One day I turned on the television to find that Video Hits was showing a concert whose lead was a weird lanky guy in a red suit, a little like this:
Playing to a crowd like this:
And I thought who the heck this band was and why are they so famous yet I've never heard of them. I doubt past Marianne would have thought that I'd be experiencing my first time in the pit metres away from this:
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| Just Matt Bellamy playing a song dedicated to me |
The concert started with the lights dimming down and the towers lighting up. I could see a very slight silhouette of the band hiding in the towers. My heart was beating 1000 beats a minute. The intro music became suspense music as the entire audience stared attentively anticipating the moment we could see the band. The wait was killing me. Then the music paused, the drumsticks clapped, the drapes fell, a moment of darkness then there they were. I shat my pants and they played Uprising. Absolute chaos.
Muse was overwhelming to the senses. They offered lasers, towers that displayed different kinds of visuals, light up instruments (including a keytar) and a clear drum set, giant eyeball balloons popping confetti over us (i think they're called hullaballoons? You can see them in the second photo there). Unfortunately I was too wussy to carry a camera with me so when I find some pictures from the night I'll post them up.
By the end of the night I was bruised and drenched in other people's sweat but I wouldn't have had it any other way :D
Highlights:
1. Realising that I am the youth of today (haha)
2. Us chanting as one. Just everyone jumping and pumping the fists in the air in unison and screaming the same words that I was made my feel like I belonged
3. Surprising the tall bulky guys that just because I'm a short Asian girl does not mean I'm not going to put up a fight and let them push in front of me.
4. During Starlight, Matt stopped singing because it was the our cue to sing 'Our Hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations. Our Hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations.' It was like for a moment the world had stopped. It was possibly the greatest 15 seconds of my life
5. Matt throwing his guitar across the stage, probably the sexiest thing I have ever witnessed a human being do
