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A few quotes from Noel Gallagher about Dom's partying high-life at the Brit Awards

"I saw the drummer from Muse smoking an electronic cigarette. A cigarette with a battery in. I had to say to him: ‘Really? Really? Is that where you are at? Do me a favour mate, either have a proper one outside, or don’t have one.’ It lit up green when he had a drag of it. Nonsense. He said that immortal line – ‘oh you know how it is mate’. And I said ‘I’m sorry mate, I actually don’t.’"

 

There's a million things about the Brits to criticise but is that really one of them? :chuckle:

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As noble as Matt Bellamy’s journey to the Brits on the tube was, the fact that he took pictures of the ‘event’ along the way like the Jubilee Line was as exotic an experience to him as a tour of the Taj Mahal – all very “look everyone! Me, on the tube!” – destroyed any sense of ordinary-bloke-underneath-it-all he was trying to achieve.

 

This did cross my mind :chuckle: It kind of served as a good reminder that even as humble and normal (whatever that means for Matt Bellamy) the guys seem, they still are rock stars who live in a slightly different world from us in some aspects.

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I would have thought the innumerable videos and pictures of people with cameras chasing him would have made that obvious...

 

A tad unfair to criticise them for not being "ordinary" people, when it's us ("us" being, well, the ordinary people) who help make it that way.

 

Anyways, the scared eyeball by the "could lead to death" sign was worth it. :LOL:

 

Pardon my spelling today... new glasses, and I can't see worth a fuck.

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There is something amusing about Muse going tourist-y when they went round Lamborghini's factory in Italy and then the same on the fucking Jubilee Line :chuckle:

 

That's it though. Okay Matt doesn't tweet that much, but it's not that unusual for Muse to tweet pictures from wherever they are. So why not the London tube? It's obviously an unusual way for him to travel, hence the novelty, but I don't really see very much wrong with that. It was fun to see. I think that was the intention of tweeting rather than trying to pretend that he doesn't live a different lifestyle than the average commuter.

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That's it though. Okay Matt doesn't tweet that much, but it's not that unusual for Muse to tweet pictures from wherever they are. So why not the London tube? It's obviously an unusual way for him to travel, hence the novelty, but I don't really see very much wrong with that. It was fun to see. I think that was the intention of tweeting rather than trying to pretend that he doesn't live a different lifestyle than the average commuter.

 

Where did he say it was a wrong thing to do?

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That's it though. Okay Matt doesn't tweet that much, but it's not that unusual for Muse to tweet pictures from wherever they are. So why not the London tube? It's obviously an unusual way for him to travel, hence the novelty, but I don't really see very much wrong with that. It was fun to see. I think that was the intention of tweeting rather than trying to pretend that he doesn't live a different lifestyle than the average commuter.

There's nothing wrong with it but it is amusing to see them side-by-side - it's hardly wrong if the thing he Tweets is a Tube journey. And hey it's still a more vaguely interesting photograph than people who Instagram their meals.

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Just wanted to say thanks for posting all of these links! (Just getting to read this now)

 

No problem! A new batch, some already posted in other threads:

 

Chicago (continued):

http://www.examiner.com/review/chicago-s-united-center-experiences-rapture-with-muse

http://www.chicagomusicmagazine.com/reviews/muse-and-dead-sara-deliver-at-packed-united-center/

 

Columbus:

http://rcgoodmanblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/concert-review-muse-with-dead-sara-3513-schottenstein-center-columbus-oh/

http://www.columbusalive.com/content/blogs/thelatest/2013/03/concert-review-muse-and-dead-sara.html

http://www.thelantern.com/a-e/review-muse-lacks-expected-gaudy-aspects-still-packs-great-punch-in-columbus-concert-1.3005484?pagereq=1#.UUjJLlccPgY

 

This comment in the comment section made me smile the most, actually:

I can't stand "critics" who feel the need to find something, anything, to criticize about a concert. Last night's concert was on of the 4 best that I have seen since 1968. Bellamy was simply amazing, and his quite-capable sidemen mesh perfectly. An outstanding show, combining phenomenal guitar work and musicianship, visuals that surpassed even the Floyd in the 'Shoe in both '84 and '89; an ability to work the crowd a la Mick Jagger and Jon Bon Jovi (regardless of what you think about Bon Jovi's music- the man knows how to fire up his fans).

