Muse Interviews

Remember that interview where Matt stops to smell his foot? How about the one where he professes that he would be the first one in the queue to get tickets if Rage Against the Machine ever got back together? Well fear not! We are here to bring all those wonderful (and crazy) interviews to you with anecdotal notes so you know which interview is which!

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NOTE: Some interview exact dates may be incorrect or hard to know, in that case the aired day instead is used.

2023

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Fact
2023-02-13	Meet at the Hotel Bar, UK	Listen here	Rare podcast interview with Chris about road stories. Covers the U2 plane ride, the Stereophonics beef, and lots of diarrhea.
2023-01-15	ALT 98.7, CA, USA	Watch here	Chris isn't really into Friends. Matt wants to explore that secret alien warehouse with Tom DeLonge of Blink-182.

2022

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Fact
2022-10-12	Audacy, USA	Watch here	The "soulmates" interview with Matt and Dom. They discuss how the band dealt with the pandemic and conceived the album.
2022-09-08	SiriusXM, USA	Watch here	Matt explains some info behind some of their songs; Plug in Baby, Supermassive Black Hole, Madness, Psycho and Won't Stand Down.
2022-08-29	Le monde d'Elodie, France	Listen here	Another interview of Matt and Dom talking about the new album.
2022-08-26	Los Angeles Times, USA	Read here	Transcripted interview with Matt Bellamy talking about the new album.
2022-08-26	NRJ, France	Watch here	Matt and Dom shortly talks about the new album and their influences.
2022-08-25	Audacy Check In, USA	Watch here	Matt talks about the group’s new album, Will Of The People, and the new songs in there.
2022-08-23	Zane Lowe, New Zealand	Watch here	Matt talks about many themes of the new album, his parenthood and the relationship between the bandmates.
2022-08-22	Elliot In The Morning, USA	Listen here	Dom chats with Elliot In The Morning about the new album, Abbey Road Studios, Matt Bellamy's "Jeff Buckley" guitar, and more.
2022-06-17	Virgin Radio, France	Listen here	More extensive interview about the new album, the inspiration and the recording process. (+ Dom is planning to dye his hair pink)
2022-06-16	RFM, France	Watch here	Another short interview with Matt and Dom talking about Will of the People.
2022-06-1?	? Racetrack, ???	Watch here	Short interview with Dom and Matt talking about Lamborghini cars, racecars and other related things.
2022-06-10	NME, UK	Read here	In-depth interview discussing details of new album's songs. Debunks Compliance antivaxx claims. First mention of "meta-centrism".
2022-06-09	RTL2, France	Listen here	Matt and Dom talking about the new upcoming album, Will of the People, about its creation and describing the songs.
2022-05-10	The Big Issue, UK	Read here	Brief interview promoting the Eventim Apollo charity gig. Matt discusses homelessness in LA, the war in Ukraine, and his Northern Irish heritage.
2022-03-17	The Zane Lowe Show, ??	Transcribed here	First major interview leaking details about new songs. Matt reveals his and Dom's punch-up in a jet.
2022-01-23	(?) LA, USA	Watch here	Not an interview, just an Instagram livestream showing Dom and Chris playing basketball while Matt is recording.

2021

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Fact
2021-03-16	(?) LA, USA	Watch here	Not an interview, just an Instagram livestream showing Dom and Matt just chilling and talking about a coffee machine.

2020

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Fact
2020-05-15	NME, UK	read here	Another Matt interview, this time with NME. Bellamy talked about a potential move back to Devon, an Origin of Symmetry anniversary show, and a timeline for the next album.
2020-05-09	Beats 1 Radio, USA	Watch here	Matt talked to Zane Lowe on his song, Tomorrow's World, and the Simulation Theory concert film. He mentioned he has written a few songs suitable for Muse and that it is possible they will do a song this year.
2020-01-19	ALT98.7, CA, USA	Watch here	Matt gives a short interview during the ALTERego show. In his excitement, he mentions that he's having a baby.

