Muse’s Matt Bellamy at Lollapalooza 2011, Photo: Faraz Chaudry
By: Staff
British stadium rockers Muse will play at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals, but their show will not be normal Muse fare, according to NME.
Instead of a cornucopia of hits spanning their career, the power trio plans on playing 2001’s Origin of Symmetry from front to back at the festival this weekend. On choosing that album over, say other fan favorites like Absolution or Black Holes and Revelations, guitarist/singer Matthew Bellamy said, “it’s always been an album the hardcore fans have always talked about as one of their favourites, if not the favourite. So we wanted to play it for them as a celebration of the 10 years since it came out…”
Fans of the band’s other albums need not be disappointed, however, because stick man Dom Howard told NME what they were planning for the rest of their show: “We’ll probably just do the old cheap encore and play a few hits!”
Muse, who are known for impressive live shows with synced lighting and massive stage setups, have also switched up their stage show a bit to reflect the celebration of Origin of Symmetry. Bellamy assures explosiveness: “We’ll do whatever we can get away with within the restrictions of a festival stage.”
