30 Things You Never Knew...

[Beibi]

...About Muse

• On the Big Day Out tour of 2004, on which Muse played down the bill, Metallica would set up a rehearsal tent next to the main stage in which to warm up before they went on. Often Muse would come offstage to hear Metallica warming up by playing ‘New Born’.

• Being such a small lad - he's 5'7" - Matt Bellamy used to take advantage of his trips to Japan to have silk shirts specially tailored for him.

• In his time off from Muse, bassist Chris Wolstenholme plays drums in a local pub band in the Devon town of Teignmouth, where he lives with his Kelly and their three children Alfie, Frankie and Ava-Jo.

• Drummer Dominic Howard's earliest memory is of being on a rubber ring at the beach as it burst.

• The band are keen poker players and once fleeced Robert Smith of The Cure for a hefty wad of cash.

• After Matt was famously shocked to be given a painting of himself naked with a heart covering his privates and with a crow on one shoulder, Russian fans made it up to him on his next visit to the country by presenting him with a full-sized astronomer's telescope.

• When requesting permission to play one of the biggest church organs in Europe in order to finish recording 'Megalomania' from 'Origin Of Symmetry', the priest at the church asked to see the lyrics to the song to ensure the band weren't devil worshippers.

• At their Wembley Stadium shows in June 2007 the band had plans to fly onto the stage in jet packs, but they fell foul of Health And Safety regulations.

• So much damage was done to equipment on the 'Origin Of Symmetry' tour that band and crew came to refer to it as the 'Origin Of Chaos' tour.

• Since the very first Muse recordings Matt has never allowed anyone other than the record's producer to hear him sing without musical accompaniment. Not even his bandmates are allowed to stay in the studio when Matt is recording his vocal tracks.

• On their American tour early in 2005 Muse ran a competition whereby fans solving anagrams of new song titles on their setlists would be led by cryptic messages to a series of prizes – bikes left in cities that the tour visited.

• Matt's villa on Lake Como in Italy was once the painting retreat for Winston Churchill.

• At one point during recording Muse considered making 'Black Holes And Revelations' a triple album, with the song-based album sandwiched between two discs of experimental electronica and rock.

• During the 'Black Holes And Revelations' sessions the band began playing jazz versions of their classics for fun and briefly considered becoming a jazz band.

• The shadows of flying people on the cover of 'Absolution' are real – art director Storm Thorgerson refuses to reveal how the shot was taken.

• In 2005 drummer Dominic Howard took part in the London to Brighton bike ride for charity. He made it back to London in time to watch Motley Crue the same night.

• Drummer Dominic Howard has a penchant for dressing up behind the drumkit, and has played gigs dressed as Spiderman and Gandalf.

• The bouncing Muse moons used in their live shows were originally planned to be used as spherical side-of-stage screens showing patterns and footage from the show, but they burst too often.

• At Reading 2002 Muse took to the stage several minutes late – risking a £1,000-per-minute fine if their set over-ran – because Matt had lost his 'lucky' belt with elephants on it, a gift from a fan which he liked to wear for the most important gigs.

• For a while, Muse's TV appearances were famous for the appearance of the 'mystery breakdancer' – their tour manager Glen, who would breakdance on every show at the behest of the band.

• Muse turned down an offer to play at the environmentally aware Live Earth concert in 2007 since their schedule would have meant hiring a private jet to get them there on time.

• During writing sessions for 'Absolution' in a warehouse space in East London, bassist Chris Wolstenholme, who was staying at the warehouse, was provided with an inflatable bedroom to sleep in.

• After spending much of his twenties collecting gadgetry such as an MP3-playing watch and a jet-pack, Matt has since got rid of most of it since he lost his mobile phone a few years ago and realised that life was so much better without it.

• On September 10, 2001 Muse played a gig at New York's Mercury Lounge and went straight to the airport to fly to Boston after the gig. Had they stayed overnight and booked a flight in the morning they would have been staying in a hotel on Manhattan's Lower East Side when the hijacked planes hit the World Trade Centre.

• Many of Matt's guitars are designed by Devon's Hugh Manson in order to incorporate revolutionary technical elements into the body of the instrument, such as touch pads and whammy pedals. At Wembley Stadium in 2007 the guitars were brought to him onstage by a remote-controlled robot.

• For two years around the 'Origin Of Symmetry' tour Muse spent £150 per show on guitars which Matt smashed onstage. The costs came directly out of his own pocket.

• Muse wanted to play at the Royal Albert Hall this year because Matt's dad, who was a member of 60s guitar band The Tornados (of 'Telstar' fame), had always told Matt it was his favourite venue to play.

• During the recording of Muse's third album, 2003's 'Absolution', Matt Bellamy became so stressed that he had recurring nightmares about being hung upside down and beaten on his feet.

• Muse frotman Matt Bellamy is a keen scuba diver, and claims that on one excursion an instructor tried to kill him by only filling his oxygen tank halfway because he fancied Matt's girlfriend.

• When they first headlined the second stage at V, Muse were introduced onstage by Coldplay's Chris Martin in a hoodie. Since then Matt and Chris have regularly sent each other tongue-in-cheek 'abusive' text messages.

