30 Seconds to Mars, The O2
Posted on 2nd Mar 10 by Jane Ward | 
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30 Seconds to Mars played the O2 Dublin 26th February 2010 supported on the night by Dublin band Fox Avenue and Los Angeles band Street Drum Corps. For a small band Fox Avenue played the still-gathering crowd with all the confidence of a well known band, at one stage giving a shout out to their [...]
30 Seconds to Mars played the O2 Dublin 26th February 2010 supported on the night by Dublin band Fox Avenue and Los Angeles band Street Drum Corps. For a small band Fox Avenue played the still-gathering crowd with all the confidence of a well known band, at one stage giving a shout out to their proud mothers in the audience.
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Street Drum Corps followed. After a very cool introduction of a three man drum band display the performance went decidedly downhill. Their performance was plagued with technical difficulties with constant gaps in sound for all but their guitarist. What made this worse was the fact that they didn’t seem to notice and kept pouring their hearts and souls out to the audience who couldn’t hear a thing. It was the same for Fox Avenue before them though, with their guitarist remarking at one stage “my guitar’s fucked but it’s okay”.
After a quick reshuffling of the stage 30 Seconds to Mars came on to play their set which got off to an interesting start when singer Jared Leto called for the O2’s security staff to stop breaking up mosh pits and for telling people in the balconies to sit down, joking that if the security guard didn’t leave them alone he’d “come up there himself”. Understandably the O2’s staff didn’t seem to find the joke as funny as the audience as at one stage it looked like they were taken aside and given a stern talking to.
He wasn’t joking about coming up to sort them out though, and mid way through the set Leto disappeared for a few minutes only to pop up next to a few lucky fans in the balconies to play an acoustic set of a few of their songs and to chat up some Irish ladies. He joked about a chat with one fan telling the audience “this woman just asked me to marry her, and she still has her arm around her boyfriend”.
For the band’s encore they played Kings and Queens with a little help from some lucky fans who joined them onstage including fm 104 contest winners who won the opportunity to be onstage with the band. Fans were also invited up onstage if they had a 30 Seconds to Mars tattoo. They were encouraged to “carefully” crowd surf their way to the stage and the band-security conflict continued as they tried to send them back.
The band was formed by brothers Shannon and Jared Leto (of Fight Club and American Psycho fame) and have received numerous awards and accolades including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV EMA’s, an MTV Latin and Asia Award, a Fuse Award, and three Kerrang! Awards. Since A Beautiful Lie was released the band have played more than 500 shows winning fans over and founding Jared Leto’s career as a musician in his own right rather than an actor dabbling in music. In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel joking that acting was a fall back career. Well for Some.
The bands set list on the night was:
1. Escape
2. Night of the Hunter
3. Attack
4. Vox Populi
5. From Yesterday
6. A Beautiful Lie
7. This Is War
8. 100 Suns
9. L490
10. Capricorn (acoustic)
11. Was It A Dream? (acoustic)
12. A Modern Myth (acoustic)
13. Closer to the Edge
14. The Kill (Bury Me)
15. Buddha For Mary
16. The Fantasy
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17. Kings and Queens
Tags: 100 Suns, 30 Seconds to Mars, A Beautiful Lie, A Modern Myth (acoustic), American Psycho, Attack, Buddha For Mar, Capricorn (acoustic), Closer to the Edge, Escape, Fight Club, Fox Avenue, From Yesterday, Jared Leto, Jimmy Kimmel, Kings and Queens, L490, Night of the Hunter, Street Drum Corps, The Fantasy, The Kill (Bury Me), the O2, This Is War, Vox Populi, Was It A Dream? (acoustic)