2019

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Fact
2019-04-09	Radio 104.5, Philadelphia, PA, USA	Watch here	Dom gives an interview with local radio station 1 hour prior to the show in Philly.
2019-03-14	NME, UK	Watch here	Muse admit they’ve “finally gone too far” with their current world tour.
2019-01-16	iHeartRadio, CA, USA	Watch here	Matt & Dom said that they'd like to collaborate with Twenty One Pilots, and answered another questions.
2019-01-10	Warner Music ME, ??	Watch here	Muse talked about Simulation Theory and the influences on the album to the Warner Music of the Middle East.

2018

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2018-12-30	Virgin Radio, UK	Watch here	Matt and Dom talk to Tim Cocker about their new album 'Simulation Theory' and also their plans for touring.
2018-12-14	Radio X, UK	Watch here	Muse answer their most googled questions.
2018-12-14	Quotidien, France	Watch here	Talked about Simulation Theory before playing Pressure. Matt says "bum wiggle".
2018-12-14	Virgin Radio, France	Watch here	Aired the 20th January 2019.
2018-12-13	Q1043 New York, NY, USA	Watch here	Interview with Chris (a strange thing). Talking about Simulation Theory and saying it was initially planned to be an acoustic album.
2018-11-30	NRJ, France	Watch here	Talked about the main Simulation Theory theme.
2018-11-20	Sukkiri TV, Japan	Watch here	Strange and very japanese interview, with the later performance of Pressure.
2018-11-20	NME, UK	Watch here	Talking about The Beatles' influence on Pressure. Recorded the same day as the last NME interview, but aired the 20.
2018-11-16	NME, UK	Watch here	Recording of PWO PWO PWO PWOPAGANDA. Weird noises, ‘Stranger Things’ and the Simulation Theory Tour.
2018-11-14	iHeartRadio, NY, USA	Watch here	Talking about new album (after or before the concert).
2018-11-12	Radio X, UK	Watch here	A 1h conversation with Muse talking about their career and new album, Simulation Theory.
2018-11-12	Absolute Radio, UK	Watch here	Muse sat down to chat about their upcoming tour, VR Games, pre-show rituals and playing to guess the song.
2018-11-09	Deezer, UK?	Watch here	Some fun and interesting questions, like favourite song on the new album, and songs from other artists.
2018-11-08	Studio Brussels, Belgium	Watch here	Announced that they're going to play on Werchter Festival 2019. And talked a bit about other stuff.
2018-11-08	France3Paris, France	Watch here	Another interview talking about Simulation Theory.
2018-11-08	FNAC, France	Watch here	Some interesting questions in this 1 minute clip. Described Simulation Theory as "Meta-modernist rock".
2018-11-05	RTL 102.5, Italy	Watch here	Matt and Dom talked about Simulation Theory and announced the two gigs in Italy on 2019, Milan and Rome.
2018-11-05	Radio Deejay, Italy	Watch here	They talked about new album and teased some seconds of the upcoming song Algorithm and its video.
2018-11-04	ROCK FM, Spain	Watch here	Talked about Simulation Theory recording, other stuff and announced the Madrid 2019 gig.
2018-10-31	OUI FM, France	Watch here	Talked about new album, and curious things like Matt's 140 broken guitar record on Absolution Tour.
2018-09-24	Taratata, France	Watch here	Interview talking about multiple things was done between songs performances.
2018-07-23	The Woody Show, USA	Watch here	Muse plays a round of Let me Axe You Something: Matt doomsday prepping, Matt can't hold his liquor, Matt is the laziest
2018-07-20	Radio.com, USA?	Watch here	Short clip talking about Something Human and upcoming new song, Pressure.
2018-07-20	The Woody Show, USA	Watch here	Talked about Something Human.
2018-07-20	Beats 1 Radio, USA	Watch here	Interview with Matt Wilkinson, Matt & Dom talked about Something Human. Matt mentioned the idea of "wanting to do a high school dance" for the then-unknown Pressure music video.
2018-07-19	KROQ, USA	Watch here	Muse on New Song Something Human: "It's Our Soft Side"
2018-07-05	Beats 1 Radio, CA, US	Watch here	They revealed the new album name, Simulation Theory. Aired two months later.
2018-05-20	Radio.com, USA?	Watch here	Matt talked about Thought Contagion, smashing Guitars & being a rockstar.
2018-04-20	MTVLA, Mexico	Watch here	Brief clip talking about Thought Contagion and "mexican influences" on Knights of Cydonia & City of Delusion.
2018-03-27	Triple M Sydney, Australia	Watch here	Audio only, Matt talked about Thought Contagion, confirmed new album on November and it's influences.
2018-03-19	Radio X, UK	Watch here	Chris Moyles Meets...Muse. They tell about starting out, getting signed, and turning 40 and other things.
2018-03-05	Virgin Radio, France	Watch here	Talked about Thought Contagion, upcoming new album theme and Matt's genetics.
2018-02-16	The Woody Show, USA	Watch here	Matt and Dom talk Thought Contagion, the 1st mention that Floyd looks like the #GhostbusterTerrorDog, Hazelnut is worse than a baby, playing with Paul McCartney, Wikipedia true or false

