Biography
Childhood of Matthew
Matthew Bellamy was born in Cambridge (09/06/1978). His mother Marilyn, came from Belfast and met his father, George, a cab driver at the time, as soon as she got off the boat to England. The Bellamys moved to Devon when Matt was five, and despite the fact that his father had a musical background – as a guitar player with ‘60’s group “The Tornadoes”, whose single ‘Telstar’ was the first US Number One by a British band – their son didn’t begin playing an instrument, the piano, until he .
"George Bellamy, Matts Father"
Childhood of Matthew
Matthew Bellamy was born in Cambridge (09/06/1978). His mother Marilyn, came from Belfast and met his father, George, a cab driver at the time, as soon as she got off the boat to England. The Bellamys moved to Devon when Matt was five, and despite the fact that his father had a musical background – as a guitar player with ‘60’s group “The Tornadoes”, whose single ‘Telstar’ was the first US Number One by a British band – their son didn’t begin playing an instrument, the piano, until he .
"George Bellamy, Matts Father"
was 10 years old.
But musical ability purred through him from a young age.
As a small child, his first piano piece was not “Chopsticks”, but the work of Ray Charles – something the young Bellamy worked out by ear. His old brother, Paul, would ask his sibling to decipher the melodies to songs by The Smiths and The Wedding Present, also on the piano. Bellamy didn’t think too much about these requests at the time and doesn’t seem to think too much about the precocity he displayed back then, even now.
Teignmouth
At the age of 13, George and Marilyn divorced; his father moved to Exeter and Matt stayed with his mother and his brother. It was at about this time that Bellamy began the learning curve of fundamental life interests that still fascinate and fuel him today. The first of these was the obvious process of weeding out and the course which led him to music. The choice was, he says, between people who “got pissed on cider and got into fights down by the sea”, and those who did something else. In hiring an industrial estate youth club called Broad Meadow for “three or four pounds an hour” and staging concerts there, Bellamy and his friends’ young bands – which by this point had begun to include the future members of Muse – did something else. And Bellamy set in the train the very thing that he’s still doing today?
Behind the Bellamy’s door , life was bubbling in unusual – or at least unconventional – ways. At the age of nine, Matt has wandered downstairs late one evening, and discovered his mum, dad and brother focused around a Ouija Board. Instead of shrieking at her son to get out of the room, Marilyn instead chose to sit Matt down and explain what it was his family were doing. She also explained to him that this was nothing to be afraid of, no matter what anyone might think or say. Soon Matt was rushing to school with stories from the Ouija Board to tell to a young and wide-eyed audience.
“It was exciting to go to school and to tell 10-year-old kids all about it, as they found it all quite scary and I was quite impressed that I was doing something that was scary to other people but that wasn’t to me”. He says “I did get quite into that”.
After the divorce of his parents, Marilyn, Paul and Matt were joined on the Ouija Board committee by Paul’s girlfriend, with Matt having the job of translating the letters as they were spelled out by the marker. These messages would come from dead family members other close friends, with sentimental and sentences that were “unspeakably” real, intimate and personal details the authenticity of which was “undoubted”. Once correspondent predicted the Gulf War a full calendar year before the hostilities actually began.
“My beliefs in the whole thing changed”, he says “I now believe that you’re contacting something in your subconscious, which is quiet different. Something that you might not have known was already there. That’s probably more realistic than thinking you’re contacting somebody who’s already dead. And I do practice that.
The town where Matt, Chris and Dom grew up was terrible "The only time the town came to life was during the summer when it turned into a vacation spot for visiting Londoners. When the summer ended they left and took all the life with them. I felt so trapped there. My friends were either getting into drugs or music, but I gravitated towards the latter and eventually learned how to play. That became my escape. If it weren't for the band, I would probably have turned to drugs myself."
