Muse at the United Center, 2010
Continuing with my catching up with things I've been meaning to post, here is my review of Muse at the United Center, 03/12/10:
Muse at the United Center
03/12/10
There was a bit of a mixup with my ticket, that is, for some reason I couldn’t access my ticket online so I couldn’t print it. I had to call ticketmaster and have them send a copy to the box office at the United Center, which worked out okay.
I bought at Muse program as soon as I walked in, and then headed up several escalators to the highest balcony. I had never been up that high in the United Center before. My seat was off to the right side of the stage, but I was in the second row of my area. This area offered an interesting perspective of the people standing on the floor, particularly, and I enjoyed watching them turn the darkness into a sea of little lights with their cell phones.
The opening band was the Silversun Pickups, who I saw once before when they opened for Silverchair back in December of 07. They were pretty good, but I’m not really familiar with any of their songs.
During the break between bands I looked through my program some, which had some interesting info on how they developed the set for this tour and so forth. A couple of the women next to me were very interested in my program, so I let them look at it a bit, too.
Muse’s stage set up was pretty cool. It had a look of a sort of apocalyptic future city in shades of grey. There were platforms that each of the guys were on that raised and lowered (which was rather nice for those of us in the super high balcony seats, particularly), and they had a background screen that various images were projected on. I believe things started out with the screen showing a bunch of non-descript , shadowy, individuals walking to the edge of a cliff and then falling off.
They started the show with “Uprising”, and then by the point they moved on to “Resistance” my view had been mostly blocked by an energetic trio of drunk young women - still drinking beer, and dancing/waving their arms, etc. This kind of put a damper on my enjoyment of the rest of the show, unfortunately. The women next to me tried several times to yell at them and get them to sit down - even using different voices to make it seem like a lot of different people were complaining - but it was of little use. Muse still sounded great, but the women were just so distracting and annoying.
Anyway, the rest of the setlist went as such:
Resistance
New Born
Map of the Problematique
Supermasive Black Hole
Guiding Light
Hysteria
Nishe
United States of Eurasia
Feeling Good
Helsinki Jam
Undisclosed Desires
Starlight
Unnatural Selection
Time is Running Out
Plug in Baby
Encore
Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1: Overture
Stockholm Syndrome
Knights of Cydonia
There was one point, I want to say it was around Starlight, but I kind of think it was at a different point, that the drunk women left, and I thought that they might have actually left for good. However, after about a song and a half, they returned and it was clear that the reason they left was to go get more beer. The time that they were gone though was great - I had a super clear view and was able to enjoy the show a lot more.
Muse at the United Center
03/12/10
There was a bit of a mixup with my ticket, that is, for some reason I couldn’t access my ticket online so I couldn’t print it. I had to call ticketmaster and have them send a copy to the box office at the United Center, which worked out okay.
I bought at Muse program as soon as I walked in, and then headed up several escalators to the highest balcony. I had never been up that high in the United Center before. My seat was off to the right side of the stage, but I was in the second row of my area. This area offered an interesting perspective of the people standing on the floor, particularly, and I enjoyed watching them turn the darkness into a sea of little lights with their cell phones.
The opening band was the Silversun Pickups, who I saw once before when they opened for Silverchair back in December of 07. They were pretty good, but I’m not really familiar with any of their songs.
During the break between bands I looked through my program some, which had some interesting info on how they developed the set for this tour and so forth. A couple of the women next to me were very interested in my program, so I let them look at it a bit, too.
Muse’s stage set up was pretty cool. It had a look of a sort of apocalyptic future city in shades of grey. There were platforms that each of the guys were on that raised and lowered (which was rather nice for those of us in the super high balcony seats, particularly), and they had a background screen that various images were projected on. I believe things started out with the screen showing a bunch of non-descript , shadowy, individuals walking to the edge of a cliff and then falling off.
They started the show with “Uprising”, and then by the point they moved on to “Resistance” my view had been mostly blocked by an energetic trio of drunk young women - still drinking beer, and dancing/waving their arms, etc. This kind of put a damper on my enjoyment of the rest of the show, unfortunately. The women next to me tried several times to yell at them and get them to sit down - even using different voices to make it seem like a lot of different people were complaining - but it was of little use. Muse still sounded great, but the women were just so distracting and annoying.
Anyway, the rest of the setlist went as such:
Resistance
New Born
Map of the Problematique
Supermasive Black Hole
Guiding Light
Hysteria
Nishe
United States of Eurasia
Feeling Good
Helsinki Jam
Undisclosed Desires
Starlight
Unnatural Selection
Time is Running Out
Plug in Baby
Encore
Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1: Overture
Stockholm Syndrome
Knights of Cydonia
There was one point, I want to say it was around Starlight, but I kind of think it was at a different point, that the drunk women left, and I thought that they might have actually left for good. However, after about a song and a half, they returned and it was clear that the reason they left was to go get more beer. The time that they were gone though was great - I had a super clear view and was able to enjoy the show a lot more.