Dubai Festival City 2008 (gig)

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Muse show
Venue	Dubai Festival City[1] (Dubai Desert Rock Festival[2] - headline[1])
Date	8th March 2008[2]
Location	Dubai
Country	United Arab Emirates
Number of songs	15[3]
Support	Velvet Revolver, Marky Ramone[4] » Juliana Down, Spoon Feedas[4]
Event start UTC+4	15:00, 14:00 (doors)[1]
Capacity	Unknown
Ticket price AED	250.00 (one day) 350.00 (two days)[1]
Sold out?	Unknown

Announced by the official Muse website on the 25th of January.^[2] The band had been planning to visit Dubai on holiday and so decided to pay for the holiday by performing at the Dubai Desert Rock Festival.^[5]

The festival was promoted by Center Stage Management.^[1]

Speech

After Hysteria	Bellamy	"Hey Dubai, how're you doing?"[6]
After Fury		"Thanks very much, cheers".
After Take a Bow		"Thank you Dubai! We love you".
	Howard	"You guys rock Dubai, thank you. You guys are cool. See you next time, take care, cheers".

Media

DC101 apparently claimed that it would stream audio online, from the festival live throughout the weekend, but it did not.

SOUSOUS recorded the concert, of which six songs can be obtained here.

Set list

1. Close Encounters Riff + Knights of Cydonia
2. Hysteria
3. Map of the Problematique + riff
4. Supermassive Black Hole
5. New Born
   ^{(Glitterati Manson, white Kawai, black Fender Jazz Bass)}
6. Jam + Feeling Good
7. Butterflies & Hurricanes
   ^{(Mirror Manson, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
8. Invincible
   ^{(Kaoss Manson, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
9. Fury
   ^{(Seattle Manson, white Fender Jazz Bass)}
10. Starlight
11. Man of Mystery
    ^{(Kaoss Manson, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
12. Time Is Running Out
    ^{(Kaoss Manson, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
13. Plug In Baby
    ^{(Mirror Manson, red Fender Jazz Bass)}
    Encore
14. Stockholm Syndrome
15. Take a Bow

References

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e}

   Event information - 2008 - Time Out Dubai (www.timeoutdubai.com) fetched 2008-03-07

2. ↑ ^a b c

   Dubai Desert Rock announced! - 2008-01-25 - Official Muse website (muse.mu) fetched 2008-01-26

3. ↑
   Reference needed!
4. ↑ ^a b

   Official lineup page - 2008 - Dubai Desert Rock (verify) fetched 2008-03-07

5. ↑

   Muse Play Albert Hall - 2008-02-19 - Matt Everitt (verify)

6. ↑

   Recording - SOUSOUS (muselive.com)

See also

• Dubai Festival City
• Official Dubai Desert Rock Festival website

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