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Description: The operatic indie-prog band promote their album The Resistance.
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Colour field: Matt Bellamy leads Muse into Queen territory with his comedy pink trousers
With Coldplay in cold storage, Radiohead in confusion, Oasis no more and Kasabian not quite there yet, Muse are Britain’s most popular band.
But whereas stardom has made Coldplay grateful and Radiohead guilty, Muse act as if their fifth and current album, The Resistance, topping charts from Austria to Australia and this British tour selling its near 100,000 tickets in minutes. are the most just of deserts and my, they swagger more than a band led by a man in comedy pink trousers otherwise might.
With their gigantic riffs and intricate melodies, the Teignmouth trio (plus a keyboardist lurking guiltily in the shadows) are in thrall to Queen — United States Of Eurasia was bursting to break into We Are The Champions — to whey-faced Goths, to Rush and to the spirit of adventure that gave the evening the feel of an almost out-of-control rollercoaster.
Unashamedly aloof leader Matt Bellamy’s penchant for a wonky conspiracy theory ensures that he’s hardly the most intellectual tool in pop’s box but aided by a rabid crowd, a laser-guided light show and, during Plug In Baby, some Prisoner-style giant balloons, he proved himself to be the master of an edgy, uncompromising spectacle — from the Dr-Who-theme-influenced Uprising, to the anthemic Starlight via the impossibly epic and impossibly daft Knights Of Cydonia.
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed.
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Come on Neil McNab, enlighten us, the despised. Which bands are worthy enough. I assume you worship at the temple of Yorke and pray his next album is more gut wrenching than the last, while Muse is ripping the place up, being just about the most exciting band to watch in the world. Poor old Neil. Are they having too much fun?
- Alex C, London
Muse - boring, talentless, drivel - if they are the best the UK can offer - I'm emigrating.
- Stan Mason, Bristol
Only word word for Muse, AWESOME!
- Joanna, London
Oh piffle man, Muse are a band for those pitiable individuals who QUITE like music, those 3-gig-a-year numpties who clutter up stadia every summer drinking lukewarm Carlsberg - people whose abysmal music taste I frankly despise. Have you forgotten that Muse began life as a poor Radiohead covers band and now, Lord preserve us, they think they're Queen. Preposterous! If they didn't exist it would still be necessary to uninvent them.
- Neil Mcnab, Islington
i just wanna say, Amazing! I love Muse forever till die!
keep going Muse! from they new album, i like Undisclosed desires single and the video too! Thank's
- Wildan, Bandung, Indonesia
" ... Matt Bellamy’s penchant for a wonky conspiracy theory ensures that he’s hardly the most intellectual tool in pop’s box .." So are you saying anyone with an independent thought, who doesn't believe everything the media/governments tell them, is less clever than you (because we all know media/govts never lie!) ?
- Wa, Oxfordshire
To Dawn, The Big Pink supported muse on their entire UK tour, the noisettes were the support for the last tour in 2006. I agree that the UK shortchanged with support but you didn't miss out on anything, the noisettes were rubbish when they supported Muse anyway. Best example of poor support is the Saturday of Wembley (The Streets for god's sake). But slightly off topic.
Muse are and always will be the best!!!!!!
- Adam, Halifax
" Matt Bellamy leads Muse into Queen territory with his comedy pink trousers"
Ha, I was wondering when people were gonna take the Queen comparisons a step further by comparing Matt Bellamy's dress sense to that of Freddie Mercury's. Although if you thought Matt's pants were "comedy", then apparently you haven't seen Dom Howard's pants. I think he color codes them to whatever he finds in his bag of Skittles. Anyway, unless Matt decides to shock us all one day and appear onstage in a skin-tight leotard with his chest out, I think the similarities to Queen will remain solely in their music.
- Deen, New York, USA
US of Eurasia is the only seemingly queen influenced track from the first five albums so 'in thrall' is excessive to say the least. Matt Bellamy is a very accomplished musical writer and I can hear myriad influences in his music which is still always 100% Muse. Without doubt i hear more Midge Ure era Ultravox than ever Queen which is all to do with the trail-blazing Billy Currie and Bellamy's keyboard mastery. Guitarwise, there is zero connection with Brian May and indeed, young Matt has a style unlike any other. As for the intellect side-swipe, if Robert Plant can get away with the Lord of the Rings inspirations without criticism, Bellamy's 1984 state-of-mind is certainly no less worthy!
- Barry1858, Welwyn
What an incredible night! Always been a fan but never seen them live i was exstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW! The heavy rock tracks went down with obvious vigour but slipping unintended and feeling good in the middle was inspired and gave us all time to catch our breath before heading in to the exhaustive finale.
How only the three of them could command such a relatively small stage area was awe inspiring, these guys really are gods of rock and do not disappoint in the flesh.
thank you thank you for living up to the high expectations, and leaving me with only one question... when is the next gig?!
- Katy Haygreen, London
Good show but lacked something. The fact that the majority of the setlist was printed in the programme I thought was disgusting. Where's the unpredictability lads?! Hope you are back to your best at Wembley Stadium next year!
- Steve, London
Was this so called reporter John Aizlewood at the same gig as everyone else last night? MUSE as per usual put on an absolutely amazing display of why they are now voted one of the best Rock Groups in the world.
It was an utterly fantastic gig which had all true MUSE fans cheering and singing all the way from start to finish.Thanks MUSE for yet another great night!!
- Dawn Annett, Sidcup,,Kent
Muse were fantastic. The pomposity and epic showmanship of such a crafted perfomance has to rank them among the best live perfomers in the world.
My only gripe was London audiances were shortchaged with the support. The north of England got the Noisettes and Europe gets Biffy Clyro. The Big Pink are not in the others perfomance league .
- Tim Taylor, London
Privileged to be there last night. Worth every penny of the £450 I ended up paying for five tickets. Perfect start with Uprising, even more perfect finish with the lunatic, impossibly fabulous Knights of Cydonia. The stuff in the middle was pretty sensational, too.
- Paul, London
