London Islington Carling Academy 2003 (gig)

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Gig Ticket
Muse show
Venue Carling Academy[1]
Date 22nd September 2003[1]
Location Islington, London
Country United Kingdom
Songs 12[2]
Support -
Start (UTC+1) 18:40[3]
Capacity 570[note 1][1][4]
Price Free[1][4]
Sold out? -




Last show of the Absolution promo gigs.

Information

A private show. Ten pairs of tickets were made available in August 2003 through a competition by Warner in which participants had to choose which of the 6 promotional gigs they wanted to go to, and answer the following two questions:

  1. Which Stanley Kubrick film inspired the set design for Muse's latest video 'Time Is Running Out'?
  2. What is the release date of Muse's new album 'Absolution'?

Answers had to be sent to muse@warner.music.com. At the time of the original announcement, the date of this show was yet to be confirmed.[4] A further 15 pairs of tickets were made available to more winners of the aforementioned competition on 12th September 2003, when the date of the show was announced officially.[1]

500 tickets were given away by the show's sponsor—XFM—in competitions over the week following the 12th October announcement.[1]

The Show

A bit different and shorter version of the Pre-Sunburn riff was played after Bliss. Matt also played the Butterflies & Hurricanes guitar solo in a slightly different way.

Speech

Before Hysteria Bellamy "Hey hey hey, how's it going; London I believe"
After Hysteria "Thank you".
Before Thoughts of a Dying Atheist "These are the thoughts of a dying atheist".
After Thoughts of Dying Atheist "Cheers".
Before Blackout "This little number, this next little number is called uh, Blackout, featuring Wolstenholme on the keyboards"
After Blackout "Thanks very much, cheers".
Before Citizen Erased "We're going to play another song off our last album".
After Citizen Erased "Cheers, thank you very much".
After Butterflies & Hurricanes "Thank you very much, cheers!".
Before The Groove "Hey you, this next song is a b-side from our single"
Before Stockholm Syndrome "Thank you so much for coming, this is our last song, it's called Stockholm Syndrome (laughs), we will see you on Wembley Arena, (?), here it goes (?)"
After Stockholm Syndrome "Thank you very much!"
Before New Born "(?)"
After The Small Print "Thank you very much, cheers! Thank you so much!"

Media

The show was recorded by XFM,[1] and was broadcast 30th September.[5] This recording is available in mp3 format here[broken link]. Five videos broadcast by XFM[6] are available here[registration needed].

You can listen the entire gig here [1]. Some rare recorded footage of Bliss, The Groove and Stockholm Syndrome also exists, you can watch them below.

Setlist

Gallery

Notes

  1. Known tickets

References

  1. a b c d e f g London private show (2003-09-12). MicroCuts. Retrieved 2006-10-26 from microcuts.net.
  2. [MicroCuts gigs archive]. MicroCuts. Retrieved 2007-10-21 from microcuts.net.[circular?]
  3. https://musewiki.org/File:Carling_ticket.jpg
  4. a b c Private shows in europe (2003-08-23). MicroCuts. Retrieved 2006-10-26 from microcuts.net.
  5. MicroCuts. (2003-09-30). [MicroCuts news]. Retrieved 2006-10-26 from microcuts.net.
  6. Ben 'heavymetallover'. (2007-05-14). Islington Academy 2003, XFM Carling Broadcast. Muselive. Retrieved 2007-05-15 from www.muselive.com.

See also


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