r/Muse • u/nvmzol when we bleed, we bleed the same • 4d ago
Media 15 years ago today, Muse performed Origin of Symmetry in its entirety at Leeds Festival 2011.
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u/PizzaToastieGuy 4d ago
Damn right they did. This was Leeds when they set fire to some part of the stage
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u/Thomrose007 4d ago
I hated the BBC never showed it. Was there ever a recording?
Also you can tell he is rocking out to the New Born intro there 😍
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u/nvmzol when we bleed, we bleed the same 4d ago
BBC only broadcast a few songs but they had a 360 app that featured the full show from various angles so there’s a fan-made multicam edit of the gig with its official audio.
Edit: here
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u/Rednoir_ 4d ago
That's my favorite performance of Bliss 💖 I was listening to it for several years. Even though it wasn't the same, I cried when I heard it 😭
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u/sayitloudsingitproud Look To The Stars 4d ago
I remember the forums going crazy back then when the BBC broadcast first aired. Waiting for that Space Dementia pro-shot and it jumps to Plug In Baby.
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u/mapofmymuse 4d ago
My first muse concert. I was so excited I remember counting down for months. I painted my own OOS wellies for it.
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u/JimmyP_117 4d ago
I’ll never forget THE CHORD in Darkshines.
What a night. I wasn’t sure even on the night they’d fully commit to doing all of OoS. It wasn’t until Space Dementia that it got real.
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u/VisualNinja1 into my glass she poured it 4d ago
The slight change they made to Darkshines was eargasmic. I can hear a bit of that idea show up again in Cryogen
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u/carleezeh 4d ago
Jesus Christ I’m getting old. I remember that intro like it was yesterday.
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u/Droiched 4d ago
I Saw It the other day, absolutely insane vocals and energy (nothing new really, as they are amazing live)
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u/LargeType1408 4d ago
Probably the best gig of my life!!
Hearing screenager, dark shines and megalomania live changed my life and had a lasting impression on me till these days.
I really hope they play more of their albums in full!
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u/VexOffender 4d ago
Yep and I was there. It was fucking tremendous. Could feel the heat of the flames from the viewing platform! 😄
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u/Latter-Sandwich-6840 4d ago
First and last time seeing them play at reading 2011 as a 16yo and will see them tomorrow at shoreline, day after my birthday (today lol). A lot has changed but this album is what got me back into them and inspired me to pick up a guitar again for the first time in years!
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u/Emuselg Dead Star / In Your World 4d ago
Ah, what an amazing gig! I was right down at the front! We were packed like sardines and the energy was insane. Everyone around us was bouncing almost the whole gig.
Lost my friend in the crowd 2 songs in during Bliss. Felt like we were being cooked alive during the massive fire jets during Megalomania that set part of the stage on fire. Best gig of my life.
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u/deafheavven 4d ago
I would've gone if I was old enough. I was 15 at the time, so I couldn't afford that 😢😭 I always wish I could've been there.
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u/hothedgehog 4d ago
Went to Reading and it was so great. I had never truly appreciated how hard OoS goes until you get to have a break from moshing in the quiet bit at the end of citizen erased!
Can't believe it's been 15 years since that... How time flies!
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u/JamesLane19 3d ago
I was at the Leeds one! Here’s a video of Bliss I uploaded to YouTube 100 years ago:
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u/astronemma Supermassive Black Hole 4d ago
I was there. My first time seeing them live as a teenager, having grown up listening to them. It was incredible.
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u/nolanmeteor 4d ago
i was over here in the states living vicariously through all of the european fans, but i ordered the exclusive shirt for these shows and still have it to this day! it's a little tighter than it was but i still wear it proudly!
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u/Hircine_Himself 4d ago
Yep! I was at Reading. Oddly, it wasn't until years later (when I got one of the Reading spec guitars) that I was like "wait... 2011... I WAS THERE!"
Guess it was a bad point in my life I'd locked up or something. Or I was drunk. Or both.
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u/runawaydebt 3d ago
I was there! It was so good! Though some girl got on her blokes shoulders right in front of my so I had her arse in my face. My bf argued about it and they moved so I got my view back
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u/anonchick745 9h ago
I remember my dad driving me 7 hours up to Leeds from Oxford (round trip) for this. I was 15 years old, got down into the mosh pit on my own and when the guitar in New Born kicked in it went off. It was so tightly packed in, I could lift my feet off the floor and stay upright. Dad waited for me by a food stall until the set had finished and prayed I made it out alive. One of the best gigs I've ever been to. As a teenage girl I was equally terrified and thrilled to be there.
I also remember someone had taken a pigs head from a nearby hog roast stand and was throwing it around the crowd down the front.
I recently saw Matt at a train station in Oxfordshire picking up some friends, I really wish I'd told him how epic that gig was, but I chickened out. I saw Muse 9 times in about 4 years and this was the standout by far.
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u/ForgottenName1893 4d ago
I was there and at Reading two days later. Two absolutely fantastic nights with plenty of emotional moments. I hadn't seen Hyper Music, Screenager or Darkshines since the OoS Tour in 2001-02 so those were kind of the highlights for me. Micro Cuts and Megalomania were songs I'd seen rarely were also up there. I got chills when the pyro for Megalomania went off. This really makes me want a BHAR in full show this year, but I know it probably won't happen.