Muse at Wembley Stadium - the verdict

Firstly, the new Wembley Stadium is amazing. It's sheer size is breathtaking and you do get a strong urge to walk up the tunnel and out into the arena with your arms raised.

Inside the stadium: The Streets perform

Had good seats - my camera phone has a tendency to make things look further away than they actually are - but we could actually see quite well.
Arrived in time for Dirty Pretty Things, who I'm sure in a smaller venue would probably have been good but were dwarfed by the setting and, well, seemed a bit dull really.
Watched a bit of The Streets and I was expecting them to be really crap was actually pleasantly surprised. Credit where credit is due, Mike Skinner really worked the crowd even singing a couple of lines of a Muse song at one point, and generally created a good atmosphere. That said their sound is a bit monotonous for me and I wouldn't have sat through a whole set.
Then there was Muse. The atmosphere had reached fever pitch by this stage, Mexican waves going around the stadium and a lot of group clapping urging them to start. They emerged from a platform at the centre of the pitch to a shower of confetti and then walked along a special catwalk to the stage escorted by people in yellow chemical-disaster suits.
Once they reached the stage they launched into Knights of Cydonia, two thirds of the pitch simultaneously jumped up and down and I noticed that when Dom's face appeared momentarily on the big screens at either side of the stage he had a huge grin on his face.
There was a huge video screen as the entire back drop to the stage set which was themed, appropriately, around a satellite monitoring station. There was also a little robot, from where I was standing it looked K9-esque, to bring out fresh guitars for Matt when he needed them!
I've nicked the set list from NME's website because, quite frankly, I was too busy enjoying the music to note down what was played:

Knights Of Cydonia

Muse, Wembley

Hysteria

Supermassive Blackhole
Map Of The Problematique
City Of Delusion
Butterflies & Hurricanes
Citizen Erased
Hoodoo
Feeling Good

Sunburn

Invincible
Starlight
Man Of Mystery
Time Is Running Out
Newborn

Muse, Wembley

Soldiers Poem
Unintended

Blackout

Plug In Baby
Micro Cuts
Stockholm Syndrome
Take A Bow

The site also has a great write up of the gig.
It is difficult to pick out highlights because the whole thing was amazing but during one particular song they launched mini hot air balloons over the crowd underneath which an acrobat was suspended. And when Matt asked everyone to raise their phones (I remember when it used to be cigarette lighters) the whole stadium sparkled...

Acrobats suspended beneath hot air balloons

The only shade of disappointment is that they didn't play Sing for Absolution which I love to see performed live.
There are more pictures on my Flickr site thanks to Mosh who was the official photographer for the evening. Incidentally, I must stop getting paranoid about taking a camera to gigs and getting caught, every man and his kid had one and was snapping away...
I'm sure there will be plenty of clips up on youtube so I'm off to investigate just as soon as I've found my neck brace, as predicted I'm suffering for my enthusiasm.
Just found some pics collected on another blog which are really cool