London Royal Albert Hall 2008 (gig)

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The band during Megalomania
The band during Megalomania
Muse show
Venue Royal Albert Hall (Teenage Cancer Trust event)[1][2][3][4]
Date 12th April 2008[2][4]
Location London
Country United Kingdom
Number of songs 16
Support The Futureheads[5]
Event start UTC+1 20:00,[6] 18:45 (doors)[7][6]
Capacity 5,544[8]
Ticket price GBP
  • 19.50-70.00[4]

    »

  • 19.50 ([?])[9]
  • 39.50-49.50 (west choir, east choir, circle)[10]
  • 49.50 (arena - stood)[7]
  • 49.50 (stalls, second tier box, loggia box, grand tier box)[10]
  • 70.00 ([?])[9]
Sold out? Yes[7]

Muse had originally been approached by TCT concert organiser Roger Daltrey of The Who a "few" years beforehand, after performing at the same unspecified festival, which Dominic Howard later thought was Belgian. This festival may have been Rock Werchter 2006. Due to other obligations, Muse were unable to participate until 2008, when Daltry asked Muse again to play the event.[11]

Matthew Bellamy stated in a February 18th interview that Muse would be performing in the Royal Albert Hall as part of a cancer charity event.[3] He had heard of the event within the past "couple" of days and decided to partake in the event, partly due to wanting to play a relatively small capacity venue.[3] The following day, the MTV UK website claimed that Muse would be performing on the 12th April.[12] Both MTV and VH1, which helps organise the event, are subsidiary companies of Viacom. The date was confirmed by the official Muse website on the 20th of February.[2]

Choir seating ticket stub
Choir seating ticket stub

The official lineup was announced on the 21st of February, while ticket sale started following morning at 10:00.[1][2] Seemingly resulting from the number of people attempting to purchase the relatively small number of tickets available, Seetickets went down shortly prior to the sale starting.[13][14] Soon after the sale started and before tickets sold out, re-sellers had started listing theirs on eBay with a "Buy It Now" of the order of £300.[15]

From March 26th to 17:00 on the 30th of March,[16] choir area tickets were put up for raffle in pairs, each ticket of which cost £10.[16] The choir area is situated behind the band, on either side of the pipe organ.[9] 278 further tickets were reserved for those entrants who didn't win the raffle, which were sold out shortly after going on sale.[9]

While Bellamy expressed a desire to perform with an orchestra in a venue similar to the Royal Albert Hall, he felt that hiring musicians at such late notice would be unfair.[17]

In the lead up to the concert, fans speculated as to the possibility of Megalomania being played on the venue's organ,[18][19] which is second largest in the United Kingdom.[20] It was played during the afternoon's soundcheck,[21][22] purportedly along with at least Butterflies & Hurricanes, Feeling Good,[22] and Bliss[9]. There were apparently spotlights on the organ[23] and moreover the organ apparently had a microphone and camera on it.[24]. Muse did end up playing Megalomania[25] on the pipe organ[26], as the first song of the encore. Morgan Nicholls played an ukelele during the song.

During an interview that took place before the afternoon soundcheck but not published until after the concert, whilst frequently looking behind himself at the organ Matthew Bellamy explained his fear of playing a wrong note on it. As the band hadn't played the song in nearly six years, he had to re-learn the part for the occassion, which he did on the day itself. At the point of this pre-sound check interview, Bellamy was still unsure as to whether the band would play Megalomania, at that point it was down to whether the soundcheck was successful.[21]

The original event start was reported to be 19:30 with the doors opening at 18:45,[7][27] but Muselive reported it more accurately the day before the concert as the support starting at 20:00,[6] from a Muse management e-mail.[28] The full schedule can be seen below. Given these times, Muse have a maximum of two hours to perform during, although The Who apparently ran over the alloted time for their TCT gig of a previous year.[9]

Of the show itself, a different, new New Born riff outro was played,[29] of which speculation was soon started as to it being the precursor to a new song,[30][31] though the riff was actually Headup by the Deftones. Invincible was played slower than it usually has been.[32] Fury was again played in B flat.[33] Bliss made a return, in extended form accompanied by balloons.[34]

After Megalomania, Wolstenholme and Howard played the Osaka Jam (officially known as 'Drum and Bass'), which is popular with die-hard fans, while Bellamy came back to the stage after playing the organ. When he returned, he joined Wolstenholme and Howard for the last part of the jam, which led into the intro of Plug In Baby.

Schedule[6]

Gig timings
Gig timings

From later to earlier

  • 23:00 - Curfew
  • 21:00 - Muse
  • 20:30 - Interval
  • 20:00 - Futureheads
  • 18:45 - Doors

Speech

After Take a BowBellamy"Hello Royal Albert Hall, how are you guys doing? ... A great pleasure to be here for you".
After Map of the ProblematiqueHoward"Thank you very much, Albert Hall. Nice to see you".
After Supermassive Black Hole"Cheers".
After New BornBellamyThank you very much, cheers".
After Butterflies & Hurricanes"Cheers".
After FuryBellamy"Thank you very much".
After Feeling Good
Before Invincible"It's a great honour to be here in this great venue... and for such a great cause. I'd like to say a particular thank you to Roger Daltry for organising and inviting us to play".
After Hysteria"Thank you very much".
After Starlight
Before BlissHoward"Thank you London. Thanks to you guys up here as well".
Before MegalomaniaBellamy"Well seeing as we're playing the Albert Hall, I thought it'd be rude not to play this beast!".
Before Knights of Cydonia"Thank you very much for coming down tonight, it's been a great pleasure to be here. Certainly going to play here again."
After Knights of Cydonia"Thank you very much, [?] we love you, thank you teenage cancer trust, see you at V Festival".
HowardThank you London, it's been a pleasure to be here this evening. [?] Thank you very much, we'll see you again soon, you guys are great, cheers".

