May 30, 2010
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May 24, 2010
MK Star Collision
Escalation, YAY! Last night I spent most of my time following the Tweets about Muse's Secret Rehearsals in the MK bowl - it was amazing! Being hundreds of miles away but feeling like beeing there, just because someone's tweeting about it. That's why I love it!
So, what can we expect for Wembley? It's gonna be EPIC I'd say. A real Neutron Star Collision ON STAGE. A pyramid lightning. Finally, the UFO Maffo was dreaming about for several years...
NSC by the way... its cheese, but the very same time its the sadest lovesong I've ever heard. So tragic, so true. But maybe it touchs me in a special way because I felt the same: losing someone that ment everything to you. I guess it's his way to say good bye. And: NSC grows with every repeat! It's catchy and it needs a big gesture to stand the cheesiness - but its a great song after all! We would love to see the video without the twatlight crap in it, because the Muse parts are fantastic. Even if Matt looks much to fragile. Give him some pasta, please!
The Making of for the Clip: Lady DomDom is hilarious! Can't wait to see his Wembley dress!
Well, Esther's very busy with per final exams (which doens't make her stop escalating, btw) and I'm busy with starting my new job, but the Wembley plans getting more and more concrete. There gonna be a Teignmouth excursion the week before the concert. Just to feel the spirit. The guru gonna be there too via telephone conference... Actually we see ourselves playing a melodica and a tea pot on The Den - so watch out!
Page of the week: An unofficial Muser dictionary
So, what can we expect for Wembley? It's gonna be EPIC I'd say. A real Neutron Star Collision ON STAGE. A pyramid lightning. Finally, the UFO Maffo was dreaming about for several years...
NSC by the way... its cheese, but the very same time its the sadest lovesong I've ever heard. So tragic, so true. But maybe it touchs me in a special way because I felt the same: losing someone that ment everything to you. I guess it's his way to say good bye. And: NSC grows with every repeat! It's catchy and it needs a big gesture to stand the cheesiness - but its a great song after all! We would love to see the video without the twatlight crap in it, because the Muse parts are fantastic. Even if Matt looks much to fragile. Give him some pasta, please!
The Making of for the Clip: Lady DomDom is hilarious! Can't wait to see his Wembley dress!
Well, Esther's very busy with per final exams (which doens't make her stop escalating, btw) and I'm busy with starting my new job, but the Wembley plans getting more and more concrete. There gonna be a Teignmouth excursion the week before the concert. Just to feel the spirit. The guru gonna be there too via telephone conference... Actually we see ourselves playing a melodica and a tea pot on The Den - so watch out!
Page of the week: An unofficial Muser dictionary
May 8, 2010
The Muse Connection
Indeed, The Road to Wembley started with the incredible Muse Gig at Southside Festival 2006, the first time the band performed their new songs from "Black Holes and Revelations" to a festival audience, with a huge light and effect show that blew everyone away.
We stood at the Sky Lounge opposite to the main stage, thanks to the fact that i won the access to that, waiting for the band to perform. A really young lad appeared and started a talk with us - he told us that this was his first festival ever, and we felt kind of old but wise the same time. Well, he was very enthusiastic about Muse, and we nodded and thought "Yeah, you're right, but WE know them since the very fucking beginning". He introduced himself to us as "Tobse", and he was such an angle-faces boy that we almost immediately fell in love with the way his innocent love for music glimpsed through his words. While we watched Muse playing themselves and us in Rock'n'Roll heaven, the boy diappeared - and we weren't sure if he ever has been there for real. Maybe he was just the reflection of the perfection Muse's music brought to us that very night. After the last chords of "Knights of Cydonia" we simply weren't able to speak. We left the festival ground in silence, both in our own sci fi-world, falling in our tent and had the greatest sleep at a festival EVER.
But the whole story for me started a lot earlier, in 1999, with Muse's first music video on heavy rotation on the faboulous German music channel Viva 2: "Muscle Museum". Never heard anything like that before. Combined with a really strange video with crying people. I loved it!
Muse were confirmed as support act for my personal post grunge heroes Bush in early 2000, and that was actually the first time I saw them playing live. The one thing I remember very clearly (except the strange and very boyish haircuts they had) was that they didn't seem to fit in a fucking small and ugly venue as the Offenbacher Stadthalle. They treated their instruments like they wanted to train them to make sounds no one ever made them before. In German there's the word "Gniedeln" that hits it perfectly. Muse left the crowd stunning, but also a bit uncertain about what that was. Genius? Madness? Something in between, definitely.
A month later I bought "Showbiz" at HMV in London on a trip to my parents friends there. Being back in Germany, I made me listening to the entire album only once. I can't say why, but it simply didn't connected to me. I remeber that I was really disappointed by that. Maybe I should have taken some more time, but as a reflex to my disappointment I gave the CD away to a friend. And it actually needed half a decade until "Knights..." made me feel connected with Muse again. But this time deeply inside.
