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Great show yesterday 
Brisbane Entertainment Centre has to be the strangest large venue I've been to. It's a few good train stops away from the city centre, and to get there from the train station you have to walk through some kind of wild-looking park area. On the way back, there were frogs screaming loudly from the ditches everywhere; safe to say I've never left a concert accompanied by a frog choir.
After we were let through the main gate, had to wait for hour and a half to get inside the arena. My bum was still sore after last week's epic 7-hour queue for U2, so I was immensely happy to sit on a nice soft carpet instead of concrete, with the easily accessible toilets and drinks
Once inside, I grabbed a great spot three rows away from the stage, on the right side. The difference between the GA audience for Muse and U2 was hilarious - I was surrounded by teenagers right, left and centre, lots of girls. Did spot a few "oldies" around as well though 
The opening band, Dead Letter Circus, were ok but not really my cuppa, thankfully their set was very short. The main event started at around 9.10 pm; I had managed to avoid looking at the photos and videos of the tour too much prior to the concert, so the towers setup was a total novelty. I loved the dramatic way the curtains fell down just before Matt started to sing! Just like with the second U2 show, I mostly ended up watching the band rather than the spectacle, so I'm glad that I'll have a chance to see it from the distance later on.
- I love Exogenesis to death, but because it was the opening song I thought that its dreaminess and delicacy was drowned out by the excited screaming all around me. A big stomping song like Uprising would have worked better IMO.
- Right after Exo there was an awkward pause when something went wrong with Matt's ear piece and they had to fix the problem, Dom filled it with banter as well as he could.
- It felt a bit weird to have Knights as neither the opener nor the closer. Take A Bow is a fantastic closer in its own right, but when Knights close the show it just feels like everything has been building up to -that- riff and the massive release of energy.
- Sunburn was a really lovely surprise! Especially since I've never heard it live before.
- Another surprise was that I enjoyed United States of Eurasia the most out of all songs off The Resistance. It's not one of my biggest favourites on the album, but I felt that it was really effective live, especially when Matt's vocals explode with CAN BEEEE ONLY ONE!!!
- After seeing U2 and Muse shows so close together, I did feel the lack of interaction and general humanity at a Muse show more acutely than usual. But damn Matt is just so compelling to watch, introverted as he is, that any reservations are more like an afterthought.
...and on a more girly note, all the time I was watching Matt I was thinking, god you're just the cutest weird little thing ever, can I please take you home and keep you in a jar?
- Loved the jam section with Dom and Chris. Chris wore his black-and-white striped suite and for once Matt wasn't the one with the weirdest clothes onstage
- The laser show during Undisclosed Desires and the eyeball baloons they released when Bliss was playing were heaps of fun. One of the eyeballs landed right over my head, these things are actually surprisingly hard to burst
I'll post some pics once I'm back in Melbourne
Brisbane Entertainment Centre has to be the strangest large venue I've been to. It's a few good train stops away from the city centre, and to get there from the train station you have to walk through some kind of wild-looking park area. On the way back, there were frogs screaming loudly from the ditches everywhere; safe to say I've never left a concert accompanied by a frog choir.
After we were let through the main gate, had to wait for hour and a half to get inside the arena. My bum was still sore after last week's epic 7-hour queue for U2, so I was immensely happy to sit on a nice soft carpet instead of concrete, with the easily accessible toilets and drinks
Once inside, I grabbed a great spot three rows away from the stage, on the right side. The difference between the GA audience for Muse and U2 was hilarious - I was surrounded by teenagers right, left and centre, lots of girls. Did spot a few "oldies" around as well though The opening band, Dead Letter Circus, were ok but not really my cuppa, thankfully their set was very short. The main event started at around 9.10 pm; I had managed to avoid looking at the photos and videos of the tour too much prior to the concert, so the towers setup was a total novelty. I loved the dramatic way the curtains fell down just before Matt started to sing! Just like with the second U2 show, I mostly ended up watching the band rather than the spectacle, so I'm glad that I'll have a chance to see it from the distance later on.
- I love Exogenesis to death, but because it was the opening song I thought that its dreaminess and delicacy was drowned out by the excited screaming all around me. A big stomping song like Uprising would have worked better IMO.
- Right after Exo there was an awkward pause when something went wrong with Matt's ear piece and they had to fix the problem, Dom filled it with banter as well as he could.
- It felt a bit weird to have Knights as neither the opener nor the closer. Take A Bow is a fantastic closer in its own right, but when Knights close the show it just feels like everything has been building up to -that- riff and the massive release of energy.
- Sunburn was a really lovely surprise! Especially since I've never heard it live before.
- Another surprise was that I enjoyed United States of Eurasia the most out of all songs off The Resistance. It's not one of my biggest favourites on the album, but I felt that it was really effective live, especially when Matt's vocals explode with CAN BEEEE ONLY ONE!!!
- After seeing U2 and Muse shows so close together, I did feel the lack of interaction and general humanity at a Muse show more acutely than usual. But damn Matt is just so compelling to watch, introverted as he is, that any reservations are more like an afterthought.
...and on a more girly note, all the time I was watching Matt I was thinking, god you're just the cutest weird little thing ever, can I please take you home and keep you in a jar?
- Loved the jam section with Dom and Chris. Chris wore his black-and-white striped suite and for once Matt wasn't the one with the weirdest clothes onstage
- The laser show during Undisclosed Desires and the eyeball baloons they released when Bliss was playing were heaps of fun. One of the eyeballs landed right over my head, these things are actually surprisingly hard to burst
I'll post some pics once I'm back in Melbourne
Those darn aussies. 
I hear that. 
Like, Keith Richards? Really? 
Oh, you made me jealous! 
I look forward to reliving it with my Mum on the first Melbourne night!
I can't wait to get them!
