Paramount have posted an HD video of Muse performing Knights of Cydonia at the premier of WWZ. Click here to watch, or click play below!

Muse performed two storming sets over this bank holiday weekend, accompanied by perfect weather, a

and, well... . We thought the gigs were fantastic, but what do the papers think? Let us know if we're missing any notable articles.

The Independent - 3/5: "It's a show, alright, often reminiscent of U2 at their most Zoo TV-overblown and daftly brilliant. In terms of Muse’s music, though, it’s a long set, and varies in quality."

The Guardian - 4/5: "The first of two nights at Emirates is, by anyone's definition, a visual spectacular: any show that includes a and a is automatically in the running for most theatrical gig of the year."

The Telegraph - 3/5: "[...] the anti-capitalist shtick is all a bit too much, particularly when a pint of beer costs £6.50 and comes in a Muse-branded cup. Punters can claim £2 back if they return the cup after the show. It is the kind of ingenious financial engineering that got us into this mess in the first place." Tom: I think that was the subprime mortgage crisis actually - but sure, blame it on the cups.

The Sun: "[...] the crowd went insane when Matt hopped down from the podium into the audience during their track "

The Arts Desk: "They gave us a little over two hours of what is an increasingly treasured repertoire. It might have taken a little while to get going but by the final songs of the night – the rousing - it was undeniably Muse 1, Emirates Stadium 0."

Muse, whose music is being used in Paramount's "World War Z", will perform for 15,000 fans after the premiere of the film on June 2 in London.

In an unprecedented marriage of a full-scale concert and a film premiere, Muse will perform at Horse Guards Parade Ground, St. James’s Park, after the film screens in London’s Leicester Square. Tickets for the live performance will be available May 28 at http://www.worldwarz.co.uk/MUSE.

The filmmakers are using about 14 minutes of Muse music in the film, mostly the song "Isolated System." Their music will also be used in trailers on all platforms.

"It made the movie feel and sound really cool," Paramount Pictures president of motion pictures music Randy Spendlove says. "After we layered in the music, we reached out to their management in the U.S. (Q Prime) and the U.K. (Anthony Addis) to see how we could reach beyond the movie. We wanted (the relationship) to be bigger than that."

Paramount will film the concert and expects to make footage available soon.

As you probably all know by now, Muse's stadium tour kicks off this evening at Coventry's Ricoh Arena. We'll be posting live updates as the event unfolks, so stay tuned! For those of you that don't want any spoilers, all of the action will be posted past the break (i.e. you must click 'more' to actually see it), so relaxxxx.

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Ricoh Arena is NOT on fire. Muse earlier today caused a flurry of panic on Twitter after onlookers posted photos seemingly showing the arena ablaze. The West Midlands Fire Service responded:

WMFS

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A band is doing sound and lighting checks involving a smoke machine

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whilst Ricoh Arena later confirmed:

Ricoh Arena

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Just to confirm there is no fire here at the Ricoh Arena. They are just testing everything ready for Wednesday night's Muse concert.

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...Excited yet?!

A 94 minute video has recently surfaced on Youtube, showing one of Muse's performance in Tokyo (Saitama Super Arena). The full set (minus a few tracks and some slightly wonky audio) is available to watch here (or just below this!).

Seems like a great gig!

Muse have uploaded a high definition recording (alongside some images) of their intimate Shepherd's Bush gig, which took place in partnership with War Child last week.

Click here to watch it on YouTube, or just head on past the break!

LIVE SETLIST:
1. Supremacy
2. Supermassive Black Hole
3. Panic Station
4. Dead Star
5. Animals
6. Follow Me
7. Knights of Cydonia
8. Explorers
9. Sunburn
10. United States of Eurasia
11. Save Me
12. Madness
13. Plug in Baby
14. Time is Running Out
15. Uprising
16. Starlight
17. Survival

A quick reminder that Muse will be performing at London's iconinc Shepherd's Bush Empire tonight, in support of War Child and in partnership with the BRIT Awards.

The show will be streamed live on YouTube here. We'll also attempt to include the livestream in this news post when it becomes available.

Before the gig, Muse will be answering fans' questions live on Twitter, using hashcodes #askmuse and #warchildmuse. This will be starting at 18:30 GMT and can be accessed using most Twitter clients, or Muse's own mini-site, here.

We'll be covering the gig (that is, if we don't get too carried away) in realtime, so keep checking back for more updates.