My videos of the whole concert.

The day before the gig I got an early birthday present from my sister (Because she won't be there for my birthday!): her old smartphone. I would be able to send pictures! I still took my old phone with me, just in case.



Our train passed the VW factory in Wolfsburg and there was a fun-looking test track. My sister hadn't noticed where we were and when she saw the track, she called it a miniature golf course XD. It's funny, because there's a VW model called Golf and they might actually test it there, if it's built there (which it is, heh - I just checked).

When our train made its way through Cologne, I saw 2 Muse billboards and tweeted about it with my old phone. Which then started beeping, signaling that the battery was pretty low - I had charged that thing only the night before and haven't used the phone in between. That stupid battery was the reason I had gotten myself an extra battery. Can't believe I had to change it before the gig!


A few minutes before 19:00 we (Have I mentioned that my sister accompanied me?) arrived at the E-Werk. Whoa, that queue was long!

And the wait for the queue to move seemed long too. Although my tweet tells me that it was just 19:05 when the end of the queue moved.
About 19:30 we were finally inside the venue and I got a picture of the merch.

We went into the concert room and got spots a few meters in front of the sounddesk. I saw a camera on the balcony, which surprised me as I only know of the planned radio broadcast. Just for promo reasons or could we get a full video recording? Speaking of seeing things: my sister and I didn't.

According to the tickets, the gig was supposed to start at 20:00. Unsurprisingly it didn't. First the instruments had to be soundchecked. There was that guy again who so entertainingly checked the microphone. The one who got cheers at one of the Wembley gigs and gave us an encore.


At 20:37 Muse finally entered the stage. I wanted to tweet a picture, but before they came on stage my sister had noted that I was draining the battery by taking pictures. So I decided to save it for tweeting.


Supremacy. So glad they didn't start with Uprising!
I wanted to tweet with my shiny new smartphone, but got onto a weird page on the Twitter app, so instead of taking the time to figure out what that was and how to get back, I tweeted the song title from my old phone. Meanwhile I was also filming, but not very well. My sister tried to guide my arm, so that the picture wouldn't be askew and the stage would be in frame.
Sound-wise the song rocked, but opinion-wise it was too early to say that. By now it has grown on me.

I swear there was something weird about Interlude. Can't tell what it was, because I can't hear it on my video.
Naturally Interlude was followed by Hysteria.
I tweeted from my old cell again.Guys, don't laugh, but there was something weird about the space around me - I didn't dare jumping, because it felt like the people around me were standing too close but also not close enough.
I didn't like what Matt improved at the end of the song.

At first I thought we'd get to hear an old song, because Matt played something (I'm assuming he was just checking what notes the strings play) I had heard before, on a DVD (I think it was before Showbiz).
But instead it was one of the new songs: Panic Station. What a weird song. So not used to funkiness from Muse. And numbers in the lyrics !
When I tweeted from my old cell, I noticed that I still didn't have any confirmations of receipt and decided to solve the problem on my smartphone.

Resistance.
Before tweeting the songtitle from my smartphone, I tweeted the previous 3 songs.

Supermassive Black Hole.
I finally dared jumping. Fun was had.

Animals.
Ooh, I like that one! Ha, it started out calm, but then it rocked! Very Muse. So far my favorite of the new songs.

Time Is Running Out.
Still a fun song live. :oD

Save Me.
Chris can sing! And he sounds a bit like Dave Grohl ! What a beautiful song.

Madness.
Before the gig I only liked the song's instrumental version, but with vocals I also like hearing it live.
Heh, people at the front were holding up "MA" signs.

I was surprised at how enthusiastic the crowd was about Uprising! That song does fuck all to me. Except for the outro riffage - so glad they played that.

Follow Me started so harmless and then it goes all untz untz . Not a fan of that sound. And the vibrations made the tip of my nose itch.

Plug In Baby!
That made me happy because it's my sister's favorite song.
Which means that I had camera duty, so she could jump. But do you know how hard it is to not jump to that song? My video didn't turn out much better than hers would have.

Right after my sister's fave came my favorite live song: Knights of Cydonia, preceded by Man with a Harmonica.
I'm so glad they still play KoC! And - it seemed - still as a closer. It felt a bit early for the gig to end already, but I didn't mind. Because KOC! ...Okay, I would have minded a bit, because that would have meant no Stockholm Syndrome.

But then! The pause before the encore.
My sister called for Bliss - oh Muse, can't you do requests? Pretty please?
So, KoC's not the closer then (but I was still happy, because it's also great as a mainset closer), so there was still a chance for Stockholm Syndrome.

Which they proceeded to play, the bastards! Stockholm Syndrome right after Knights of Cydonia - were they trying to kill me? ...Okay, there was the break in between.

Starlight.
My sister was filming - she only had one free hand, so I offered her one of mine for clapping. Team work!
I was impressed with the crowd singing "our hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations" - it sounded so good, like a choir.

For fuck's sake, Survival as the closer?! I was shocked enough that they played it at all, but as a closer?! Worst one ever.
After the gig I wondered if they had ever used the piano or if it was just decoration. Yay for videos! So that's where the piano was used, I just wasn't paying attention.


About 22:00 the gig was over and the 2 weeks of preparation really had been enough: My legs didn't hurt and my back only hurt a bit. \o/


I also saw a ZDF camera. My sister and I decided to jump around in the background, but my sister thinks that they had already stopped filming by then.

On our way from the E-Werk, we saw fans everywhere stealing Muse posters from lamp- and signposts (video to follow) by pulling them over the sign or melting the plastic binding thingies with a lighter. XD



When my sister and I got off the subway at the central station, we saw a guy with a stolen poster on the train we had just left. XD