We stood at the Sky Lounge opposite to the main stage, thanks to the fact that i won the access to that, waiting for the band to perform. A really young lad appeared and started a talk with us - he told us that this was his first festival ever, and we felt kind of old but wise the same time. Well, he was very enthusiastic about Muse, and we nodded and thought "Yeah, you're right, but WE know them since the very fucking beginning". He introduced himself to us as "Tobse", and he was such an angle-faces boy that we almost immediately fell in love with the way his innocent love for music glimpsed through his words. While we watched Muse playing themselves and us in Rock'n'Roll heaven, the boy diappeared - and we weren't sure if he ever has been there for real. Maybe he was just the reflection of the perfection Muse's music brought to us that very night. After the last chords of "Knights of Cydonia" we simply weren't able to speak. We left the festival ground in silence, both in our own sci fi-world, falling in our tent and had the greatest sleep at a festival EVER.
But the whole story for me started a lot earlier, in 1999, with Muse's first music video on heavy rotation on the faboulous German music channel Viva 2: "Muscle Museum". Never heard anything like that before. Combined with a really strange video with crying people. I loved it!
Muse were confirmed as support act for my personal post grunge heroes Bush in early 2000, and that was actually the first time I saw them playing live. The one thing I remember very clearly (except the strange and very boyish haircuts they had) was that they didn't seem to fit in a fucking small and ugly venue as the Offenbacher Stadthalle. They treated their instruments like they wanted to train them to make sounds no one ever made them before. In German there's the word "Gniedeln" that hits it perfectly. Muse left the crowd stunning, but also a bit uncertain about what that was. Genius? Madness? Something in between, definitely.
A month later I bought "Showbiz" at HMV in London on a trip to my parents friends there. Being back in Germany, I made me listening to the entire album only once. I can't say why, but it simply didn't connected to me. I remeber that I was really disappointed by that. Maybe I should have taken some more time, but as a reflex to my disappointment I gave the CD away to a friend. And it actually needed half a decade until "Knights..." made me feel connected with Muse again. But this time deeply inside.
May 7, 2010
A Southside Rendezvous
...the road to Wembley actually started unintentionally - and quite a while ago - with, well, 'Knights of Cydonia'. The impact this song had when we heard it for the first time might not be so easy to comprehend now that it has become one of Muse’s most popular tunes. But back in the June of 2006, in the midst of the ongoing party that was the Football World Championships, on an abandoned military base hosting Southside festival in
It’s all about emotions, really.
Music makes your heart and soul blossom.
And occasionally, it simply blows your mind.
So here we are, 4 years later, 4 years older…more mature, one might think.
Nah, come on, you should know better.
127 days to go...
... and still waiting for our tickets. It makes us kind of NERVOUS that they gonna ship them shortly before the event. Why the hell? But well, we gonna wait in patience.
Anyways, we got no idea how and when we are leaving Germany for Wembley. Any suggestions? Maybe we gonna cycle all the way... maybe: NOT. We don't even know where we are living at that point or what we are doing - future is just to come. But one thing's for sure: WE GONNA BE THERE!
Today 2 things has been announced via Muse.mu: There's gonna be a new Muse Song soon for the Eclipse soundtrack. We don't need to say anything about that, do we?
The second thing is the support slots for the European Shows.
http://muse.mu/news/article/653/european-line-ups-announced/
But what about WEMBLEY? A few RoCK suggestions concerning that:
-The Deftones (their new album "Diamond Eyes" is just incredible! Like they've always been since "Adrenaline")
- Nine Inch Nails (That would be sexual fullfilment. Dom - we know you want that, too!)
- The Foos (hahaha!)
- 30 Seconds to Mars (just because the Guru would hate us if that happend)
- Scooter (of course!)
So think about that.
Anyways, we got no idea how and when we are leaving Germany for Wembley. Any suggestions? Maybe we gonna cycle all the way... maybe: NOT. We don't even know where we are living at that point or what we are doing - future is just to come. But one thing's for sure: WE GONNA BE THERE!
Today 2 things has been announced via Muse.mu: There's gonna be a new Muse Song soon for the Eclipse soundtrack. We don't need to say anything about that, do we?
The second thing is the support slots for the European Shows.
http://muse.mu/news/article/653/european-line-ups-announced/
But what about WEMBLEY? A few RoCK suggestions concerning that:
-The Deftones (their new album "Diamond Eyes" is just incredible! Like they've always been since "Adrenaline")
- Nine Inch Nails (That would be sexual fullfilment. Dom - we know you want that, too!)
- The Foos (hahaha!)
- 30 Seconds to Mars (just because the Guru would hate us if that happend)
- Scooter (of course!)
So think about that.
How it all started...
Well, two weeks ago, Esther and I - two third of the famous and incredible Rodgau Casi Kings (watch out www.myspace.com/rodgaucasikings for more details) - made a decision: We gonna see MUSE live @WEMBLEY on September 11th 2010! But actually, it was all the Guru's fault - our third band member called Naischel infected us with the between genius and insanity switching virus of late adolescence fandom by becoming an 30 Seconds To Mars addict. So we became escalating Muser in return... and we love it!
We gonna document our mad journey to the GODS of Rock Music, and you'll be able to be a part of that.
The Road to Wembley has just started - enjoy!
We gonna document our mad journey to the GODS of Rock Music, and you'll be able to be a part of that.
The Road to Wembley has just started - enjoy!
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