Muse frontman Matt Bellamy is part of a new supergroup dubbed the Jaded Hearts Club. Bellamy plays bass in the band, which also features The Last Shadow Puppets‘ Miles Kane on vocals and Blur‘s Graham Coxon on guitar, along with guitarist Jamie Davis and drummer Sean Payne.
The act has released its debut single, a cover of the Isley Brothers track “Nobody But Me.” The group actually made its live debut in 2017 as Dr. Pepper’s Jaded Hearts Club Band, playing mostly Beatles tunes at various festivals.
Bellamy said, “I read somewhere recently, which made me laugh, that rock is the new jazz. It’s becoming an esoteric genre, but still with huge historical and cultural importance. Like jazz, which often reinvents old songs, the Jaded Hearts Club is continuing the tradition of how bands like the Beatles and the Stones started out — finding great soul and blues standards and recording them in a more modern style.”
As Muse's main songwriter, Bellamy told us that it's always hard to pin down the band's influences: “It really is difficult to answer, for us, I think, because there's so many varied, extremely different types of influences that creep in there and I think that's always been there on all the albums. And it sounds, I suppose, a little over the top to say what the different influences are, 'cause they're so random.”
There's no word yet on whether the Jaded Hearts Club will record a full-length album.