(MUSE) Tapping Into Muse
Edinburgh Evening News 1st November 2001 Playing live is what inspires Bellamy and the boys, finds Andrea Mullaney Muse tend to be grouped alongside Coldplay as the latest nice young student favourites - but in reality, it seems they're more like the new Spinal Tap. Singer Matthew Bellamy is honest enough to admit it too. "Last year, I decided to have this concept of white cones hanging down (on stage) and trying to make them look like they had souls trapped inside of them by having lights in them, and making all this improvised choral stuff as an introduction," he recounts, in true David St Hubbins style. "I got into a cone at the end of a gig and it fell on top of me. I got trapped inside it, and had to roll behind the drum riser until the crowd had left. Until then I hadn't seen Spinal Tap - someone showed it to me after that, and I realised what a jerk I must have looked like." Aww. It's clear now why the band, who hail from the sleepy town of Te...