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Footage shot by Kenny Howell

Bassist Chris Wolstenholme wants to make something ‘like Nirvana’s Live! Tonight! Sold Out!’

Muse have announced plans to make a Nirvana inspired tour documentary.

The band, who have released various live DVDs throughout their career – including 2005’s Absolution Tour and 2008’s H.A.A.R.P. – have revealed they would like to make something a bit different, reports BBC 6 Music.

“We’d like to something a little bit more along the lines of a touring documentary as opposed to just a live gig this time,” bassist Chris Wolstenholme told Australia’s Triple J radio station.

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Many art rockers have symphonic pretensions, but it takes gumption to compose a “symphony.” Enter Muse: The British trio’s fifth album closes with “Exogenesis: Symphony,” a three-part suite full of grandiose orchestral swells and lyrical koans like “Why are we? Who are we?” Muse’s humongous cresting and tumbling songs have earned them a massive cult following, along with criticism that the band sounds a little too much like its heroes. (Frontman Matthew Bellamy has a serious Thom Yorke fixation.) Songs like the industrial-flavored “Uprising” prove again that Muse know how to whip up an almighty roar. But the lyrics are pompous doggerel (”Coercive notions re-evolve/A universe is trapped inside a tear”), and they borrow shamelessly from Radiohead and Queen without the former’s musical invention or the latter’s cheeky swagger.

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