[Music] we're here with matt from muse uh you're back in australia bigger than ever you've just done you've applied to 100 million billion people in london alone [Music] and you come out you get new album black holes and revelations it sounds a little bit different to things that muse have done in the past yeah when did this new sound come in still sounds like news uh i think uh i think we've always had a whole range of uh sort of experiments we've worked on outside of what has made it onto albums you know i think and we thought it was time on this album to try and um bring some of those things uh out into the open if you like and i think uh so we wanted every song on this album to be something completely different to anything we had done before you know so i think it's because our fourth album and we felt we wanted to challenge ourselves and not kind of get uh stuck in the same thing you know every time yeah so we thought it was the right time to um to show some different sizes of antenna and i think we did that um on this album pretty pretty well were you worried at all what fans might think um well no not really i mean i think that's i'm sure i think with any any piece of work you do is gonna be some people like it and people don't like you get used to i think you know um everything we've done has had different reactions from different um you know either old fans or new people that are just discovering you know so i think um you can't really um tailor yourself just to please the people that liked your old stuff otherwise you just sound the same all the time yeah right and you're more than more than just the music in muse and that's at least what i've noticed over the years of knowing who the band are is um you know you've got you've got all this artwork which i have here this is supposedly i read that this is this represents the four horsemen of the apocalypse sitting on mars yeah absolutely something like that that's actually true yeah it was kind of that kind of came up through a discussion with storm thorgerson there's a guy who did it he does surreal photography and um he's kind of he kind of became famous for doing all the pink floyd stuff you know all that kind of weird surreal album covers they do in there and we still had a meeting with him and he he said he wants to do something around the force by the four horsemen the apocalypse and i want to do something to do with mars so yeah so we kind of just literally met in the middle and did that wow is it um tough to to let someone else in and have these suggestions no i think it's the best way i mean i'm a musician i'm not really a visual artist i don't really want to pretend to do that i think a lot of a lot of bands do claim claim they do that but really really you spend most of your time collaborating with um with artists or video directors that kind of stuff you know i think it's best the end of the day they're the people that are directing or behind the helm if you like and i think it's it's good to collaborate with them as much as you can as opposed to just dictate you know yeah right and there's a book out on news right yeah i don't that's nothing to do with us but certainly not anything that we've been involved with i don't think is that what's it called uh inside the muscle museum okay yeah yeah that's that's i think it's like an unofficial something or another you know really yeah i think it's some journalist how do you feel about someone who's gone and written all about muse without well you know consulting you about it well they they found out the manager said do you mind and we kind of went well yeah so long as you state we don't mind as long as you state that it's unofficial you know there's nothing there's enough it's nothing that we've really been involved in i think there's all sorts of weird suspicious interviews in there with weird old friends that we don't really know and people we may never even met who are telling all sorts of stories about us but um but no it's a bit weird isn't it but you know what can you do you know well dude let's um talk about the live show for a second uh it's come a long way since the first time first time i saw you in a small club now you have the light show and all of that how did all of that creep into it and do you so do you look uh i mean is it the band that actually decides what it is yeah actually we are very um involved on that front um live so i think it was because we're just a three piece uh i think we originally were we kind of felt that it was good to kind of bring some other sort of visual elements into the gig because just looking at us we might get a bit boring after now you know so so we thought it was good to start trying to bring some visual elements and it started off with just kind of usual kind of bringing in video bits and pieces and um and last time we brought in some um kind of more prop type stuff this kind of satellite thing that's moving around and just kind of ways to keep uh just stop people looking at just us you know so much is that interesting but i think uh yeah we we got we've been getting more kind of custom films made you know that kind of synchronize up with the songs and stuff and try and sort of give the song a slightly twist on the meaning or something you know yeah the lyrics coming up at one point on the screen the other day it's like a big karaoke show yeah exactly i think i think i'm gonna