Muse has the modern rock scene on lock, as "Mercy" has topped the charts and folks are preparing for the release of the album Drones next week. Now Matt Bellamy and co. claim they would like to convert the seventh studio LP to a musical when the band gets the chance.
"I think in the immediate future obviously it's still an album that the fans haven't heard, you know, so all we can really think about at this point in time is getting the album out and going on tour," bassist Chris Wolstenholme told Music Feeds. "But yeah, it would be great to be able to have it incorporated into some sort of musical or something, you know, it's not something that we've ever done before, it would be very exciting to be a part of it."
So don't rush to the West End for tickets just yet. Turns out the idea was proposed by a reporter...but of course Muse would be interested in a Muse musical.
Wolstenholme admitted that he and drummer Dom Howard "don't 100 percent know what's going on lyrically." So, as with most of the decisions surround the prog-rockers, we'll have to look to Bellamy for the final say. Thus far he's claimed Drones is a number of things, but it currently appeals to be a concept record describing the evolution of humanity into a race of non-mechanical drones. This makes sense in the sense of first single "Psycho." How "Mercy" plays into that is beyond us.
The last album we can think of to get the musical treatment also happened to deal with the idiocy of society, as Green Day's American Idiot went through 422 performances across 2010-'11.
