White Lies are one of those bands that I’d heard of but had never taken the time to listen to before last night but I was impressed enough to go out and get their music. Their sound quality seemed improved over I Am Arrows too but this might have been down to their confidence. White Lies were up next and immediately seemed more comfortable in the stadium than the previous band. They played a cover of the Tears for Fears classic “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” which had everyone’s hands in the air and they finished off with their most well known song “Green Grass”.

They struggled at times to get the crowd really going at all and they seemed lost in the stadium setting but they redeemed themselves with their last two songs. They played quite a short set and it could not have been easy for them being first band in a line-up when the crowd was obviously there for the headline act. I Am Arrows were the first support band of the evening. I might have only managed to get nose bleed seats half a stadium away from the stage but at least I was finally able to watch Muse at Wembley on September 11, 2010.

I did not want to be disappointed again in 2009 and joined up to Muse’s fan club with the specific intention of getting tickets this time. At the end of 2008, I was really disappointed when I had gone online as booking opened to buy Muse tickets and they sold out within minutes. Earlier this year, there were but four bands that I considered to be among my favourites that I had not seen in concert excluding the bands I did see at Exit Festival they were Radiohead, Muse, Collide and Editors. Music has always been a passion of mine and attending concerts has always been an important measure of that passion. I consider, therefore, that I have paid my dues and I will never, ever pay ticket tout prices for a gig again. In 1995, I paid £100 for £30 tickets for Glastonbury and in 2004, I paid £80 for £25 Pixies tickets. It is well known that many of those tickets are bought in bulk by ticket touts intending to sell them online or outside gigs for hugely inflated prices. It is notoriously hard to get concert tickets in London as they sell out within minutes of going on sale. Nevertheless, I did make some detailed notes about the gig and have decided to swallow my pride and go ahead with the posting it! I’m not sure why I never posted this review but I suspect it had a lot to do with how disappointed I had been in my photos from that evening. Back in September, I went to see Muse at Wembley Stadium.

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