get everyone singing along you must be getting used to people actually looking at you now though like i said earlier you did uh you played 180 000 people in london in two nights right uh at the wembley stadium i haven't done that yeah no we're doing that in june oh there you go yeah crazy talk yeah yeah stadiums yeah that's scary stuff yeah what's that gonna be like i mean wembley stadium is an important uh place you know yeah it's got a lot of history with live eight and you know you know yeah it's really very very nervous on that day i think you know i think it's our first day we're doing a few we did about four gigs like that now in the summer a couple in france there's a couple in england we played big crowds before but only in festival environments you know like sort of maybe a hundred thousand in reading glastonbury that kind of thing but but there's something more i think there's something more spectacular about when the crowd are kind of around you know and up high as well so if you kind of get this full surrounding everywhere you look there's just people you know this i mean we did a stadium in tokyo actually but which was a smaller one like a baseball one but that was uh that was a pretty scary stuff you know but it's great when you when it goes well it's uh it's an amazing feeling you know because uh the crowd when all those many people are cheering it's just quite definitely so that's a good vlog so do you are you planning something special for that show or is it um yeah well i think there's a few things we're going to try we might we might try and do a b stage for the first time like like having a stage in the middle in the round you know doing a few songs in there we might get a couple of choppers helicopters to come in and do kind of search lights to kind of because we can't get lights above your head because it's sky you know so we might get some lighting coming off some helicopters or maybe a big blimp or something you know i wanted to get like a big um one of those common blimps over here yeah there's inflatable things like one of them that we can like project uh video onto so that it will be above the gig so people in the surrounding area can see it as well wow i suppose if you're playing to uh know what is it 90 000 people at night then you're going to want to do something like this yeah you've got that you're getting something yeah i mean i think it would be the usual way to do a big kind of array of video screens or something but i'd like to do something that kind of incorporates the whole stadium if possible what's it like when you come out uh here in australia you play too uh still play into a decent sized crowd out here but certainly not 90 000 people at night yeah well i like it i mean we used to we've become very used to changing the kind of venues we play in all the time you know i mean when we first started touring america on on the last album um we were not known there so we're playing these really small bars you know it was quite weird we're coming off playing big festivals it's big big stages and then suddenly going into these kind of you know one thousand capacity clubs and and they're all kind of like falling over all time running into each other all times we're so used to kind of having a big space to play on you know but but uh we learned we learned the hardware i actually split my lip lip open on the first night in atlanta because i fell over and uh because i was trying to pull out some big weird pirouette move or something and realized the stage wasn't big enough i went colliding with the drum kit and fell on my face and uh but yeah but i think after that day yeah we became used we became used to playing in a big place in small places uh and and uh you know enjoying enjoying aspects of each you know yeah and you're about to go back to america and tour with my chemical romance which will be yeah that should be interesting yeah yeah they're playing in a lot of a lot of places haven't been to before a lot of the midwest you know so um it's good it's good to get a chance to play to a new audience there you know so looking forward to that what's it going to be like playing to their crowd i don't know the truth i don't know much about them to be honest it's uh have you seen them on the beginning no not yet no no i'm always asleep you know in the daytime but uh we're all lazy on this tour i'm not that lazy i've been staying up too late so i keep missing a lot of the bands that are playing earlier on um i've seen the killers in jet a few times they could get good guys they could handle them but yeah i made it for them yeah yeah i should come and check them out i think i've heard they're pretty uh a pretty intensive crowd i think so it's uh it'll be an interesting crowd for you to play with it um you after after you leave here you still got two more big hours after you leave here you're off to uh what was it jakarta kuala lumpur taiwan and hong kong yeah have you ever played in places like that before no no well we've been to singapore we've done the game in singapore before yeah yeah we played we played in japan a few times but yeah i suppose this is our first time doing a full a tour more abroad tour of asia you know so so yeah i'm looking forward to that it should be very exciting i love playing places for the first time you know yeah so it should be should be good fun wow well anyway thanks for coming