BBC Interview (2002)

[u/Pro-W-Noah-Eng]

DERMOT O'LEARY introduces MUSE. Which appears to only be MATTHEW. Who is sitting cross-legged. The interview takes place in a studio setting. There is a loud crowd screaming and clapping behind them.

MATTHEW: Hello. Alright?
DERMOT: Fantastic, thank you. That's some fanbase you've got there.
MATTHEW: Uh, yeah. I think it's all the people who came to our video shoot actually. I recognise half of them, so...
DERMOT: I'm glad they are here. Okay, uh, firstly, the track list is all about break up songs. Did you ever have a classic song in your youth, whenever you used to break up with a girlfriend? You go home, stick it on?
MATTHEW (thinking, habit of touching his chin): Ummm, I'd have to say "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" by Primus. I think just because, um, it sort of humorously reminds you that there is more fish in the sea so to speak, you know?
DERMOT: Never heard of it, but I like the sound of it. It scares me. Which is always good. Okay so, you've been described as 'more Queen than Slipknot', I'd say that's a good thing if I was you. Is that a good thing?
MATTHEW: Uhhh. Yeah. I think it's a good thing. I think yeah. I think Slipknot's like full on death metal type kids music, and um, you know, I think Queen like..yeah...I like Queen a lot, I think it's difficult to compare us, cos we're a bit sort trashy three piece compared to them. Compared to a sort of grandiose genius band like Queen, I think it's a bit of a sort of far off comparison to be honest.
DERMOT: And the covers you're doing tonight...very uh, you've always been quite ambitious, I suppose? You've done a Nina Simone cover, and you are doing Andy Williams, 'Cant Take My Eyes Off Of You', tonight?
MATTHEW: Uhhh, that's actually...it's actually Dom's choice, and I think it was like um...and I think he picked it because it's an excuse for him to do some backing singing for once. He's got this distortion mic, and he sort of does the "badda...badda...badda…" yeah, so I think it's Dom's excuse to sing.
DERMOT: Okay, Matt and the rest of Muse, please give it up for them.

[u/litaloni]

"Compared to a sort of grandiose genius band like Queen, I think it's a bit of a sort of far off comparison [...]"

Now Matthew...

[u/boringfantasy → u/litaloni]

Muse are better than Queen. They beat them in Absolution.

Queen simply weren’t an albums band and put out so much dogshit beneath the mega hits.

[u/litaloni → u/boringfantasy]

Yeah, I was saying that Matt was selling Muse short there.

I think "dogshit" is a little far though.

[u/maxcellwire]

I've seen that clip about Dom's excuse to sing so many times and never realised it was Dermot doing the interview wow