In a publicity biography of Muse, Teignmouth is described as a typical seaside town — "barely breathing in summer, stone cold dead in the winter. "If you were aged between 13 and 18, a living hell the whole year round." Mr Fusco, the mayor of Teignmouth fumed: "To say I am upset and disappointed is an understatement. Teignmouth is no worse than anywhere else as far as drugs are concerned, and a darn sight better than many.” When Showbiz was released, the mayor published a picture in a local paper with him throwing Showbiz into a garbage can.
"To start being rude about their hometown, where a lot of people helped them with their music, now they are about to break into the big time shows a lot of ingratitude. There are far, far worse places to grow up in and a lot of places do not have anything like our facilities. It does not do our image much good when this sort of tripe gets dished out in the national media, but for all that I still wish the lads well and hope they reach the top!" Local councillor and youth worker Mary Kennedy took a more laid back view of the outburst. "We shouldn't over-react a lot of young people go through a phase of being unhappy at where they live. It is all part of the growing up process and is quite normal. But it is surprising how many want to come back after they have travelled around a bit and seen other parts of the country. I think we should listen to what young people say about the town and try and make it more appealing for them, rather than constantly criticising them as some senior figures in Teignmouth do."
It seems like Showbiz is a bit about their life in Teignmouth. “Falling Down” describes the 15000 citizens of the town, and how they never gave Muse a chance (you would never hear me sing). You can also hear this in “Muscle Museum”, where Teignmouth still wanted to convince Muse they were doing wrong (to prove I’ve made a big mistake).
Origin Of Muse
At the age of 13 Matt and his pals were doing in music and formed bands. In 1994 (16 y) they were doing a contest named “battle of the bands” in their school. Muse were named “Rocket Baby Dolls”. However the other bands were technically much better than Muse was, Muse wan the contest. A few weeks later they called themselves Muse. “I have always been stimulated by the idea of making a lot of money, in some easy and fast way. For this reason there was a lot of ferment. Everyday a new band came out. There was even a weird legend that said all that energy had come like a "muse", descended from the sky; that's were we got our name from.”
Moving
At the age of 18, Bellamy left home and moved to Exeter, where he lived and worked with a firend as a painter and decorator. This, in keeping with much of the converstation, is an unlikely story told in the tones of a likeable storyteller. It sounds like no big deal. But Bellamy’s friend was a drug dealer, someone who started dealing to friends, turned this enterprise into something more serious and eventually landed himself in prison. The pair of them used to live above a pornographic bookshop. This was in a part of town where all the right stuff was available to all the wrong people. Bellamy’s flat was, he says, “like a scene from Trainspotting, white powders and mirrors everywhere”. “The effect those days had on me, is that I son’t dabble in those kinds of drugs. I don’t touch the cocaine and the heroin. I’ve seen what it does to people. Now Matt only has a bi-annual binge: Magic Mushrooms.
Acceleration
Hooking up with Taste Media (a joint venture between Sawmills, a West Country recording studio and SJP Producer Management), Muse suddenly found themselves at the 1998 In The City. At the same time, a couple of American labels began to show interest, and in November of the same year, the band flew out to New York to play CMJ. After a dazzling show at the Mercury Lounge, they found that US interest was now reaching fever pitch. Two weeks later, they were flown to the States again, this time to LA, where they played a showcase on the Santa Monica Pier. As others deliberated, Madonna's label Maverick took the opportunity to move in and sign them on the spot. The deal was clinched on Christmas Eve, and was rapidly followed by them signing to Motor in Germany, Naïve in France, and finally Mushroom Records in the UK. After five years hard slog the band had gone from 0 to 4 record deals in a couple of months. Their first two limited edition EP's Muse and Muscle Museum emerged on Sawmill's own Dangerous Records label and both quickly sold out. All this setting the blueprint for what was to follow: a tidal wave of serrated guitar noises and seething lyrical anger; it reveals a band determined to match and surpass their mentors. It was enough to ensure that when they started to record their debut album a few weeks later, John Leckie (producer or Radiohead's The Bends) was only too happy to join them. Muse's sheer energy and passion impressed him, like everyone else who's heard them. Matt: "I don't think many bands feel that strongly about their music. It's sad but I think Nirvana were the last band who had that. Music should be an outlet for your emotions. If it wasn't for Muse, I think I'd probably be a nasty violent person. It's definitely a release, and that's the way it should be." Their first proper single, the brilliant Uno, was released following the successful Steve Lamacq's Evening Session Tour, alongside Three Colours Red and The Donnas and a series of dates with Feeder. The single cracked the Top 75.
