You're so solid

Wembley Stadium, London, 17 June. The little man in the crimson suit arches a theatrical eyebrow, takes aim with his Manson electric and fires off a riff that shakes the gleaming arena to its freshly laid foundations. The architects of Britain’s face-lifted national stadium must be shitting themselves, but the crowd is ecstatic; surging forward as though jabbed with a cattle prod; bellowing the spidery ascending lick like it’s God Save The Queen’. And it’s at this precise moment - amidst the pomp and fury of Plug In Baby, on the Sunday night of Muse’s weekend residence in June - that TG has a moment of clarity. It’s been a long, long time since we’ve seen a guitarist this good. It’s been a long, long time since we heard riffs that push the boundaries this far. This concert is the Woodstock of our generation and Matt Bellamy is our Jimi Hendrix… (x) (images)