That's How It Happened

The Beastie boys played Wembley Arena tonight, and frankly there were adverse circumstances. The sound is dire, so bad you can hardly catch most of the lyrics. This disaster is exacerbated by being stuck more than 100 metres from the stage, and it being almost impossible to dance in the seats.
Talib Kweli was the support act, and despite some vocal acrobatics he failed to conquer the crowd. However the Beastie Boys came armed with a variety of tricks to liven the stadium atmosphere.
They kicked off with live footage of Mixmaster Mike, apparently asleep on the tour bus, being woken in time for his opening number, and then running through the backstage area onto a giant DJ booth. He played an incredible intro with three separate cameras focused on the decks, beaming his dextrous feats onto the jumbotron.
The Boys themselves had two costume changes: kicking off with matching green Adidas tracksuits; later transforming to blue lounge suits for an instrumental segment; and finishing in the trademark look of jeans, sneakers and orange tees.
The most impressive innovation was a sweep of digital cameras across the front of the stage, which were used to produce on-the-fly bullet-time effects in time to the music.
They rocked a lot of the classics, including material from all the albums. The highlights were an encore of Intergalactic performed from a small island within the crowd, and a final blasting, excoriating Sabotage.
I give the venue 0/10, and the stage show 9/10 for effort, but ended up rather underwhelmed by the combined effect. Stadium rock/rap sucks.