Media

SOUSOUS recorded the concert, four songs of which he shared as a preview. His full recording is available in FLAC format here. It is also available on Muselive here and here.

Another recording was made by 'Petrock2000', which is also available in FLAC format, here and in mp3 format here.

Audio hashes

  • SOUSOUS' recording hash tables »

  • Here are hashes of the pcm audio data.
    #md5
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    058fe441a0e6de7b1934ecda57f1c56ed5
    061261528300d183161477a6d126771e07
    0730005ca5e3c61a38b5b680089b2d8e55
    0848c0b4335526ce4bc345042dfed62b74
    09458f35d2aedcb6d446204547861bfff9
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    111b6ead67eea6f5f48fd57ed3891c593d
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Set list

Set list
Set list
  1. Take a Bow
  2. Map of the Problematique + Heartbreaker riff
  3. Supermassive Black Hole
  4. New Born + Headup riff + Ashamed outro
  5. Butterflies & Hurricanes
  6. Fury
  7. Feeling Good
  8. Invincible
  9. Hysteria
  10. Starlight
  11. Riff + Bliss (extended)
  12. Whole Lotta Love jam + Bombtrack riff + Jimmy Jam + Voodoo Child (Slight Return) riff + Time Is Running Out
  13. Hangar 18 outro + Stockholm Syndrome + Township Rebellion riff + Agitated outro + riff
    Encore
  14. Riff + Megalomania (watch) + Drum and Bass
  15. Plug In Baby
  16. Close Encounters riff + Knights of Cydonia

References

  1. ↑ a b

    Teenage Cancer Trust Royal Albert Hall 2008 - 2008 - Teenage Cancer Trust (www.teenagecancertrust.org) fetched 2008-02-18

  2. ↑ a b c d

    Teenage Cancer Trust Show Announced! - 2008-02-20 - Official Muse website (muse.mu)

  3. ↑ a b c

    Most Wanted with Ben Jones - 2008-02-18 - Ben Jones (verify)

  4. ↑ a b c

    TCT Albert Hall Gigs 2008 - 2008-02-21 - Teenage Cancer Trust (verify)

  5. ↑

    The Futureheads to support Muse at TCT show! - 2008-03-20 - Official Muse website (muse.mu) fetched 2008-03-20

  6. ↑ a b c d

    Muselive Meetup & Times - Royal Albert Hall - 2008-04-10 - Tom/Muse management (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  7. ↑ a b c d

    Teenage Cancer Trust Royal Albert Hall 2008 - 2008-02-22 - Seetickets/TCT (seetickets.com)

  8. ↑

    Royal Albert Hall - Wikipedia (secure.wikimedia.org) fetched 2008-02-21

  9. ↑ a b c d e f
    Reference needed!
  10. ↑ a b

    Teenage Cancer Trust tickets Royal Albert Hall London - 2008-02-22 - Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.co.uk)

  11. ↑

    Most Wanted with Ben Jones - 2008-04-15 - Ben Jones (verify)

  12. ↑

    Muse To Play Albert Hall - 2008-02-19 - Tom Thorogood (www.mtv.co.uk)

  13. ↑

    Muselive thread - 2008-02-22 - Muselive (muselive.com)

  14. ↑

    Muse forum post/thread - 2008-02-22 - leetroot (board.muse.mu)

  15. ↑

    Muse forum post - 2008-02-22 - Mikky (board.muse.mu)

  16. ↑ a b

    100 Tickets for MUSE @ Royal Albert Hall. - 2008-03-26 - Tom (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-04

  17. ↑

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

  18. ↑

    Muselive post - 2008-02-18 - Tene (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  19. ↑

    Poll: Will Muse play Megalomania at RAH on the big organ? - 2008-02-23 - jim24 (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  20. ↑

    Royal Albert Hall - Wikipedia (secure.wikimedia.org) fetched 2008-04-12

  21. ↑ a b

    Muse Interview - 2008-04-14 - MTV UK (verify)

  22. ↑ a b

    Muse forum post - 2008-04-12 - gazgriff (board.muse.mu) fetched 2008-04-12

  23. ↑

    Muse forum post - 2008-04-12 - salanderson (board.muse.mu) fetched 2008-04-12

  24. ↑

    Muse forum post - 2008-04-12 - Hixxy (board.muse.mu) fetched 2008-04-12

  25. ↑

    Muselive forum post - 2008-04-12 - ~screenager~ (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  26. ↑

    Muselive forum post - 2008-04-12 - nimpo46 (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  27. ↑

    Teenage Cancer Trust tickets Royal Albert Hall London - 2008-02-21 - Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.co.uk)

  28. ↑

    Muselive post - 2008-04-10 - Tom (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  29. ↑

    Muselive forum post - 2008-04-12 - nimpo46 (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  30. ↑

    Muselive forum post - 2008-04-12 - ablazex (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  31. ↑

    Muse forum post - 2008-04-12 - ADAM (board.muse.mu) fetched 2008-04-12

  32. ↑

    Muselive forum post - 2008-04-12 - nimpo46 (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  33. ↑

    Muselive forum post - 2008-04-12 - ash-onguitar (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

  34. ↑

    Muselive forum post - 2008-04-12 - ~screenager~ (muselive.com) fetched 2008-04-12

See also


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