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Muse going ‘soft’ on newalbum?

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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01seb said last month on 1st

That was great last year too, best one had to be 2007 though, basically everyone believed it and there were news stories about it all over NME and Kerrang.

THis is what it was:

Here is a copy of the document we received:

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It has been brought to the attention of Warner Music Inc. that the websites microcuts.net - board.muse.mu - muselive.com are conducting unauthorised activities which infringes certain copyrights and trademarks that are owned by Warner Music Inc.

Warner Music Inc. currently owns the trademark related to the term “Muse”. On the 3rd February 2007 this trademark was extended to include a number of additional classes. One of these is a Class 42 which protects the use of the term in relation to Internet Domain Names. To protect the integrity of the Muse brand we will now be actively pursuing legal actions to ensure that the use of these domain names are relinquished. Other Muse related terms also covered under this act are [...] “Micro Cuts”, “Muscle Museum” [...]

Warner Music Inc. also owns the international copyright to the following, but not limited to, Muse related forms of content: digital media; lyrics; tablature; visual likeness. These copyrights are being deliberately flouted on a large scale and are damaging the integrity of the intellectual property that we own and have invested in. Warner Music enforces its intellectual property rights very aggressively by using every legal option available.

In order to promote a cooperative and beneficial relationship with fans, Warner Music prefers to send out written requests such as this first, rather than institute litigation or request that your ISP disable your website.

We therefore, without limiting any right, remedy or defence available to us, must ask that you comply with the following requests:

1. Relinquish the use of the Internet Domain Name microcuts.net, .org, .info

2. Remove any digital media (such as mp3 files, video files, streamed or downloadable) from your server that are copyrighted works of Muse. This includes all live material, studio material, and non-musical material (such as interviews)

3. Remove any instances where the lyrics of Muse are reproduced without the express written permission of Warner Music.

4) Remove any interpretations of the music of Muse provided in the form of tablature, song scores or “MIDI” files.

5) Remove all photographic material of the members of the band Muse that have been published without the express written permission of Warner Music.

We ask that you advise us within a period of seven (7) days of the date of receiving this notice on whether you intend to comply with our request so that we can determine whether legal action will be required beyond this point.

Thank you for your cooperation on this matter. Please contact us with any further questions at xxxx@xxxx.com

Regards,

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Warner Music xxxxxxxx,
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