Did you know that I..m a huge Muse fan? Probably you already know it imagined from my playlist here on my profile. But the news is that last Friday night I was in the Palalottomatica for the Muse concert, my first one to be more specific. Couldn..t I write here all my feelings about it? Surely not :-P.
The evening started with a not too long waiting to enter the Palalottomatica. There was a lot of crowd, and I was flattened a lot by all the people around me. But that was not a problem.
Inside, our seats were on the left, first ring, not a good place to enjoy the gig, but the Palalottomatica is a small place, and the view was quite good.
I wans..t exiceted by Noisettes music ..cause I was longing to see the Muse walk on stage. They played 40 minutes too long for me. You know, I waited 2 years for this gig, I dreamed of it so many times..
When Noisettes finished their exhibition, a new sound check came, and then..all went black. Voilà, there we were. Two years waiting, 80 euros, spells, dreams, expectations. Everything went down whit the curtain. And Matt came out. I recognized the first song notes immediately. Take a Bow, the best starting. I jumped on my feet. And that four lines, with that music that thrilled me so much

our freedom's consuming itself
what we've become
is contrary to what we want
take a bow

and Matt arm raised to the sky, as I saw him do it so many times, in each one of the gig DVDs that I own, wich are enough to drive me crazy. Literally. From then on, it was just music, nothing else. 90 minutes of full immersion in another world, without break, without rest nor truce, a descent deeper and deeper, stronger and stronger. 90 minutes interrupted only by some words by Matt or Dom (and in Italian!). Take a Bow, and then Hysteria, heavy as I..ve never imagined, vibrating. The crowd down the stage was jumping, music flowed on the floor, pumped under my feet and went up right to my belly, and there it devastated everything. I can..t even recall all the songs they played. For me it was one single, long, wonderful song. I only knew that I started to sing with Take a Bow and finished to scream desperately with Knigts of Cydonia, the last song. I was standing up all the time, I jumped, danced, singed at the top of my voice. I injured my knee on the seat in front of me, I drenched the t-shirt that I wore, on my forehead I have the black sign of my hat that faded and that I wore all the damn time. But in some way I recall all the songs. One by one. Assassin was amazing. I didn..t imagined that could be so vibrating, so heavy and intense. I never considered this song as one of my favourite, but live conquered me completely, with the wonderful guitar solo at the end. And then Butterflies & Hurricanes, so heartbreaking. Even Soldier Poem, that I don..t like very much, with piano is absolutely wonderful, with Matt voice that was never wrong, with Matt voice that filled everything.
An Starlight too


our hopes and expectations
black holes and revelations

and it..s true, I screamed it, it..s true. That phrase it..s me, it..s us, and is so strange to know that 10000 peoples were sharing that moment with me, that my feeling was divided in little pieces and scattered around in the Palalottomatica. And I..m jealous of my feelings, that ..till now I..ve only let them out in the dark of my room, when I was all alone. This time I don..t give a damn. I..m silly. I sing, I dance, I rise my harms, I whistle. I took off my vest, I pulled up my t-shirt and I bared my belly, ..cause it was hot. Fuck off that my belly was not flat, fuck off that I was making a fool of myself. I was in a different world, and the only thing that linked me to the ground was my fiancé hand, that I holded sometimes.
Muse didn..t play my two favourite songs, Fury (yes, I know, it was quite impossible that they play live Fury..) and City of Delusion, but they played Hoodoo, and it was amazing. Voice and piano, and a wonderful central part.
And then, it was time for the end. Knights of Cydonia faded, and stop. Finished. I was exhausted, and still I am. Me and my softened ears. Exhausted and satisfied. But not contented. I want it more. And more and more. I..d like to rewind the tape and start again for the line outside the Palalottomatica. It has been only the first gig, and I want many others. By this time, I completely fall in love for Muse music.

PS.
Here you can find some photos. And this is the setlist.
Take a Bow
Hysteria
Map of Problematique
Assassin
New Born
Butterflies & Hurricanes
Soldier's Poem
Plug in baby
Invincible
Supermassive Black Hole
Time is running out
Starlight
Stockholm Syndrome
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Citizen Erased
Bliss
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Hoodoo
Muscle Museum
Knights of Cydonia