Pull it off? They pulled it off, tied it down, strapped
it to a space shuttle launch engine and blew it clear out of the galaxy.
Glastonbury 2004 saw Muse storm troop onto the high table of classic
Glastonbury headline acts and prove themselves a formidable force in
British rock. It was only with that triumph fresh in their throats,
they claim, that they realised they’d ‘made it’.
Points to note about Muse :
- Became one of the biggest bands in the world after Glastonbury
2004 saw them storm onto the high table of classic Glastonbury headline
acts and prove themselves a formidable force in British rock.
- Spectacularly broke every rule of Proper Rock from releasing
an Egyptian/funk crossover debut single (Muscle Museum) to writing riffs
so elaborate in their brilliance that they threatened to garrotte anyone
daring to play them (Plug In Baby) to rocking up Nina Simone (Feeling
Good).
- Are a band that have more than doubled their audience
with each new album released – 1999’s ‘Showbiz’
shifted 500,000, ‘Origin Of Symmetry’ hit the million mark
in 2001 and 2003’s masterpiece of epic malevolence ‘Absolution’
sold twice that.
- Have established themselves as the most thrilling operatic
sci-fi carnival on the European arena circuit inside five years.
- Visited Australia for the Big Day Out in 2004 and blew
the headliners (a little band called Metallica) off the stage securing
themselves thousands of new devotees.
- Reconvened in the summer of 2005 in the bat-infested
Chateau Miraval studio in a Knights Templar town in Southern France.
Most of the writing process started out there, being a quieter place
and truly cut off from the lifestyle they had.
- Then decamped to New York to complete the bulk of the
recording in the Electric Lady and Avatar studios and to soak the records
with much-needed dance floor flavas.
They have delivered their most accomplished album yet
in the form of ‘Black Holes And Revelations’. An album that
is sure to propel them even higher into the stratosphere of Rock God
heroes. The time has come. The New Muse Order is here.
'Black Holes & Revelations' is out now.
