Muse didn’t just open their UK tour — they landed it. The band kicked off the UK and European leg of their ‘The Wow! Signal’ arena tour at Co-op Live in Manchester on Thursday, November 12, and they play a second Manchester night tonight, November 13.

The 15-song set opened with three tracks from their tenth album — ‘Hexagon,’ ‘The Sickness In You & I’ and ‘Unravelling’ — with ‘The Sickness In You & I’ and ‘The Dark Forest’ performed live for the very first time.

And the stage is pure Muse spectacle: a roof built to look like the underside of a UFO, a giant V-shaped screen, a walkway out to a second stage in the standing area, a spherical LED display that rose around frontman Matt Bellamy, and a dropping circular light rig firing lasers. Mid-set, a towering robot interrupted the show with an AI warning.

The tour rolls on to The O2 in London on November 15–16. ‘The Wow! Signal,’ released in June 2026, was Muse’s eighth consecutive UK No. 1 album — and if Manchester is any indication, this tour is built to match it.

Sources: NME | Dork | The Oldham Times

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