Dominic Howard, Muse (Photo: Live4ever Media)
Muse hope to play at least one intimate club gig in the near future with the 20th anniversary of their formation on the horizon.
“It’s our 20th anniversary year and I can’t believe it – it’s February next year or something so I think we’ll definitely do something special for it,” drummer Dominic Howard told XFM DJ and Sun journalist Gordon Smart.
“Hopefully we’ll do some special shows for it or something. It will be nice to celebrate that and play some little club somewhere and go ‘Jesus Christ, can’t believe we’re 20 years old as a band!'”
Later, Howard reflected on the creative ideas which the band are continuing to explore for both their live set-up and music, and revealed it is a process which is not getting harder for the trio as they enter their second decade.
“There’s always ideas hanging around for shows,” he remarked. “We always find ourselves coming up with ideas we probably can’t achieve and then we end up scaling things back so there’s always a list of ideas that we haven’t accomplished yet so we can go back to things.”
“It’s the same with the music, you have ideas about what you’re going to do musically and that goes on to inspire the lyrics and themes of the album which then goes on to inspire show ideas and visuals and concepts like that.
“It’s great. I don’t think it’s getting harder. We’re still doing it and enjoying it.”