but i'm sure YOU KNEW i'd be blogging soon enough (otherwise you wouldn't be checking my blog and reading this), because YOU KNEW i went to watch Muse and YOU KNEW i would have to rub it in all your faces over and over again!
seriously. i had the best time of my life. ever. EVER. i can't believe i wasn't at all enthusiastic prior to the concert, having been tied up with hospital work and moving and cleaning and unpacking and all that. in fact i was so nonchalant about it that i didn't even bother bringing my camera out. biggest thing i regret to date. i really only realised the magnitude of the event while waiting for the tram to get to the concert site - there were easily hundreds of people waiting at the same stop, all going for the concert as well. and god knows there are only some thousand tram stops in the whole of manchester. we (amritawhocameallthewayfromglasgow and i) had to wait for 3 trams before managing to squeeze ourselves into the next one. we smelled armpits, had dandruff flaking off people's heads/coats onto ours and hung on to sweaty railings before we finally reached Old Trafford!! (the cricket ground not the football one)
i held my breath when i saw the terribly long queue waiting outside the entrances. the crowd was massive. and massive is an understatement (see this - and to think i was part of the crowd! SPOT ME!!!!!). but the officials were surprisingly efficient (they had to go through each and everyone's bags for security reasons) and we actually only had to wait for less than half an hour before we found ourselves right before the mega Muse throne that is the stage. AND we actually got to stand quite in front! turns out there were many, MANY more behind us.
so blabla fast forward the opening acts by Pulled Apart by Horses (utter rubbish), Band of Skulls (woohoo! they were really good!) and The Editors (quite good as well), we waited, and waited, and waited.
(and camwhored)
till.
THIS.
bloody. awesome. beyond. awesome.
i wonder how many people had multiple myocardial infarctions throughout. i didn't, but i very very nearly did.
sigh.
as you can see i have been suffering from a Muse-withdrawal that i've been on youtube nonstop (happily eating up all my mobile broadband bandwidth as my permanent broadband service has not been activated yet) watching videos of the performances. i put together a playlist of all the songs they played at the concert, in correct order. yup. kerayzee. so that i can relive the whole thing again and revel in the fact that i was there! three of the videos are my own: dom & matt on bass & drums (mk jam), exogenesis symphony part 1 and take a bow, taken by my useless nokia e71 camera. useless to the core. i wish i had brought a proper camera.
SIGH.
Muse. amazing, amazing band. matt can really sing live and is a brilliant guitarist and pianist. chris is so hot on the bass. and dom. i don't know how he does it on the drums. it's like he has infinite energy. i think my ultimate favourite parts of the concert were chris on the bass in the beginning of hysteria, when he played the harmonica before knights of cydonia, when he and dom did their solos in mk jam, and the whole of guiding light and supermassive black hole of course. erm. and new born. and united states of eurasia. and a short version of the house of the rising sun leading into time is running out. and maps of the problematique. hahaha. can you see where this is going.
oh you know what's interesting. i found out that i can actually stand/jump and hold my bladder for 8 hours straight. geez. concerts are so bad for the kidneys and blood circulation. but i don't care. i am definitely going for more Muse concerts in the future. i don't care.
