OK, so this idea was given to be yesterday by the epic @kase85 (or Gareth, if you want to use his real name *rolls eyes*). I don't often go on YouTube, but when I do, I always want to watch this video.
This is Muse at Reading Festival 2006. My first ever festival and the first time I ever saw, or even properly listened to, Muse. And as soon as they opened with Knights of Cydonia, I knew this was going to be a long and tortuous love affair ("Tortuous?", I hear you ask incredulously. Yes, tortuous. Being on your feet and getting buffeted about for eight hours can be extremely painful).
I was...in awe of Matt Bellamy. His talent, his stage presence, just everything about him, I loved. When I watch this video back, even after five years, it still always manages to give me tingles. That roar of recognition and joy that goes up from the crowd when he plays those first few bars always sends a delicious shiver up and down my spine. Because I was there. At the time, this was the only Muse song that I recognised and knew and loved and I was overjoyed to finally be able to sing my heart out to something. I liked being part of something that big.
Since that first performance, I've seen Muse four more times - Wembley in 2007, NIA in Birmingham in 2009, and at Glastonbury, then again at Wembley in 2010 - and each time I've seen them, I've fallen a little bit more in love with their music and them. Chris Wolstenholme is my bass idol - I mean, that opening riff to Hysteria has to be seen to be believed. Dom Howard is so wonderfully zany and such and incredible drummer. And Matt Bellamy...well, what more could I say about him? He's amazing.
Muse have been a massive part of my life - they've brought me together with people and got me through rough patches. And I will be eternally grateful for that.
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