'30 Things You Never Knew About Muse' was written by Mark Beaumont - looks out for his book 'Out Of This World: The Story Of Muse', which will be published in October.

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NME

[Lobeen]

Interesante...

Y esto...

• Muse frotman Matt Bellamy is a keen scuba diver, and claims that on one excursion an instructor tried to kill him by only filling his oxygen tank halfway because he fancied Matt's girlfriend.

    :eek

[Korbatin]

Solo entiendo algunas... y creía que el inglés se me daba mejor  :angry:

[deborah X]

joer, está genial; de la mitad no tenía ni idea

At one point during recording Muse considered making 'Black Holes And Revelations' a triple album, with the song-based album sandwiched between two discs of experimental electronica and rock.

joooooooo 

Por cierto, no sé si esto no lo sabía o no lo recordaba...

On September 10, 2001 Muse played a gig at New York's Mercury Lounge and went straight to the airport to fly to Boston after the gig.

thnks-lt

[sbl_msue]

At one point during recording Muse considered making 'Black Holes And Revelations' a triple album, with the song-based album sandwiched between two discs of experimental electronica and rock.

Por qué no lo hicieron!! :gangrena

During the 'Black Holes And Revelations' sessions the band began playing jazz versions of their classics for fun and briefly considered becoming a jazz band.

Que bueno que no lo hicieron  :juas

On September 10, 2001 Muse played a gig at New York's Mercury Lounge and went straight to the airport to fly to Boston after the gig. Had they stayed overnight and booked a flight in the morning they would have been staying in a hotel on Manhattan's Lower East Side when the hijacked planes hit the World Trade Centre.

Y ahora tendré pesadillas sobre lo que pudo haber pasado  :buaa :muerto :argh

At Wembley Stadium in 2007 the guitars were brought to him onstage by a remote-controlled robot.

Se las llevo Wall-E

Muse frotman Matt Bellamy is a keen scuba diver, and claims that on one excursion an instructor tried to kill him by only filling his oxygen tank halfway because he fancied Matt's girlfriend.

Con lo paranoico que es no le creo ni la mitad  ¬¬

[MAJO]

• When requesting permission to play one of the biggest church organs in Europe in order to finish recording 'Megalomania' from 'Origin Of Symmetry', the priest at the church asked to see the lyrics to the song to ensure the band weren't devil worshippers.

wuajajajajajajaja 

• Since the very first Muse recordings Matt has never allowed anyone other than the record's producer to hear him sing without musical accompaniment. Not even his bandmates are allowed to stay in the studio when Matt is recording his vocal tracks.

mmmmm interesante dato

• Drummer Dominic Howard has a penchant for dressing up behind the drumkit, and has played gigs dressed as Spiderman and Gandalf.

cuándo se vistió de Gandalf????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
alguien suba el video, por favorrrrrr!!!!!!!!!! :shrek:

• On September 10, 2001 Muse played a gig at New York's Mercury Lounge and went straight to the airport to fly to Boston after the gig. Had they stayed overnight and booked a flight in the morning they would have been staying in a hotel on Manhattan's Lower East Side when the hijacked planes hit the World Trade Centre.

DI-OS MI-O :eek

• Muse frotman Matt Bellamy is a keen scuba diver, and claims that on one excursion an instructor tried to kill him by only filling his oxygen tank halfway because he fancied Matt's girlfriend.

y cómo se pudo comprobar eso!!!!????? 

[Beibi]

cuándo se vistió de Gandalf????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Video no sé si hay, pero sé que he visto alguna foto de eso.....

.....

Aquí http://www.musewiki.org/London_Drink_2004_%28gig%29

[sbl_msue]

Video no sé si hay, pero sé que he visto alguna foto de eso.....

.....

Aquí http://www.musewiki.org/London_Drink_2004_%28gig%29

  Dom cada vez me cae mejor  :bow

Muse frotman Matt Bellamy is a keen scuba diver, and claims that on one excursion an instructor tried to kill him by only filling his oxygen tank halfway because he fancied Matt's girlfriend.

y cómo se pudo comprobar eso!!!!????? 

No se pudo. Cómo puedes creerle una palabra al Mateo?? :huh:

[evori]

bastante interesante!! zeeeeeenkius

[L. Wolstenholme]

When they first headlined the second stage at V, Muse were introduced onstage by Coldplay's Chris Martin in a hoodie. Since then Matt and Chris have regularly sent each other tongue-in-cheek 'abusive' text messages.

No lo entiendo bien

[helderderruhe]

 

[Lobeen]

 

Ostia! zD zD

Que grande es este hombre!!!

No se le puede dar un +1 desde aquí???

[helderderruhe]

damelo a mi, yo se lo entrego

[Geller]

Lo del World Trade Center da que pensar...

Hay algunas que estan muy bien, mucha paranoia  :laugh:

[Jessica_Owen]

jajajajaajaja

estuve buscando algo de domgandalf y no encontre jajajaja
me rei mucho con la foto que pusieron