Eighty songs. That is a lot; surely they can't be all about the same sort of thing. What does Matt write about?

"It is difficult as we all read into them differently but I let people make up their own minds really. Its like as a fan myself I read about this band that I really loved and this member explained what the lyrics of a song were about and my interpretation of the song was completely wrong and that really did disappoint me. I'm not really going to explain what they're about I rather people made up their own definitions."

Tonight the band is supporting Gene, their first support to a 'bigger band'. Has their attitude to touring changed whilst being on this tour?

"We will go back to headlining our own tours after this," smiles Matt. "The opportunity to support Gene came along as we share the same agent. I wouldn't say that Gene's audience is our audience anyway but it gives us the opportunity to play on bigger stages, bigger sound systems to bigger audiences."

Bigger audiences especially when compared to their home town of Teignmouth.

"It is a little sea-sidey town in Devon," begins Matt. "The music scene was absolutely non existent as it is a small town. There are cover bands with old men playing blue covers. The only bands ever to do their own stuff were doing like funk music and you could tell that they’ve been playing in pubs far too long, playing covers for so long. So there were no others apart from ourselves that did anything. It has started to pick up now but when we started there was nothing."

Out of nothing would rise the three piece Muse, though they weren't always known under that monicker. They did enough to cause Dennis Smith the owner of the Sawmills, where Oasis recorded 'Definitely Maybe', to sniff around. >>