Thank you London, it's been a pleasure to be here this evening. Royal Albert Hall we love you, thank you. "Thank you very much for coming down tonight, it's been a great pleasure to be here.
"Well seeing as we're playing the Albert Hall, I thought it'd be rude not to play this beast!". I'd like to say a particular thank you to Roger Daltry for organising and inviting us to play". "It's a great honour to be here in this great venue. "Hello Royal Albert Hall, how are you guys doing?. This was the last known performance of the Close Encounters riff. When he returned, he joined Wolstenholme and Howard for the last part of the jam, which led into the intro of Plug In Baby.
Īfter Megalomania, Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard played the Osaka Jam (officially known as 'Drum and Bass'), which is popular with die-hard fans, while Bellamy came back to the stage after playing the organ. Bliss made a return, in extended form accompanied by balloons. Invincible was played slower than it usually has been. Of the show itself, a different, new New Born riff outro was played, of which speculation was soon started as to it being the precursor to a new song, though the riff was actually Headup by the Deftones. Given these times, Muse had a maximum of two hours to perform during, although The Who apparently ran over the alloted time for their TCT gig of a previous year. The original event start was reported to be 19:30 with the doors opening at 18:45, but Muselive reported it more accurately the day before the concert as the support starting at 20:00, from a Muse management e-mail. At the point of this pre-sound check interview, Bellamy was still unsure as to whether the band would play Megalomania, at that point it was down to whether the sound-check was successful. As the band hadn't played the song in nearly six years, he had to re-learn the part for the occasion, which he did on the day itself. Morgan Nicholls played an ukulele during the song.ĭuring an interview that took place before the afternoon sound-check but not published until after the concert, whilst frequently looking behind himself at the organ Matthew Bellamy explained his fear of playing a wrong note on it. Muse did end up playing Megalomania on the pipe organ, as the first song of the encore. There apparently were spotlights on the organ and moreover the organ apparently had a microphone and camera on it. It was played during the afternoon's soundcheck, purportedly along with at least Butterflies & Hurricanes, Feeling Good, and Bliss. In the lead up to the concert, fans speculated as to the possibility of Megalomania being played on the venue's organ, which is second largest in the United Kingdom. While Bellamy expressed a desire to perform with an orchestra in a venue similar to the Royal Albert Hall, he felt that hiring musicians at such late notice would be unfair. 278 further tickets were reserved for those entrants who didn't win the raffle, which were sold out shortly after going on sale. The choir area was situated behind the band, on either side of the pipe organ. įrom March 26 th to 17:00 on the 30 th of March, choir area tickets were put up for raffle in pairs, each ticket of which cost £10. Soon after the sale started and before tickets sold out, re-sellers had started listing theirs on eBay with a "Buy It Now" of the order of £300. Seemingly resulting from the number of people attempting to purchase the relatively small number of tickets available, Seetickets went down shortly prior to the sale starting. The official lineup was announced on the 21 st of February, while ticket sale started following morning at 10:00. The date was confirmed by the Muse website on the 20 th of February. Both MTV and VH1, which helps organise the event, are subsidiary companies of Viacom.
The following day, the MTV UK website claimed that Muse would be performing on the 12 th April. He had heard of the event within the past "couple" of days and decided to partake in the event, partly due to wanting to play a relatively small capacity venue. Matthew Bellamy stated in a February 18 th interview that Muse would be performing in the Royal Albert Hall as part of a cancer charity event. Due to other obligations, Muse were unable to participate until 2008, when Daltry asked Muse again to play the event. This festival may have been Rock Werchter 2006. Muse had originally been approached by TCT concert organiser Roger Daltrey of The Who a "few" years beforehand, after performing at the same unspecified festival, which Dominic Howard later thought was Belgian.
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