Apr 15, 2016
Staying true to their recent album title, Muse's drone, affectionately dubbed a "Dildrone" by fan, crashed into the crowd during their concert at the O2 Arena in London. Thankfully, no fans have been injured.
This particular technical fault is nothing new to the British rockers; the exact same problem recently happened at a concert in Detroit. But hey, what else should one expect at a Muse concert if not unmanned phallic-shaped flying objects? Their music is known to take people to higher places, after all.
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Unlike the blimp, Muse's 2015 album took no tumble when it came out, displacing Florence + the Machine's How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. By the end of the year, it had sold 170,000 copies in the UK, 230,000 copies in the US and 192,000 copies in France.
As NME notes, Muse is also known for a variety of mechanical oddities in their concerts. From spaceships, tower stages to Matt Bellamy's guitar with the uber cool MIDI touchpad. In the cyberpunk world Muse constantly paints for us in their music, it isn't hard to imagine what else we should expect from these futuristic rockers.
For all we know, maybe the drone was supposed to crash. Muse have never really been too optimistic about humanities future.
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