Muse Australian Tour 2013 Sells Out Melbourne, Adds 2nd Show

Muse fans have snapped up tickets for the Australian leg of the band’s 2013 tour. Performing arena venues across the country with special guests Birds Of Tokyo, tickets for the Australian tour went on sale at noon today and were sold out in a matter of minutes.

After Melbourne’s Rod Laver Aren exhausting its allocation of tickets, a new show has now been confirmed for Saturday 7 December with tickets going on sale at 1pm today (Monday 29 July).

The news of a year-end tour from Muse was first let slip by Muse’s own frontman Matt Bellamy in March, and later confirming that the band wouldremember to include the much-neglected Perth in their touring schedule. True to their word, Muse’s tour begins on November 30th in Perth Arena before hitting up stadiums in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney.

It’s the band’s first shows Down Under in two years since playing the Big Day Out in January 2010, then a series of mammoth arena sideshows across the country later that year. Given the timeframe of their visit, it seems unlikely that they’ll be back again so soon for the Big Day Out 2014.

In the time since their 2010 Australian Tour, their over the top single ’Survival’ was recognised as the official anthem for the 2012 London Olympic Games, one of their video shoots was gatecrashed by a high-speed police chase, and the band were even sued for $3.5 million by a man claiming that they stole his idea for a sci-fi rock opera (as if Muse hadn’t made a career out of such things).

All before releasing their hugely eclectic (even by their own standards) sixth studio album The 2nd Law, containing schizophrenic nods to Queen, Skrillex, INXS, U2, and Dream Theater in a record that took lyrical inspiration in everything from the second law of thermodynamics to off-world colonisation.

Joining Muse as special guests for their upcoming tour dates will be the most played band on Australian radio, Birds of Tokyo. The band released their follow up to their breakthrough 2010 ARIA Award winning Birds of Tokyo in March, with March Fires capitalising further on the band’s homegrown appeal. Led by lead singles ‘This Fire’ and the Aussie radio dominating ‘Lanterns’, Birds Of Tokyo’s fourth studio album debuted at #1 on the ARIA Album Chart, the band’s first.

As Muse fans will tell you, the band’s live show is not to be missed. An arena rock spectacular that adds visual splendour to a catalogue of modern rock’s most inventively flamboyant and bombastic tunes. Tickets go on sale from 12noon local time on Monday 29th July.