Muse: Bellamy Confirms Hudson Romance Rumours

MUSE rocker MATT BELLAMY has confirmed he is dating Hollywood beauty KATE HUDSON - and is "nervous" ahead of an imminent meeting with the actress' mum GOLDIE HAWN.
Hudson, who has been single since splitting from baseball star Alex Rodriguez late last year (09), sparked rumours she is in a new relationship with the musician after the pair was spotted enjoying an intimate date in May (10).
Gossip reached fever pitch after the How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days stunner supported Bellamy during his band's slot at British music festival Glastonbury last weekend (26/27Jun10).
Now the rocker has admitted they are a couple, and Hudson has arranged a date for the star to meet her legendary mum later this month (Jul10).
He tells Britain's The Sun, "I'm meeting her (Hawn) next week... I'm already nervous. I don't want to make the whole experience even more embarrassing.
"She's (Hudson) great. Everything is going very well. We are actually glad and enjoying spending time with each other. She had a great time at Glastonbury."
The star even hints they may wed: "Ask me again about marriage in a couple of months."

Muse a toast to Vermeer

I've never met Ektoras Binikos, but his cocktail recipes have been intriguing me for many a year, and I'm sure that you, too, would be pretty fascinated by a guy who tried to incorporate dried blood into a cocktail.
The people who hired him to create the drink wouldn't allow the blood, so he tried to add some tears - a specific woman's tears, of course - to the drink, but they didn't go for that, either. It was back to the drawing board.
Ektoras is a Greek born artist who tends bar in New York City, and any decent search engine will lead you to sites where his work is on display. I'm particularly fond of his video, "Explaining an Image to a Stuffed Hare (After Joseph Beuys)," though I'm sure it's not to everyone's taste.
The "blood and tears" drink was created for the 60th birthday party of performance artist Marina Abramovic. She's a woman who is fond, it seems, of freezing herself onstage, and she incorporates other acts of self mutilation into her art form, too. It's not actually my cup of tea, but the world would be oh-so-boring if people like this weren't among us, right?
Being denied permission to use human body fluids in his drink, Ektoras went for cayenne pepper, instead. Good choice, right? But this wasn't any old cayenne pepper. It was cayenne pepper that Abramovic had placed under her pillow and slept on for seven nights, "so that it would absorb her auratic energy," he told me.
The birthday party was a big hit. People such as Lou Reed and David Byrne turned out for the event - it was held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York a few years ago - and Binikos' cocktail was a big hit, too. "As everyone toasted her, a strong auratic energy vibration simultaneously connected Marina with everyone in the room," he said.
More currently, Binikos sent me a recipe for a drink that he calls the Milkmaid. He created it to celebrate the painting of the same name by Johannes Vermeer. There's no milk in Biniko's Milkmaid cocktail, and there's no bread pudding in there, either - the maid in the painting is sometimes thought to be making that dessert - but there's an ounce of geneva from the Netherlands in there, so the ever-so-Dutch Vermeer would probably approve.
Although you'll have to go to the bother of making a citrus-mint syrup to make this baby, give thanks for the fact that you don't have to track down Marina Abramovic so you can persuade her to sleep on some cayenne pepper for you.

Muse will play these show shedule

Muse will play these shows in support of The Resistance:

Oct. 3 Raleigh, NC @ Carter-Finley Stadium w/ U2

Oct. 6 Atlanta, GA @ Georgia Dome w/ U2

Oct. 9 Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium w/ U2

Oct. 12 Arlington, TX @ Dallas Cowboys New Stadium w/ U2

Oct. 22 Helsinki, Finland @ Hartwall Arena

Oct. 24 Stockholm, Sweden @ Hovet

Oct. 25 Oslo, Norway @ Spektrum Arena

Oct. 26 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Parken

Oct. 28 Hamburg, Germany @ Color Line Arena

Oct. 29 Berlin, Germany @ O2 World

Oct. 31 Lievin, France @ Stade Couvert Reional

Nov. 1 Amneville, France @ Le Galaxie

Nov. 2 Antwerp, Belgium @ Sportspaleis

Nov. 4 Sheffield, England @ Sheffield Arena

Nov. 5 Liverpool, England @ Echo Arena

Nov. 6 Dublin, Ireland @ O2 Depot

Nov. 9 Glasgow, Scotland @ Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre

Nov. 10 Birmingham, England @ National Indoor Arena

Nov. 12-13 London, England @ O2 Arena

Nov. 14 Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Ahoy Sportspaleis

Nov. 16 Cologne, Germany @ Lanxess Arena

Nov. 17 Paris, France @ Le Bercy

Nov. 18 Zurich, Switzerland @ Hallenstadion

Nov. 20 Munich, Germany @ Olympiahalle
Nov. 21 Bologna, Italy @ Futurshow Station

