Muse are planning a celebration for fourth album Black Holes Revelations’ 20th anniversary.
The band’s 2006 album was their second record to reach number one in the UK and their only one to receive a Mercury Music Prize nomination and Matt and bandmates Chris Wolstenholme, and Dominic Howard plan to celebrate the anniversary with a re-release and potentially a live gig.
He told NME: “I think we’re going to bring [album opener] Take A Bow into the set. I think we’re supposed to do some kind of anniversary package, and I’ve got loads of missed emails from management saying we need this, this and this. We’ll probably try to put together some kind of anniversary package.
“Whether we play the whole album at some point, that could be an option.”
Black Holes Revelations’ has sold more than five million copies worldwide and features the singles Supermassive Black Hole, Starlight and Knights Of Cydonia.
Meanwhile, Matt believes Muse have stayed together for more than 30 years because they have “never been in fashion”.
The frontman – who helped found the band back in 1994 – has credited their ongoing success to the fact that they have never fit into any particular genre of been part of a trend – declaring they are “the definition of alternative”.
He told NME: “[When Muse arrived] there were three things going on back then: the end of Britpop, nu-metal in America, and then the new exciting thing was The Strokes, The White Stripes, that retro rock ‘n’ roll thing.
“We didn’t fit in with any of those things – and that, in hindsight, was a blessing really. The fact that we somehow found an audience without being part of a trend is amazing, and I think that’s why we’re still here. We are the definition of alternative, and I’m very, very happy about that.
“We’ve never been in fashion enough that when the limelight moves away from you, you’re just finished.”
Matt went on to reveal he had a conversation on a similar theme when he met up with Jack White and The Strokes star Albert Hammond, Jr. at the Coachella music festival in California earlier this year.
When asked whether he could form a rock supergroup with White and Hammond, the Muse star joked: “Ha! No, because they would embarrass me with how good they are!”
