Web Feature: The Independent reviews Muse gig

[Static Shadows]

Originally Posted by Riveon

As the gig begins I am staring up at three giant illuminated tenement towers when they suddenly rip down the middle to reveal the three members of Muse – the bird-like Matt Bellamy, the elf-like Dom Howard and the dad-like Chris Wolstenholme – perched on podiums 20ft above our heads like the goodies inside the world's biggest Christmas cracker.

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Originally Posted by Mozza

Uber in German means super or hyper

Mensch is man or human being so it literally translates as superhuman

It does. But, being the Independent, they were almost certainly referring to it within the context of Nietzschean philosophy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

[Half Life]

Yay, I saw Simon Price at the bar at the back of the standing section before the gig. I've been looking at the Indie the last couple of days to see when the review would appear. It's nice to see journalists getting out of London for a change!

[Trilateral_Symmetry_Com'n.]

Yep, it's a Nietzschean reference, the subjective ethics and morality of "supermen" being one of his themes. But the critic flubbed a bit: it should've been "we are Ubermenschen" (plural ending) or, in all-German, "Wir sind U...".

BTW, if FN could see the comic-book superhero inspired loosely by his concept, replete with tights, a cape, and his naive espousal of "the American way," he'd be spinning faster in his coffin than Chris Reeve did when drilling through a NYC sidewalk!