By Ranjan Bhaduri
Dec.20, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Recently, Muse- the popular US based rock band confirmed that they will spend the early part of 2010 in a packed North America musical tour. From February 2010 to April 2010 they have 14 extra shows. The tickets for regular shows have started selling from 19th December. The American cities to be covered by their extended tour include Chicago, Montreal and Toronto. It will be closed on 14th April and the last show will be held at San Francisco. In January 2010, Muse will be doing shows mostly in Australian, New Zealand and Japan. Next month they will be covering Asian countries like Hong Kong and Singapore.

Apart from this tour, Muse will also take part in some festival appearances. These festivals will be held in countries like Belgium, Portugal and Germany. In the recent past, Justin Chon a crew member of “New Moon” interviewed the members of the band at KROQ’s yearly Almost Acoustic Christmas festival. He complimented the band members for their performances and said that they did a good job in Twilight soundtracks. David Slade, who is directing the third installment of Twilight saga, Eclipse, has done 4 music videos for the band.

The band was asked to compose songs for Eclipse as well. However, they have not been able to do that as they are planning for the forthcoming tour and it is taking up all their time. Chon said that he is a big fan of the band and would love it if they put in musical contribution to Eclipse as well. The band has also met up with Stephenie Meyer, the writer of the Twilight series.