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Quotes by [[Matthew Bellamy]], [[Christopher Wolstenholme]] and [[Dominic Howard]], [[Muse]] components, and on them.
[[File:Reading 2006-08-26 BBC d.jpg | thumb | right | [[Matthew Bellamy]]]]
==Matthew Bellamy==
[[File:Reading 2006-08-26 – line-up poster.jpg | thumb | right | Line-up poster]]
*Absolution is an album about relationships between you and the other things, whether its you and God, or you and your girlfriend...  
[[File:Reading05.jpg | thumb | right | Bellamy]]
**''Matthew Bellamy on the 3rd album, [[Absolution (album)|Absolution]].''
[[File:Reading 2006-08-26 – ticket.png | thumb | right | Weekend ticket]]
[[File:Reading 2006-08-26 BBC g.jpg | thumb | right | [[Dominic Howard]]]]
[[File:Reading 2006-08-26 poster.jpg | thumb | right | Line-up poster photograph]]
{{Gigbox
| Venue = Little John's Farm
| Event = Carling Weekend
| EventRef = <ref name="ticket">
{{cite/web |
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}}</ref><ref name="poster">
{{cite/web |
desc=Line-up poster | date=2009-03-25 | fetch=2011-05-12 | pub=Live Nation website | med=website | doc=:File:Reading 1999-08-27 – line-up poster.jpg | url=http://media.livenation.co.uk/fido/publishing/content/q/f/n/Reading-2006-with-comedy-stage.jpg | dom=media.livenation.com | type=int
}}</ref>
| Stage =  main stage - headline
| Date = 26{{supo|th}} August 2006
| DateRef = <ref name="poster"/>
| SubLocation = Richfield Avenue
| SubLocationRef = <ref name="ticket"/><ref name="poster"/>
| Location = Reading
| LocationRef = <ref name="ticket"/><ref name="poster"/>
| Country = United Kingdom
| Songs = 16
| Support = [[Arctic Monkeys]], [[The Streets]], [[Feeder]]
| Start = 22:15
| Zone = UTC+1
| Capacity = 80,000{{supn |capacity}}    <!-- FixMe: no. tickets -->
| Price = >60–>135{{supt |[[#Price details |‡]]}}
| Curr = GBP
| SoldOut = Yes
| SoldOutRef = <ref name="poster"/>
}}


*We were all off our faces on mushrooms when we recorded Plug In Baby... There was this big field next to the recording studio filled with them. So we ate them all. I don't know what we were doing, but we all ended up naked in a jacuzzi and I went deaf in one ear from falling asleep in the sauna...
{{GigNav
**''Matt on recording [[Plug In Baby (song)|Plug In Baby]] and going deaf.''
| Previous = [[Edinburgh Meadowbank Stadium 2006 (gig) | Meadowbank Stadium (T on the Fringe)]]
| Current = Little John's Farm (Carling Weekend)
| Next = [[Leeds Bramham Park 2006 (gig) | Bramham Park (Carling Weekend) ]]
}}


*Dom wants to be a stadium rock drummer and have a sweat towel tech...
== Information ==
**''Matt told [[NME (magazine)|NME]] in 2001.''
Muse headlined the Reading main stage on Saturday.  Their allotted time was from 22:00 to 23:30, but they started ~15 minutes late.{{cite/none}}  Mike Skinner ([[The Streets]]) said at the beginning of his performance "hello [[Pilton Worthy Farm 2004 (gig) | Glastonbury]]!  We're Muse ... Just kidding".{{cite/none}}  A second encore was planned between ''Stockholm Syndrome'' and ''Take a Bow'', however, as [[Matthew Bellamy]] described during the post-gig interview on BBC Radio 1, he couldn't bring himself to leave the stage.{{cite/none}}.


*Although I've never been into doing guitar solos. There's something very uncool about them.
Bellamy wore a white t-shirt that bore the text "Google Video: Terror Storm".<ref>{{cite/Prison Planet 2006-08-27}}</ref>  Search for this on Google Video to watch a documentary about how some terrorist acts were inside jobs to set up more authoritarian laws such as imposing ID cards etc. The documentary was made by Alex Jones.
**''Matt interview by Total Guitar on July 2000.''


