 2015 show in San Diego at Valley View Casino Center has now been rescheduled to January 7, 2016

Tickets for Dec. 16th show will be honored on new date Jan. 7th. Refunds available at point of purchase.

We sincerely and deeply apologize for any and all inconveniences that our postponement may have caused. While we are keenly aware of the problems of a postponement we are equally certain that when you see the Drones Tour you will agree that it was worth waiting for. We cannot wait to play for you.

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Alexander DeLarge
Dec 20, 2013

Madkal posted:

I went to the show last night. It was my third time seeing Muse and I got to say, despite it being an excellent spectacle with amazing visuals and some tight work with the music and sound, it was probably not my favourite time seeing Muse, and most of that comes down to the set list. For one thing, they played 9 out of the 12 songs from Drones, including playing Drones twice. I understand a band wants to promote their new stuff but when 4 out of the first five songs are from the new album, and of the songs that they played is 10 minutes long, and, well to put it kindly the new songs kind of suck, then it just becomes a bit meh. I know a lot of people probably like Muse for the newer stuff, and songs like Resistance and Madness got huge applauses from the crowd, but they only played one song from Origin of Symmetry (Bliss) and one song from Absolution (Our Time is Running Out) and the whole thing just comes across wildly uneven.
I understand that they can't play all the older stuff, but they could have easily cut away 3 or so songs from Drones to make way for Hysteria, Stockholm Syndrome, New Born, Plug in Babe, Apocalypse Please or anything else like that. Again, I know the whole stage show pretty much revolves around the new stuff, but the new stuff is pretty meh.

The problem with the set isn't enough Drones, they've already cut Reapers completely (rotated it with Revolt because it was LA, I think it's officially dead until NYC and Europe), it's how they feel the need to play literally every single hit they've ever had in a 17 song set. It sucks, and it doesn't reflect the album at all.

I'm locked into doing two more shows on this tour, and I haven't really enjoyed any of it to be honest, way too theatrical for my tastes considering what they just did for the Psycho Tour and the festivals. I hope San Diego and Vegas get something special due to the rescheduling.

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