Muse's Chris Wolstenholme: Being sober is nothing new

Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme has spoken about how it feels to be sober while touring with the band.

He recently revealed a 10-year battle with alcohol but says it is "nothing new" to him any more.

"I feel great, I did the whole of the last album sober," Chris said.

He confessed to a magazine that he "never went on stage sober". But speaking at The Q awards he said: "It's old news. It's because I wrote a couple of songs and people are interested."

He also talked about touring plans for the group and their remaining ambitions.

"We've done three gigs now and they've all been great," he said.

"It's just nice to be back playing live again. It's been a long time.

"I think there's a lot to achieve.

"In 2010 we started playing stadium tours. We did Wembley in 2007 but in 2010 we started to do more stadiums and there are a lot more places we would like to go."

Earlier this month, Muse's Dominic Howard spoke about his bandmate.

"[For this new album] he was clean, so it felt like we had a new person in the band again," the drummer said.