London Olympic Stadium 2012 (gig)

Up in Flames

Stage Set Up

Muse show
Venue	Olympic Stadium (Olympic Games closing ceremony)
Date	12th August 2012
Location	London
Country	United Kingdom
Songs	1
Support	None
Start (GMT)	21:00
Capacity	80,000
Price (GBP)	655–1500
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Reading Festival	←	Olympic Games closing ceremony	→	Skavlan

First (albeit mimed) performance of The 2nd Law era.

Information

Survival was played the first time.

Like all the other performers in the event, their instruments were mimed and only the vocals were live. Survival was played on it's shortened version.

This performance saw the debut of the Manson Carbon guitar, giving it a nickname Olympic Manson, and the first production Status CW Signature bass. The performance was also the only time Chris used coulour-coted DR strings, using British flag colours.

Several choir members were located behind the trio for show.

Controversy

During the NBC coverage of the Closing Ceremony in the US, Muse's performance was entirely cut out due to an extended commercial break and airing of a new comedy "Animal Practice". This also meant they cut performances by Ray Davies, Kate Bush, and The Who. Many outraged fans berated NBC's coverage of the Olympics on social media websites including Twitter and Facebook, Tweeting '#NBCfail' in light of the spotty coverage. Toward the end of the following day, August 13th, NBC had begun deleting these posts on their sites.

Setlist

1. Survival [watch]
   ^{(Manson Carbon, graphite finish blue-LED Status Chris Wolstenholme Signature Bass)}