You can´t imagine how angry I felt when I knew they´d play relatively near home in a festival.I don´t even know how the Hell I managed to stay at home.Something similar happened with Radiohead.They haven´t visited my city for six years.And all because they don´t like the venues in here.I still have in front of me the post-it in which I wrote the date of the single concert they did here for "In Rainbows".They can be so indie-by-numbers...and yet I almost fainted when I read for how many money they played there.

I´m 90%sure that the Top 40 music wouldn´t be there if it wasn´t for all the promotion.If I were a big boss in one of these radios I´d ask my employees to air not well known/considered indie pop stuff which was still catchy AND had a good quality.All right,it´d be as "brainwashing" as what we have nowadays,but at least we´d have interesting stuff out there.I regret to say I have some guilty pleasures,but I can also say that I successfully avoided "Umbrella"because of my radio listening habits.

I can relate to the "I guess it makes me feel a little bit more special"statement.I still think of Muse as my mall secret,even though they are not anymore.As with RATM,Muse attract some kind of special audience,and I´m glad to have found some of them all over the world.Sadly,I have nothing like that near me.