![]() Sooner programmed the show during production rehearsals in Beaumont, Texas, and Aaron Luke was her lighting director / operator on the road. Lighting equipment was supplied worldwide by US rental company Upstaging, overseen for them on the road by crew chief Seth Conlin. Sooner chose Robe moving lights to be integral to her design, with 98 Robes (74 x MegaPointes and 24 x BMFL Spots) for the arena shows, boosted to 124 Robe fixtures (72 x MegaPointes, 30 x BMFL Spot, 12 x BMFL FollowSpot LTs) for the stadium gigs. Their large, distinctive ‘alt-rock’ sound and esoteric brain-twisting lyrics have enthralled a generation of music fans since they burst on the scene in 1994. No track here breaks the five-minute mark only Something Human lets the side down with an acoustic guitar.It was Sooner’s first lighting design for the band and she was delighted to be one of artistic director Jesse Lee Stout’s creative collaborators for the tour. This is Muse very much in VR play mode, riffing hard on their love of 80s visual culture – a recurring theme in the interlocking videos. ![]() Break It to Me fashions breakbeats out of machine parts and what sounds like a ghostly theremin, while the catchy Pressure has not only an earworm of a riff but Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Terry Crews in the video. Here, it’s a monster called Propaganda, which starts with fart-bass and resolves into Prince’s Kiss. ![]() On their fourth album it was Supermassive Black Hole. ![]() ![]() When they’re not sounding like a dystopian prog opera scored by Jean-Michel Jarre, they can whip out surprisingly sexy machine funk. Muse’s eighth album title tilts at the notion tracks called Thought Contagion and Algorithm, meanwhile, reinforce the impression that the Devonian trio continue to play the canaries in our impending apocalypse. A meme circulates among over-privileged western male nerds: that we might all be living in a simulation. ![]()
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