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- Muse
- © Jelmer de Haas
Lowlands 2016
The main tent is closed on Friday by an entry where Lowlands can be proud of. Alpha bulges out as the English crowd rises and ‘Psycho’ bet. It is far from the last big hit of the evening.
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- Muse
- © Jelmer de Haas
Lowlands 2016
The concert: Muse, Lowlands Alpha, Friday, August 19, 2016
This year was Muse in their Ziggodome latest larger than life -show. Like the last album title promised, drones flew through the room. Towards the end came a spaceship over. The band played a 360-show: the circular stage in the middle, the crowd around it. The disc turned, the light show was grandiose. This, of course can not be transported to a festival show. In the Alpha tent just the men standing on the same stage as everyone else.
How Muse solves this transformation?
Behind the band are eleven rectangular screens, not even that high. In addition, the cacophony hangs on individual lamps. On the sides are the two fixed guards whose projection sometimes gets its own filter. It still looks spectacular. At Starlight, large balloons rammed the public, while ‘Mercy’ confetti cannons erupt. The Muse universe is all a piece of cake. Prior to the Drones -tour Muse also gave rock shows in smaller venues, without all the fuss. Muse might as well shine without a passing spacecraft.
How was the set list?
muse chooses hits, after some hits, and ultimately, to unlearn, a stack hits. Here they come, ‘Supermassive Black Hole’, ‘Time Is Running Out’, ‘Starlight’, ‘Madness’, ‘Uprising’, ‘Knights Of Cydonia’. The audience keeps singing along and if there is equally no text, they sing it with the guitar lines. For a band at a festival thing of course is a triumph. Yet at least one surprise would be refreshing. A ‘Citizen Erased’ Origin of Symmetry . “Butterflies and Hurricanes” Absolution . Überhaupt something from the debut. But 99% of the audience is served at the beckon one and all recognition. A pity that the only different options – the long and very symphonic ‘The Globalist. “- Less comes out of the paint
Is Muse headlined the dream
? Lowlands trio knows the back rows, no, unite outside the tent. Matthew Bellamy continues for years to sing well, the sound is as always bloated. Among the hits by the band plays a few energetic instrumental interludes. Good for a change. Also important: Muse still continues to the present. An album from beginning to end is good, the band has since Black Holes And Revelations no longer made, but on each plate since then is at least one large outlier being eagerly embraced in such Alpha Tent. Muse makes it again and what about that no one is really surprised.
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