Muse Pledge £15,000-Worth Of Music Equipment To Devon University

Muse have pledged to donate £15,000 worth of music equipment to a university in their home region of Devon.

The trio, originally from Teignmouth, will give Plymouth University the gift of state of the art gear to ensure that their students have access to industry standard equipment.

The university’s School of Humanities and Performing Arts will be awards a modular analogue synthesiser, two liquid channel pre-amps, and a set of specialist orchestral and instrumental microphones in order to provide students with the rare chance to gain experience using equipment of this nature.

University of Plymouth’s Professor David Coslett, Dean of the Faculty of the Arts, told the BBC he believed the band’s pledge to be ‘wonderfully generous gesture’. Adding on behalf of the university, ‘We are proud to be associated with the band, given their significant contribution to contemporary popular music and their links to the South West and the University.’

A spokesperson from Muse’s camp added, ‘delighted to provide this equipment and hope it will inspire students to go on and create great music for years to come’.

The group all attended Teignmouth Community College in the early 1990s and were named as honorary doctors of arts by the university in 2008. Part of the donation will also go to funding student prizes rewarding innovation over the next few years.

Muse are currently rumoured to be working on the follow up to 2009’s ‘The Resistance’.