MUSE ARE BACK

So, let me start this post with a loud and ear-drum piercing shout.. MUSE ARE BACK!

Yes, one of Britain’s best acts is back on the scene. Their latest creation “The Resistance” is due out in September…so not too long of a wait.
And in true Muse spirit they are promoting the album with a treasure hunt, but this one is GLOBAL…and I mean, global.

Paris, Dubai, Tokyo, Moscow…. The band have placed USB sticks across the planet and every time a one is found 20% of their new track “UNITED STATES OF EURASIA” is uploaded to http://ununitedeurasia.muse.mu/music/ so do check it out (I think you have to be a registered member) and listen to it yourself!

My first impressions of the song were… Great, it has piano in it (my favourite instrument), oh and a great Muse-esque build up then wow, are those “Egyptian-style” piano sounds?… is that a hint of Queen I hear? As you can see, many different emotions spawned from the my first play. Personally, the song sounds fantastic and I cannot wait for the album to hit the shelves.

I know I go on about the ‘greatness of Muse’ but I do really feel they are a truly unique band both musically and live. They are a breath of fresh air in the sea of pop-punk-poppy-emo-overproduced-badly produced-screamo-3 chord-comicy-drunken-looks driven… bands out there.

I find it fantastic that if any member of Muse walked through the streets of London or New York or Tokyo that most people wouldn’t even bat an eye-lid but they can happily sell out 90,000 capacity shows, or a 35-date arena tour. Which other act can do that?
Muse are appreciated for their music and their live show that comes along with that. They have no need to grace every magazine cover half naked, they don’t have to marry a ‘celebrity’ in order to be known, they don’t need some big shot Producer, they don’t have to cause havoc or be controversial to sell tickets or records and they definitely do not need gimmicks.

With Muse, its always about the music. And its this reason and this reason alone why I regard them so highly.

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Catch Muse on “The Resistance” Tour. Dates on http://muse.mu/tour-dates/

Filed under: Annoyances, Bands, Gigs, Muse, Music, Music Reviews

Download Festival

Yesterday Chris, Jamie and myself ventured down to the Download Festival at Donington Race course, near Derbyshire. We had Access All Areas wrist bands (apart from the main stage) so we had a pretty different festival experience to what we normally have:

Basically, better toilets, backstage access and better bars. Oh, and we also parked next to the tour bus’ as we had an Artist vehicle pass courtesy of From Autumn to Ashes.

The bands we saw:

From Autumn To Ashes
Saosin
Paramore
My Chemical Romance
Yourcodenameis:milo
bits of Velvet Revolver

We didn’t see that many bands but we still had a pretty cool day. Chris and Jamie even had their photo taken with the great Hayley Williams of Paramore, who is an exceedingly nice girl.

  

Thanks to Martin for sorting us out with the passes!

Pictures soon.

- Charlie.

Filed under: Gigs, Music, Music Reviews

Hammer Wielding Men

Again I’m sorry for the horrible spelling mistakes I have been making. It probably won’t happen again but if it does I’ll shut the site down, its as simple as that.

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By the way, Laura persisted on sending me even more texts yesterday but Jamie and I concocted an evil plan to get her back. I eventually just left my phone on the side and let it receive the 250ish texts.

I’ve completed ‘Half Life 2: Episode One’ now, I knew it was going to be short but I was annoyed at when I sat down to play it (from a previously saved position) it was only two minutes later until the credits rolled but it was a fantastic game non the less – I anticipate the release of ‘Episode Two’ in the first quarter of next year.

Yesterday evening Chris and Jamie came over to hang for a few hours. They arrived at about nine-ish but it wasn’t long before it was eleven – we’d been chatting like old ladies for two hours! I then put on a Jerry Springer Pay-Per-View episode I had downloaded from the net: ‘Jerry Springer – Naked Rumble 2′ – the title was very apt as there was a lot, and I mean a lot of naked rumbling.

I was then told by Leona that a gang of masked, hammer wielding men were patrolling the IKEA car park – they stole a car. How ridiculous is that? The car park should be secured, it is a multi-story and you assume your car will be safe when you go to a store to spend money, especially a store of that size but no IKEA have a ‘no liability’ clause (like most other stores do, except Tesco I think) which you willingly accept when you park on their property.

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Madina Lake, remember them? They came over to the UK to support Paramore on their UK tour. Well, their CD arrived today which I quite like. As I’ve said to a few people: In order to like a bands music I have to respect the people that are making it. Now Madina Lake isn’t a band I’d normally listen to but the guys were such legends and so happy to be in the UK they received my respect. Incidentally, I uploaded some Madina Lake photos I took whilst they visited Oakwell Hall.

Anyway, I’m off to cash Jamie’s Icelandic cheque. Do you think I can change £270.00 to £27,000? or £2,700? If I can, and it cashes I’ll buy you a pint…whoever you are.

Charlie.

Filed under: Friends, Games, Music, Music Reviews, TV, Work