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Anyone else going?
Looks like it might be a tad on the damp side... :(
Yes my mate and I are also going. I wonder if they'll put the roof on for us?!
I can't wait. I'll be wearing all my outdoor weatherproof gear, so if its sunny, I might get a bit sweaty!
So jealous of the both of you. I was at the Isle of Wight Festival at the weekend and Muse were definitely the highlight! I've not seen them live before and it's made listening to their CD's quite tame :d
Hope you both have a great time!
So jealous of the both of you. I was at the Isle of Wight Festival at the weekend and Muse were definitely the highlight! I've not seen them live before and it's made listening to their CD's quite tame :d
Hope you both have a great time!
Oh they are so very good live. That's what got me into their music in the first place.
Thanks very much for the best wishes, I'm sure we will have a good time.
Digsy, what gates will you be going in by? We are through F stands, or something. Standing on the pitch. That'll be something in itself!
I have no idea. We've gone for a soft option and got a grandstand ticket, which we don't get until we get on the coach (to stop re-selling it on eBay I guess).
Well I did buy 4 tickets, but the 2 others dropped out, so I sold them on Ebay. No problems whatsoever, and made a tidy profit on top too!
I didn't know I had standing only tickets, but as I've always been seated before, it will be a crush trying to get as close as possible. Great!
We're going too - first proper concert I've been to and I'm going to get soaked. I've got a seat though!!
Just about to leave home for the 'arduous' journey to Wembley.
Faye, if this is your first proper concert, you won't be disappointed! You're being spoilt really, as Muse are brilliant live.
I hope the weather isn't too bad, and hope you have a great day out. :)
My wife is taken our two eldest kids(14 and 15) to see them tomorrow, the first gig for both of them. I do hope they have a good time, I get to stay at home and look after the youngest:)
Going with a mate tomorrow night and can't wait, 2nd visit to Wembley in the space of a month :)
Can someone let me know what time Muse are due on to the stage?
Not sure what time to leave tomorrow on the train .. which means an afternoon of trying to make head or tails of the train websites :(
8.30-10.30pm, so my daughter tells me:)
on the coach now posting this on my pda! just lost a bet with my girlfriend because everyone else brought packed lunches too. rock n roll! :)
Have a good time,but not sure a packed lunch is very rock n roll, but that won't stop the wife:d
If any of you are going in a group, and someone decides to drop out, I know someone who'd be more than willing to take the spare ticket :innocent:
Faye, if this is your first proper concert, you won't be disappointed! You're being spoilt really, as Muse are brilliant live.
I hope the weather isn't too bad, and hope you have a great day out. :)
Don't care about the weather now, just getting excited :D
8.30-10.30pm, so my daughter tells me:)
Cheers squire, looks like we'll be spending some time in ye old watering hole then :)
Good for you hope you enjoy:)
Good for you hope you enjoy:)
Mate has just called and said he's gonna drive up, ah well a few drinks for me then :)
Looking forward to a write up tomorrow of the concert tonight :)
live from the coach on the way back. bloomin heck that were good! how about those mexican guitarists? my hand hurt just watching!
I thought the dirty pretty things sound setup was a bit of a mess and the less said about the streets the better ;)
gobsmacked that they opened with knights of cydonia - and closed with take a bow! I think I lost half a stone bouncing around and my voice is buggered from trying to sing along to the high notes. what a voice!
those going on sunday are in for a treat. just make sure the gig is really really finished before you leave! ;)
food was a rip off - hurrah for packed lunches! and the weather held right to the end!!
One of the few bands i have yet to see, you can really hear the Buckley influence in voice and sound/texture if that makes any sense :blink:
:D I had an excellent evening, however I'm still convinced you can't have some of those tracks at a loud enough volume.
I thought we'd got there late enough to avoid the Streets, but alas no :( They truly were shocking.
Did the weather stay dry, or did they close the roof, wife was asking as they are leaving soon to catch the coach:d
It has to be the best way to spend fathers day, only the youngest one to look after, and F1 latter on. Not sure the 4 year old be able to sleep at 5.30 though:d
Did the weather stay dry, or did they close the roof, wife was asking as they are leaving soon to catch the coach:d
It stayed dry :)
I'm really jealous now. I seen them live in Aberdeen last year and they were great.
