Newton Abbot Demo

Muse did three recording sessions at Coombeshead Studios in Newton Abbot between November 1996 and April 1997. They recorded there surely more than 20 songs: some of them, in the following years, entered in the albums Showbiz and Origin of Symmetry, others became B-sides. From these sessions, recorded on Adat (Digital Audio Tape), they made various cassettes with different track lists from each other which were given to acquaintances and personalities of the local musical world. One of these cassette arrived to Dennis Smith who, after seeing them live in concert (at the Exeter Cavern Club in July 97) and listening to other tracks, decided to bring the Band at Sawmills Studio to record their first EP. The only song released from these sessions was "Balloonatic" (Twin), on the 1997 compilation Helping You Back to Work volume 1.