day 1 (Sept. 8 2010)
day 2 (Sept. 9 2010)


Well, fuck my life, I tend to get really nervous about eagerly anticipated events and it was the night before the first concert. I couldn't sleep, I felt somewhat sick from excitement, I couldn't stop worrying that something would go wrong. It was already starting to get light outside when I finally dozed off.
Got up at 8 and never found out how much very light sleep I had gotten, because the whole night I hadn't dared looking at my watch. Day 2 of McDonald's breakfast.

Have I told you about my Muse board friend Pokemew from Portugal yet? A week before the trip she posted in the Wembley thread what hostel she would stay at. I couldn't believe my eyes, it was the same hostel my sister and I had booked \o/! I had hoped that there would be other Musers there (which wasn't really to be expected, it wasn't anywhere near Wembley), but I hadn't even dared to hope it would be someone I know and like. :oD
And now it was the day Pokemew would arrive here. After some confused texting back and forth (I thought she was on the train, not the tube) she and 2 friends finally arrived at the hostel at about 25 minutes to 12.

In case any Musers could read my Twitter, I wrote what I looked like today (Glitterati converse, "Bliss + MKU or GTFO" shirt, Sailor Moon hair), so they would recognize me.

And then we were on our way to Wembley. \o/
Excitement at seeing the stadium and amusement at the ridiculous shaking of the train.



Because I'm lazy like that, the parts in blockquote are copypasta from what I posted to the Muse board:

We arrived at the Stadium at about 13:30. As we went up to it there was a girl making fun of Lily Allen being one of the supports. Personally I found that pretty hilarious. Seriously, couldn't they have gotten Silversun Pickups instead? I really would have liked to see them.
When we arrived at the H/J queue it already went down half of the upper ramp. Wembley has radio? That was nice. Even nicer was when radio dude announced they'd play Rick Astley ^^. Then it was eager waiting for the rickroll. Ah, good times. And I met more boardies: trogette (who recognized me by my Glitterati Converse XD) and einafets. Heard people talking German and other non-English languages. I love how international this gig was. Saw people with their aliens XD.

Have I mentioned that we boardies had all planned to bring inflatable aliens and wave them around during Exogenesis Part 1? Because of the UFO that was flying around during that song for every stadium gig.

And saw more boardies and interestingly dressed people (Muse gigs - it's the new Halloween): girl wearing a pink wig, girl wearing a turquoise wig, someone in limegreen skinnies walking next to someone in silver leggings.

Guys, please tell me I wasn't the only one who was amused that that one Crowd Safety guy had a megaphone.
Sitting on the concrete floor wasn't exactly comfortable but for some reason I felt good. Despite the lack of sleep... and that I was sitting at a strange place in a strange town, surrounded by lots and lots of strangers. I wasn't nervous at all. I was actually comfortably excited! I didn't know I could feel like that. It felt like I belonged there. For the first time since the beginning of that London vacation I felt like this would be good.
Try and find yourself in my sister's H/J queue video.

16:30 doors opened and we went in. OMG, I was in Wembley Stadium! But I must say, it's smaller than I expected. Looked about twice as big on DVD.
We stood in front of the sounddesk. Good place. Mostly (Jesus fucking Christ, all those people coming through all the time!). You know, Tom's territory XD. Well and guess who we saw there. We may or may not have taken sneaky photos...

Pictures are awesome-faced, because I haven't asked people for permission to post their faces. Which is ridulous, because there's a video with faces to follow. Yeah, I don't know.

And guess what I saw there. The visuals for Ruled by Secrecy. I also saw something that I found weird... it was kind of a music video. Wasn't anything I remembered from Muse, so I thought maybe it was the visuals for one of the supports, although I didn't think they'd have visuals. Of course the next day that turned out to be that MK Ultra video.
Then Tom came to the sounddesk's barrier and people got stuff signed and photos with him.

In that video you can also see aliens, though only green ones.

Saw some more boardies and people in funny outfits: a guy with an elk hat (I only got that one when I wrote my diary - it's a Moose hat! I've always known those animals as elks, so it took me a while.)

