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...what are they about ?
very late to the game on this, like some of their stuff.
what to know ?
Space cadet Queen tribute luxurious dad rock act with the volume up to 11 that live in a secret base that looks like a super tanker.
But in a good way.
Hopefully going to see them at the Etihad in June if my mates can sort their bloody acts out.
You're about a decade and a half late to the game - that's the last time they produce anything good. (And it was truly excellent back then, now they're very luxurious dad rock)
...i'm a very luxurious dad.
Their new album is fantastic!
Awesome band live.
munrobiker +1
Everything they've done in recent years (not heard new the album) seems to sound like the Dr Who theme music...
Hoping to go and see them live at Ashton Gate next summer. Great band.
This is a belting live set.
Plastic Baby briefly threatened to become the new Smoke on the Water/Back in Black about ten years ago. When my youngest was learning the ****ing guitar. Oh, and they've a song called Knights of Sidonia or something, which was a hit in Spain when we were staying near a white town called Sidonia in Andalusia. Erm, that's it.
Hang on, the lead dude was married for 5 mins to some film star and his dad was a vaguely successful rock n roll act, and they come from teignmouth which sounds like Tynemouth, and both have a surf forecast. There, now I'm done. That's all there is to know.
Loved all their albums up to The Resistance. They seemed to have flatlined after that. Admittedly I've not heard the latest but I'll check it out later.
That Glastonbury link reminds me of Rush. And that's a good thing. That three people can create that sort of acoustic onslaught is ace. Oh, and they're a bit proggy as well...
Was persuaded to see them at Benicassim about 10 years ago by a friend who loved them and said I would too.
Awful ****ing racket, and that's from someone who likes a lot of music that sounds like an awful racket.
The Queen reference up there may be telling, never "got" them either. I go to the panto in Preston once a year, that's enough for me.
Plastic Baby
You mean, Plug in baby.
Great band, fantastic live. But like all bands the early stuff is the best.
Awesome band live.
I saw them at Glastonbury about 15 years ago, and thought they were awful. Each to their own!
I saw them at V festival in 200x (can't remember) and they were good and very capable but every single song started and finished with a kinda histrionic classicalish piano cadenza which got annoying after the fourth or fifth song, and it was last on Sunday night so I sacked it off before the end. I would say if they aren't too pompous about what they do they will be a good gig to go and see
We (daughter and I) saw them at Chelmsford in 200x. The boy was a bit young for a huge festival crowd and was miffed when mum wouldn't let him go. This was around the Absolution album. A great band to watch then, though we like to remind "the boy" that we saw them while they were still good. His teeth grind somewhat 🙂
Saw them at the Eden Project in 2006 - they were belting.
Not really done much good stuff since then, their lead singer is a bit arrogant ('It takes our fans about 5 years to catch up')
& seem to be trying to extract money from fans left right & centre.
Am going to see them next year at Queen Elizabeth Park, didn't take up the option of the £300 experience ticket that comes with a free lunchbox.
<p>I remember hearing their first album in a Virgin Megastore when it came out and at the time it seemed a bit like a me-too post Radiohead signing. I then eventually got into them a few albums later, at the point they seemed to be changing from their initial histrionic rock style into their full on refuge in audacity space opera stuff.
<p>I have a mate who most likes their ealier stuff but for me turning up their silliness to 11 and then to 12 is an important part of their appeal, even while the virtuoso guitar rock part is important too. In later years their various concept albums and experimental directions have been a bit hit and miss for me. The Resistance, while enjoyable ludicrous, didn't work for me. The Second Law was pretty good in parts. Drones just didn't have the audacity to back up its concept. I haven't got their new album yet.
<p>I've seen them live three times. All long past their glory days, according to my mate. Touring The Resistance they were underwhelming. Technically very good but sadly lacking in atmosphere. Matt Bellamy posed, sang and played but never connected with the audience. Touring The Second Law I was far more impressed. A decent connection with the audience, combined with a big stage show and entertainingly silly/awesome music. Touring Drones they were a bit inbetween, but the stage show was even bigger and flashier, with drones flying around and weird videos playing on huge screens (lady robot space Jesus being particularly silly).
