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(MUSE) Q101.1 Matthew Bellamy Interview Lollapalooza/Q101.1 August 2007 whenlifewasloud.blogspot.com… #museband

"Generally I love Poker. We play a little bit on the bus, but sometimes we end up in drunk stupors, and throwing chips at each other. It's not really a professional game on the bus..." Matthew Bellamy (August 2007) #museband

The critical gig guide Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer Friday 11th February 2000 #museband

"I learned everything on my own, from the guitar I started playing around 11 or 12 years old out of curiosity, to the Hammond organ, Mellotron, and synth that I gradually started playing after joining a school band" (Matthew Bellamy - "Rockin' On", Japan - November 2012)

(MUSE) SHOCKWAVES NME Awards NME February 2008 whenlifewasloud.blogspot.com… #museband

Q: Congratulations, how does it feel to be an NME Awards Winner again? DOMINIC: It's...uh...it feels amazing to win an NME Award, cuz it's a great award. It looks cool, you know? It's a good solid bronze piece. (NME Awards, 2008) #museband

(MUSE) A Night At The Space Opera Q Magazine August 2001 It's not over until the skinny bloke sings... whenlifewasloud.blogspot.com… #museband

"Billowing with classical flourishes, sci-fi imagery, post-grunge throb and a pouting sense of rock national anthem, this record has already been equated to Queen and Nirvana duelling on the surface of some distant alien planet" Q Magazine - August 2001 #museband

(MUSE) Rockin' all the way across the pond Portsmouth Evening News Friday, 30th March 2001 whenlifewasloud.blogspot.com… #museband

'It's positive and upbeat and uptempo. It's quite dancey but we are playing real instruments, it's not electronic. It's like nothing we have ever done before..' (Matthew Bellamy on 'Bliss' - Portsmouth Evening News, March 2001) #museband

Portsmouth Evening News (30th March 2001) #museband

Matthew Bellamy Interview (3sat) 3sat Germany 17th September 2009 whenlifewasloud.blogspot.com… #museband

"I think the reason we have evolved into where we are, is because we've always maintained 100% control over every aspect that we are doing. Everything from the concerts we play, the type of promotional work we do, the type of music we record..." (Matthew Bellamy, 2009) #museband

TWILIGHT: “TRASHY FILMS, GOOD MUSIC...” NME 29th May 2010 With Muse, Battles, Fanfarlo and others releasing new music on Twilight’s newly announced soundtrack, Dan Martin investigates how the films are changing the game for music fans whenlifewasloud.blogspot.com… #museband

(MUSE) Matthew Bellamy Interview (Belgium 2016) whenlifewasloud.blogspot.com… #museband

"I think that there's a sort of, a part of human nature where we feel this might not be wise. You know, there's something about it, there's something that's lost by...by assuming that efficiency is the best thing, and um, so...sorry, what was the question? I've veered off..."

(MUSE) Axl Meets Muse MTV October 2007 whenlifewasloud.blogspot.com… #museband

"I think really, the live thing is where you get to experience the band at it's purest form, you know? I think that you see both the visual performance & the musical performance, as well as all the kind of video stuff we do. I think the live is always the kind of priority to us"