Wonder Woman and another one - not sure if she was Wonder Woman too, I think her outfit was a bit different. Lovemybones, and she was with someone whose face I have seen on the board, I'm really pretty sure. A girl in silver pants and a Beetlejuice blazer.

The day I arrived in London I was all "Fuck this, I want to go home.", on the morning of the gig I doubted it would be a good day for me. But then I was standing in Wembley fucking Stadium and I felt good. I felt so very good. I knew this was going to be awesome and thought that going to the Wembley gigs was the best decision ever.

While White Rabbits played (they weren't bad) I saw the HAARP Dino in the crowd! And took a photograph. XD

I could have lived without The Big Pink. I also could have lived without people constantly coming (and later squeezing) through where we were standing. Anyway, after the third song or so The Big Pink singer said: "We're all looking forward to Lily Allen?" - *silence* - "Looking forward to Muse?" - "Yeah!"
Then Lily Allen played and it was already too full to have a good view of the stage, hmph. Lily seems to be sweet, but her songs annoyed me. Much too noisy for her sort of music.

After her set I was ready to go home. Dammit, Muse, why are you trying my patience? Who the fuck needs THREE supports?
Time to blow up my red glitter-filled balloons. Did anyone see them? Hope the glitter wasn't annoying anyone. :$
Oh and then someone (exoval?) got a picture of the setlist and read Butterflies and Hurricanes on it. Man, did we squee.
Shortly before Muse came on the fun times started. I don't know if I imagined it, but something changed about the music, it sounded like something was about to happen. Do you know what I mean? It had a somewhat countdown-y feel.

If anyone who isn't interested in Muse has actually kept reading until here, I should warn you that this whole next blockquote is all about the concert, so maybe you wanna scroll past this.

Then! Lights out! Protesters on. And Uprising. Usually I find this a bad opener because it doesn't get me into gig mood. This time I was already in the mood and the song was fun (Even though my view was crap. And despite the people who came still squeezing through, which btw would continue until the end of the gig :o/). Especially the outro riffage, nom.

Supermassive Black Hole. Could see a bit of the porny Kaoss pad porn (which looked kind of porny, btw) on the screens of the side of the stage.

New Born. What the fuck is so hard about clapping in time with the music? Seriously, people! No lasers :o(. Where are my epic lasers?

The gig was great... until I got hit in the face by the cheese wheel that is Neutron Star Collision. What. The. Fuck. We were not amused. I never thought I'd have to hear this song live. God, even the visuals are cheesy! I gave my sister the camera here, so I could take off my jacket and tie it around my bag.

Butterflies and Hurricanes! FUCK YES! The cheer it got was massive. Making up for NSC right away. OMG, I got to hear B&H! I never thought that would happen before I'd get to hear MK Ultra or Bliss.

Guiding Light was one half waiting for the streamers and confetti, and the other half having fun with the streamers and confetti. Dammit, those little confetti pieces are too hard to catch. Didn't get any. I still reeeeeeeach for youuuu. Didn't catch any streamers either.

Confetti was still prettily flying through the air when Interlude was played and Hysteria started. It annoys me when people sing along to music. It just sounds so shit. Oh btw, who was that who kept using my shoulders for support for jumping? Happy to be of service. ^^

Nishe + United States of Eurasia. And this is where I noticed that I tied my jacket too tightly around my bag - I couldn't get my little Eurasia flag out. And then I only had the flag's stick in my hand. D'oh!

Another song I never thought I'd have to hear live: I Belong to You. But hey, I got to sing wee ponds, tomato dressing. My sister must have partly filmed this one, because you can see the band. She always holds the camera higher (and steadier - except when it's PIB) than I do. That clarinet substitute sounds... ugly.

Feeling Good. I don't know about you, but I was amused. Finally got to hear this one. Oh, waved the camera around a bit, the video could make you a bit seasick. :$

MK Jam + Undisclosed Desires. I have to admit, in real life Gary the UFO platform is only half as silly as it looks in YouTube videos. Also, nice of Dom and Chris to come a bit closer.
Oh, so the crowd doesn't care about Dom or Chris, but as soon as Matt's on the platform too, the crowd starts pushing towards it -_-. Not impressed. Felt like I got moved several meters from the spot where I started. Got pushed around the place before by people coming through constantly, but a rush like this was new. On the plus side: finally a good view of all of them! Gary is actually useful. Again no lasers. Where are my lasers?

