Muse paint bar glastonbury3/2/2024 ![]() ![]() Striding casually onstage with a cheery "hey!" they begin with Uprising – essentially what the Dr Who theme tune would sound like if Slade had written it in 1973 – before throwing away their biggest pop hit, Supermassive Black Hole, inside the first 10 minutes. But otherwise Muse's set is a ballsy, no-frills trawl through 21st-century rock's most powerful canon. The Pyramid stage – the cultural Canaveral from which Muse launched themselves into the headline hierarchy back in 2004 – gets as much of Muse 2010 as it can accommodate: steam flumes close Knights of Cydonia, honeycomb screens beam out hi-def visuals and pretty much everything they touch lights up – Dominic Howard's drums, Matt Bellamy's keytar and even the strings of his grand piano. Instead, the Devon three-piece focus on their music's sheer rock wallop. For some, anything short of the Pyramid stage literally lifting off for Mars will be a disappointment. Last year they scrapped the huge laser-beaming satellite set from their Wembley stadium stint and toured an arena show featuring a trio of hydraulic tower blocks now they've recycled them (we hope, for the planet's sake) into a swarm of flying saucers and a gigantic Tokyo corner office for their current tour. And like the best rock magicians, they never repeat the same trick twice. ![]() But still, they come: though Muse fail to arrive in the massive inflatable UFO they've been promising to sneak past every festival health and safety official since V2008, they still prove themselves a formidable celestial invasion.Įxpectations are understandably high: Muse have won every best live band award from here to Timbuktu on account of their resplendent space operas, thump-along pop hits and knack for a stadium-sized spectacle. What happened: The chances of anything coming from Teignmouth – or at least anything of this grandeur and magnitude – were a million to one, they said. Dress code: Red jeans and T-shirt for Matt Bellamy, white suit and pipe for bassist Chris Wolstenholme.
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