Sydney Showground 2004 - 23rd (gig)

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Festival poster with both dates
Matthew Bellamy with his Manson Delorean during the New Born solo
Muse show
Venue Sydney Showground (Big Day Out)
Date 23rd January 2004[1]
Location Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, NS
Country Australia
Songs 11[1]
Support Metallica, The Strokes, The Mars Volta
Start Unknown
Capacity 40,000
Price Unknown
Sold out? Yes




Information

The most well-known of Muse's shows down under for the travelling Big Day Out Festival. Other bands on the tour included Metallica, The Strokes, The Mars Volta, Hoodoo Gurus, or Dandy Warhols. For this particular year, there were two Big Day Out events held in Sydney, with the same bands playing the same time slots on both days. It was stated that the reason for there being two dates was overwhelming demand for tickets in Australia's largest city. It was stated further that more tickets could be sold but it would get so squashed and crowded.[source?] The second day, Muse played the same songs, but in a different order. For example, "Stockholm Syndrome" was played last on the second day, and "Hysteria" was the set opener.[source?]

Speech

After Stockholm Syndrome Bellamy "Thank you!"[2]
After New Born "Thank you".
Before Muscle Museum "We'll play another song now".
After Hysteria "Cheers".
After Bliss "Thank you!"

Media

Most of Muse's set was broadcast by Channel V on Australian TV. The full broadcast can be found on MuseBootlegs here or viewed on YouTube here.

An audio rip in lossless (FLAC) format of the FM radio broadcast can be found on MuseBootlegs here. However, even though it is listed as Day 2 with the date of the 24th, the setlist is that of this performance and is likely just mislabeled.

Six songs from this day's performance were released as a bonus disc on an Australian only re-release of Absolution.

An interview from this gig is available here.

Trivia

The performance of Hysteria from this gig features a vocal impravisation by Matt during the first & second chorus.

Setlist

References

  1. a b Australia (2004-01-25). MicroCuts. Retrieved 2007-07-27 from microcuts.net.
  2. Absolution bonus disc

See also


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