Resistance.

Starlight clapping while holding my camera, haha. Finally got to jump during the jumpable parts, GA FTW!

House of the Rising Sun riff + Time Is Running Out. It amazes me how sing so many people sing along. How does this work? Some people know to sing along or they don't but just do and then other people join in? Enough people know the lyrics? It seems to work every time they play it.
Still no TIRO shuffle. Probably best that way because with my crappy view I wouldn't really have seen it anyway. But one day I will, I want to see it! Shuffle for me, Matt, shuffle!

Unnatural Selection. \mm/

Dom said we should wave around our lighters/cellphones and I expected Unintended. But it was Soldier's Poem! How very unexpected. Fun fact: Before The Resistance came out the one Muse song I truly didn't like was Soldier's Poem. But I started liking the song a bit once I heard the intrumental version and how it sounds a bit Christmassy. Still, Muse managed to play all the songs I dislike that night.

Time to inflate the aliens! Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture). You know how hard to try and plug that alien shut with one hand because the other one's holding a camera? Again, I have to admit that something isn't as silly as it seemed on YouTube videos. Bernie was actually a bit impressive. It was pretty much in front of us, good view. Sadly it's quite attention stealing and makes Overture feel like it's just background music for the UFO. When the alien plopped out there was confetti :oD. Which I didn't get to catch because it was not close enough.

Stockholm Syndrome. Jumping while holding a deflating alien is a bit weird. And then my camera's battery died, which is why the video ends at the beginning of the riff. The rest of it is here.

Of course I knew the camera wouldn't last until the end of the gig, so we had another one. My sister was supposed film the rest with her camera, but we couldn't because the memory card was full! Because she had to film before it was her turn, although had I told her before and then during the concert not do it! Gah. Luckily she still had her cellphone.

Ooh, interesting and unexpected second encore break filler: Forced In with creepy teddy visuals.

Take a Bow was one of the 6 songs that I got to hear live for the first time, but it didn't do much for me. That song never did. Was interesting to see Matt in his LED suit in real life. I'd totally book him for all of December to stand in my livingroom as my Christmas tree.

Plug in Baby was fun. OMG, finally in the pit, close to the balloons. And here I was guilty of being a crowd pusher. That one balloon got SO CLOSE! I could have touched it, but the other people were taller and could jump higher than me. So, third chance of catching confetti and again I didn't get any :o(. I think one balloon flew into the sounddesk.

When Man with a Harmonica + Knights of Cydonia started, there were still some balloons flying around, hee. This song is win as is it, but in GA it's even more fun! Having other people's sweat on you isn't that great, but OMG, the atmosphere of GA! Finally I got to experience what it's like.

By the end of the gig I thought I was far away from the sounddesk, but when I turned around I was only 4-5 people away from it.

So! All in all I loved the gig even if the setlist was a fucking cheesefest. GA! Butterflies and Hurricanes! Meeting boardies!
Fave Muse gig ever! But it only got to keep the title for less than 24 hours.

We left the Stadium, but it was slow. Holy shit, so many people on the way to Wembley Park station!



And huuuuge police horses. I don't think I've ever seen horses that tall!

Pokemew, my sister and I took the 3 buses back to our hostel. The whole ride on the 2nd bus was a bit crazy: There was a bunch of girls singing really loudly. I'm almost sure they were louder than the concert! I was amazed the driver didn't kick them out. I thought they were drunk, but I don't know if it's possible to sing as well as they did when drunk. Maybe they were a choir, they didn't have any problems singing in two parts and making it sound good. On that ride we saw Piccadilly Circus (where the noisy girls finally left) and got off the bus at Trafalgar Square! Hee, sightseeing via public transport.


day 4 (Sept. 11 2010)
day 5 (Sept. 12 2010)
day 6 (Sept. 13 2010)