Le concert de Muse à Bergamo - Italie - a été annulé pour cause de deuil familial. Selon NME le père de Dom, Mr. Bill Howard, s'est écroulé après le concert de Glastonbury à 01h15.

In rememberance and respect to Bill Howard
It is with great sadness that we must announce that Mr Bill Howard, father of Muse drummer Dominic, died earlier today (Monday 28th June) at the Glastonbury Festival, a short time after the band's headlining set. In this dreadfully difficult time, we request that the privacy of Dom's family and friends is respected, whilst our sincere and heartfelt sympathy extends to Dominic and the Howard family. Muse have cancelled their show in Bergamo, Italy, on Wednesday (June 30), with decisions on other shows pending.

Un extrait de la video de Time is Running out en live au festivalbar en Italy (19.06.2004)

Glastonbury : Pour la premère fois, le festival glastonbury est entièrement retransmis sur internet, le concert de Muse sera diffusé à 00:05 à cette adresse (01h05 heure française).

For the first time ever the BBC will be streaming the pick of Glasto performances, including Muse, Orbital, and BRMC, live online. After the festival you will be able to watch highlights of the performances again on demand, whenever you want. Confirmed acts include Muse, Orbital, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Basement Jaxx. In a joint venture, PlayLouder.com will be producing the video feeds for the BBC. Video will be available online for a whole year so you can live it and love it over and over again. A Glastonbury special edition of the BBC Radio Player will offer you the chance to hear Glastonbury related radio shows on demand. You needn't miss a second of the coverage and can schedule your listening to suit you. Webcast at 00:05 here.

Une interview de matt concernant le festival :

Muse are headlining at Glastonbury this weekend and Matt told Radio 1 it's a big deal for them. They'll be headlining the main stage on Sunday, the night after Paul McCartney has graced it. Muse are a great live band so the atmosphere for them is bound to be phenomenal. Matt says they're going to give it their best shot: "We're not sure how we're gonna pull it off. I'm sure we'll give it a good chance." "Glastonbury is probably our favourite festival in the world because it's so diverse and there's so many different stages, and I like the fact that you can just wander between a jazz stage, an acoustic stage or a circus tent or cabaret, comedy, all that kind of stuff." "I think that's what makes it so special - the diversity - and it's a great honour to headline a night there. And it's in the WestCountry as well so it's kind of a homecoming gig in some ways for us." Matt is also holding out for a chance meeting: "Hopefully bumping into Paul McCartney may be a bit of a thing." "My dad met him once - apparently he once did a gig supporting Rolf Harris and The Beatles at Manchester Apollo years ago." "There were so many crazy fans outside that they had to call police security and my dad's band ended up getting off with a whole load of female police officers - they were the good old days!!" "Anyway, hopefully I'll bump into Paul McCartney - I'm not sure the same thing will happen, but I'm definitely hoping for the best!"

Un message de Tom kirk / muse.mu au sujet de la future section "telechargement" sur le site officiel :

As you know, we're geting together a new area of the website where you can download all sorts of cool Muse on-line features. Apart from making some ourselves, we are also hoping to collect and distrubute loads of wallpapers, games, buddy icons, screen savers and any other cool stuff you may have created for Muse that you want to share with your fellow Musers.

We have had a great response from you so far, with a great, though some strange, collection of files that will very soon be going up on the site. Just a note on what the best format of files to send through:

- Please zip up any files you send, this definitely applies to any screen savers we get.
- No BMP files please. They not working out!
- Video files are preferred in Qtime or Mpeg please. AVI if it is huge but this does restrict some people being able to view it.
- Audio files in MP3
- If you have sent files in so far that dont match the above preferences, you don't need to send them in again, we can transfer them but anything in future like the above please!

Please email these files to muse@howsplendid.com with your name attached.

A new audio download area is being created where ringtones and audio files will be available. Any Muse remixes you've made, cool live bootlegs and any other random Muse audio files you have can also be uploaded and shared. Please email these to the address above, or please post a C.D of them to:

Muse Downloads,
East West Records,
49 Kensington Court,
London,
W8 5DA

Thanks very much. I'll do my best to credit anyone who's artistic input is used on the site, like I said before the response has been fantastic, keep it up, this area of the site will be well cool.

Cheers,
Tom

Dans l'édition de juin du magazine britanique Q, figure une interview de Muse, où sont révélées quelques infos à propos du prochain album. Matt envisagerait de déménager à New-York pour composer le prochain album "dans une nouvelle perspective", et d'abandonner définitivement le style prog-goth grandiloquent d'Absolution.

Selon le dernier NME, Muse pourrait jouer quelques chansons comme "Blackout, Butterflies and Hurricanes, Citizen Erased..." avec l'orchestre national Britanique au festival Glastonbury. Muse sera en tête d'affiche de la scène principale le dimanche 27 Juin - L'orchestre national jouera également une partie du "Ring Cycle" (Der Ring des Nibelungen) de Wagner avec plus de 90 musiciens le dernier jour. 112 000 tickets ont été vendus pour ce festival.

Un mini site a été mis en place pour promouvoir Muse aux USA, il contient la totalité de l'album Absolution en écoute, les vidéos d' "Hysteria", "Stockholm Syndrome", les deux versions de " Time is Running out" et le making of d'Absolution.

Une date supplémentaire a été ajoutée à la tournée Cure Curiosa cet été :

Toronto (Canada) 9 Août 2004, Molson Amphitheatre.
Tickets sale 12 of June.
Prices $25.50 - $85.50
Show starts at : 17h (5pm)
Pre-sales 9 of June, 10h (10am)

Muse jouera au festival Rockpalast dans 15 minutes. (18h30) Vous pouvez voir le stream video ici.

Un nouveau clip video a été realisé pour la chanson "Time is Running out" dans le même esprit que la version Américaine du clip Muscle museum. Cette vidéo est composée d'extraits des précédents dvds : Hullabaloo, Absolution and Sing for absolution. Quick time video : high 50 mo - Low 17 mo ou sur la page multimedia.

Quelques liens vers des articles récents : troublebunchmusic - timesonline - Line 6 - et une interview video sur mtv2.co.uk.

Voici une interview de Chris au festival Pinkpop 2004.