Muse
Newton Abbot Demo
1996/1997

An untitled demo cassette featuring 11 tracks that Muse recorded at Coombeshead Studios in Newton Abbot between November 1996 and January 1997. The only song released from these sessions was "Balloonatic", on the 1997 compilation Helping You Back to Work Vol 1.

Samples of the demo tape were shared on Muse fan sites on December 8th 2007 and 24th February 2008.

The tape was put up for auction on the 28th of February. A cross-website campaign by members of the Official Muse forum, Muselive.com, MuseWiki and MuseMessenger, spearheaded and bid for by informally elected trustee SpaceDemented, was set up prior to the auction's start. The campaign raised ~£2,500, of which only £740 was needed to win the auction. Digital copies are expected shortly.

The bid itself hovered at £410 in the days prior the the bid and £680 on the last day. In the final thirty seconds, it increased by the final £60. The bid ended at 23 minutes to midnight on the 5th of March. A total of 34 bids were made during the auction.

After much delay the tape was sent to Paul Nicholson. The tape was played through a Tascam 302 cassette deck wired upto an Apple Mac G3 Power PC and recorded into 24-bit AIF files. The files were then written to a 700mb CD-R data disc.

The tape was then sent to Niall.

Once recieved by Niall it was agreed to be sold to FireSka for £740, Niall then posted the tape to him.

Track list
01 - Falling With the Crowd
02 - Agitated
03 - Coma
04 - Balloonatic
05 - Forameus
06 - Boredom
07 - Crazy Days
08 - Sober
09 - Jimmy Kane
10 - Rain
11 - Ashamed

Thanks to:

Niall Goulding
Paul Nicholson
Matthew Burgum
Brian (FireSka)
Alex Wall (Muse Management)
Anthony Addis (Muse Management)
Sam Sparrow
Tom Kirk
And of course...MUSE!

Please do not sell/auction this recording. It is brought to you by fans for the fans.

Encoded to 256kbs VBR MP3 using Lame encoder -V0 --vbr-new

Enjoy!

Paul

EDIT

I would like to make a quick addition to the post, an extra thanks to Niall. Without his expertise, cool head and an all round cool guy then none of this would have happened. Niall thanks very much

Should these have been validated already?

WOOO!!!!!!

Cheers everybody involved!!!!!!!

LEGEND!

Its supposed to be released tomorrow though isn't it?

Yep, this shouldn't be uploaded or validated.

But whatever.

Well I for one feel sorry for FireSka - he hasn't even had the money yet, and didn't agree to it being released.

Not that I'm complaining, it's just a little odd.

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SpaceDemented :
Yep, this shouldn't be uploaded or validated.

But whatever.

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Or announced on the homepage, I would imagine...

will Brians version still be uploaded? I mean he's worked so hard to get them done.

Oh WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!!

Thanks SO much everyone involved, you're all amazing!

flying cocks!!!

tee hee hee..

You can also get it from the torrent here, if you want to save Muselive servers:
http://torrents.musebootlegs.com/details.php?id=94

All I can say is thank you for all the trouble you went trough for these recordings!
I didn't listen to the samples so finally I can hear the full tracks!

This made my day for sure

its so bitter fucking sweet
awsome songs but a bit behind fireskas back

Thanks guys!

Boosh! Cant wait to listen to this!

Made my last day of classes for the semester all the better

WOOO they are so excellent good old ultra old muse

Fantastic! Whoooooooooo!

*orgasms* WOOOOOOOP

immense thank you so much guys

they sound SO much like nirvana!

and very early radiohead

Fuck! Listening to it all now and my god FWTC is amazing! Thank you so much Paul!

Cheers everyone who made the effort for it! great stuff!

Thank you so much!!

edit: falling with the crowd is the best song imo

THANK YOU

edit: oh my god they sound soooo young and a lot like Nirvana

wow guys, can i say a big thank you to all who helped bring this to us - its an amazing effort!

Thanks!

bidubidubareeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Listening now...wow...this is absolutely brilliant...totally unusual for Muse. Thanks to everyone who helped with this...I couldn't give anything at the time, so thanks to anyone who did.




.............WOW

YAY

congratulations on everyones hard work