Never a band to play it safe

Dominic Howard of Muse tells Ed Power why the group made the decision to venture into new territory on their latest album

Dominic Howard of Muse feared the end was near. It was 2009 and the stadium mega-act were wrestling with the oldest quandary in the A-Z of rock cliches. What to do when one of your band mates goes spectacularly off the rails?

“We questioned it,” he says. “We thought ‘We’re not sure if we can do this any more’. I’m sure he felt the same.”