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Here we go with the very first Special Guest review completed by Elizabeth
Muse kicked off their Wembley Stadium extravanganza yesterday to a crowd of captivated animals who had just been given a set of keys to the wild.
It was a last minute gig for me, and I arrived at the newly spruced 'Club Wembley' just in time to see Dirty Pretty Things supporting. With the Seafood and Champagne bar ahead of me it was easy to see how football as a corporate empire has evolved. Farewell to the terraces indeed.
I spent the first hour and a half in a mild state of disappointment. Knowing very little about music venues and how great stadium gigs should sound, I heard enough to conclude that the acoustics were all wrong and the atmosphere was more suited to a Torville and Dean display. It was as if DPT were shouting into the walls of a cave and the only echoes that could be heard sounded like school playground noise with drilling going on in the street outside.
But then the Streets came on and Mike Skinner's stage presence managed to turn the downbeat beat around.
Matt Bellamy told the NME that he had wanted to open the show by bungee jumping off the stadium's arch. Alas, all the controversy surrounding it's structure and bloody health and safety laws - the collapsing roof, the four year wait - meant they had to make do with acrobats and trapeze artists instead. What a trip that was.
When you manage a sell-out gig at this mammouth venue - sky above providing a spiritual atmosphere and music which speaks of unity and defiance, freedom and the universe - you have to be doing something right.
The psychadelic lighting and the beautiful musica made me feel I was seeing the world from high in the sky on a magic carpet ride (through the veins of history).
Truly awesome.
 | Currently listening :
The Best of Groovin' in Style 1967-1973
By Ken Parker
Release date: By 24 June, 2003 |
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