Muse Australian Tour 2013 Tickets Dates & Venues

A Muse Australian Tour 2013 has been announced which will bring their sci-fi-sized arena rock show back to Australian audiences this November and December and though they’ve traversed the Antipodes many times over before, this will be the power trio’s first visit since releasing their sixth colourful album of prog-fuelled decadence, The 2nd Law.

The band’s live shows and stage setups are just as extravagant, with their current set in touring The 2nd Law featuring a huge bank of video screens displaying all manner of visual stimuli that eventually transforms into a pyramid of TVs (watch the madness here) as well as a giant wind-up robot.

The news of a year-end tour from Muse was first let slip by Muse’s own frontman Matt Bellamy in March, and later confirming that the band would remember to include the much-neglected Perth in their touring schedule. True to their word, Muse’s tour begins on November 30th in Perth Arena before hitting up stadiums in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney.

It’s the band’s first shows Down Under in two years since playing the Big Day Out in January 2010, then a series of mammoth arena sideshows across the country later that year. Given the timeframe of their visit, it seems unlikely that they’ll be back again so soon for the Big Day Out 2014.

In the time since their 2010 Australian Tour, their over the top single ’Survival’ was recognised as the official anthem for the 2012 London Olympic Games, one of their video shoots was gatecrashed by a high-speed police chase, and the band were even sued for $3.5 million by a man claiming that they stole his idea for a sci-fi rock opera (as if Muse hadn’t made a career out of such things).

All before releasing their hugely eclectic (even by their own standards) sixth studio album The 2nd Law, containing schizophrenic nods to Queen, Skrillex, INXS, U2, and Dream Theater in a record that took lyrical inspiration in everything from the second law of thermodynamics to off-world colonisation.

Joining Muse as special guests for their upcoming tour dates will be the most played band on Australian radio, Birds of Tokyo. The band released their follow up to their breakthrough 2010 ARIA Award winning Birds of Tokyo in March, with March Fires capitalising further on the band’s homegrown appeal. Led by lead singles ‘This Fire’ and the Aussie radio dominating ‘Lanterns’, Birds Of Tokyo’s fourth studio album debuted at #1 on the ARIA Album Chart, the band’s first.

As Muse fans will tell you, the band’s live show is not to be missed. An arena rock spectacular that adds visual splendour to a catalogue of modern rock’s most inventively flamboyant and bombastic tunes. Tickets go on sale from 12noon local time on Monday 29th July.