UFOs for Muse gig

Band plans 'spectacular' for V Festival

29 Feb 08 - Muse’s front-man Matt Bellamy has admitted the band have some quite different ideas for the forthcoming V Festival.

Speaking at the NME Awards bash in London on Thursday (28 Feb) night, Matt said: “V festival – we’re looking forward to that. We haven’t done that for a few years, we can’t wait to do it.

“We’re gonna try and do something quite spectacular – we will try and get a UFO to come in and land on the top of (everyone's) heads or something. We’ll definitely do something on a Spinal Tap embarrassment level.”

Muse took home the Best Live Act gong from the NME Awards and bassist Chris Wolstenholme said that the live element of the band has always been a priority.

“Playing live is something we have always taken really seriously – from quite a young age – way before we got signed and it’s the thing that we enjoyed and still enjoy more than any other part of playing music I think.

“I think to be respected as a live band is something that is a massive compliment.”

"We’re gonna try and do something quite spectacular – we will try and get a UFO to come in and land on the top of heads or something"
Matt Bellamy

The band also seems to like the fact that they can perform at places like Wembley Stadium and still get to play intimate venues.

“I think we’re kind of lucky because we’re at different levels in different countries - so y’know we can come over here and do a stadium and then we’ll go back to America, or the middle of America and go and play in small clubs again.

“So it’s kind of nice to sort of mix it up a little bit."

Chris went on to say playing massive gigs all the time can have its disadvantages.

“If you did stadiums all over the world all the time – I’m sure it would get boring. Same with arenas.

“I mean we did an arena tour at the end of 2006 for three months and I think towards the end – after three months of playing arenas it was a bit like ‘oh it would be nice to do something else, do a festival or a small club or anything else that was different’.”

Muse are also playing the Teenage Cancer Trust show at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Saturday 12 April.

“We’ve never done it before and obviously y’know its for a good cause as well. Looking forward to it a lot, I think it’ll be a good gig.

“I think it will be a very very stripped down concert – we don’t wanna spend any money because obviously we want as much as possible to go to the charity. Which is the way it should be.”

Kelly Stooke