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Muse were not allowed to land a UFO at V
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Holy Moly has this morning posted the following, somewhat bizarre news story...
Muse's performance at the V Festival in Chelmsford on Saturday was slightly less impressive than it might have been, due to Health and Safety officers refusing them permission to land a UFO on stage at the climax of their show. Quite right too. If they hadn't filled in form IS1915 (b) relating to the impromptu introduction of fake flying saucers to an overblown stage show then they have to face the consequences.And real UFOs are only allowed to land in front of bemused rednecks or alcoholics, meaning that no one will believe the story anyway.
Read the full story here.
DiScuss: Real or Onion? Were they great? We hear they were amazing.
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Muse were not allowed to land a UFO at V
Holy Moly has this morning posted the following, somewhat bizarre news story...
Muse's performance at the V Festival in Chelmsford on Saturday was slightly less impressive than it might have been, due to Health and Safety officers refusing them permission to land a UFO on stage at the climax of their show. Quite right too. If they hadn't filled in form IS1915 (b) relating to the impromptu introduction of fake flying saucers to an overblown stage show then they have to face the consequences.
And real UFOs are only allowed to land in front of bemused rednecks or alcoholics, meaning that no one will believe the story anyway.
Read the full story here.
DiScuss: Real or Onion? Were they great? We hear they were amazing.
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I'll repeat what I said here
http://www.audioscribbler.co.uk/news/2350
It would be nice if they forgot stage props for 5 mins and concentrated on making their first consistent album since 2003..
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they've only had one album since 2003
that makes it sound worse than it is.
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They were amazing
they always are.
They say they've had the UFO made, and they're just going to save it for their own gigs in future, seeing as H&S won't let them at festivals.
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you're right
I meant 2001.
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Correct.
Sometimes I listen to OOS and wonder if it's really the same band. Shame. Still mindblowing live though.
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but didn't the flaming lips
do this?copycats
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aliens did it first.
I have the sore arse to prove it.
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They were amazing
A standout at a horrible, horrible festival. I'm not talking about the rain and mud, I'm talking about the festival. Mean Fiddler/Festival Republic have shown with Reading/Leeds that it's perfectly possible to put on a large-scale event and show you care about the people that gave you their hard-earned cash. V fails on just about every level, from the staff that are more into each other than helping you, to the way the bars are run, the toilets... some of us even got kicked off something we were sitting on yesterday just to make way to allow a (very) minor indie band to sit around drinking Strongbow. Everything about the organisation of it suggested utter contempt for the people that gave them the money, once they had the money.
But yes, Muse were great.
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Shamefully, i went to V
i queued for 80 minutes to get in. I sat down at the back for 3 hours in which time Duffy, Amy McDonald and the Hoosiers raped my ears. I left at 7pm and got a train to somewhere better with nicer people and vastly superior music.
All in all it was my least favourite festival experience to date...
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Muse wheel this shit out before every fucking gig they play, I swear
"We wanted to get a flying saucer/jetpacks/a lifesize model of Saturn, honest"
Great live band, but this is a tiresome running gag of theirs.
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Muse were great at V!
Really good!
As for the festival itself - well its not glasto but you make the best with what you have. Lot of chavs tho and nothing to do after 11pm which is pretty boring.
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They're always great live
They're always great at live gigs. Too bad their last album was rubbish, and Absolution was only slightly better.
But despite this, they're great live. Some great bands make their own music sound horrible when played live, whereas a mediocre Muse song will sound as good live as it does on the album.
And I like the version of Micro Cuts from the HAARP live album far better than the version on OOS.
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"you make the best with what you have"
That's exactly what I did. I was quite happy with the bands/rapper (Roots Manuva!) that I went to see, and I would've been even more happy if I hadn't missed the hold steady. And I'd say my taste is way more varied than 'the average v goer'.
If you'd have looked around jesechristo, you would have found at least a couple bands that you'd have liked.
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