Muse reveal special plans for Reading and Leeds Festival shows

Muse have spoken to NME about their forthcoming performances at this weekend’s Reading and Leeds Festivals.

The band will be playing their 2001 album 'Origin Of Symmetry' in full at the festival. Matt Bellamy said that one of the reasons they’ve picked that album to play is because "it's always been an album the hardcore fans have always talked about as one of their favourites, if not the favourite. So we wanted to play it for them as a celebration of the 10 years since it came out…"

The band have also promised to bring a brand new stage show and production to the festival, based around the 2001 album’s artwork and concept. "We'll do whatever we can get away with within the restrictions of a festival stage," explained Bellamy.

For the second half of the show, drummer Dom Howard said: "We'll probably just do the old cheap encore and play a few hits!"

The event, which takes place this weekend (August 26-28), features headline sets from Muse, My Chemical Romance and a co-effort from Pulp and The Strokes.

Source: nme.com

Muse - New Born

Link it to the world
Link it to yourself
Stretch it like a birth squeeze
The love for what you hide
The bitterness inside
Is growing like the new born
When you've seen, seen
Too much, too young, young
Soulless is everywhere

Hopeless time to roam
The distance to your home
Fades away to nowhere
How much are you worth
You can't come down to earth
You’re swelling up, you're unstoppable
'cause you've seen, seen
Too much, too young, young
Soulless is everywhere

Destroy the spineless
Show me it's real
Wasting our last chance
To come away
Just break the silence
'cause I’m drifting away
Away from you

Link it to the world
Link it to yourself
Stretch it like it's a birth squeeze
And the love for what you hide
And the bitterness inside
Is growing like the new born
When you've seen, seen
Too much, too young, young
Soulless is everywhere

Destroy the spineless
Show me it's real
Wasting their last chance
To come away
Just break the silence
‘cause I'm drifting away
Away from you

Muse to play 'Origin Of Symmetry' in full at Reading and Leeds

According to Matt Bellamy, Muse are planning to play the entire album 'Origin Of Symmetry' at Reading and Leeds Festivals. He wrote on Twitter: "So we'll probably play 'Origin...' in its entirety (as well other songs) at Reading/Leeds as it will be 10 years since it came out."

Muse to play "Origin Of Symmetry" songs for the last time at Reading and Leeds Festivals

Matt Bellamy, frontman of the English band Muse, told NME that they will probably play "Origin Of Symmetry" songs for the last time at Reading and Leeds Festivals, because they want to finish an era that started with the release of that album, ten years ago. "It's probably the last time some of these songs will ever be played live again," he said of the 2001 album. He explained that the shows would see the band "drawing a line under one phase of our career". He added: "It was on the second album ['Origin...'] that things really started happening for the band, and when we focused on the live side of things much more. So it'll be like coming full circle: we've gone off on one a little bit, and now it feels like the right time to pull it back and remind ourselves of what we were doing 10 years ago."

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