Next their first album "Showbiz" was released in 1999. A half million copies world wide were sold (and still be sold). The singles Sunburn, Cave, Unintented and Muscle Museum followed up.
In june 2001 Origin Of Symmetry were released, and the live dvd-cd “Hullabaloo” in july 2002.
Muse is now back in the Sawmills studios recording a new album. Some songs are already played on festivals like Emergency and The Smallprint.
Teignmouth
At the age of 13, George and Marilyn divorced; his father moved to Exeter and Matt stayed with his mother and his brother. It was at about this time that Bellamy began the learning curve of fundamental life interests that still fascinate and fuel him today. The first of these was the obvious process of weeding out and the course which led him to music. The choice was, he says, between people who “got pissed on cider and got into fights down by the sea”, and those who did something else. In hiring an industrial estate youth club called Broad Meadow for “three or four pounds an hour” and staging concerts there, Bellamy and his friends’ young bands – which by this point had begun to include the future members of Muse – did something else. And Bellamy set in the train the very thing that he’s still doing today?
Behind the Bellamy’s door , life was bubbling in unusual – or at least unconventional – ways. At the age of nine, Matt has wandered downstairs late one evening, and discovered his mum, dad and brother focused around a Ouija Board. Instead of shrieking at her son to get out of the room, Marilyn instead chose to sit Matt down and explain what it was his family were doing. She also explained to him that this was nothing to be afraid of, no matter what anyone might think or say. Soon Matt was rushing to school with stories from the Ouija Board to tell to a young and wide-eyed audience.
“It was exciting to go to school and to tell 10-year-old kids all about it, as they found it all quite scary and I was quite impressed that I was doing something that was scary to other people but that wasn’t to me”. He says “I did get quite into that”.
After the divorce of his parents, Marilyn, Paul and Matt were joined on the Ouija Board committee by Paul’s girlfriend, with Matt having the job of translating the letters as they were spelled out by the marker. These messages would come from dead family members other close friends, with sentimental and sentences that were “unspeakably” real, intimate and personal details the authenticity of which was “undoubted”. Once correspondent predicted the Gulf War a full calendar year before the hostilities actually began.
“My beliefs in the whole thing changed”, he says “I now believe that you’re contacting something in your subconscious, which is quiet different. Something that you might not have known was already there. That’s probably more realistic than thinking you’re contacting somebody who’s already dead. And I do practice that.
The town where Matt, Chris and Dom grew up was terrible "The only time the town came to life was during the summer when it turned into a vacation spot for visiting Londoners. When the summer ended they left and took all the life with them. I felt so trapped there. My friends were either getting into drugs or music, but I gravitated towards the latter and eventually learned how to play. That became my escape. If it weren't for the band, I would probably have turned to drugs myself."
In a publicity biography of Muse, Teignmouth is described as a typical seaside town — "barely breathing in summer, stone cold dead in the winter. "If you were aged between 13 and 18, a living hell the whole year round." Mr Fusco, the mayor of Teignmouth fumed: "To say I am upset and disappointed is an understatement. Teignmouth is no worse than anywhere else as far as drugs are concerned, and a darn sight better than many.” When Showbiz was released, the mayor published a picture in a local paper with him throwing Showbiz into a garbage can.
"To start being rude about their hometown, where a lot of people helped them with their music, now they are about to break into the big time shows a lot of ingratitude. There are far, far worse places to grow up in and a lot of places do not have anything like our facilities. It does not do our image much good when this sort of tripe gets dished out in the national media, but for all that I still wish the lads well and hope they reach the top!" Local councillor and youth worker Mary Kennedy took a more laid back view of the outburst. "We shouldn't over-react a lot of young people go through a phase of being unhappy at where they live. It is all part of the growing up process and is quite normal. But it is surprising how many want to come back after they have travelled around a bit and seen other parts of the country. I think we should listen to what young people say about the town and try and make it more appealing for them, rather than constantly criticising them as some senior figures in Teignmouth do."
