#hpvv

Tonight Hans Peter van Velthoven (Muse’s official band photographer) did a live stream on instagram. He was answering questions while browsing through all the photos on his computer.

Some Muse-facts I found interesting (next to the fact that he is a very nice, eloquent guy with a great sense of humour):

Muse approached him after they watched an interview with him on Dutch television in Nov. 2006. A few days later he did his first official live shooting.

Tom Kirk took him by the hand and introduced him to the visual side of Muse.

The only thing, Matt and the others demand from him as a photographer is to be himself and make hpvv photos. That’s it!

He has a lot of Muse photos hidden on his computer which he wants to show the world in the form of a big photo-book one day in the not too near future.

His favourite Muse song is Bliss.

I'll go first, mine is currently the picture taken at the end of the Amsterdam gig with the whole audience in it. (Credit: @hapevv)

I've been thinking about it for days (spent 25 minutes giving a friend an almost presentation on it lol), I love everything about it!

I love the audience involvement in the picture, it's not a picture of Muse playing to a crowd. It's a picture of Muse and the crowd! All the way up to the topmost rows of the theatre, everyone is in the picture with their arms in the air! There are practically no phones in this picture. Everyone is there in the photo.

Muse look so happy, they look so proud! Like this is what we do! This is why we do it night after night! I also think Chris's tongue is out lol.

There's just so much joy and peace in this picture; for this one moment, everyone is happy and everything is alright. Inside this theatre Carré, for the evening only, everything is alright with the world.

Legitimately, if the Muse team had a high quality print of this available, I would pay much more than a poster should cost and plaster it over my entire wall. It just restores my faith in humanity (and I wasn't even at this gig).