new single [23.12.00]

Muse's next single will be... (drum roll please) Plug In Baby! It'll be released on Februari 26th, and will be available on two CDs, cassette and limited edition seven-inch (this one will be available on March 5th) The single was produced by David Bottrill (Tool, Deus, A Perfect Circle) and Muse, and mixed by the band with John Cornfield, who has previously worked with Supergrass and Bluetones. B-Sides will be two new songs called "Tesseract" and "Policing The Jackson Funk". Please note and hate that the last song originally had the delicious title "Dark Shines" and is now re-named... grrrr! To hear the studio recording of "Plug In Baby", listen to Steve Lamacq's Evening Session (Radio 1) on Januari 1st. The show starts at 7pm (GMT) and you can listen to it through www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/ Or if you want to be totally cool and have Muse's latest single as your fone-ringtone, go to the multimedia section. hehe. :P

new UK tourdates [23.12.00]

the lovely muse have happily decided to tour the UK again in 2001 and here are the tourdates... April 5th - Southampton Guildhall April 6th -  Manchester Academy April 8th -  Nottingham Rock City April 9th -  Norwich UEA April 10th - Cambridge Corn Exchange May 23rd - Birmingham Academy May 24th - Glasgow Barrowland May 26th - Leeds University May 27th - Bristol Anson Rooms May 29th - London Brixton Academy support acts are yet to be announced tickets are available from the venues, or online through www.buyupfront.com - www.ticketmaster.co.uk - www.aloud.com

New album news - September 00

The band entered the studio to work on their second album in London, with producer Dave Bottrill, previously known for his work with dEUS and Tool. They recorded five songs (probably more by the time you read this), of which Plug In Baby is the only definite title at the moment... Other (non confirmed) new songs include: Natural Disaster New Born Dark Shines A-Political Bliss Policing the Jackson funk Razorblades + Glossy Magazines [which was also known as Host no thrills for a while]. In October they're off to tour Japan and Australia, and after that they'll continue recording in November, with John Leckie, who also produced the first album along with Paul Reeve. (With who they might record some more in Januari) The album is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2001. The first new single release will be in Januari, and is most likely to be a track called Plug In Baby. You can hear this song on the sound files page.

Muscle Museum re-release - September 00

The re-release of Muscle Museum is now confirmed, and will be released either October 2nd or October 9th. Promo copies of the single have already been given out. The exact tracklisting of the single is not officialy confirmed yet, but these tracks will be on it: Muscle Museum (Remix Radio Edit) Sober (The Saint Remix) Sunburn (Timo Maas Sunstroke Remix)

Free Muse show in London - July 00

On August 1st Muse are playing at the Barfly (in the Monarch) in London! Taken from www.channelfly.com: The Barfly, the London venue which spawned The Fly and channelfly.com, is spreading its wings. The Barfly Sessions, a 12 part TV series featuring 24 up and coming bands, will be part of Channel 4's '4 Later' strand, with the first programme scheduled for broadcast August 23rd. Featuring the likes of Muse and Soulwax, the programmes will be filmed at special gigs throughout August at Liverpool Lomax, Brighton Concorde 2, Leeds Cockpit, Bedford Esquires as well as The Barfly itself. Invites are restricted to two per person for each of the shows and can only be obtained by sending an SAE to this address: Barfly Sessions 109x Regents Park Road London NW1 8UR

Showbiz gold - July 00

Showbiz has gone gold in the UK! After playing Glastonbury on june 25th, the band received this golden record, for selling over 100.000 copies. Worldwide Showbiz sold over 300.000 copies.

CD releases - July 00

In England the next single will be a re-release of Muscle Museum, with new b-sides, and a new video... Matthew about the re-release: "Well because the first two or three singles sold a couple of thousand each and the last two, Sunburn and Unintended sold over 20k each. So to most people we have only released two singles... apart from the early fans, but we will put B-sides in there. And we are doing a new video, it's going to be a compilation of live footage, something on the lines of Lithium by Nirvana." At the end of the year [November - December] the band will start recording the new album. The first new song is most likely to be released Januari.

 

CD releases - June 00

The boxset containing 9 singles in now released in France... You can order it online at www.fnac.com for 239 French Francs. To find this article, search for 'Muse coffret maxi'. Contains: Uno [ with new cover ], Cave CD1 and CD2, Muscle Museum CD1 and CD2, Sunburn CD1 and CD2, Unintended CD1 and CD2. The release of 'Unintended' on 5th June got the band to #20 in the UK charts. For more information on this release, behold the discography section.

Updates - June 00

Added new articles: undercover.net.au - interview with Chris (october 1999) melody maker - how are they doing in the states? (april 2000) Total Guitar - Matt on songwriting (july 2000) melody maker - pyramids portsmouth gig review (june 2000) dotmusic.com - glasgow gig review (june 2000) kerrang - astoria gig review (june 2000) melody maker - my best summer ever (june 2000) nme.com - glastonbury review (june 2000) Also added more (festival) dates. Muse played the Pinkpop festival in Holland on June 12th... Pictures of this are now in the gallery, and sound files will hopefully follow shortly. 7th of June Muse recorded a radio show in London, with the Dutch radio [ 3 FM ]. They played alternative versions of 'Unintended' and 'Muscle Museum' (which I'll hopefully be able to put on this site soon) and I got to interview them! (why? cause i'm special. and so are you. :)) You can view the concert they did in the Astoria that night on www.dotmusic.com

May 00

New single, Unintended, will be released on June 5th, and will be out on 2 CD's and 7" vinyl. B-Sides are said to be a live version of Hate this and I'll love you, the video to 'Unintended', and a new song called Recess [lyrics are on the lyrics page] The Uninteded video shows shomehow liquid looking people twisting around eachother, and was directed by the same director as Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun. It was chosen video of the week by the Melody Maker. A boxed set with all the singles and some unreleased live songs (acoustic at Oui FM France) will be released in France on May 30th. The new issue of the Australian Juice magazine features an interview with Matthew. There is also an interview in the July issue of Total Guitar, about songwriting, guitar technics and Matthew's new guitar: "I bought a guitar with speakers built in it, just because it's portable. The neck is still the same length and it's got a clean and distortion sound; you can get feedback from the distortion which is funny when you're queueing up for a plane, or walking around" [ you can read the whole article in the articles section ]