2017

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2017-12-18	Melbourne, Australia	Watch here	Interview with Ugly Phil. Releasing singles early. Matt's interest in tech and AI. Using tech terms in songs. Doesn't like songs to be dated because of the lyrics.
2017-08-15	Evening Standard, UK	Read here	Matt interview promoting the Shepherds Bush Empire by-request gig. Discusses fans requesting obscure songs.
2017-08-08	TVA Montreal, Canada	Watch here	Matt talked shortly about Canada and also about the early days, when he becomes to be less shy and started to act different on the stage.
2017-08-03	101WKQX Chicago, USA	Watch here	Matt talked about other cancelled shows (due to the cancellation of Lollapalooza that year), and about Dig Down.
2017-07-12	Absolute Radio, UK	Watch here	Muse: Hackers, drag bars & Cirque du Soleil. Also talked about the North American Amphitheater tour.
2017-07-04	BBC Radio 1, UK	Watch here	Matt & Dom revealed their plans for Reading & Leeds Festival the summer. They also revealed how they've been spending their time off as well as insights on interesting fan art.
2017-05-25	ALT 98.7, USA	Watch here	Matt and Dom talked about Dig Down and the American Tour, the infamous "Origin of Muse" reissue and a new song (probably the future Something Human).
2017-05-18	KLOS, USA	Watch here	Muse In-Studio on Jonesey's Jukebox: Dom and Matt talk about Dig Down and upcoming North American Amphitheater tour.
2017-05-18	Beats 1 Radio, USA	Watch here	Matt & Dom talked with Zane Lowe on recording Dig Down. Matt mentioned it was written on a computer rather than instruments and live jamming.

2016

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2016-11-02	StubHub Q Awards, London, UK	Watch here	Backsatge interview with Absolute Radio at the StubHub Q Awards. The band talked about winning the award, live shows and potentially going acoustic.
2016-11-02	StubHub Q Awards, London, UK	Watch here	Backstage interview at the StubHub Q Awards about winning the award, headlining Glastonbury Festival, the New Kind Of Kick cover and future ideas for touring.
2016-06-??	Production Park Studios, London, UK	Watch here	BBC Interview with Matt and Dom on headlining Glastonbury Festival. Filmed at the rehearsal studio and broadcast prior to the show at 2016's Glastonbury Festival.
2016-06-21	Olympiyskiy Arena, Moscow, Russia	Watch here	Interview on VK, a Russian social network, prior to the show in Moscow's Olimpiyskiy arena. The band answered questions sent in by fans. It was streamed live on Muse's VK profile.
2016-04-??	The O2 Arena, London, UK	Watch here	Absolute Radio's Danielle Perry talks with Matt and Dom backstage at one of The O2 Arena shows. They mainly talked about the Drones World Tour.
2016-04-13	BBC Radio 1, London, UK	Watch here	Bellamy talking to Nick Grimshaw on touring, it's "spinal tap" moments and Glastonbury Festival. Matt mentioned that he saw both Jeff Buckley and Weezer for the first time at Glastonbury.
2016-03-??	20 Minutes, France	Watch here	Interview with Matt and Dom backstage at one of the Paris gigs. They talked about performing at festivals versus performing in arenas.
2016-03-??	Palais 12, Brussels, Belgium	Watch here	Matt Bellamy interview with Deredactie backstage at one of the Palais 12 gigs. The interview footage includes bits of a Psycho pro-shot.
2016-02-26	AccorHotelsArena, France	Watch here	Interview about the 360 shows in France on Le 1945 sur 6play. Matt & Dom explain the concept. Includes bits of pro-shot footage from one of the Paris shows. Interview is dubbed over in French.
2016-02-16	58th Grammy Awards, LA, USA	Watch here	Dom & Matt backstage interview with Ted Stryker at the 58th Grammys. They said they weren't planning on coming, until they found out they won.