It seems like Showbiz is a bit about their life in Teignmouth. “Falling Down” describes the 15000 citizens of the town, and how they never gave Muse a chance (you would never hear me sing). You can also hear this in “Muscle Museum”, where Teignmouth still wanted to convince Muse they were doing wrong (to prove I’ve made a big mistake).
Origin Of Muse
At the age of 13 Matt and his pals were doing in music and formed bands. In 1994 (16 y) they were doing a contest named “battle of the bands” in their school. Muse were named “Rocket Baby Dolls”. However the other bands were technically much better than Muse was, Muse wan the contest. A few weeks later they called themselves Muse. “I have always been stimulated by the idea of making a lot of money, in some easy and fast way. For this reason there was a lot of ferment. Everyday a new band came out. There was even a weird legend that said all that energy had come like a "muse", descended from the sky; that's were we got our name from.”
Moving
At the age of 18, Bellamy left home and moved to Exeter, where he lived and worked with a firend as a painter and decorator. This, in keeping with much of the converstation, is an unlikely story told in the tones of a likeable storyteller. It sounds like no big deal. But Bellamy’s friend was a drug dealer, someone who started dealing to friends, turned this enterprise into something more serious and eventually landed himself in prison. The pair of them used to live above a pornographic bookshop. This was in a part of town where all the right stuff was available to all the wrong people. Bellamy’s flat was, he says, “like a scene from Trainspotting, white powders and mirrors everywhere”. “The effect those days had on me, is that I son’t dabble in those kinds of drugs. I don’t touch the cocaine and the heroin. I’ve seen what it does to people. Now Matt only has a bi-annual binge: Magic Mushrooms.
Acceleration
Hooking up with Taste Media (a joint venture between Sawmills, a West Country recording studio and SJP Producer Management), Muse suddenly found themselves at the 1998 In The City. At the same time, a couple of American labels began to show interest, and in November of the same year, the band flew out to New York to play CMJ. After a dazzling show at the Mercury Lounge, they found that US interest was now reaching fever pitch. Two weeks later, they were flown to the States again, this time to LA, where they played a showcase on the Santa Monica Pier. As others deliberated, Madonna's label Maverick took the opportunity to move in and sign them on the spot. The deal was clinched on Christmas Eve, and was rapidly followed by them signing to Motor in Germany, Naïve in France, and finally Mushroom Records in the UK. After five years hard slog the band had gone from 0 to 4 record deals in a couple of months. Their first two limited edition EP's Muse and Muscle Museum emerged on Sawmill's own Dangerous Records label and both quickly sold out. All this setting the blueprint for what was to follow: a tidal wave of serrated guitar noises and seething lyrical anger; it reveals a band determined to match and surpass their mentors. It was enough to ensure that when they started to record their debut album a few weeks later, John Leckie (producer or Radiohead's The Bends) was only too happy to join them. Muse's sheer energy and passion impressed him, like everyone else who's heard them. Matt: "I don't think many bands feel that strongly about their music. It's sad but I think Nirvana were the last band who had that. Music should be an outlet for your emotions. If it wasn't for Muse, I think I'd probably be a nasty violent person. It's definitely a release, and that's the way it should be." Their first proper single, the brilliant Uno, was released following the successful Steve Lamacq's Evening Session Tour, alongside Three Colours Red and The Donnas and a series of dates with Feeder. The single cracked the Top 75.
Next their first album "Showbiz" was released in 1999. A half million copies world wide were sold (and still be sold). The singles Sunburn, Cave, Unintented and Muscle Museum followed up.
In june 2001 Origin Of Symmetry were released, and the live dvd-cd “Hullabaloo” in july 2002.
Muse is now back in the Sawmills studios recording a new album. Some songs are already played on festivals like Emergency and The Smallprint.
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