MUSE @ GLASTONBURY, 26th June 2010
The Devonian rock-trio strike again, at the world’s most famous contemporary music festival. It’s Saturday night, and here they headlined the pyramid stage with the biggest crowd I have seen since Chelsea fans filled the road to Wembley for their FA Cup win in May. Like any Muse gig, all were excited and looking forward to an epic set of some of the most amazing rock songs written over the last decade. Crazy riff jams and feedback effects were made use of inbetween songs, complimented by an amazing light show and background visualisations. Muse were on top form, playing all the classics and even a few of the newer ones. At one point the bassist Chris Wolstenholme whipped out a pipe and started a’puffing! After the fourth song, frontman Matt Bellamy called out “Big shout for Mr Eavis! And His Daughter!”
As a consolation for the previous headliners having had to cancel, U2’s guitarrist ‘The Edge’ made an unexpected appearance to play one of U2’s songs with Muse, ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’. At some points I felt the pyramid stage had turned into a space ship and was going to blast off. Anyway, enough waffling. Here’s some pictures I managed to screen-capture from the live BBC footage (thanks BBC!) and the set-list.
Setlist
Uprising
Supermassive Black Hole
New Born
Map of the Problematique
Guiding Light
Citizen Erased
United States of Eurasia
Feeling Good
Undisclosed Desires
Albinoni’s Adagio into The Resistance
Hysteria (with Absolution Interlude)
House of the Rising Sun (sung by crowd)
Time Is Running Out
Starlight
Stockholm Syndrome
Where The Streets Have No Name (with U2’s The Edge)
Plug-In Baby
Morricone’s ‘The Man With The Harmonica’
Knights of Cydonia
