Muse reveal plans for gig in space
Devon trio consider approaching Richard Branson about performing on a Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceship.
Could Muse bring Starlight to the stars? The Devon trio have had "coherent conversations" about bringing their anthemic rock to suborbital spaceships, and hope to talk to Richard Branson about a collaboration with Virgin Galactic.
"Maybe I've seen The Jetsons too many times," frontman Matt Bellamy told the Sun. Muse have had several discussions "about playing in space", he said, "sometimes very coherent conversations and sometimes very late at night, but it's for real." While countless bands have had drunkenly imagined zero-gravity guitar solos, Muse are in the uncommon position of being increasingly successful at a time when the prospect of space travel is increasingly close. Virgin Galactic, Branson's model for tourist-friendly spaceflight, could launch later this year.
"I'm thinking of approaching Richard Branson to see if we could do it on his spacecraft," Bellamy said. "I do think it will be possible in the future and I'm sure it will happen in my lifetime. We'd love to be part of that." Although no one has ever crowd-surfed in a space shuttle, such a stunt would follow in the footsteps of Korn, who plotted a gig in an airplane, and Fall Out Boy, who aimed to perform in Antarctica. Only one of them was successful.
"We do have a lot of equipment, so I guess we'd have to use pods to carry our stuff and we'd scale back the shows a lot," Bellamy said. "I don't think the spacecraft is like a Tardis, where we could get everything in we usually have." A gig in a time machine? Now there's an idea ...
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