Muse going ‘soft’ on newalbum?
Fri 20th May, 2011 in International News
Has getting engaged to Kate Hudson led to a new softer musical approach for Muse’s Matt Bellamy?
Muse drummer Dominic Howard has revealed to the NME that Bellamy recently “showed me a few chords recently. Who knows, it might be softer rock, but then it’s up to me and Chris to make it heavy again. A heavy rock lullaby! But I’m sure it will move forward in some way.”
The band plans to release the follow up to 2009’s space opera The Resistance in 2012. Howard warns that “It takes as long as it takes really, because you have to love it before you can just chuck it out there and into the real world. But definitely next year.”
In other Muse news the band has picked up the international achievement award at the 55th Ivor Novello Awards. The awards recognise and reward British songwriting and composing talents and are judged and presented by the music writing community, rather than by publishers and record companies.
2011 Ivor Novello Awards:
BEST SONG MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
BEST CONTEMPORARY SONG
Tinie Tempah – Pass Out
ALBUM AWARD
Plan B – The Defamation of Strickland Banks
MOST PERFORMED WORK
Plan B – She Said
INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
Muse
OUTSTANDING SONG COLLECTION
Steve Winwood (The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith)
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH MUSIC
Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company, Queen)
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Benjamin Drew (Plan B)
THE IVORS INSPIRATION AWARD
Dizzee Rascal


















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