*I watched someone shot a cow in the bollocks.
== Price details ==
**''Matt on his childhood experiences in a [[Q 2006-09 – Maybe I'm Borderline Schizophrenic | Q magazine interview]].''
{| {{pricetable}}
! Duration          <!-- FixMe: Fees, totals -->
! Base price <small>(GBP)</small>
|-
| 1 day
| 90
|-
| weekend with camping
| 135<ref name="ticket"/>
|}


*Some people will think it's a load of pretentious wank, and some people will like it because its different...
== Speech ==
**''Matt after recording [[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]].''
{| {{Speechtable}}
| After Hysteria || [[Matthew Bellamy | Bellamy]] || "Thank you Reading!  How's it going?"
|-
| rowspan="2" | Before Showbiz || [[Dominic Howard | Howard]] || "Thank you very much Reading. You're<!-- doesn't sound like 'you're' --> looking good".
|-
| rowspan="2" | Bellamy || "We'll play a very, very old song now, off [[Showbiz (album) | our first album]]".
|-
| After Bliss || "Thanks a lot".
|-
| After Butterflies & Hurricanes || Howard || "Thank you very much indeed Reading".
|-
| rowspan="2" | After Take a Bow || Bellamy || "Thank you Reading!  Thanks very much, cheers".
|-
| Wolstenholme || "Cheers".
|}


*The buzz comes from getting extremely nervous before we go on [stage]. I'm really nervous now, already. I think that when you get to half an hour before, the nerves turn into adrenalin. I'm nervous all day pretty much. It turns into pure excitement, as opposed to just shitting yourself...
== Media ==
**''Matt before going on stage in front of 14,000 people. [[Manchester Evening News Arena 2003 (gig)|Manchester, 2003]].''
The BBC broadcast this show on BBC3 and BBC2.<ref>
{{cite/web |
desc=Report of BBC television coverage | date=2006-08-17 | fetch=2006-08-18 | auth=James 'sunburnt_atheist' | pub=Muselive | url=http://www.muselive.com/index.php?m=single&id=1912 | dom=www.muselive.com | type=ext
}}</ref>  [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 BBC Radio 1's website] also broadcast the performance live. On this broadcast, ''Butterflies & Hurricanes'' was incorrectly titled as 'Bliss'.<ref>
{{cite/web |
title=Muse-Butterflies And Hurricanes (live@Reading 2006) | desc=Video of Butterflies & Hurricanes | auth=2006-10-19 | fetch=2007-06-12 | auth=nisiagr | pub=YouTube | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riffwbEWmKA | dom=www.youtube.com | type=ext
}}</ref>


*Being impregnated by an alien and giving birth. It'd be awful to give birth to a freak so you'd have to hide it away from everyone but still bring it up as your own.
The performance, aside from ''Stockholm Syndrome'' which was not broadcast, can be found on MuseBootlegs [https://www.musebootlegs.com/?p=torrents&pid=10&action=details&tid=1513 here] or [https://www.musebootlegs.com/?p=torrents&pid=10&action=details&tid=19 here].
**''Matt when he was asked about what was his greatest fear by NME in 2000.''


*Most bands release a live album when they become old and fat. We wanted to be different.
An audio rip in lossless (FLAC) format of the FM radio broadcast of nine songs can be found on MuseBootlegs [https://www.musebootlegs.com/?p=torrents&pid=10&action=details&tid=1124 here]. There is also a recent "remaster" version, which includes [[Stockholm Syndrome (song) | Stockholm Syndrome]], available on MuseBootlegs [https://www.musebootlegs.com/?p=torrents&pid=10&action=details&tid=2001 here]. Info indicates it is a lossy source but extracted as 24bit for quality.
**''Matt on the release of live album [[Hullabaloo Soundtrack (live)|Hullabaloo Soundtrack]].''


