Muse-ical Masturbation

The rock world's princes of pretension, Muse, played Wembley this weekend. Dead Flowers yawned. The NME fawned:

During the show, which again saw spectacular pyrotechnics, fire, smoke and gymnasts suspended from giant balloons, the band blasted through a bombastic performance with hits and classics from their backcatalogue, including 'Super Massive Blackhole', which saw giant marching robots projected onto the stage's giant video screen, 'Starlight', 'Time Is Running Out', 'Hysteria', 'Stockholm Syndrome' and 'Plug In Baby'.

Midway through the set, Bellamy played three tracks on his glass top piano including 'Apocalypse Please', their Nina Simone cover 'Feeling Good' and debut album opener 'Sunburn' .

Towards the end of the show the singer changed into a black jacket and white jeans as he strapped on an acoustic guitar for 'Soldier's Poem' before he introduced 'Unintended' by telling the audience: "This is an old song and we are playing it in a new stadium".

The band rounded off their historic two day extravaganza once again with 'Take A Bow' before leaving the stage to huge applause. Drummer Dominic Howard added: "You guys fucking rule. You are unbelievable. We'll see you again soon."