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Muse/Cay: Make Mine A Double…

Report and Interview by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 31 July 1999

There's nothing we like better than brilliant new bands. So what could beat joining a booze-fuelled double-bill of MUSE and CAY on the road? ...

Muse: Showbiz Kids

Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 16 October 1999

Oh, the angst! The pain! Searching for truth in a meaningless world… Such is life in Teignmouth. Just ask Muse, three lads who've escaped small-town ...

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Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, January 2000

West Country trio reach for the skies ...

No Surprises: Radiohead And Their Kind

Report by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 14 April 2000

After the success of OK Computer, Radiohead's next album is one of the most eagerly awaited records ever. Perhaps, says BARNEY HOSKYNS, that's why copycat ...

Muse: Around the World in 50 Dates

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 23 August 2000

...BUT IT'S NOT ALL FUN ON THE ROAD WITH MUSE. HERE THEY TELL US ABOUT THEIR WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL HIGHS AND LOWS ...

Muse: Matt Bellamy

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Select, November 2000

MUSE'S MATT BELLAMY, what's with the blue hair? ...

Muse: Origin of Symmetry

Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 2001

TO SOME, they were the band that would have been king. Just over a year ago, the now-defunct British music magazine Select boldly went where ...

Muse: Manchester Academy

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 9 April 2001

Cheek-sucking Muse camp it up ...

Muse: Black Holes and Revelations

Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, June 2006

COMPARED TO the mighty cosmic thunder of Muse, the undernourished hipsters of the current Britrock scene sound like puny little insects. Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme ...

Muse: Ready For Blast Off

Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 29 July 2006

IN KEEPING with his reputation as Britrock's reigning maestro of overblown melodrama, Matt Bellamy lives in a grand old villa overlooking Lake Como in northern ...

Supermassive: The Making Of Muse

Retrospective and Interview by Ben Myers, Record Collector, July 2007

This month's gigs at the new Wembley Stadium confirm Muse's status as Britain's biggest rock band. Ben Myers traces their rise from Devon schooldays to ...

Muse: Hard Dazed Knights

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2008

SITTING IN the Adelaide Hilton dining area and eating a banana in the superstitious hope that it will ward off his jetlag, tired but genial ...

Muse: Royal Albert Hall, London ****

Live Review by Paul Elliott, Q, June 2008

Euphoric fundraiser. Big organ included. ...

Muse Make Space for the Music

Review by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 28 August 2009

WHEN IS MUSIC too much? I'm not talking about the torrent of songs that surround us every day – I've argued how we should work ...

Dystopian Rhapsody: Muse's The Resistance

Review by Kate Mossman, The Word, October 2009

Queen-like symphonies, "thought police", a nameless evil... Muse are wrestling with Something Very Important — that never quite arrives. ...

South by Southwest: Where The Weird Get Going

Report by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 26 March 2010

The freaks were out in force in Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest festival. Stephen Dalton revels in the music ...

Schoolteachers of Rock

Interview by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 25 April 2010

What's it like to have taught someone who went on to be a pop star? The teachers of Alex Turner, Leona Lewis, the xx and ...

Muse: Manchester LCCC

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, September 2010

NEARING THE END of an epic world tour which has transformed them into Britain 's biggest band, Muse brought their sense-swamping carnival of baroque 'n ...

Spectacles: Muse and Lady Gaga

Report and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Word, January 2011

Muse pushed the envelope of live spectacle, while Lady Gaga was oddly intimate. Who won? ...

Muse's Matt Bellamy: "It's only now I feel comfortable singing about love"

Profile and Interview by John Lewis, Metro, 21 September 2012

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy talks about the band's new album The 2nd Law, singing about love and relationships and how his beliefs about 9/11 have ...

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Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 25 2013

Widespread delirium will ensue when Muse touch down at Glastonbury tomorrow ...

Muse: Air Canada Center, Toronto

Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 10 April 2013

I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT of Muse as being something like the Queen of this generation. I say that because there's something operatic about what they do. ...

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