2012.11.01 - MEN Arena, Manchester, UK

[Batman.]

Originally Posted by manxmuser

Just about recovered from an amazing weekend in Manchester (also saw Nightwish on Sunday night - awesome!) - I thought Muse excelled themselves and it was the best of their three gigs we;ve seen so far. We were seated in Upper Tier Block 209 with a great view of the stage - much better than I expected for that location. I loved the setlist, although was disappointed they didn't do Hysteria. It looked like Matt was interacting a lot with the audience. However, don't know whether anyone else felt this, but the whole evening was almost spoilt for us by the appalling support band - I've already posted on here that I listened to them recently and wasn't impressed - I couldn't wait for them to get off and for Muse to come on. Fortunately, I enjoyed Muse so much that it saved the night!

I thought the support band were great, but their bassist looked insane

[K41]

Thought the support weren't great either, and they did at least 2/3 songs more than necessary we felt lol. Also, the bassist spitting everywhere and his gestures weren't v nice

[JessBeeby]

Originally Posted by K41

Thought the support weren't great either, and they did at least 2/3 songs more than necessary we felt lol. Also, the bassist spitting everywhere and his gestures weren't v nice

Yeah, me and my friend were like ewwwww! He kept spitting everywhere, the stage, in the air, just ew. And he kept punching his own head and like pointing at the audience, anyone else notice that?xD
The drummer was soo cute though haha ;3

[Museumpiece]

We also didn't like the spitting or the hand gestures. The sound mix wasn't very good either so it was almost impossible to make out any of the words being sung by Ritzy. We were relieved to see that a section of flooring was removed by the stage hands after the support finished; didn't like to think of Matt or Chris walking about in all that phlegm; yuk!

Muse were brilliant of course. Loved the bass going through us during Follow Me!

[Jordo21]

Was hoping someone low down behind or the side of the stage, videoed UD and followed Matt as he came to the audience.