Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme revealed in an interview back in August that the band were planning on heading back into the studio after their headline sets at Reading and Leeds, to record a follow up to 2009’s smash hit The Resistance.
Wolstenholme revealed to BBC Radio that “September and October, that’s when we’re going to get into the studio to start writing the new album. It’s difficult to bring new songs into the live set before you record them with the internet and dodgy recordings of live songs getting out there before they’ve been released on an album. People tend not to play new songs live any more. That’s why we want to get into the studio, make another album and then tour it.”
Now the bands manager, Anthony Addis, has let us in on the progress with the band in an interview with Billboard. “They’ve now gone into the recording studio. The plan is to do it all in London,” he said. “Hopefully, the album might come out October next year. They’ve written a lot of material already but you don’t know how it’s going to gel between them all. They write constantly. They write on the road, so before or after a gig they’ll write nearly every night. It’s a serious process, but you don’t know how it’s going to turn out until you start practising it together, because everybody’s done it individually.”
Muse have been touring extensively since the release of The Resistance, supporting U2 on their tour around the world where they formed a ‘supergroup’ for one night in a karaoke bar in Brazil.
They also announced their intention to one day play a gig in space with frontman Matt Bellamy telling reporters “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.”
