Muse

Resistance is futile. The invasion has begun. MUSE are taking over BIG DAY OUT 2010.

Their weaponry is advanced beyond our planet’s understanding – the most symphonic, intergalactic, bombastic, futuristic, astral-travelling musical arsenal the universe has ever heard. English trio Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme may be just three men, but with MUSE they have built a rock galaxy all their own, from the ambitious baby steps of Absolution, to the super-massive heights of Black Holes and Revelations and now the mind-blowing enormity of The Resistance.

MUSE’s fifth album, The Resistance was an instant No.1 in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and 13 other countries. “This album is us, unhinged and unedited. It’s pure Muse,” singer/guitarist/keyboardist Bellamy told InPress. Its contents, including single Uprising, prompted stuff.co.nz to ask if the band had “finally flagged Earth away and started beaming its music in directly from Mars? It’s certainly ambitious, and occasionally sounds like the soundtrack for an alien invasion yet to happen.”

It was late 2007 when we last saw them Down Under, after an earlier date at that summer’s BIG DAY OUT. The trio serenaded their homeland that same year with two super-massive sold out nights at Wembley Stadium. After disappearing for almost two years to dream up The Resistance, they re-emerged in September 2009 with two hometown gigs in Teignmouth, Devon, in front of 10,000 people. Their show was part old school circus, part futuristic fluorescent extravaganza.

“We’re not doing stuff that’s predictable, or within the realm of other rock and pop acts,” says Bellamy. He’s not wrong. What on earth (and beyond) do MUSE have in store for BIG DAY OUT this summer? You wouldn’t believe us if we told you…