Of Muse, sweat, smell, exerting yourself and having a good time…
Yes, I was at Stadium Negara, Kuala Lumpur on Sunday 25 February 2007. No, I did not go around looking for scalpers. Fortunately for me, one of my brother’s ticket holding friend had dengue fever, he had just been discharged from the hospital and was not able to attend the Muse concert. So, I gratefully accepted to buy the ticket.
I joined my brother at the stadium after taking a ride on the LRT and monorail from my auntie’s place. Didn’t want to take my car as I thought it was going to be troublesome finding parking and a hassle coming out from the concert.
My brother and friends bought tickets to the Pitt, sounds like a comic character with claws. I would have preferred to have a sitting ticket, but beggars can’t be choosers. My days of mosh pits and headbanging, I thought was long over.
As you can see from the seating plan. the Pitt is a small area in front of the stage. So, I thought to myself that I would just hang back and enjoy the show. However, when we entered the stadium, we saw that the Pitt was separated from the Rock Zone by three sides of red and white tape. Yes, ladies and gentleman, plastic tape, like those you see in CSI to cordon off murder scenes, only more fragile. It didn’t take long for the tape to be broken. I would like to take this opportunity to curse the organisers, Tiger beer, Axcess Tickets Sdn Bhd, Galaxy and all involved for their money grabbing and cost cutting ways. May your balls shrivel and your dick grow limp.
There goes plan A. Plan B would be to get into the position I paid for. Would I want to work that hard to enjoy the band? I only know 4 songs. 2 from the current album and 2 more from when I was in Abu Dhabi.
What the heck, I was experienced enough for a pit even though I am about ten years out of practice.
The result? Here’s me singing along (very badly). Here’s a nearly full video during Starlight. I got as close as I can to the front for that one. It was crayyyyyyzayyyyy, Crazy with a capital C. The pogoing, mingling of sweat, heat of the spotlights, but if you saw the video, I was bloody enjoying myself, with that big stupid grin on my face at the end of the video. I really am going to get seated tickets if Aerosmith does come to Malaysia.
At the end of the show, with the sweat of about a hundred people on my t-shirt, and the knowledge that I will seriously be hurt the next morning (not hurting as bad as I thought I would now) I thoroughly enjoyed the show and the few songs that I knew, the songs I did not know and Muse’s showmanship. They can really belt out a show. 
Now, could anybody point me to the refund booth? I want to get a refund on the difference between ticket prices between the Pitt and the Rock Zone, at least.
You can find reviews for the show from the local papers below:
NST
The Star
The Malay Mail
February 28th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
woit sira@ onn!
What are you complaining about? You had fun,you had a workout, rub shoulders,bums and breasts with many SYT!Wah, you are still living it mate!