Live Bands and Gigs

The Wembley heroes bring their triumphant 12 months to a close on the other side of the planet. Next year, the moon…

We all witnessed it: there was the fire, the trapeze artists, the huge TV screens and the giant satellite dishes that flanked the stage; there was Matt Bellamy’s red lab coat, the smoke from the pitch and the mere fact that they’d even thought about flying in on jetpacks. There was the way that, a mere 30 seconds into ‘Knights Of Cydonia’, every last one of the 150,000 people present over those two nights in June realised they were witnessing modern stadium rock at its gloriously excessive pinnacle. There is the way our ears are still ringing. Everything about Muse at Wembley seemed so… final. Like, where on Earth can they go after this?

The answer – at least until that gig on the moon – is to its other side. Or Down Under, as we call it on Earth. The Greatest Live Band In The World Ever’s journey since July has taken in Japan, Korea, the US and Russia, and now they’re ending the year in Oz.

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