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| Sylvie |
Doctor Who is MattA bit late but interesting report & Matt's interview :
Go for the doctor Sally Browne October 01, 2006 12:00am Article from: The Sunday Mail The Courrier Mail MUSE lead singer Matt Bellamy could be mistaken for the new Doctor Who. Well, they do look kind of similar and they both talk an awful lot about aliens. Bellamy laughs at the comparison. He hasn't had a chance to catch the series starring David Tennant, what with all the touring they've been doing since the release of their fourth album Black Holes and Revelations. And it's going to be non-stop until they touch down at the Big Day Out next year. Black Holes and Revelations pretty well sums up the two key topics on the album. Muse may have been orbiting the subject of other worlds in the past, but now they've finally landed. The band known for their atmospheric soundscapes, this time take listeners from the Zeta Reticuli star system to Cydonia on the surface of Mars. If there was going to be a band to headline Mars, it would be Muse (perhaps supported by Brisbane's the Red Paintings). Just listen to these lyrics: "As conspiracies unwind/ Will you slam shut/ Or free your mind/ Or stay hypnotised/ When the Zetas fill the skies/ Will our leaders tell us why". There's obviously a lot going through Matt Bellamy's mind and he talks flat out, as if he's just about to enter warp speed. "There's a star system called Zeta Reticuli and some beserkers out there believe that's the most likely place that has a star like the sun, which potentially does hold life on planets nearby. "I've always been interested in that kind of stuff, really. "There's a guy called Wayne Herschel, who's come up with this new theory where he's basically looked at all the pyramids, especially the Giza pyramids, and he's realised that if you look at them from above they make this perfect kind of star map, and one of them is a signal, he thinks, to the one we actually came from." The same star system can be applied to a region of Mars called Cydonia." This isn't just an album about far off planets, however. Soldier's Poem takes the point of view of a soldier in Iraq. Take a Bow is an open letter to a Western political leader. "It's kind of the feeling of a person that's waking up to the powers that are manipulating them," Bellamy said. "Maybe in the real world that's something I've only become aware of in the last couple of years – to the extent how much our news and our history is manipulated to make us fit into a certain way of thinking. "Obviously our government as well, in England, especially in the last couple of years, it's just been openly lying about certain things. It's been quite jading that people are used to that now." So Bellamy, originally from Devon in the UK, now calls Lake Como, Italy, home. That's where his girlfriend is from. George Clooney is one of his neighbours. "I've seen him cycling up and down the main street and I've also seen him on his boat a few times, but I haven't actually said hello." Black Holes and Revelations was mostly recorded in Chateau Miraval studios in the south of France. But there's another flavour on the album, which has its influences firmly in New York. This includes the danceable single Supermassive Black Hole, a Muse song which wouldn't be out of place beside a Scissor Sisters song at a nightclub. Did the words Muse and danceable just appear in the same sentence? At first, the band was dismissive of the riff. "It sounded like a relatively classic rock riff, a quite cheesy blues riff and for that reason we weren't that into it, really," Bellamy said. "We knew that if we were going to make that song work we had to record it in a strange way or spice it up somehow." The song wriggled its way to the forefront when the band hit New York. "When we first went to New York we hadn't been out for a few months so we were going out quite a lot to bars and clubs and kind of letting loose. And New York is a city where you can work hard and play hard quite well. "I have a friend out there who was trying to teach me to DJ, which I'm not very good at. I kind of gave it a go. I saw what people were responding to and what people were dancing to. That was one of the reasons we tried to bring a groovier element into the rhythm section of some of the songs." The album was finished off at Electric Lady Studios, Greenwich Village, and even one-time space cadet, now space captain, David Bowie dropped in for a visit. They didn't talk about aliens, however. "I should have struck up a conversation about that. He was talking about John Lennon a lot. He was telling a story about how he recorded a song called Fame with Lennon because that was the last time he was in Electric Lady Studios. He was a nice guy. He was pretty laid back. He listened to a few of our tracks. He liked Invincible a lot. We were thinking of asking him to play a guitar or tambourine on it but I think we kind of backed out at the last minute because we think it would have been a bit rude." |
| wildflower |
Yeah, Matt does look a little like David Tennant, but only the pointy features, and IMHO David Tennant is much much better looking! Sorry Hannah 
interesting article too |
| Ham of the Problematique |
Nooooo way! |
| wildflower |
hahah aww sorry Han, just my opinion, Matt doesnt do anything for me, whereas i quite like David Tennant maybe the fact that im old enough to be Matts mother makes it a bit difficult to find him attractive?
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| Ham of the Problematique |
You are excepted. Just. But Matt is so so SO much better. |
| wildflower |
he just makes me want to pat him on the head and go " awwwww " :-) |
| Ham of the Problematique |
Hehe! Not me. Makes me want to... um... err... bye. |
| wildflower |
hehe but how on earth do you manage to sit on the same seat that he did and manage to keep any kind of composure? |