Trilson

Muse will be releasing their new album in September, titled “The Resistance”, and I bloody can’t wait! One of the tracks is called “The United States of Eurasia”, a reference to George Orwell’s classic, 1984.

We don’t actually know much about the album, other than it’s meant to contain an epic, 15 minute long ’symphonic monster’. This is meant to close the album in the form of 3 separate tracks.

Muselive is getting mega busy in anticipation of the album, and we’ve got some fun ideas lined up. Firstly, we’re hoping to integrate Spotify into the site, automatically turning references to Muse track names into Spotify URIs. Secondly, and more importantly, we’re going to be creating a live gig feed section of the website. We’ll be using twitter analytics to build up a picture of each gig, allowing our members to view the live setlist, comments, photos etc. from any gig which is in progress. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but I won’t bore you with the nitty gritties!

I’m still in love with Spotify, in fact I am now a subscriber. I get a strange warm, fuzzy feeling when listening to music legally - I highly recommend it! If Spotify enabled you to import local media files and play them using their software, I might die a happy Spotify-joy-induced death.

So the rumour mill has September pegged as the release date for Muse’s new album. I’m in the pre-excitement stage of half worrying / half preparing. Everytime Muse release something new, Matt spins wild stories to the press hinting at electronica, ABBA, folk, classical and electro-punk-neo-goth-metal influences. It always turns out to be classic Muse. There’s a definite progression in their music, but it’s still built on that solid Musey foundation we’ve all learned to love. But it doesn’t stop me worrying. What if they fuck it up this time?

And then there’s the Muselive side of things. The traffic to the site will increase exponentially as the album launch date draws closer. We’ve already seen a 30% increase in traffic over the last month - and there’s still 6 months to go till D-Day. We’ll be upgrading the server over Easter to prepare for the extra demand, yet more money down the drain. Then there’s the mandatory 18 months of touring - we’ll have to maintain and update the site on an almost hourly basis. I’m going to be working full time in The City, so this is going to prove tricky, but I’ll find a way :-).

On a lighter note, our April Fools plans are gearing up nicely