Just waiting for my mate to turn up at about 12.30 and then we're off :)
Been playing a few tracks this morning and am now really looking forward to this, gonna be a long day :d
Have a great time - hope the weather stays nice!
Have a great time - hope the weather stays nice!
Cheers Faye, will report back either tonight or tomorrow :d
Just dropped the wife and kids off, now what else do I need for the car, well it is fathers day:d
I loved Rodrigo Y Gabriela, awesome stuff, thought Dirty Pretty Things were wank and despite not liking The Streets I really enjoyed their set, lot of fun. Muse were awesome, unsurprisingly, even better than their last show at the Arena in November I reckon.
Sorry this is a bit late in the day, but I haven't been up all that long, and we had to go shopping first thing!
Well, what can I say, that was a fantastic concert!
Took bloody hours getting there, and developed a problem with car*, hours waiting, then 2 glorious hours later, it was all over. Then hours getting home again. Eventually got home around 4am. Only a brief delay at Wembley Park subway station, what with all those people trying to get away. I was impressed by the police horses though. So well trained, shame about the coppers riding them though ;) Luckily it only started raining when we were leaving, so not too bad really.
The new Wembley Stadium is 'awesome' (to repeat a well known phrase!), an enormous area of land and sea of seats. I wouldn't have liked to been at the back, you'd have to have used binoculars to see them. Very impressive stage and screens though.
Dirty Pretty Things were weak. Only a couple of tracks were worth listening to. The Streets, although I didn't like them before, I don't dislike them as much now! Would be a good set in an arena etc. Wembley Stadium was a little big for them.
Muse's set was longer than previous, and as Digsy says, they opened on Knights of Cydonia, which was a bit of a shame, because it needed the full attention of a warmed up crowd. Quite a few people commented that they were looking forward to hearing it, although they'd already performed it!
The choice of songs was different to previous concerts too. More slower tracks and lots of piano, which was great to hear. It was a great success anyway, as they did play virtually all my favourite tracks, new and old. I think Soldier's Poem was a little lost there, but 'The Shadows' track was a delight. Stockholm Syndrome is always a showstopper though. :)
I'm currently still wearing one of the official t-shirts that I bought during the waiting, waiting and waiting!
Overall it was a thoroughly excellent adventure, but I'm knackered! Anyone going today will have a fabulous time, but I don't envy the journey home!
*On the way up to where I was going to park the car, I developed a boost leak. I think the turbo is spinning (very loud whistling), but I have very little boost. I think I may have a split in one of the pipes, which is letting air escape (any comments?). That'll teach me to race Tuscans won't it?! I did win though, 'R4 YCY' tried for a bit then pulled over. Probably preserving his engine from explosion I'd thought! :)
Apologies for the late post but here goes :)
God what a day! What a concert!
Started off at 12.50 when I got picked up and by 12.52 was sat in my local having a pint :) then we drove up to London, was gonna park in the short stay of Heathrow but £38 for 12 hours saw that dismissed, went to park at Hounslow and ended up in Richmond so an hour later and we were at Wembley.
Spent 30 minutes queuing for the only cashpoint around :( and then went in The Parish for a couple more pints :) Quick visit to Maccy D's (yeah not normal trust me) we walked round the whole of Wembley to get to our door, typical :)
Walked in to see My Chemical Romance who were pretty good and got the crowd going fairly well. We were right up in the gods so everyone on stage looked like ants but the sound was spot on.
Concert started at 8.00 almost on the dot .. I, like AndrewOW and a few others here, really can't believe they started with Knights of Cydonia, that really should be their closing track but who am I to argue with Muse :)
Loads of great rocking tracks, Supermassive Black Hole, Starlight, Map of the Prolematique, New Born, Plug in Baby etc some of the slow ones I don't enjoy that much but that's my own personal taste :)
The two women on those massive ballons over head of the crowd was stunning and the big balloons being released at the end was a great touch .. I was shattered at the end and hadn't even been dancing that much, concert ended about 10.10.
Now the saga of getting home! Just before Muse came on there was an announcement saying that the south bound Metropolitan line had been closed so it was only the Jubilee Line running and people were to stay clear of Wembley Park station, doh!
Found out from a copper that some daft scaffolder had decided that it would be a good idea to fall onto the track .. knob!