Nov. 22 Lyon, France @ Halle Tony Garnier
Nov. 25 Toulouse, France @ Le Zenith

Nov. 27 Barcelona, Spain @ Pavello Olimpic
Nov. 28 Madrid, Spain @ Palacio De Deportes De La Comunidad De Madrid
Nov. 29 Lisbon, Portugal @ Atlantico Pavilhao
Dec. 1 Limoges, France @ Zenith

Dec. 2 Dijon, France @ Zenith

Dec. 4 Turin, Italy @ Pala Olimpico

Debuts At Top Of Euro Chart

British rock band Muse goes straight to No. 1 on Billboard's European Top 100 Albums with its fifth album "The Resistance" (Helium 3/Warner Music). David Guetta's "Sexy Chick" (Gum/Positiva/Virgin/EMI), featuring Akon, withstands the challenge of Madonna's "Celebration" (Warner Bros.) to start a third week atop European Hot 100 Singles.The Muse album goes straight to the top in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Ireland, Norway and Switzerland. Outside Europe, it tops the charts in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Korea and Mexico, in addition to a career-best No. 3 debut on the Billboard 200. Across Europe, the No. 1 rankings in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Italy and Norway are Muse's first in those markets.In the United Kingdom, the album's first week generated 148,000 sales, the highest weekly tally there for a British act this year, and well up on the 115,000 for Muse's 2006 predecessor "Black Holes and Revelations." Matthieu Lauriot-Prevost, SVP, international marketing, Warner Music, tells Billboard that the album "has taken Muse's popularity to the next level. There's a palpable sense of genuine excitement amongst both their long-term following and the newer fans."Mark Knopfler's "Get Lucky" (Mercury/Universal) also makes a confident start, at No. 2 overall. U.K. sales of 14,000 take it to No. 9 there, and it's new at No. 2 in Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark, No. 3 in Holland, No. 4 in Spain, No. 5 in Switzerland, No. 6 in Sweden, No. 9 in Portugal and No. 10 in France. Knopfler's last studio set "Kill To Get Crimson" also debuted at No. 2 on the collective chart in 2007.Whitney Houston's "I Look to You" (Arista/RCA/Sony Music Entertainment), which fell 1-2 overall last week, dips again to No. 3, while last week's leader on Top 100 Albums, Guetta's "One Love," is down to No. 4.Two more heavyweight debuts are next on the composite chart: Jay-Z's "The Blueprint III" (Roc Nation/Warner Music) at No. 5 and Nelly Furtado's "Mi Plan" (Nelstar/Universal Music Latino) at No. 6. Jay-Z's album starts at No. 3 in Ireland and a career-best No. 4 in the United Kingdom, on sales of 38,000. Furtado's new entries include No. 3 in Switzerland, No. 5 in Germany, No. 6 in Austria and No. 8 in Spain.Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)" (Interscope/Universal), now in its 15th week on the aggregate survey, falls 6-7. Two albums in Apple/EMI's Beatles remasters campaign are up into the top ten: "Abbey Road" 12-8 and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" 13-10. Michael Jackson is down 5-9 with "King of Pop" (Epic/Sony Music Entertainment)."Sexy Chick" continues to rule the European Hot 100 ahead of a 12-2 climb for the Madonna single. Shakira's "She Wolf" (Sony Music Latin/Epic) is up 8-4 and Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" rebounds 30-5 thanks to a No. 3 debut in Germany.

second Twilight film, Muse remixes song

London (ANI): British alternative rock band Muse is set to be one of the bands contributing to the soundtrack of New Moon, the second film in the Twilight series. The band, from Devon, have remixed a song off their latest album 'The Resistance', called 'I Belong To You', for the soundtrack, reports the BBC.
The soundtrack will be released on October 19, a month before the film. Included in it are The Killers (A White Demon Love Song) and Radiohead's Thom Yorke (Hearing Damage), who have written brand new tunes. Other artists who've contributed include Editors, Lykke Li, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Death Cab for Cutie song Meet Me On The Equinox is the title track to the film, and it was Zane Lowe's hottest record in the world on his Radio 1 show last week. The first Twilight soundtrack has sold more than 170,000 copies in the UK so far and more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.

The full track listing is:

