GIGS OF 2010 IN PICTURES:

Muse

Acer Arena

More wise words and pictures here

Muse, Acer Arena, 9th December 2010

This was the third time I saw Muse this year, which is kind of awkward. I really, really didn’t like their last album The Resistance, Black Holes and Revelations was more my thing when I was 16 and I wasn’t keen to go through the paces of this all again.

The problem with Stadium Rock is that it all feels the same after a while. It’s take some real extravagance or the type of patience only fangirl-like devotion can give you to sit through any more than 45 minutes of the stuff. Otherwise, you want to shoot yourself.

Luckily Muse have enough of both the extravagance and the fangirls (the crowd was young, so very young) to satisfy both criteria. Hell, they even played Citizen Erased, arguably their best song after The Small Print, which made me go all fangirly. 

One thing Matt Bellamy and Co. should learn, however, is that they have little to no skill in the classical, techno and synth-pop genres. And of their successes in this area are flukes. It shows when the crowd goes wild more for mid-song jams than for Undisclosed Desires, which is the worst excuse for anyone to have a keytar ever, or any of those other annoying piano ditties they’re recently written. More Hysteria/Stockholm Syndrome please.

For the review I wrote for The Dwarf, click here.

P.S.: Biffy Clyro were okay but the sound mix hurt my ears so I left halfway through to get churros and a coke. They had a weird guy in a business suit dancing and playing rhythm guitar for them, though. Made no sense. Everyone clapped politely. The end.