*I find her music completely offensive for a start and I'm sure our fans do as well.
{{setlist
**''Matt on [[Celine Dion]]'s music.''
| 01 = Knights of Cydonia | 01app = + {{Space Dementia}} outro {{YTw |1i4gwj-SHO8}} {{GU | [[Manson Chrome Bomber]], [[Rickenbacker 4003]]}}
| 02 = Hysteria | 02app = {{YTw |EkjYbTkQIUs}} {{GU | [[Manson Chrome Bomber]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 03 = Supermassive Black Hole | 03app = ([[Kaoss Pad]] solo) {{YTw |T6QDrwGwEcE}} {{GU | [[Manson M1D1 Mirror]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 04 = Showbiz | 04app = {{YTw |tvTY7M9Ze_Q}} {{GU | [[Manson Chrome Bomber]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 05 = Map of the Problematique | 05app = + {{Maggie's Farm}} outro {{YTw |DvzFxD6Wtrc}} {{GU | [[Manson M1D1 Mirror]], [[Rickenbacker 4003]]}}
| 06 = Forced In | 06app = (instrumental) {{YTw |LDmyFKHdCxA}} {{GU | [[Manson M1D1 Black]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 07 = Bliss | 07app = (extended, octave higher final chorus) {{YTw |LDmyFKHdCxA}} {{GU | [[Manson M1D1 Black]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 08 = Butterflies & Hurricanes | 08app = {{YTw |gBUvSM1LHbI}} {{GU | [[Manson Mirror]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]], white Kawai}}
| 09 = Feeling Good | 09app = {{YTw |sri5Cra5tdY}} {{GU | White Kawai, red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 10 = Invincible | 10app = {{YTw |KZiuVh-nQWc}} {{GU | [[Manson M1D1 Black]], white [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 11pre = {{Jimmy Jam}} | 11 = Starlight | 11app = {{YTw |6fSvmhX6oa8}} {{GU | [[Manson 007]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 12 = Plug In Baby | 12app = {{YTw |HWoPRMX1NAQ}} {{GU | [[Manson Mirror]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 13 = New Born | 13app = + {{Ashamed}} outro {{YTw |vDooRi6eQyE}} {{GU | White Kawai, black [[Fender Jazz Bass]], [[Manson M1D1 Mirror]]}} {{encore}}
| 14pre = {{Adagio in G minor}} intro | 14 = Time Is Running Out | 14app = {{YTw |Z4SRy2uFnz4}} {{GU | [[Manson M1D1 Black]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 15pre = Riff{{which}} | 15 = Stockholm Syndrome | 15app = + riffs{{which}}  {{GU | [[Manson M1D1 Mirror]], black [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
| 16 = Take a Bow | 16app = {{YTw |9wqLF4-LZB0}} {{GU | [[Manson M1D1 Black]], red [[Fender Jazz Bass]]}}
}}


*Merci beaucoup. This is our last song now, (Dom - Thank you), Thank you very much indeed. We're doing a tour, coming back in.. ahh, get a grip. (Chris - It's Gone) Lost the plot. I've lost the plot, I've lost the fucking plot mate. what? What? Say it. You wanna say something? (Dom - No) Say something quick. I never know what to say in case you hadn't noticed. I never know what to say, just make a dick of myself everytime. (Dom - Anyway, this song is called [[Bliss (song)|Bliss]], bye bye)
== Gallery ==
**''Matt confusing the crowd and band mates in 2001, [[Fort de Saint-Père|Route du Rock 2001]].''
Photographs from the 2006 Reading Carling Weekend Festival, published by the BBC.


*What kind of effect do you think your music will have on [[My Chemical Romance]] fans? [when Muse supported MCR]
<gallery>
**Um, you know, take them to a higher level [laughs hysterically].
File:Reading 2006-08-26 BBC a.jpg
***''Matt in an [http://youtube.com/watch?v=mQ78Fhgq8YM interview] by Live 105 Studios.''
File:Reading 2006-08-26 BBC b.jpg
File:Reading 2006-08-26 BBC c.jpg
File:Reading 2006-08-26 BBC d.jpg
File:Reading 2006-08-26 BBC e.jpg
File:Reading 2006-08-26 BBC f.jpg
File:Reading 2006-08-26 BBC g.jpg
Image:Reading01.jpg
Image:Reading02.jpg
Image:Reading03.jpg
Image:Reading04.jpg
Image:Reading05.jpg
Image:Reading06.jpg</gallery>


*Have you had any celebrity fans coming to the shows?
== References ==
**Paris Hilton [came] to the LA show, too. But she left during [[Knights of Cydonia (song)|Knights of Cydonia]], which is the first song on the set. If we're offending Paris Hilton we must be doing something right.
<references/>
***''Matt in an [[Q 2007-11 – Q Awards 2007 | interview]] by Q Magazine.''


*(Muttering) (Dom - It's you pissing around on the piano) Eh? Obviously, so you're saying it's my fault for pissing around on the piano. Was I pissing around on the piano? (Dom - Yeah) I wasn't fucking pissing. (Dom - (bangs)) You know what, I've had it with you lot, I've had enough of you both. It'll be much better.
**Matt and Dom arguing. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=G-IQY7c9_WQ Watch]


"we try to keep the assistance the computers can give us to a minimum, to almost nothing so i think its much more difficult to try and physically do something yourself and get a computer to fix it, cuz you can.. now a days, now a days you can play things on the drums, on the guitar, vocal and get a computer to repair all the mistakes, you know but, mistakes is what makes us who we are, so ugh...i keep the mistakes in there." Matthew Bellamy,MCM Interview 2000 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uydNcr0ESZc]
== See also ==
* [[Reading Little John's Farm | Little John's Farm, Reading]]


*What would you do if you are the only man left on earth after the End of The World?
{{BacktoGigs | 2006}}
**"I'd go looking for a woman...If I wouldn't find any, I think I'll be satisfied with Dominic."
 
