FabriPav Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Â Muse are back - and louder than ever. But if you're going to storm back to the rock world in true style, you're going to need some hard and heavy reinforcements. Cue Marmozets, the rising rockers hand-picked to support Muse on their current Psycho UK tour. Â The tour kicked off in earnest with a blistering set in Belfast last night (see the report, footage and setlist here) - but to get a true measure of how the tour is going, we caught up with Marmozets singer Becca Macintyre as she recovered from the night before, to discuss the 'humbling but awesome' life on the road with Muse, the reaction from their hardcore fans, how the new material is going down, how Matt Bellamy is a guitar God - and just how much security he really needs.... Â Gigwise: How was the first night on tour playing Ulster Hall? Becca Macintyre: It was weird, but cool. The crowd were digging it and it was our first time playing in Ireland, which is quite exciting. We got to watch Muse for an hour or so, so it was pretty surreal. It's all about the riffs. Â How did you come to be invited on this tour? The bassist and drummer are fans. I don't know how we got on the tour, but apparently they're fans - they watched us last night and very kindly gave us a card to say 'Thank you for coming on the tour'! And two bottles of fine champagne, so that was nice of them. Â And now you've got to do it all again. Yeah, we've got about six dates with them - but it's a very strange tour. Security is really high. We all got kicked out of the venue. We were setting up all of our shit then these security guards were like "Right, you need to leave because Matt's coming." Â How are you getting on with Muse's hardcore fans? They're an older generation than ours, and even for Muse they don't go that crazy. There were a couple of moshpits that broke out, but everyone's just sort of bobbing their heads and enjoying it - that's pretty much what they did for us as well. We've had a lot good feedback from people afterwards and overall it was really good. Â This is a huge comeback for Muse - what does it mean to be supporting a band of that stature on an album like this? I've never really been a big fan of Muse, but the rest of the boys in the band are. Matt Bellamy's guitar riffs are amazing and I was pretty humbled by how awesome he is - it's almost like 'The Matt Show'! They're cool, they've got fucking great songs. It wasn't until we were watching them and I was like "I know what that song is - these guys are huge!" Â What did you make of the new material? They opened with 'Psycho', then ended with a completely new one that no one had heard. They took ages to come back for an encore, but ended with a surprise new song that no one has heard. It was all just riffs and glorious. Their sound is just impeccable - I've never, ever heard a live sound like theirs. That's what makes this more intimate tour more special. Â With a band the size of Muse returning with a heavier sound and the likes of yourselves and Royal Blood bringing rock back to the mainstream, to you feel a shift in sound back towards guitar music? I guess so. I just love doing what we do and I love the music that we write, more than anything and more than any music that I've heard. So it's really special for us that we're able to do this forever, which is so cool. We must be doing something right! It's not just fans but big people within the music industry, so that's cool - apparently Matt [bellamy] just doesn't like bands so doesn't even bother, which I find interesting because I'm quite similar like that. Â I suppose we're part of something. If you look at all the best festivals coming up, it's about rock bands - more than anything. I think it's about bloody time, instead of some pussy fucking pop shit, do you know what I mean? I've been sick and tired of that for years, and I think that's why we ended up doing what we're doing. I've got nothing against girls and shit, but I was never brought up having a role model as a singer, there was no one that I wanted to be - maybe that's part of the reason that's Marmozets are what they are. I don't really give a shit about anything else. Â Â http://www.gigwise.com/features/98930/muse-support-band-marmozets-interview---life-on-the-road-with-the-band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessicaSarahS Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Beat me to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 We all got kicked out of the venue. We were setting up all of our shit then these security guards were like "Right, you need to leave because Matt's coming." such a diva. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Imagining Marmozets getting pissed on champagne is a bit amusing. Cool little insight into what it's like on tour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 How old are they? They really made it sound like Matt doesn't even know or care about them, lol. Which is probably true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyChemGd1234 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Becca is 22, some of the others are younger. Their guitar tech (a friend of them) is 19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 pussy fucking pop shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 pussy fucking pop shit Real music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 That last paragraph has so much edge you could probably apply graph theory to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I don't know anything about the band, and thought I read "Becca" wrong when I got to the "I've got nothing against girls and shit." I was still a bit upon finding out she was a she. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonodillieono Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 That last paragraph has so much edge you could probably apply graph theory to it. mmmm graph theory, oh how I miss you So Matt doesn't listen to bands? Follow Me and Unsustainable make even more sense now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Matt only listens to classic rock now. Someone needs to make him listen to 65dos, Fuck Buttons and ASIWYFA so we can have the best Muse album ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonodillieono Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Matt only listens to classic rock now. Someone needs to make him listen to 65dos, Fuck Buttons and ASIWYFA so we can have the best Muse album ever. Odd question but where you involved in trolling a Kanye West setlist from the other week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Odd question but where you involved in trolling a Kanye West setlist from the other week? Nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 How old are they? They really made it sound like Matt doesn't even know or care about them, lol. Which is probably true. think they range from 19-23 or something. Drummer's quite young. Singer, guitarist and drummer are all siblings, then the other two are brothers as well Didn't realise their tech was only 19 as well? He looks older. Also he loves his instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynam Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Matt only listens to classic rock now. Someone needs to make him listen to 65dos, Fuck Buttons and ASIWYFA so we can have the best Muse album ever. ASIWYFA <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpypotato Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Matt only listens to classic rock now. Someone needs to make him listen to 65dos, Fuck Buttons and ASIWYFA so we can have the best Muse album ever. Ugh, that'd be so cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpypotato Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 So Matt doesn't like bands, huh? Maybe that's why everything he writes sounds like it was what he grew up on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furygirl Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I don't understand how someone in a band can not like bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpypotato Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Might just be a communication error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Matt's said in interviews he avoids listening to music sometimes because it influences him too much, at times. I assumed that's what was meant by that statement. The gal kind of seemed upset with Matt in particular not having heard of her band, I mean, seeing as she apparently didn't know the names of Chris and Dom, and goes on to refer to the band as "the Matt show" unironically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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