LyraSilvertongue
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Seriously?
Muse are freakishly huge for a band like them. You'd have to be living in a hole to never have heard of them. Those other bands are slightly more understandable. But still, it's kinda funny, I enjoy enlightening them about their obvious stupidity.
Believe me, a large chunk of the population here hasn't heard of them. I mention Muse, I get a blank stare. It's probably different if you're 18 but I'm 39. Arctic Monkeys and Placebo are household names here.
To be fair, i was a fangirl until i joined this forum, and as much as i don't like it, i can see Dee's and Hipbones' points, and they're right. :/ good job R/L have got them fangirling Fangirl? But you're a boy
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I usually don't edit my posts but I freak out about spelling a lot.
When I do edit it it's only because I know that sippe or dee are on the thread....if I say something wrong, they will attack me.....They could even be lurking right now. No one knows....
Actually, I've found I can kind of tell when they're lurking.
:LOL:Don't let them intimidate you.
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Hello,
Speculations have been rising on the Russian gigs. According to this site:
(Google translated site)
The gigs will be on Friday (St. Petersburg) and Sunday (Moscow).
Also, according to this site, tickets UNTIL 20th of March will only be available through this ticketsite.
I really, really don't want to miss out on this St. Petersburg gig. On one side I've had a Russian girl confirm that the site says tickets will only be sold there at the start, and on the other side I can hardly trust an unconfirmed gig.
Ticketsales are supposed to go live from tomorrow, and I am honestly stressed out on what to do. Please advice.
And if anyone from Muse management is reading this, if you can't confirm any gigs right now, for whatever reason, could you at least confirm that this site is faulty? Loads of your (Russian) fans will be potentially scammed and I am sure you will not want this!
Thanks in advance for your reply.
I second what L said. The gigs WILL be announced on this site well BEFORE any tickets go on sale. So just wait for the official confirmation before you think about buying tickets and you'll be fine.
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I had another one last night but I can't remember it, except that Matt was King
I half woke up, made a mental note to describe it here, went back to sleep and it was gone. And it was a good one too. Chris and Dom were in it and there was much hilarity and lolsomeness
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sorry
No worries. Hopefully it means Matt's safe from the curse
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I'm not Christian and I do not believe that mystic shit, but Matt is 33, and two days ago we, Latvians, lost a very talented musician, songwriter and actor, Mārtiņš Freimanis. He... also was 33. So beware
Matt's actually 32 though - he won't be 33 till June.
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I had my first Muse dream and it was a Muse NIGHTMARE.
I dreamt that Matt Bellamy was dead. The TV news was doing a long report on his life and played some of Muse's songs but they were all crap pre-Showbiz ones and I was wondering why they weren't representing his music properly.
I couldn't believe he was really dead and was thinking 'no more Muse albums, no more live shows' and was :'(:'(:'( so it was a big relief to wake up and realise it wasn't real.
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http://www.musewiki.org/Gigs I can't have been the only to see this so far surely? (top 4 gigs) None of them have been confirmed however, but still interesting. Newspapers would surely only confirm something if they had sure information wouldn't they?
What newspaper has confirmed what?
Edit: oh I see some Russian newspaper has "announced" these gigs.
I guess it's wait and see if Kirkbot announces them on here.
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^ I do see stations such as XFM as being specialist though, as they only play a narrow range of music genres. You're not likely to hear them playing Justin Bieber
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True, there are probably degrees, but I still think there's a clear indication of whether a band/artist is mainstream or not and I have to disagree on where Muse stands. The fact that Muse songs are constantly played on the radio; they've sold-out countless huge arenas/stadiums/venues; broken records with multi-million record sales worldwide; are developing a bigger following in the States (yes, thanks in part to the Twilight thing); win shitloads of awards and constantly make music-mag headlines, to me, indicates that they're no longer on the fringes of what's deemed 'mainstream'. It's still about how accessible you are, imo, and Muse seems to have made a point of becoming more so with each year.
I personally think they stopped being an 'on-the-fringes' band, in the UK at least, when they headlined Glastonbury in 2004. They made their mark at a renowned festival and started to turn heads.
When BH&R came out, they started to Really boost their status and fanbase and pretty much sealed the deal - there was so much more investment in advertising their albums and singles and they were more in the spotlight than they had been before.
This board alone proved that - before 2006, there didn't seem to be waves of people joining the boards and wanting to know more about Muse, but since, the join rate has practically skyrocketed! I know that doesn't define 'mainstream', but it's an indication of how their popularity has increased.
I see what you're saying about not being a household name, but I think that's slowly changing. Not completely, and I doubt they'll ever be as big or famous as the likes of Queen or Metallica, but with each huge venue they sell-out and each big pop-rock hit they release, they're becoming more and more known.
Where Muse was previously in the background, I think they've made a conscious effort, definitely in the US with their non-stop touring, to be more 'in your face'... if that all makes sense, lol.
Yeah, I see what you're saying. When I said more on the fringes, I didn't mean in a hipster underground way, I meant more that they weren't anywhere near the same mainstreamness (is that even a word?) as the likes of Beyonce and other artists that dominate the charts.
Obviously they're huge and getting huger each year but people still don't know who they are and they're not played that much on mainstream radio, don't make that much of an impression on the mainstream charts.