*I am a shepherd.
**''Reply to a fan on [https://twitter.com/muse/status/251030905152487424 Twitter].''
 
--
 
Matthew Bellamy: "You know..if you develop a bit of a closeness with someone of the opposite sex, it can, it can uh..can develop.."
 
Dom Howard: "Are you talkin' about love?"
 
Matthew Bellamy: *giggles* "Maybe."
 
Dom Howard: "Awwww."
 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHa8J6IPJQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=uhMAq9j5kaE Watch]
 
==Christopher Wolstenholme==
*Every album we've recorded has been done differently, but with Absolution, there was something within the band that made us feel a lot closer...
**''Christopher Wolstenholme talking about the power behind Absolution.''
 
*What did you make of the Mercury Prize? Are you bothered about not being nominated? (Interviewer)
**It's a big industry thing. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the public. It seems like a pointless thing. It's an excuse for the record companies to get together and kiss each other's arses
***''Chris about Mercury Prize, in a interview by [[Dotmusic (magazine)|Dotmusic]], October 2000.''
 
*What's your favourite invention of the last 1000 years?
**N64
***''Chris on a 1999 interview by NME.''
 
*Matt: If I wanted to record a solo album, how concerned would you be?
**If I could play [[Bass|bass]] on it, it’d be alright.
***''Chris on a 2007 interview by [[Kerrang (magazine)|Kerrang!]].''
 
*Matt: "After the seaside tour is over, me and Dom are going to train as Punch and Judy showmen;we've already bought all the props and it's great fun. All we need now is a Black Holes-style tent"
**Dom: "It'll be really excellent - we wouldn't want to do this in an amateur way, so we've set aside 3 months to train properly. Matt wanted one of our props (the string of sausages) to symbolise alien DNA strands, but I told him that was too highbrow for our audience;I mean, they're just kids...We tried to get Chris to act as Mrs Punch, but he told us to piss off, sadly."
***Chris: "I'm going straight home after the tour. I'll probably need therapy and counselling after this. Expect a solo album in 2008."
 
*Matt:"No, it bored me...it's all bad sex, cheap drinks, and terrible teaching methods."
**Dom:"Actually, yes, I reckon they are the best days of your life because you don't have the stresses of money, career etc."
***Chris:"No, it was fucking shit."
****''Matt, Dom, and Chris on their happy days at school.''
 
 
==Dominic Howard==
*Most of our first gigs were in typical Devon pubs where you just go and sit down with a drink and watch VH-1 on the telly. They really didn't want to see a band. All they wanted was a quiet pint and we were in the corner just making a racket...
**''Dominic Howard talking to Kerrang! in 1999.''
 
*I like music because... it makes me feel the most free I've ever felt in my entire life and gives me the freedom to do anything without much consequence.
**''Dom in an interview with ilikemusic.com''
 
*We were doing the [[Perth Claremont Showgrounds 2007 (gig)|Big Day Out]] festival. I went "Hello, Adelaide!" Matt turned round going, "We're in fucking Perth you dick." He was quite pissed off with me for the whole day.
**''Dom on the funny bits of the 2007 tour.''
 
*What essential items do you take to a festival?
**I find that a drumkit is essential for any festival we play these days.
***''Dom in a 2004/2005 interview''
 
 
==Quotes on the band==
*The belief was always there, the confidence, the ability and the desire to get to where they are today...
**[[Thomas Kirk]] talking about the bands success in 2003.''
 
*A lot of people from the local college would come down and hang out (at The Cavern Club) - Dom would be there and their friend Tom [Kirk], who still works for them now. And Matt would be down there a lot, in his usual corner by the mixing desk. He was a bit shy, quiet, talking very fast, giggling like a little child - exactly how he is now. The only major difference was that back then they all had long hair. And I'm sure Matt used to wear a [[Radiohead]] t-shirt...
**''Ronnie Kerswell, an early supporter of Muse, and now a journalist for [[Rock Sound UK |Rock Sound]]. Talking about when she helped run The Cavern Club.''
 
