British indie-rockers Muse want to be the first band to play in space, lead singer Matt Bellamy recently told The Sun. And he’s not afraid to call in a favour to help achieve this cosmic goal. “I’m thinking of approaching Richard Branson to see if we could do it on his spacecraft he’s got happening,” he said.
And Bellamy insists the plain is not just some hare-brained scheme envisaged after a long session at the pub. “We’ve had some discussions about playing in space. Sometimes very coherent conversations and sometimes very late at night, but it’s for real,” he told the daily.
“Maybe I’ve seen the Jetsons too many times – but I think it will be possible in the future and I’m sure it’ll happen in my lifetime. We’d love to be part of that.
Branson’s Virgin Galactic aims to offer pleasure flights into space within the next eighteen months. The company owns two SpaceShipTwo craft which will offer six passengers a few minutes of weightlessness at a cost of $200,000 per ticket. It’s believed that around 300 people have paid a $20,000 deposit to be among the first tourists to leave Earth.
Beyond the inevitable sound and light challenges associated with a space gig, Muse, known for their large-scale, highly-technical and costly concert productions, would have to seriously scale back their show, admitted Bellamy.
“Although we do have a lot of equipment, so I guess we’d have to use pods to carry our stuff,” he said.