I have seen hundreds of concerts by all sorts of performers, and these guys are at the top of their game; I can think of no one that can outperform them right now.

FYI- the other 3: Floyd, '84 at the Shoe; Rolling Stones at Indianapolis (6,000 seat venue) with Stevie Wonder as opener- 1973; CSN&Y, Schott- 2002 (? not sure of date- the first round at the Schott).

 

 

Minneapolis:

http://www.twincities.com/music/ci_22744610/review-minnesota-fans-find-their-muse-and-go

http://kstp.com/article/stories/s2956308.shtml

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2013/03/muse_at_target_center_concert_review_2013.php

 

St.Louis:

http://www.insidestl.com/insideSTLcom/Community/STLMusic/tabid/77/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/10240/REVIEW-MUSE-Rocks-Chaifetz-Arena.aspx

 

Tulsa:

http://www.antiquiet.com/shows/2013/03/muse-forces-the-2nd-law-on-tulsa/

Even if you aren’t completely sold on the band’s new sound or material it’s definitely possible to enjoy the show, but it almost seems like it might be time for the band to settle down with the staging and make sure they can still wow a crowd based on music alone.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=269&articleid=20130311_269_A12_CUTLIN543979

 

Houston:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2013/03/last_night_muse_at_toyota_cent.php

 

Dallas:

http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/music/headlines/20130314-review-muse-takes-arena-rock-to-new-heights-of-eye-popping-grandiosity-in-dallas-concert.ece (negative)

http://www.groovelovesmelody.com/2013/03/14/post-show-muse-with-dead-sara-american-airlines-center-dallas-tx/

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2013/03/muse_review.php

 

Phoenix:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/slideshow/muse-us-airways-center-3-16-13-39151563/

http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/articles/20130317muse-phoenix-concert-review.html?nclick_check=1 (already posted as a seperate thread)

 

Las Vegas:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/jason-bracelin/muse-shows-no-restraint-mandalay-bay

(my favourite: )

In Muse’s case, it all begins with Bellamy, whose singing voice is capable of scaling nearly four octaves with an upper register suggestive of both Judas Priest wailer Rob Halford and the cacophonous shriek of an alley cat being fed into a wood chipper.

bassist Christopher Wolstenholme’s playing approximately the menacing buzz of a perturbed mud dauber.

“Can you free me, free me from this world?” Bellamy asked in song during an uncharacteristically subdued “Explorers.”

 

Dude, that ticket was punched years ago.

 

:LOL:

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Music Matters: Death, The End of All Things and Hope Laid Up in the Heavens in Muse’s “Exogenesis Symphony”

 

“Our wonder will become realigned to God’s grace and our hope is not in escaping this earth but making our stand here as the God of the universe one day will bring heaven down to us.”

 

From the day we are born, all of us are spiraling towards one thing—death. Yet in most Western cultures we rarely think about death on a personal level. Not many of us wake up in the morning struggling “with a fleeting sense of dread” in regards to our forthcoming demise. Especially since many of us in the 21st century are unable to “[penetrate] the electronic buzz” surrounding us with a narrative of hope, namely, as fellow Christ and Pop Culture writer Alan Noble notes, “recognition of our great need [for redemption] and the greater wonder of the Grace of God.”

 

Unlike many of his peers, Matthew Bellamy (guitarist and vocalist of Muse) does grapple with his temporality as seen most clearly in his song of hopelessness, “Thoughts of a Dying Atheist“. A crunchy punk guitar, static infused vocals, nasal whining “yeahs” and a cacophonous guitar solo provide a brashly-laden conception of the finality of death. Bellamy fearfully screams in this pre-death epitaph, “And I know the moment’s near/ And there’s nothing you can do/ Look through a faithless eye/ Are you afraid to die?/ It scares the hell out of me/ And the end is all I can see.”

 

Read the rest of the article here

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