Just buy the first album. Then you effectively have every album they've ever made.
I saw them at V festival in 200x (can’t remember) and they were good and very capable but every single song started and finished with a kinda histrionic classicalish piano cadenza which got annoying after the fourth or fifth song
Yeah, that was my feeling: a dazzling light show and technical ability doesn't compensate for every overblown song sounding exactly the bleedin same.
Their shows are pretty epic, definitely try to go to one.
The lead guy is one of those people who are just obnoxiously talented. Bah.
Really good live band. Their new album hasn't done anything for me, but I've really enjoyed most of their other catalogue.
first album is great. Saw them off the back of that while I was in Newcastle, their Showbiz tour.
not really been that impressed by the stuff after that. Still very good live, but came across a bit up themselves after success.
Earlier better, but very good stuff on every album somewhere.
Maybe I'm overly generous, but I always thought the up-their-own-arses thing was all part of the show?
For me, you can sum it up with this:
This era of muse was mad, inventive, and one of the best live bands I've ever seen. I've seen 'em in little venues and at wembley and they were always great. (I am ChrisL's mate that always says they used to be better, and I'm right)
You’re about a decade and a half late to the game –
id say thats about 10 years out, feels like around mid 90s when they came out. i seem to remember them doing a joint tour with a band called cay(?) and thought at the time cay are going to go places, not so sure about muse. couldnt have been more wrong.
went to seem em a few years ago at nottingham arena, thought it was shit. too big, no atmosphere, i was right at the back, didnt enjoy it at all.
sadexpunk
i seem to remember them doing a joint tour with a band called cay(?) and thought at the time cay are going to go places,
At about the same time as that tour I saw Terris, who I knew straight away would be huge, co-headline with obvious nobodies Coldplay...
They were in the same class at school as my friend Dean. Saw them before they were signed (and called something else, IIRC) with two men and a dog at the Piazza in Torquay. First four albums are the best, although they periodically produce some decent stuff. As already said, a great live band.
JP
Always liked them, loved some of it, but never really connected with their albums. That being said, if they ever remake Flash Gordon (which they should) these guys must do the soundtrack.
I watched them play a set in HMV in Nottingham when they released their first album. I still have the signed album somewhere, HMV is long gone alas.
Saw them headlining the Friday night set at Rockavaria in Munich a few years ago. By some distance the best beans of the weekend, including Metallica (who were my main draw to booking the tickets).
Superb.
New born 🙂
They were in the same class at school as my friend Dean. Saw them before they were signed (and called something else, IIRC)
Rocket Baby Dolls.
Got a few rubbish claims to fame when it comes to them (same school a few years out and other things). Unsure though if they ever did something at the school as kids as there were a few things that went on with kids playing at school events that I saw but can't remember who (and they were all terrible). They were pretty rubbish in their early days from what I've seen. Knock out bad Nirvana covers etc.
I remember an ex girlfriends brother getting their first album and raving about it. I begged him to lend it to me for a day, but eventually had it on permanent rotation for over a week before sheepishly handing it back! I’ve seen them on tours for Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, Black Holes & Revelations and a tiny gig in Manchester before Drones came out. Hated their Wembley show, but think they’re amazing in smaller venues - Hulaballo is an amazing album/DVD.
I think they’re a great band, and while I don’t think that everything they’ve done is amazing, I think the low points make their good moments even better
Utter dross.
Utter dross
Each to their own.
One of those bands, like Queen, that I can appreciate the talent of but don’t click with.
Saw them at the venue I worked at (Coldplay were the support act) circa 2000 ish - thought they were promising if a bit Radiohead-ish.
Gave a copy of Showbiz to my daughter when she was a young teen 'searching for the new sound'*
They are still her favourite band. Career highlight for me was Origin of Symmetry, but then I've always had a weakness for amplified distorted guitars ...
*#TheMightyBoosh 🙂