*That chick has a great voice. It's a guy? Whoah, there goes my erection. I apologise to the singer - I guess I'll not be asking him out on a date now but he sounds real good. When I listen to his voice I feel like someone is tickling my penis with a feather.
**''Pete Steele, talking about [[Cave (song)|Cave]] when guest reviewing it for Kerrang!, after it entered at number 53 in the national UK.''
 
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Latest revision as of 22:32, 8 September 2023

Matthew Bellamy
Line-up poster
Bellamy
Weekend ticket
Dominic Howard
Line-up poster photograph
Muse show
Venue Little John's Farm[source?] (Carling Weekend[1][2]—main stage - headline[source?])
Date 26th August 2006[2]
Location Richfield Avenue, Reading[1][2]
Country United Kingdom
Songs 16[source?]
Support Arctic Monkeys, The Streets, Feeder[source?]
Start (UTC+1) 22:15[source?]
Capacity 80,000[capacity][source?]
Price (GBP) >60–>135‡[source?]
Sold out? Yes[2]




Information

Muse headlined the Reading main stage on Saturday. Their allotted time was from 22:00 to 23:30, but they started ~15 minutes late.[source?] Mike Skinner (The Streets) said at the beginning of his performance "hello Glastonbury! We're Muse ... Just kidding".[source?] A second encore was planned between Stockholm Syndrome and Take a Bow, however, as Matthew Bellamy described during the post-gig interview on BBC Radio 1, he couldn't bring himself to leave the stage.[source?].

Bellamy wore a white t-shirt that bore the text "Google Video: Terror Storm".[3] Search for this on Google Video to watch a documentary about how some terrorist acts were inside jobs to set up more authoritarian laws such as imposing ID cards etc. The documentary was made by Alex Jones.

Price details

Duration Base price (GBP)
1 day 90
weekend with camping 135[1]

Speech

After Hysteria Bellamy "Thank you Reading! How's it going?"
Before Showbiz Howard "Thank you very much Reading. You're looking good".
Bellamy "We'll play a very, very old song now, off our first album".
After Bliss "Thanks a lot".
After Butterflies & Hurricanes Howard "Thank you very much indeed Reading".
After Take a Bow Bellamy "Thank you Reading! Thanks very much, cheers".
Wolstenholme "Cheers".

Media

The BBC broadcast this show on BBC3 and BBC2.[4] BBC Radio 1's website also broadcast the performance live. On this broadcast, Butterflies & Hurricanes was incorrectly titled as 'Bliss'.[5]

The performance, aside from Stockholm Syndrome which was not broadcast, can be found on MuseBootlegs here or here.

An audio rip in lossless (FLAC) format of the FM radio broadcast of nine songs can be found on MuseBootlegs here. There is also a recent "remaster" version, which includes Stockholm Syndrome, available on MuseBootlegs here. Info indicates it is a lossy source but extracted as 24bit for quality.

Setlist

Gallery

Photographs from the 2006 Reading Carling Weekend Festival, published by the BBC.

  • Reading 2006-08-26 BBC a.jpg
  • Reading 2006-08-26 BBC b.jpg
  • Reading 2006-08-26 BBC c.jpg
  • Reading 2006-08-26 BBC d.jpg
  • Reading 2006-08-26 BBC e.jpg
  • Reading 2006-08-26 BBC f.jpg
  • Reading 2006-08-26 BBC g.jpg
  • Reading01.jpg
  • Reading02.jpg
  • Reading03.jpg
  • Reading04.jpg
  • Reading05.jpg
  • Reading06.jpg

References

  1. ↑ a b c Tene. (2006-09-07). [Ticket scan]. MuseWiki. Retrieved 2006-09-07. [verify]
  2. ↑ a b c d (2009-03-25). [Line-up poster]. Live Nation website. Retrieved 2011-05-12 from media.livenation.com. [verify]
  3. ↑ Rock frontman invites viewing millions to see Alex Jones movie (2006-08-27). Prison Planet. Retrieved 2006-09-01 from prisonplanet.com. [verify]
  4. ↑ James 'sunburnt_atheist'. (2006-08-17). [Report of BBC television coverage]. Muselive. Retrieved 2006-08-18 from www.muselive.com.
  5. ↑ nisiagr. Muse-Butterflies And Hurricanes (live@Reading 2006). YouTube. Retrieved 2007-06-12 from www.youtube.com.


See also


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