1. Death Cab for Cutie Meet Me On the Equinox

2. Band of Skulls Friends

3. Thom Yorke - Hearing Damage

4. Lykke Li - Possibility

5. The Killers - A White Demon Love Song

6. Anya Marina - Satellite Heart

7. Muse - I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)

8. Bon Iver & St. Vincent - Rosyln

9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Done All Wrong

10. Hurricane Bells - Monsters

11. Sea Wolf - The Violet Hour

12. OK Go - Shooting the Moon

13. Grizzly Bear - Slow Life

14. Editors - No Sound But the Wind

15. Alexandre Desplat - New Moon (The Meadow)

The Resistance reviewed Muse's

On The Resistance, Muse's fifth album, the band go big. A shocker, right? Not really. Since they first appeared as vague Radioheaders with 1999's Showbiz, it was appartend that grand schemes and notions of musical grandeur danced in the band's collective head.
Now those dreams are made manifest: Muse have grown up, grown into their appetite, and they create the sort of bombast that makes 'bombast' a much less deformed word.
Early into the recording, maverick guitarist and musical redical Matthew Bellamy hinted that The Resistance would be "orchestral" and "classical," sending shivers down many a spine. Would Muse lapse into a cringe inducing, ego inflated ELP/Rick Wakeman prog odyssey?
The good news is, not difficultly. Sure, Muse want to impress us, but more than that, and more significantly, they want us to feel. And because that impulse is so genuine driven most critically by frontman Bellamy, who writes the bulk of the material we do feel. In this day and age, that's saying something.
Bellamy has all of his authority lined up like ducks in a row here. There's Berlioz and Lizst, and a whiff of Rachmaninoff for nice measure. Chopin he virtually name checks, having included a passage from Nocturne In E-Flat Major in the shameless Queen tribute United States Of Eurasia. The same goes for opera I Belong To You features parts from Samson And Delilah.
But we also catch some Debussy and Gershwin (intentional?), along with an overall framework that recalls the epic theatre of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
OK, you're scared, right? Don't be. On first listen, The Resistance is a masterwork that offers plenty of aural thrills. Bellamy's Manson guitars are locked on 'stun' throughout, although we do have a artifice, and it's a major one: He's a bit of a tease.
Every time Bellamy launches into a mind melting or soul magnifying solo, he pulls back, as if to say, "That's enough." This can be annoying since too much of a good thing is a great thing, and not enough of a good thing is a cheat.
That's the problem when you want to cram so much music into each song something's gotta give. Bellamy's a modern day rock god shred king, right up there with the best of them. On The Resistance, when he should let us bathe and luxuriate in his six string triumphs, he gives us brief, refreshing showers.

Muse agreement to sell out in record time

TICKETS to Muse's hugely await Teignmouth agreement sold out in record time yesterday.
Overjoyed fans are celebrating after waiting line outside the Carlton Theatre for more than 24 hours to get tickets to The Den Seaside Rendezvous agreements.
Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme made an appearance in the town on Thursday night and happily new world chat with waiting fans.
Matt said: "It has been great to see all the fans waiting up, I also announcement a few older Teignmouth residents queuing too. It is great to know our music is getting across to different generations."
Box office staff sold an allowance of 5,000 tickets within one hour of them going on sale, with extra selling out by mid afternoon.
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However, national online ticket sales sold out in 20 minutes as fans fenland websites. Internet auction sites were yesterday already re-selling tickets at a whopping £840 a pair.
Hundreds of dedicated fans braved cold conditions overnight so they could buy the £37.50 tickets for the appearance on Friday, September 4 and Saturday, September 5.
By 9am yesterday, the queue snaked from the theatre's box office appear on the stage, around The Den, past the Beachcomber cafe and towards The Point car park. Some camped out from 8.30am on Thursday.
Newly opened restaurant, Take 2 in the Riviera Cinema building, played Muse hits ahead of the ticket booths opening.
Roger Smith, chairman of Teignmouth Players, the voluntary administartion which runs the theatre said: "Teignmouth has never seen anything like this. It has been amazing. The fans have been wonderful. They waited all night and have been in excellent the holy ghost throughout."
The band, who have twice won the best live appearance title at the Brit Awards, haven't played on home area since 1995 and the break to see them locally has gone down a storm with people of all elds.
Charlotte Mortimore, 21, and Sam Taylor, 20, from Teignmouth, were the first to get their Saturday gig tickets despite a last minute hiccup when Charlotte realised she had lost her bankcard.
But after a few panicked minutes she got her hands on four for the Saturday night event. Both said they were "ecstatic".
Charlotte said: "We are so excited now. It's going to be amazing. Last night was so much fun, we have not had any sleep, and stayed up all night chatting to people and playing drinking games."
Sam added: "We are going to celebrate with a few drinks before going home to bed for a upstart."
Brothers Jakk and Harry Tranckle, from Teignmouth, queued with friends.
Jakk, 19, said: "I am absolutely shattered but it was worth the wait.
"I've been listening to Muse since I was 12 years old. I think it's amazing they are going to be playing in their home town."
Harry, 22, added: "I can't believe it's only two weeks. It's going to be excellent."
Dale Stewart, 22, of Teignmouth, said: "This is a once in a lifetime chance. They have not forgotten where they have come from and that is great."
Jacqueline Daviss started queuing at 1.30pm on Thursday and got Saturday tickets for her and children Emily, 19, Jazmine, 14 and Oscar, six.
She said: "There has been a wonderful atmosphere. The great thing was that the queue was full of local people. My children have grown up with Muse so I think it's brilliant they have remembered their hometown and are putting on these concerts."