They're kind of relegated to the specialist radio stations/charts, the specialist categories at mainstream awards shows, specialist magazines aimed at guitarists etc
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^Don't you think there are degrees of 'mainstream' though, rather than it being an all-or-nothing absolute?
I mean, I'd says Britney or Beyonce were firmly planted right in the middle of the mainstream, whereas bands like Muse are more on the fringes of it, what with them not being household names among the general public.
I still get blank looks when I mention Muse to someone who's not that knowledgeable about music. The same can't be said if I mention, say, Coldplay.
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I disagree, for this precise reason,
I'm 15 years old, and live in Devon, so am proud of Muse as they are local to me. In 2009, as I'm sure you are all well aware, Muse held a "Seaside Rendezvous" concert in the Den, Teingmouth.
Now, upon hearing this news, i was (sorry for the pun) Hysterical. I would finally be able to see the band i had chased all over the country, unsuccessfully, just down the road! I told my parents and they said it was okay, and we would try and get tickets.
They sold out in 2 minutes. Now, if you were at that gig, I'm not dissing you, but, when i went into school the following week, there were at least 50 kids in my year who had tickets. 99% of these kids were Twilight loving, Mainstream Kids, who, previously had slandered me for listening to the likes of Showbiz.
Upon asking people about their favourite songs etc, there was a similar pattern "Supermassive Black Hole" Not only was that their favourite, but the only one they knew.
Black Holes and Revelations = Moving towards mainstream
Resistance = Crap.
Next Album = I dread to think about
But, at the end of the day, what we have to remember, is that Matt Bellamy is a very versatile musician and can, and does, play across several different genres, he has just unfortunately stumbled into R'n'B with Undisclosed Desires.
I would give everything i own to get them to make another album like OOS.
None of this is proof that Muse have made music to appease mainstream fans. I'm not really sure what your point is.
The fact that they've become popular with people you disapprove of does not instantly make them sell-outs.
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Apparently Kate's spokesman has confirmed the baby news.
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Only London to Paris so far, but that was twice in three weeks.
I considered going to the States but funds would not allow.
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Ha! How funny' date=' the older songs are ever better. I don't say i don't like songs like Space Dementia, New Born or Sunburn. I only said i like Guiding Light, and i like to see Guiding Light live. (And yes, i like The Resistance)[/quote']
I like The Resistance but it has one bad song on it - Guiding Light.
Seriously I don't think you have poor taste if you like GL, each to their own, but I really just can't stand it myself, even live with the confetti cannons.
I don't like Invincible either and it's a similar sort of song.
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Ha Ha Ha.It knew that someone would criticize me. I like Guiding Light ¿And what?
You clearly have poor taste in music
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Guiding Light. It is an incredible and slow beast with an epic power.
No, it's not.
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Space Dementia. I hadn't listened to it for a while but it's just....stunningly amazing.
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SMBH riff on two episodes of Come Dine With Me, today and yesterday. Oh and MOTP in the trailer for The Tourist at the cinema in Wednesday.
Muse are everywhere these days.
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Nooooooooo, that's horribly depressing :'( ... they MUST return for at least ONE date next year... they simply can't resist! Honestly, they always do something in the UK year on year, even if it's some teeny, random gig. I has high hopes *hope I haven't jinxed it*
Really? Being a relatively new Muser I don't know what their usual pattern is. There's talk of Reading next year. I might buy tickets just in case. They simply can't keep us high and dry for two whole years. I will not tolerate it
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Lol, I love that we're now testing/tasting this theory and most are worried and having sleepless nights over Salty Confetti-gate. I hope he's okay, too, but maybe his particular strand of confetti was just in the saltier part of the machine thing that it shoots out of... or the techies got a bit carried away with an 'add salt to x' prank?! I'm sure it's nothing that requires an ambulance...
EDIT: OMG tags are officially the best thing about this board... 'saltizenerased'
<3Maybe waiting two weeks before tasting it made all the difference
OMG is it really two weeks since Wembley?
Only two years to go till the next UK tour.:'(:'(:'( -
Ok, I just tasted a piece of the Guiding Light streamer I brought home from Wembley (11th), for scientific purposes. Yes, it was very salty, but the taste went away almost straight away. Methinks the op is dramatising, perhaps?
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i like 'Muse',personally,It doesn't matter where you've first heard about Muse well mine favourite is 'Super massive Black Hole'.
I think you're missing the point of the thread.
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I haven't read much past the OP, but I want to chime in a bit: don't take this thread to mean that the whole of GA is like this. There's the pit and there's the rest of GA. The pit is total balls afaic, for all the reasons listed in this thread. I'd rather have space to dance and enjoy the music rather than fight for my life, but that's just me.
If you're not into the combat thing, stay back a bit, near the edges of the mental zone. There's more space, fewer cunts, and you still get a great view.
+1
So beware 
(top 4 gigs) None of them have been confirmed however, but still interesting. Newspapers would surely only confirm something if they had sure information wouldn't they?
:'( ... they MUST return for at least ONE date next year... they simply can't resist! Honestly, they always do something in the UK year on year, even if it's some teeny, random gig. I has high hopes 
*hope I haven't jinxed it*
Muse dreams..
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