We're very pleased to confirm that Muse will be playing an intimate show this Friday night at South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The show at Stubb's will be open to SXSW badge holders plus we have 50 places on the band's guest list up for grabs here on muse.mu. All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is email your name and telephone number to sxsw@muse.mu. 25 winners will be picked at random and contacted within the next 36 hours if they've been chosen to go to the show along with a friend.*

If you can't make it to Texas, don't worry! You'll be able to watch the show online all around the world this weekend exclusively with MySpace Music on Muse's MySpace profile. The show will be available to watch from 12:01 PST / 08:00 GMT Saturday 20th / Sunday 21st March.

And if that's not enough MySpace Muse News, head over to the band's MySpace later today to check out competitions MySpace UK and France will be running to celebrate this special event where you can win tickets to see the band at their forthcoming stadium shows.

* Please note that the muse.mu competition prize is for tickets to Muse's show at SXSW. It does not include transport or accommodation. Please make sure you can attend the show if you enter. Please also make sure that the name that you enter is the name of the person picking up the tickets as photo ID will be required at ticket pick-up.

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