Muse on her October Theater Tour Photo: claudio veneroni/ipa/picture alliance
By Julian Loevenich
The British rock band Muse around front singer Matthew Bellamy (44) played their last concert on this year’s “October Theater Tour” in the Admiralspalast on Friday. Shoot to finish!
It started right away with their latest single “Will of the people” from their ninth album of the same name. Tribal singing to the whipping drums. And even then it was clear: the sound of a stadium concert was packed into the venerable stuffy one that evening Admiral’s Palace. Instead of an open sky, there were gilded chandeliers on the ceiling.
Muse sprinted for the first three quarters of an hour without stopping, the massive sound went past the ear directly into the body. Unstoppable guitar riffs, plus the driving sticks of drummer Dominic Howard (44), who blindly followed the elaborate light staging.
Singer Bellamy didn’t speak – he just sang through. The new songs oscillated between phantom-of-the-opera-organ aesthetics (“You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween”) and Queen’s rhythmic sophistication (“Liberation”). But there were also well-known songs for fans: “Supermassive Black Hole” and “Starlight”, for example from the 2006 album “Black Holes and Revelations”.
A fan from the front row probably had the luckiest: At the end of the concert, Bellamy gave him his guitar. A true English gentleman.