2015

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2015-10-02	??, ??	Watch here	The band talk with Deezer about songs/artists that inspire them, their songs, and the stories behind them. Matt said Uno was written when he was 17-18 and was one of the first songs he's ever done.
2015-09-16	Ancienne Belgique, Belgium	Watch here	Studio Brussel interview with Matt before Ancienne Belgique gig. Matt loves chocolates.
2015-09-??	NetEase, China	Watch here	The interview where Matt & Dom are asked if they are "together"
2015-09-??	SCMP.tv, Hong Kong	Watch here	Interview with Dom for South China Morning Post
2015-16-07	Vieilles Charrues, France	Watch here	Matt & Dom talk to Virgin Radio France on playing festivals, their love for the French countryside and how wet the 2010 performance at the Vieilles Charrues festival was.
2015-06-28	Rock Werchter, Belgium	Watch here	Studio Brussel interview with Matt about the festival shows, the arena shows, the album Drones and Dave Grohl's broken foot.
2015-06-13	Donnington Park, UK	Watch here	Interview with Matt at Download Festival on Drones, working with Mutt Lange and the live shows.
2015-06-09	??, ??	Watch here	Chris talks with Playstation Europe on gaming and evolution of Muse music. He expressed his love for FIFA, the Call of Duty series and the Uncharted series and enjoyed playing Grand Theft Auto V.
2015-06-08	Le Grand Journal, France	Watch here	Q&A interview with Dom and Matt. Dom demonstrated how to destroy an imaginary guitar, amongst other things.
2015-06-03	Radio Deejay, Italy	Watch here	Matt & Dom talk about Drones, the inspirations and the concepts behind it and the live shows. Matt mentioned the seriousness of health & safety for live shows in Italy.
2015-05-16	KROQ, USA	Watch here	Interview with Kevin & Bean at KROQ's Weenie Roast Y Fiesta. Dom mentions he'd love to play The Handler but Cliff (Burnstein) wouldn't let them.
2015-04-27	KROQ, USA	Watch here	Matt & Dom talk with Kevin & Bean about Psycho, Drones and headlining the 2015 KROQ's Weenie Roast Y Fiesta.

2014

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2014-04-12	KROQ Party House, Coachella, CA	Watch here	Ted Styker interview with Dom and Chris at Coachella

2013

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2013-04-25	Tout le monde en parle, Canada	Watch here (incomplete)	French-canadian interview with Matt and Dom in Montreal, after their concerts in 2013. Unfortunately, the full interview has been lost through time and copyright claims.

2012

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2012-09-28	The Guardian, UK	Read here	Matt discusses the US conspiracy theory subculture's right-wing turn, self-identifies as a "left-leaning libertarian".

2011

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2011-08-28	BBC, England	Watch here	Matt and Dom talking about their Origin of Symmetry special show, and flamethrowers
2011-08-2?	NME, England	Watch here	One of few interview done only with Chris, talked about Origin of Symmetry, the special gig in Reading Festival, and the plans for the rest of the year recording new album.
2011-05-20	Absolute Radio, England	Watch here	Interview with Dom and Chris, they revealed frontman Matt's hinted he wants a boy ahead of the birth of his first child with actress Kate Hudson.
2011-02-27	T4, England	Watch here	Matt and Dom talked about the NME Awards ceremony, they won the "Best British Band" award.
2011-02-24	NME Awards, England	Watch here	The other part of that weird Muse day, with Chris this time saying the famous "Dave Grohl is one of the few men that can grab my bollocks".
2011-02-24	NME Awards, England	Watch here	One of those weird interviews, Matt being way too... Matt. From this is the famous "Fuck off you, cunt!" yelled by Matt to Dom.
2011-01-02	Video Hits, Australia	Watch here	Interview with Matt, he having such a fun time.