Left the concert and it took an hour to get to Wembley Park station due to everyone wanting to go the same way, the walkway down to the station was a sight to behold, I have no idea of how many people but the place was packed solid! Finally got on tube and got to Earls Court only to find that our last hop to Richmond had been closed due to engineering work .. at midnight this wasn't funny, dived across to Hammersmith and then spent half an hour debating whether to get a bus or a taxi and then I made the decision to hunt for a taxi, spotted one almost straight away and ran over and said to him "can you take us to Richmond" ...
... now at this point I'd always been on the understanding that any taxi driver in a black cab had to have "The Knowledge" ie a f****ng good idea of where places were in London so when he looked at me blankly and said "sorry I don't know where that is" I almost reached through the window to tear his head off! :)
Luckily my mate has driven round London a fair few times and we told him we'd direct him, how absurd is that, having to direct a London cabbie 5 miles down the road and then being charged £15 for the priviledge of him driving at snails pace!?!? :badmood:
Got back to the car at 12.50 just as the rain started and got home at 2.00am to be greeted by the misses who was up for hearing all about it, got to bed about 3.30 and woke up at 8.50, supposed to be at work for 9.00 .. ah the joys of being able to work from home if need be :)
So all in all, fanflippingamazinglytastic day / concert, partially spoilt by the crappy London transport system and a useless taxi driver, can't wait for the next big concert there! :d
Wife and kids got back to swindon at 1.30 last night, wife said it was excellent, although she said there didn't seem to be an awful lot of surport for the surport bands:)
Wife and kids got back to swindon at 1.30 last night
How in gods name did she manage that? I live in Southampton which is nearer than Swindon and got home at 2 :(
Have you got a private helicopter that you aint told us about :d
I've just downloaded their new single, Map of the Problematique, which was recorded live from Wembley from their website and its not iTunes compatible! Nadgers.
Maybe iTunes will have it at some stage. I want it on my iPod!
Still hammering the CD player in my car :)
We got picked up at 09:00 and didn't get back home until 03:00 - felt totally knackered the next day. Thank God we didn't go on the Sunday.
I went on YouTube to look for the Knights of Cydonia video last night and was amazed to see the first three pages of hits were people posting their cameraphone footage of the gig :)
*edit* - Quck Q for the peeps who went on Saturday: Did Matt Bellamy or did he not accidentally bugger over on the wet stage early on? I think it was during the second or third number. I missed whatever happened, but the crowd all kind of suddenly cheered / laughed and when I looked at the video screen it seemed as if he was getting up off the floor.
*edit* - Quck Q for the peeps who went on Saturday: Did Matt Bellamy or did he not accidentally bugger over on the wet stage early on? I think it was during the second or third number. I missed whatever happened, but the crowd all kind of suddenly cheered / laughed and when I looked at the video screen it seemed as if he was getting up off the floor.
Yes he did slip slightly on the wet floor, but he didn't drop a note or anything. You could briefly see it on the screen.
Very risky those open air concerts. I was quite surprised the stage wasn't set back more under the roof, but peeps in the seats wouldn't see anything then ;)
Anyone else bought HAARP?
I'm watching the fantastic spectacle on my big tv right now.
Excellent stuff! :)
Bought it but not yet received it. Really looking forward to re-living the concert, what an awesome night especially when they played Plug In Baby, the excitement levels in the audience just went through the roof!!
I've had the CD playing in the car at full volume all week, which isn't good if you're trying to stay within the speed limits, but it just sounds incredible. Again ;)
I've had the CD playing in the car at full volume all week, which isn't good if you're trying to stay within the speed limits, but it just sounds incredible. Again ;)
Yeah, Muse tend to do that to people's driving :d
Might have to get Haarp for my birthday in a few weeks :)
YaY .. CD/DVD arrived yesterday in the post from CD-WOW .. never ordering from them again, they take far too long to deliver :(
Watched this yesterday with the surround sound on and the big TV, flipping hell I'd forgotten most of the concert :) Matt Bellamy does some bloody amazing things with the guitar! :cool:
Hope my cd player in the car works cos it's not been playing many cds for a while :(
YaY .. CD/DVD arrived yesterday in the post from CD-WOW .. never ordering from them again, they take far too long to deliver :(
Watched this yesterday with the surround sound on and the big TV, flipping hell I'd forgotten most of the concert :) Matt Bellamy does some bloody amazing things with the guitar! :cool:
Hope my cd player in the car works cos it's not been playing many cds for a while :(
:) You and me both then!
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