Muse opens their Palace show with Uprising
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For years I've heard how amazing alternative rock group Muse's live shows are. Last night I got to experience it first hand as the band played before a packed crowd of 12,000+ at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
Silversun Pickups opened the show with a solid eight song set. The band is similar in sound to the Smashing Pumpkins featuring layers of distorted guitars and frontman Brian Aubert's high voice.
The Silversun Pickups opened with "Growing Old is Getting Old" and closed the set with their hit single "Lazy Eye".
Aubert spent quite a bit of time interacting with the crowd including starting an impromptu camera flash battle telling the crowd that the winning side would be getting free drinks from Muse all night. He went on to inform the crowd that they were about to get their "brains blown out" as he gestured towards Muse's 3 large "skyscrapers" behind them.
Muse has been together for 11 years now and have released five albums, including their latest The Resistance, but it is their chaotic, energetic live sets that have made them a must see act across the globe.
Saturday night, they brought their Resistance tour to Detroit and during their 105-minute show they lived up to Aubert's promise, blowing the packed crowd's minds away with a stage and lighting display that is unlike anything that has been seen before.
The show opened with a pre-rendered intro sequence of windows on the towers lighting up as silhouetted people climbed up the stairs only to fall back down. This led to the dropping of curtains in the middle of the towers revealing the three members of Muse perched on individual moving podiums, which rose and fell throughout the evening.
The band kicked into their rebellious Resistance singles "Uprising" and "Resistance" as lasers and strobe lights roamed through the arena.
During their 19 song set, Muse stuck to mostly music off of their last two albums but they did manage to hit every period of their career.
Set highlights included a moving version of "United States of Eurasia" featuring front man Matthew Bellamy on a lit-up piano, a mid-show jam session between between bassist Christopher Wolstenholme and drummer Dominic Howard as the podium spun in circles, crowd sing-alongs during "Knights of Cydonia" and "Starlight" and a powerful laser-filled version of "Undisclosed Desires".
They closed the set with a high spirited "Plug In Baby" that ended with a batch of eyeball-shaped balloons stuffed with confetti falling on the crowd.
Muse closed the show with "Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1", which was the only low point of the show, and the fantastic "Stockholm Syndrome" and "Knights of Cydonia", which finished with columns of smoke popping up on stage during the end of the show.
Silversun Pickups opened the show with a solid eight song set. The band is similar in sound to the Smashing Pumpkins featuring layers of distorted guitars and frontman Brian Aubert's high voice.
The Silversun Pickups opened with "Growing Old is Getting Old" and closed the set with their hit single "Lazy Eye".
Aubert spent quite a bit of time interacting with the crowd including starting an impromptu camera flash battle telling the crowd that the winning side would be getting free drinks from Muse all night. He went on to inform the crowd that they were about to get their "brains blown out" as he gestured towards Muse's 3 large "skyscrapers" behind them.
Muse has been together for 11 years now and have released five albums, including their latest The Resistance, but it is their chaotic, energetic live sets that have made them a must see act across the globe.
Saturday night, they brought their Resistance tour to Detroit and during their 105-minute show they lived up to Aubert's promise, blowing the packed crowd's minds away with a stage and lighting display that is unlike anything that has been seen before.
The show opened with a pre-rendered intro sequence of windows on the towers lighting up as silhouetted people climbed up the stairs only to fall back down. This led to the dropping of curtains in the middle of the towers revealing the three members of Muse perched on individual moving podiums, which rose and fell throughout the evening.
The band kicked into their rebellious Resistance singles "Uprising" and "Resistance" as lasers and strobe lights roamed through the arena.
During their 19 song set, Muse stuck to mostly music off of their last two albums but they did manage to hit every period of their career.
Set highlights included a moving version of "United States of Eurasia" featuring front man Matthew Bellamy on a lit-up piano, a mid-show jam session between between bassist Christopher Wolstenholme and drummer Dominic Howard as the podium spun in circles, crowd sing-alongs during "Knights of Cydonia" and "Starlight" and a powerful laser-filled version of "Undisclosed Desires".
They closed the set with a high spirited "Plug In Baby" that ended with a batch of eyeball-shaped balloons stuffed with confetti falling on the crowd.
Muse closed the show with "Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1", which was the only low point of the show, and the fantastic "Stockholm Syndrome" and "Knights of Cydonia", which finished with columns of smoke popping up on stage during the end of the show.
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