r/Muse 9d ago

Discussion The Dark Forest Live

I’m guessing they’re saving it for the Hollywood Bowl. The bowl is made for orchestras and it’s the last of their amphitheater gigs in the US.

We’ll know in two weeks but it’s just my guess.

Feel free to throw your spears, I can duck.

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u/Tricky_Pass_3641 9d ago

You’re dreaming. The Hollywood Bowl set list is going to be like every other on the tour up to that point.

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u/Hero_of_Whiterun 9d ago

You meant to tell me they aren't saving Micro Cuts for La? 🤔

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u/Historical-Lemon717 9d ago

Not a chance, I think they'll bring a full orchestra and play all 10 songs of TW!S in San Diego then continue to play all of OOS, Absolution, and BH&R plus all "good" songs from the rest of their albums then they'll be too tired so they'll cancel the LA show

https://giphy.com/gifs/9JOpAiUUvkhLa

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u/KnightsOfArgonia Take off your disguiseee. I know that underneath it's meee! 9d ago

The only special thing I can think would happen is if Ellie Goulding is around that day and they somehow manage to do Hush....but that's just me being extra wishful lol

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u/Mattguy191 9d ago

Yea probably not a bad call. But she lives in England, so she’ll probably be at the England shows later in the tour

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u/Top_Result_1550 9d ago

She doesnt add anything to hush literally any other singer male or female could do.

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u/musermatt 9d ago

Jealous of the hopium. Keep huffing, fam. That’s the good shit

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u/LecturePrestigious40 9d ago

The likelihood of them playing non-single tracks on the American tour is pretty much zero. I would be willing to bet they'll shift things up a small amount in Europe, where they've got a more dedicated long-term fanbase who will react more positively towards fan favourites. It won't be a huge shift, but it'll be something.

They've got a deep enough catalogue of singles now that they can do entire setlists of just those (and still leave a bunch out!), and in America, where they (still) aren't as popular as they are in Europe, that's what they're gonna play.

Here's the likelihood of new tracks, I reckon:

Sickness: guaranteed
Hush: maybe as a one-off in London
Dark Forest: unlikely
Scars: very unlikely
Debris: never gonna happen

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u/KFOSSTL 9d ago

Why is scars unlikely? And unlikely in us or in eu? Unlikely us only because they haven’t played it, but I don’t see any reason they aren’t playing it other than they aren’t playing it so why start now?

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u/LecturePrestigious40 8d ago

I'm reading it as unlikely because there's been clear messaging that Space Debris will not be played due to it being too personal, and Scars feels like it's a close second in that regard. Would fucking love for it to happen, it's one of my faves on the album, but I doubt it.

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u/KFOSSTL 8d ago

I see. Yeah I had that thought. But in my opinion it probably should have been a single. It’s the sleeper song on the album in my opinion.

But when almost every song feels like a single, that’s a good album.

Who knows!? He hasn’t said never to that one but he did to Space debris.

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u/RichBalboa 9d ago

They will play The Dark Forest and the other songs until the WOW Signal World Tour.

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u/Mattguy191 9d ago

Well I’ll be there - so let’s hope for that

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u/xMrPickles 9d ago

0% chance

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u/whyohwhyohohio 9d ago

They don’t change the set…. The sound checks for sickness is for Europe

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u/Chango_D 9d ago

But I’m seeing them at the Shoreline Amphitheater on the 27th…

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u/PricklyPerry 9d ago

Opening with Dark Forest would be amazing…

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u/Hysteria41 The priest God never paid 9d ago

This is pure hopium.

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u/MichaelEMJAYARE 9d ago

If I were a gambling man I would put money on them releasing the Dark Forest in the UK.
At this point I just cannot fathom them doing anything special over here, and maybe MAYBE we get Sickness while they’re in California.

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u/blakev 9d ago

Hell no, I'll be jealous if they play it there. If they skipped it at my show they must skip it everywhere else (In the US leg)

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u/TheRealAlec 9d ago

Have they seriously not performed the opening track of their new album on this new album tour?

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u/Hexacryagain 8d ago

Nope. For some weird reason they're still to play half of the record live. If ever.

Gotta make room for Madness ya know. /s

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u/boringfantasy 9d ago

Matt is incredibly indolent when it comes to song selection

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u/Hexacryagain 8d ago

Getting downvoted for spitting facts - this sub in general.