Who are you ? How composes the team of musechile.com ? What kind of fans are you ?
Im Patricio Carmona, one of the administrators of the musechile.com website, the other administrator is Felipe Fernandez.
We are fans of the music of Muse, we dont mind if Matt is Married with who, we love the music of the band and its all that matters for us...
For me it was the first presential Muse concert :-)
Can you present your website www.musechile.com ? Whate are it's particularities?
We are working on our site since 2005 and it started as an msngroup. In a couple of months we work on a free forum, and then our own hosting until now.
The particularity of our site its that we are a community of friends, we have a reunion monthly to talk about Muse and know each other, to share
some drinks, music, etc, etc, etc...
Besides we produce some parties with the music of Muse in some Pubs, discos and locals, a lot of parties The Djs are from the community, Felipe, myself and some guys and girls,
300, 400 people in every party. I think that is the more big difference between some website and us.
The site have some live material (not official), pictures (not official), interviews, covers by the users, tabs etc...
And...our website is on the muse.mu links :)
How big is the community of Muse in Chile ? Is the band famous, very famous ?
We have more thank 2500 signed in the community, we are the biggest latin community, more than México, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil.
The Band it started to be famous with BHR and some singles, Starlight, SBH and some oldest songs Plug In Baby, TIRO, but not so famous
like cold play.
I think its more a cult band here, but not unknown
It was the first gig of Muse last 26/07. What was the reactions of the fans ?
The gig of the 26/07 was the first and the only presentation here in Chile.
For me, as a fan who knows Muse since 2000 the reaction and espectation created by the anuncement surprised me a lot.
The pre sale sold out in a day and a half, one of the sectors sold out the same day and the other locations get sold out more than 2 weeks previous of the concert.
The day before the show
Anecdote : when Muse arrived to Chile, we organized a group to go to the airport from 16:00 pm to 19:00 we where there, but the band arrived on a private plane, and we cannot see the band. We decided to go to the Hotel (40 km from airport).
20:00 pm we arrived to the hotel and we started to sing songs of Muse outside the hotel, it was a little crazy...
21:00 aprox the band enters the hotel and inmediatly to the bar, flashes everywhere, but the band not appeared.
21:30 the band went to some restaurant to eat chilean fish and chilean wine (they love it)
I went about 22:00, my friend stay there until 1:30 am and the band get outside the hotel to sing the records and take pictures with him....
The day of the show
5:00 am the first people on the venue away from the capital, I think from the south of the country, they travel about 12 hours...
Anecdote : it was a weird day, because we have an record sign on a record store ...
My friend and I gave a typical chilean hat to Matt called "chupalla" in the record store.
He used it on the concert for feeling good, the same hat appears in the first presentation of Muse in Brazil...
Here are some videos when we offered the hat to Matt.
15:00 pm the same day, and the people who travel from other countries, Bolivia, Perú, Brazil, and other places of the country arrived early in the morning to the theatre and to the record store. The people was spread in both places. When finish the record sign, the people ran to the theatre.
17:00 pm the venue was full from the outside...4 hours before the concert.
And what about the gig ?
The theatre was for 6000 people aproximatively or I think a little bit more, but it is fully early, the people was so espectating and anxious..
The gig was powerfull since it started 21:00 o'clock, no introductions (Dance of the Knights). It started with new born, a very big surprise...
the people got crazy...
Matt at the end of the song said: "Gracias, cheers Santiago! You're already the best" and then
get a flag and put it in the drums...
and didnt stop.
Then the new version of deadstar and the rest is history...
The guys of the band seems to be so happy, we have no time to breathe in the concert.
Sometimes I heard more the crowd that the band. I think everybody was impressed for that event.
In plug in baby Matt broke a balloon with his guitar : a good moment of the concert. They also played the first citizen erased (awesome version).
They played also other good songs.I dont know there were so many magic moments that night...
I know it was
my first presential concert, but I can say it in previous latin america concerts was not the same.
The people did his work, and the band celebrate it :
1:30 minutes of a powerfull concert .
Have you met the band before or after the show ?
We met the band on Feria Del Disco when we gave the presents to the band. We also have an awesome moment in the
post show.We have a meet and greet with the band (10 people of the website) : we shared some good moments, pictures, signs of the
records and good talks.
I can tell you about the meet and greet....(the guys drinking Chilean wine, Matt I think more than a cup hahaha) I talked with the tour manager and told me that they definitely will
come back in the next albums but in an open place (and in south america summer), not on a theatre.
They sign us a chilean flag that appears on NME magazine this month and the other gift for the guys appears on pictures of the tour on muse.mu
Any good videos of the gig somewhere ?
Yeah we are working on a bootleg DVD, we have 3 records from differnt places of the theatre and some videos of every places : the record of feria del disco, interviews of the band here in Chile,
the videos of the hotel, airport, and all things tha happened when Muse was here...
I think in a couple of weeks will be ready, we share it on www.muse4fans.com and www.muse-bootleg.com
What is the future of www.musechile.com and Muse in chile ?
It was a dream that came true for us, the future for now for our website its continue to grow.
We have plan more parties,
a new face of the website and finish our DVD...to keep our good work alive !
To find other members and share (pictures, bootleg, videos) See the Muse fans directory