2010

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts

2009

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2009-09-11	We Need to Talk, musikexpress.de, Germany	Watch here	Part 3 of 3 - Matt describes how to kill a chicken / Morgan is always looking for a party / Dom belches in public / Matt was always left behind when the tour bus stopped to get gas
2009-09-11	We Need to Talk, musikexpress.de, Germany	Watch here	Part 2 of 3 - Matt says Schiffer Snatch
2009-09-11	We Need to Talk, musikexpress.de, Germany	Watch here	Part 1 of 3 - if Dom were a fairytale figure he'd be...Yoda?

2008

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts

2007

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2007-02-07	Australia	Watch here	Interview with Triple J ABCTV. Matt talks about 2 fans who pretended to be gas men to get into his house

2006

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
Unknown	Go TV Vienna, Austria	Watch here	Matt & Dom introduce their favorite videos
2006-11-23	Wembley Arena Fan Q&A	Watch here	Matt and his magic teaspoon, great questions about all kinds of things.
2006-08-20	MTV, Lowlands Festival	Watch here	Matt discusses what Black Holes and Revelations means, talks about recording the album, Belgian and Italian music influences
2006-07-??	The Zane Lowe, England	Watch here

2005

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2005-02-09	Brit Awards, England	Watch here	Muse won British Live Act, rare Dom & Chris only taking the award. Dom saying that "Matt is probably in the Kingdom of Bhutan becoming a buddhist or something". More info here

2004

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2004-08-21	V Festival Interview	Watch here	First mention of adding Morgan to play bass due to Chris' wrist injury
2004-06-12	Rome, Italy	Watch here	Interview promoting the Absolution album
2004-01-24	Channel V, Australia	Watch here	What is Plug in Baby about? Matt: Shit I don't know. Matt wishes he wrote Tom Waits Blue Valentine

2003

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2003-10-??	Rock TV, Italy	Watch here	Matt takes his shoe off and smells his foot, then later lays his stinky foot on Dom's leg

2002

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2002-08-02	Benicassim, Spain	Watch here	Short interview with the band talking about NME and "Muse's trademarks" while Muscle Museum is being played in the background.
2002-06-13	The Guardian, UK	Read here ( transcript)	Matt's firsthand account of touring in Russia. Mentions the infamous fan painting of him naked with birds on his shoulders.

2001

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2001 May	Possibly Germany/Denmark/Norway/Sweden	Watch here	Discussion of Rocket Baby Dolls/Battle of the Bands/Name change to Muse. Issue with Stereophonics. Loss of guitar tech to Feeder. Admission of taping Dom having sex. "Dom's Willy"
2001-05-03	Babylon, Munich Germany	Watch here	Discussion of Origin of Symmetry art work. Also Matt mentions the "big stone cock" at the Clockwork Orange house where they filmed Plug in Baby

2000

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
2000-08-27	Lowlands Festival, Netherlands	Watch here	"pink fluffy handcuffs" / Matt & Dom talk making of Unintended video, working with record companies in various countries, worst question asked
2000-??-??	FFWD Belgium TV	Watch here	The band plays Sunburn live interspersed with an Interview / how they came up with the name Muse / the battle of the bands they won / what the title Showbiz means

1999

Date	Location	Link	Interesting Facts
1999-11-29	Zürich, Switzerland	Watch here
1999-??-??	France, Olaive	Listen here	Audio interview with Matt. Includes opening acoustic riff before Unintended as later played at Wembley
1999-??-??	Showbiz EPK	Watch here	Promo featuring performance and interview sent to record stations to promote the release of Showbiz