Muse – The Wow! Signal European Tour

Muse comprise singer, guitarist and keyboardist Matt Bellamy, drummer Dominic Howard and multi-instrumentalist Chris Wolstenholme. Since their formation in 1994, Muse have released nine albums and sold over 30 million records worldwide.

Renowned as one of the world’s best live bands, the trio have won numerous music awards: two Grammys for ‘The Resistance’ (2011) and ‘Drones’ (2016) as Best Rock Albums, an American Music Award, five MTV Europe Music Awards, two Brit Awards, eleven NME Awards and seven Q Awards, amongst other honours. Their latest album, “Will of the People” (2022), reached number one in the album charts in several countries worldwide and became their seventh consecutive album to top the UK charts.

Back in March, Muse announced their tenth studio album, “The Wow! Signal” in spectacular fashion with the song “Be With You”. They broadcast the announcement from space, which led to coverage by Pitchfork, NME, Consequence, Kerrang! and Billboard. With over 3 million streams in its first week, the single reached number 1 on the “Most Added” charts on alternative radio and has since firmly established itself in the format’s top 5. The newly released single “Nightshift Superstar” follows on from “Be With You”, “Cryogen”, “Hexagons” and the track “Unravelling” – released back in 2025 – which will also feature on the band’s upcoming album. With these five singles from their forthcoming LP, Muse are gradually revealing the ‘The Wow! Signal’ universe piece by piece. The album takes its name from one of the most fascinating cosmic mysteries of the last century: a 72-second radio pulse discovered in 1977 and originating from the constellation Sagittarius. Jerry R. Ehman, the astrophysicist who discovered this anomaly, circled the now-iconic sequence ‘6EQUJ5’ with a red pen on a printout of the document and wrote the word ‘Wow!’ next to it – which secured the signal’s name in both science and popular culture. ‘The Wow! Signal’ explores themes such as extraterrestrial communication, technological fears, existential questions and humanity’s search for meaning and significance in an increasingly alienated world.

Support: Dead Poet Society