Right I'm not going to lie to you, I'm incredibly biased when it comes to Muse after all if it wasn't for their music I'd probably be a different person so to make this easier, I'm splitting this review in two.
1.The Fan Review
Wow utterly fantastic, it w
as perhaps the best gig I've ever been to this year, perhaps even for a long time, it is one of the few gigs I've been to where I've actually been motivated to move. The support act The Big Pink were OK but every song sounded very similar, while the drummer was obscured by the dry ice it was the drum sound which dominated the sound, making up for hard to decipher vocals. Muse however were fantastic, even when the roadies were moving Matt Bellamy's piano they kept the crowd entertained by having bassist Chris Wolstenholme and drummer Dom Howard play an improv session. Seeing the piano pleased me as the lack of Bellamy playing it for the beginning of New Born instead leaving it to the support musician, and the piano rendition of Cave was a welcome sound, (though there could have been more songs from Showbiz thrown in and maybe Feeling Good as well) while the set was shorter than what I would have liked to have seen, Muse did keep me entertained.
2. The More Serious Review.
It is clear to see why Muse are often nominated and win Best Live Act awards, the amount of production that went into the stage design for The Resistance Tour is absolutely phenomenal. The band were one three platforms that could ascend or descend and in the case of drummer Dom Howard's platform, revolve in a 360 degree revolution. No matter where you stood or sat at the concert at Liverpool's Echo Arena, you were guarenteed a decent view of either the band or the video screens that displayed images over the top of the images of Muse performing.
Supported by The Big Pink who had a strong beat to their music but lacked strong vocals to accompany the beat at first, becoming more and more confident with each song before sounding at their strongest for current single Dominoes. Muse powered their way through song after song starting with the first single from the Resistance, Uprising there was an almost Doctor Whoesque feel to the opener as guitarist Matt Bellamy waved a laser pen around almost akin to The Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver.
The set list consisted mainly of tracks from the latest album and included some unexpected song choices from the inclusion of a piano led version of Cave to the lack of Feeling Good. The set was only an hour and a half long which felt too short, while key songs in Muse's back catalogue were played there felt like there could have been a few more songs thrown in to make a more solid and balanced set, for a start there could have been at least one or two more tracks from the first album that could have been played (e.g. Sunburn and Muscle Museum), the other two parts of Exogenesis could have been played beefing the setlist a little bit more.
There was little interaction between Muse and the crowd while it is normal for Muse to be like this there wasn never really any moments of awkward silence between the crowd and the band, with either reverbs or improvs to bridge the gap from one song to another.
Set List
1. Uprising
2. Resistance
3. New Born
4. Unnatural Selection
5. Supermassive Black Hole
6. Guiding Light
7. Hysteria
8. United States of Eurasia
9. Cave
10. Undisclosed Desires
11. Starlight
12. Time Is Running Out
13. Stockholm Syndrome
---Encore---
14. Exogenesis Part 1
15. Plug In Baby
16. Knights of Cydonia
1.The Fan Review
Wow utterly fantastic, it w
as perhaps the best gig I've ever been to this year, perhaps even for a long time, it is one of the few gigs I've been to where I've actually been motivated to move. The support act The Big Pink were OK but every song sounded very similar, while the drummer was obscured by the dry ice it was the drum sound which dominated the sound, making up for hard to decipher vocals. Muse however were fantastic, even when the roadies were moving Matt Bellamy's piano they kept the crowd entertained by having bassist Chris Wolstenholme and drummer Dom Howard play an improv session. Seeing the piano pleased me as the lack of Bellamy playing it for the beginning of New Born instead leaving it to the support musician, and the piano rendition of Cave was a welcome sound, (though there could have been more songs from Showbiz thrown in and maybe Feeling Good as well) while the set was shorter than what I would have liked to have seen, Muse did keep me entertained.2. The More Serious Review.
It is clear to see why Muse are often nominated and win Best Live Act awards, the amount of production that went into the stage design for The Resistance Tour is absolutely phenomenal. The band were one three platforms that could ascend or descend and in the case of drummer Dom Howard's platform, revolve in a 360 degree revolution. No matter where you stood or sat at the concert at Liverpool's Echo Arena, you were guarenteed a decent view of either the band or the video screens that displayed images over the top of the images of Muse performing.
Supported by The Big Pink who had a strong beat to their music but lacked strong vocals to accompany the beat at first, becoming more and more confident with each song before sounding at their strongest for current single Dominoes. Muse powered their way through song after song starting with the first single from the Resistance, Uprising there was an almost Doctor Whoesque feel to the opener as guitarist Matt Bellamy waved a laser pen around almost akin to The Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver.
The set list consisted mainly of tracks from the latest album and included some unexpected song choices from the inclusion of a piano led version of Cave to the lack of Feeling Good. The set was only an hour and a half long which felt too short, while key songs in Muse's back catalogue were played there felt like there could have been a few more songs thrown in to make a more solid and balanced set, for a start there could have been at least one or two more tracks from the first album that could have been played (e.g. Sunburn and Muscle Museum), the other two parts of Exogenesis could have been played beefing the setlist a little bit more.
There was little interaction between Muse and the crowd while it is normal for Muse to be like this there wasn never really any moments of awkward silence between the crowd and the band, with either reverbs or improvs to bridge the gap from one song to another.
Set List
1. Uprising
2. Resistance
3. New Born
4. Unnatural Selection
5. Supermassive Black Hole
6. Guiding Light
7. Hysteria
8. United States of Eurasia
9. Cave
10. Undisclosed Desires
11. Starlight
12. Time Is Running Out
13. Stockholm Syndrome
---Encore---
14. Exogenesis Part 1
15. Plug In Baby
16. Knights of Cydonia
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