50 posts tagged “muse”
Loved their version of the classic Feeling Good and now they are at it again, for the MTV Awards, but this time they are taking the Broadway location of the ceremony as their influence and covering America from West Side Story. I'm hoping it makes it on to the set list for their gigs...
Nicked this from Minim although I have edited it a bit as I get the impression it was originally devised as a bit of sly market research for computer manufacturers. Haven't done one for ages but I really like reading them...
Alcohol: Wine and at the moment I'm going through a rosé phase
Believe in God?: No I don't believe in God or Gods
Chocolate: Montezuma's because they do vegan truffles
D&D character: Adam. He's the only person I know who plays
Eggs: Soft boiled, gotta love a runny yolk
Food: Yep but have a particular penchant for south east Asian and Japanese
Gemstone: Er...only have semi precious that I've made into necklaces and the choice of stone depends on the colour scheme
Hairdresser: Shingo at the Witches Hut. Genius who never lets me down
Icecream: Dairy upsets my stomach sadly and if I was going to risk it I'd have cheesecake
Jeans: Gap, boot cut, short fitting, stretch
Karaoke choice: Private performances only, my voice is best not shared
Left or right handed: right
Music: Oh gawd this is tricky because it totally depends on my mood and what I'm doing. My favourite band is Muse and I do lean towards guitar-based music but I listen to all sorts from Classic FM at work to Edith Piaf on a sunny Sunday morning
Nationality: British
Occupation: Journalist
Perfume: Jo Malone French Lime Blossom
Quest: To win the lottery, buy a flat in Covent Garden, get a personal yoga instructor and become a patron of the arts. Failing that just to enjoy life as much as possible, it's the only one I've got.
Rant: At the moment, still railing at the NHS for its treatment of my Mum
Seafood: Nommy, nommy, nommy (except whelk and sea snails).
Twitter: Yep for work (increasingly useful) and pleasure (fun and informative)
Uncontrollable urge to: Buy more theatre tickets
Vice: Only because of the amount I spend on it: Theatre and cinema
What I wear to work: Casual/smart-casual/smart depending on mood and/or meetings
X-men character: Can I go for Wolverine because I fancy Hugh Jackman?
Yesterday I: Cleaned the windows, hoovered, met a friend for tea and cake at Patisserie Valerie in Soho, bought friends membership at the Royal Academy and went to the breathtakingly beautiful John Waterhouse exhibition there, went to see Broken Embraces at the Clapham Picture House. (I had the day off work, my Friday's aren't normally so indulgent)
Zodiac sign: I'm full of bull
Great interview with the band on Times Online. As tongue in cheek as Matt Bellamy is I still think he's a bit scary. Or maybe because that's I'm just in awe?
Just found this little interview Muse did with Radio 1's Zane Lowe about the new album. Haven't commented before but I love the new single Uprising. An instant hit in the Stanley household that had me dancing around the kitchen. Bit of a relief because I really wasn't sure about United States of Eurasia when I heard it.
Latest on the album and tour from Dom on Muse's MySpace page *excited all over again*:
Hi,
So, I think,,, we've actually finished the album. Its all mixed so we are just listening to it a lot to really make sure its done but we seem to be agreeing it is.
It sounds f**king great and is my favorite album by far, but the new ones always are.!
September is hopefully the month of kick off but there are still lots of things to get together before then. Like learning how to play these songs live for one.. That should take a while!Just want to say thanks to everyone who bought tickets for the tour in the autumn. We are immensely looking forward to it but also can only apologize for some idiot touts that are selling tickets for £200 - £600 in certain places. Obviously this has nothing to do with the band and not something we condone at all. We can try our best to try and prevent this but as you can imagine its quite hard. All our tickets are a fixed price and spending more than that is not something we expect. But keep posted as some more tickets for some shows may get released later down the line.
Anyway, see you guys soon,
Dom.
Muse ticket day dawned.
At work 8.59am computer on, reloading the page until the magic 'buy tickets' appear. And there it was date and seats chosen click and the overwhelming demand message comes up so I was off refreshing like crazy. Three windows open, refreshing each in turn. Agonising over the bit that said wait 30 seconds to refresh.
Would my constant refreshing put me to the back of the cyber queue?
Swapping emails with a colleague about each others progress
You got anything yet?
No
Neither have I
Starting to despair thinking it a conspiracy, planning attack for general sale release tomorrow
Oh god we'll be in the pigeon seats
It was a tense 30 mins and then lo the magic payment screen appeared. Further tense seconds ticked away as I frantically punched in my details
What if the site crashes or something half way through and it's sold out before I get on again?
Then the second magic screen came up: 'You have bought seat tickest for Muse on blah blah' but wait, then my heart sank: 'this is not a confirmation'. That apparently was to be sent to my (home) email within the next 4 hours.
The next FOUR hours!!!
And subject to the funds being successfully transferred from my chosen credit card.
What if I put the credit card number in wrong???
So now I was logged onto the webmail page of my home internet provider and refreshing that every ten minutes to check for new messages.
Finally the golden confirmation came through but still subject to payment being received.
I daren't check my email for the rest of the day just in case. But there have been no other messages since so now I'm allowing myself to get excited. I don't know what seats we've got but they are fan pre-sale tickets so I'm hopeful but above all
I'M GOING TO SEE MUSE!!!!
To celebrate here is the opening track (well after their classical intro music) from the the last live gig I saw of theirs which just puts the biggest grin on my face and never fails to make me jump around and do silly things like attempt to play air guitar
Excitement levels have just hit the roof in the Stanley residence. Just got an email through from Muse's website and they've announced European tour dates for their 'The Resistance' tour.
*screams and jumps around the room for a bit*
No one else will know that Mosh and I both predicted they would play London's O2 Arena before Christmas but we did, so we both feel smug. They are playing two dates in November and I hope they play in the round like Metallica did although Mosh doesn't think they will.
Anyway that is by the by because all will soon be revealed as general tickets go on sale on Friday with fan pre-sale to be announced (so that'll be Weds or Thurs then).
*screams and jumps around a bit more*
As the first date on the tour is the 22 October I predict an album release date of earlier that month.
An autumn tour gets more likely by the week:
This from Muse's myspace blog
Hi,
Yes, The Resistance is on it's way. Out in a few months hopefully. We've just started mixing some tracks and it sounds wicked. Still got a bit more work to do but its coming along nicely.
See you guys soon..
Dom.
Here's Stockholm Syndrome live at Wembley to celebrate
Thanks to Mosh for pointing this out...
Play.com is taking pre orders for the new Muse album. It doesn't have a title yet. It doesn't have a release date. In fact from what I read it's unlikely to come out until the Autumn.
You even get the option to review it. Think that campaign should start now to put as many reviews on there as possible before any more details come out....
