Muse @ Glastonbury 2004
Muse played at Glastonbury on 27th June 2004, as part of their Absolution tour.
Review (from here)
With a set that looks like its been made from old leftover props from the original Star Wars films, Muse stride out in front of a massive audience hungry for a mind-blowing experience to end the weekend. Matt Bellamy, dressed in a long white coat and now looking every inch the rock star he's always believed himself to be, isn't about to disappoint. For Muse, this is home turf - and for the next hour and a half they rock the festival site like the all conquering heroes they've turned out to be.
The sounds that emanate from this three piece are truly mind blowing, Matt Bellamys custom built silver guitars producing the kind of sounds that shatter your brain - futuristic widdly-widdly guitar squeaks and squelches, this is a true virtuoso guitarist who isn't afraid to show off.
Songs like Plug In Baby and Newborn rock like the heaviest, grooviest things you've ever heard - a 60,000 strong moshpit gyrating to every downtuned guitar riff, all coming together in a celebration of pure primal rage. If every band has their definitive moment, this may just be Muses. Playing in front of an adoring audience who know every nuance of every song, this is a mind-blowing performance. The singalongs that greet songs like Muscle Museum, Newborn and Plug In Baby are truly uplifting, and if this isn't Muses definitive moment then its at least their greatest so far.
Armed with an impressive array of songs that have been designed specifically for this kind of occasion - epic seems like an understatement when hearing some of these songs blasting from the stage, that three people are producing this massive wall of noise is quite simply stunning.
A set that looks like an abandoned spaceship, monumentally epic songs, psychedelic lightshow and gigantic video backdrops showing everything from apocalyptic war zones to serene wildlife - this is a fitting end to Glastonbury 2004. Managing to pull off the performance of the weekend, on the Pyramid Stage at least - walking away through the ankle deep mud - the fireworks that erupt in the dark black sky seem like an anticlimax.
Setlist
Hysteria
New Born
Sing For Absolution
Muscle Museum
Citizen Erased
Piano Interlude 1
Apocalypse Please
Ruled By Secrecy
Piano Interlude 2
Sunburn
Riff
Butterflies and Hurricanes
Bliss
Time is Running Out
Plug in Baby
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Blackout
Stockholm Syndrome
Outro
The Absolution Tour DVD
On 12th December 2005, Muse released a DVD of the Absolution Tour, available in the UK, France and Spain. In the words of Tom Kirk, "the DVD features re-edited and re-mastered highlights from Glastonbury Festival 2004 and previously unseen footage from London Earls Court, Wembley Arena and The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles." The majority of the DVD is the performance at Glastonbury 2004.
The tracklisting is as follows:
Glastonbury
1. Hysteria
2. New Born
3. Sing For Absolution
4. Muscle Museum
5. Apocalypse Please
6. Ruled By Secrecy
7. Sunburn
8. Butterflies and Hurricanes
9. Bliss
10. Time Is Running Out
11. Plug In Baby
12. Blackout
Extras
1. Fury - live in Los Angeles
2. The Small Print - live at Earls' Court
3. Stockholm Syndrome - live at Earls' Court
4. The Groove In The States - live in Cincinatti / San Diego
Easter Eggs
Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist - live at Wembley
Endlessly - live at Wembley
* To access the easter eggs - go onto the extras menu - the 4 tracks aove are listed. Scroll through them, and just before you get to the "back" button, the X in "extras" to the left will glow. Press enter and you will get the easter eggs!
The DVD can be purchased from Amazon.co.uk here
Downloads
mp3's of the performance can be downloaded from muselive under Media Downloads>Glastonbury2k4
Images can be found at the microcuts.net gallery, here.
There are also many videos on YouTube, some of which are linked to below:
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