This yarn reeks of Spinal Tap and it comes from London’s tabloid The Sun, so we might take it with a grain of salt, but it’s too funny to not share. Apparently Matt Bellamy of Muse has been giving serious consideration to playing a gig in space. Not content with strutting stadium stages across the world, the Starman wants Muse to have their own space oddity, playing a gig out in orbit.
Perhaps a bit worn out from their recent tour of Australia, Bellamy says “We’ve had some discussions about playing in space. Sometimes very coherent conversations and sometimes very late at night, but it’s for real. I’m thinking of approaching Richard Branson to see if we could do it on his spacecraft he’s got happening.”
He continued “Although 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. I don’t think the spacecraft is like a Tardis, where we could get everything in we usually have. I do think it will be possible in the future and I’m sure it willl happen in my lifetime. We’d love to be part of that. Maybe I’ve seen The Jetsons too many times.”
