Speculation on future gigs/tours

[They]

Originally Posted by Tom//P

When I heard the New Born that was played at Leeds University in 2001 on youtube it sounded too fast haha! I must be used to their slower version... But in all honesty it doesn't bother me, I think there are other more important areas (guitar tone, matt's more powerful voice and in my opinion, nicer tone) to me that make the more recent versions (only where matt's playing the piano), like L&R '11, Teignmouth '09, Berlin '09, the best versions of the song I've heard!

Yeah, I'd prefer Glasto 10's tone to Glasto 04's, though that final scream from 04 can't be beaten. The energy seems fine recently, were the arena performances significantly worse?

[Clunge]

Glasto '04 tone > all other points of Muse history.

[Tom//P]

Originally Posted by Clunge

Glasto '04 tone > all other points of Muse history.

Do you mean you prefer the distortion mic?...

[Beibi]

Distortion mic

[Riveon]

Originally Posted by Dee3Dee

Frankly, they don't need to play all the hits at every gig. There are loads of songs that are practically exactly the same in terms of being a singalong, or using balloons, clapping along etc. Basically I'd be okay if they did these rotations on the next tour (just examples, cba writing them all down):

Bliss - Plug In Baby (balloons, singing along etc)
Resistance - Starlight (both are equally uninteresting and fill the same purpose)
Map of the Problematique - MK Ultra (Works well enough)
New Born - Unnatural Selection (Obvious. Only if Matt plays the intro though, and they play it slightly faster, otherwise New Born can go die in a fire)
TIRO - Hysteria (Also fairly obvious)

Agreed except just drop Resistance, doesn't have anything going for it live. Starlight is actually a bit better. I don't dislike hearing any of their regularly played hits (except to some extent Resistance), but they're all* just...there. Even Hysteria - the bass intro was great, same with the solo, but the rest of the song I barely remember. Maybe I've heard them on YT too many times. But I definitely agree, they really can swap around a lot of these.

*well not motp and some others

[Jobby]

Thing is, although the hits should be rotated at least a little bit, you just know that they're not gonna start leaving songs like Starlight out of sets.

[mjartrod]

Originally Posted by HannahG123

Don't you worry I will certainly not be booing,

I was talking about other people booing, not you I got the impression you were wondering if you'd find people booing at the gigs, that's why i said that. Maybe i got it wrong lol

I lurves me some Starlight live

[GSMU7]

Originally Posted by Electricmuser96

Thing is, although the hits should be rotated at least a little bit, you just know that they're not gonna start leaving songs like Starlight out of sets.

That triple of Undisclosed Desires, Resistance and Starlight actually sucked all the energy out of me after a long day at Reading. At least 2 of them need to go or at least don't play them all together. And to think Resistance was one of my favorite when i first heard it live.

[WutDaFucksy]

The huge groan of disappointment in my section of the crowd at Reading when UD started was hilarious

[Dee3Dee]

Originally Posted by WutDaFucksy

The huge groan of disappointment in my section of the crowd at Reading when UD started was hilarious

Was even better in Leeds. I heard groans, boos and all sorts of disapproving noises!

[Sippe]

Originally Posted by Dee3Dee

Was even better in Leeds. I heard groans, boos and all sorts of disapproving noises!

All Matt heard were the voices in his head, cheering loudly.

[Jobby]

Originally Posted by WutDaFucksy

The huge groan of disappointment in my section of the crowd at Reading when UD started was hilarious

Same thing happened where I was at Leeds, it felt sort of satisfying to know that that many people were voicing how bad the song was live

I wonder, if setlists get worse on the next tour or if the band play more 16-17 song gigs, will they have a full on booing crowd on their hands? It's got to the point now where more and more people seem to be seeing their flaws and complaining.

[Dee3Dee]

Originally Posted by Sippe

All Matt heard were the voices in his head, cheering loudly.

I'm surprised he can hear anything at all when his head is so far up his own ass.

Originally Posted by Electricmuser96

Same thing happened where I was at Leeds, it felt sort of satisfying to know that that many people were voicing how bad the song was live

I wonder, if setlists get worse on the next tour or if the band play more 16-17 song gigs, will they have a full on booing crowd on their hands? It's got to the point now where more and more people seem to be seeing their flaws and complaining.

Hopefully more people will see through the cheap tricks they're trying to pull and let them know about it.

[Oh Hannah]

Originally Posted by mjartrod

I was talking about other people booing, not you I got the impression you were wondering if you'd find people booing at the gigs, that's why i said that. Maybe i got it wrong lol

I lurves me some Starlight live

Oh I see I was really joking but it sounds like its not uncommon but on a small scale of coarse. I'm sure most people who boo are doing it in a jokey way, like if they started playing guiding light when I was there I'm sure I'd start laughing purely because I know how much hate it gets, even though I don't have a problem with it personally .

People booing at reading and Leeds is a bit far even if it is a joke, I mean come on they gave you what you wanted, the whole freaking OOS live

[Dee3Dee]

Originally Posted by HannahG123

People booing at reading and Leeds is a bit far even if it is a joke, I mean come on they gave you what you wanted, the whole freaking OOS live

Doesn't matter. UD is a shit live song no matter what/where the gig is.