Muse were interviewed at the NME Awards 2018. There's so much going on in this interview.
Lots of talking with hands,
Awkward, panicked almost-flirting,
[Interviewer: And what have you got planned for tonight?
Matt: Uh... what's going on, where are you going? No parties or anything? (interviewer laughs)]
Matt and Dom's choice of drinks... turns out they're both tired mums on a night out
[(Responding to being asked, "What's your poison?")
Matt: Since we're in England... a nice gin & T, maybe?
Dom: A margarita, probably.
Chris: Diet coke.]
Of course, Chris doesn't drink anymore. Interviewer could've handled that question slightly better. Dom immediately speaking up for Chris was very sweet and totally right though!
[Int: You're not drinking?
Chris: Nope,
Int: It's not Dry January anymore?
Dom: Not everyone drinks.]
On rumours of doing Reading+Leeds in 2018, after their 2017 headline slot:
[Matt: Oh no no, I believe Kendrick took our slot!]
"One of my heroes, Brian Eno, he kind of splits art into kind of two categories, like, cowboys and farmers. And farmers like to cultivate their thing and keep it the same, and cowboys like to kind of go out and find new passages. And I think that there's so many incredibly, wonderfully talented people in this room, and I don't have any advice 'cause I'm really scared and I feel really small. But my only advice would be, like, just be a cowboy. Be a cowboy."
February 12, 2020: The 1975 win the Innovation Award at NME Awards, and in his acceptance speech, Matty encourages the audience to 'be a cowboy'. (source)
So, at the NME awards in 2020 (which Matty and Taylor both attended), some artist called Slowthai got in a fight with an audience member, and I desperately need to know if there is video footage of Taylor being protected (like, were these random guys, or her security?) and of Matty standing on a chair, lol
We get hardcore metaller types coming to our gigs as well as people who are into pop music and indie fans.
From meeting and speaking to a lot of people who come to our gigs you get the impression we’re the type of band they wouldn’t normally listen to. There are metallers who come in and say, ‘I don’t normally listen to soft stuff like this’ and then there’s a pop person who’ll say, ‘I don’t normally listen to heavy rock.’ Of course we have some very obsessed fans, but there are also lots of people where we’re the only band like us they listen to. For them we’re their little secret, something on the side.
—Matt Bellamy on Muse’s sound transcending genres, and being people’s guilty pleasure, NME March 2007