DEVO TO PLAY LIVE AGAIN!!!

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LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
GENERAL PUBLIC
TONE LOC
THE RUN HIT WONDERS
TOMMY TUTONE

This sounds like less of a good idea now.

regards,

REB

The "rap battle" they "hosted" was the definite highlight, as it was all quite overweight South Knoxville, well, fair-goers. It was incredible.

Mothersbaugh: They love all that stuff. We were inspired by artists like Andy Warhol who mixed all the different mediums. He walked that line between commercial art and fine art all the time. We used clip art in our graphics when we played at punk clubs back in the '70s—like '50s housewives dusting or sweeping, doing inane things around the house. So when we heard the [Swiffer] concept, we thought, "Oh, they're doing something where, if it were 1977, we would have died and gone to heaven if we would have had that to show before we came out on stage."

http://www.adweek.com/aw/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000447506

That'll be the Portland in Oregon rather than the one in Dorset, sadly.

Tickets go on sale here (Chicago) tomorrow and I won't be able to get them myself. Should I bother begging someone to get them for me??

unless you are dying to look at those handsome gents that are DEVO.

I'll do that for George Clinton and co. or whomever else plays there these days (I don't think I've bothered going to Summerstage since the mid-90's), but for Devo, sorry.....gotta be closer.

TO PURCHASE TICKETS:
Tickets will be available at the Roseland Ballroom box office without service charge on May 1st from noon to 4PM ONLY. Roseland Ballroom is located at 239 West 52nd Street. For more information call (212) 777-1224.

Any remaining tickets will be available beginning Monday, May 3rd at the Irving Plaza box office without service charge. Irving Plaza is located at 17 Irving Place at 15th Street. For more information call (212) 777-1224.

Tickets are also available at select Ticketmaster Outlets, Online at www.ticketmaster.com & via Charge-By-Phone at (212) 307-7171

But I want to go to this. But I swore we wouldn't take a vacation this year. But it's DEVO and the YYYs! But it's expensive! But it's my birthday (kind of)! I don't know what to do!!!!

I'm guessing most of their fans are using their freedom of choice to stay home and watch the 1980 live dvd.

so drink some big beers and go crazy tonight
they're all dressed up and they'll be gettin' it tonight
big swingers in double knits tonight
big babies gonna get in a fight
actin' crazy bustin' up the chairs
doubled over gettin' sick on the stairs
they know the limits 'cause they cross them every night
the dull sensations as it turns real hot
why, the guys in the back with their heads on the floor
surrounded by their buddies they're all hollerin' for more
whoa whoa whoa
it's mr. h's ballroom

party time turn the music up loud
party time lose your head in the crowd
yellin' laughin' tryin' hard to act smart
put 'em under pressure and you watch them fall apart
freeze! come on out of there
freeze! you ain't goin' nowhere
freeze! put your hands on your head
freeze!
it's mr. h's ballroom

whoa whoa whoa
it's mr. h's ballroom

DEVO ANNOUNCE NEW STUDIO ALBUM TO DEBUT FALL 2009
SXSW PRESS CONFERENCE AND KEYNOTE PANEL CONFIRMED FOR THURSDAY MARCH 19 AT AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER
ONE-NIGHT-ONLY SXSW PERFORMANCE SET FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 20 AT AUSTIN MUSIC HALL
U.K. PERFORMANCES ON TRACK FOR MAY INCLUDING A HEADLINING SPOT AT 'ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES'

De-evolution has finally arrived...and who better to guide us through the mess than DEVO.
What the iconic new wave, art punk pioneers cautioned us about almost 30 years ago is no longer a humorous theory. It's pretty much fact--we now live in a devolved world that's getting wackier each and every day.

The fall of 2009 will bring a new DEVO studio album, their first one since 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps. It'll mark their first new music since the strong fan reaction that greeted the 2007 single "Watch Us Work It," their first new song in 18 years and one that was produced by Sweden's TeddyBears (Robyn). They're now in the studio putting the finishing touches on their new album (title TBA).

The five-piece--featuring co-founders and songwriters MARK MOTHERSBAUGH (lead vocals, synthesizer innovations) and GERALD CASALE (lead vocal, bass) and rounded out by BOB CASALE (guitarist), BOB MOTHERSBAUGH (guitars/vocals) and JOSH FREESE (drums)--are set make a special U.S. appearance at SXSW this year including a press conference (4:00pm) and keynote panel (5:00pm)--moderated by radio veteran Nic Harcourt--set for Thursday, March 19 at the Austin Convention Center (500 East Cesar Chavez St.). They'll follow that up with a Friday, March 20 one-night-only SXSW concert at the Austin Music Hall (208 Nueces St.). Pre SXSW, DEVO fans in Dallas can catch a special one-off show on Wednesday, March 18 at the Palladium Ballroom.

In May, DEVO will head to the United Kingdom for a series of dates. On Wednesday, May 6, DEVO will perform their debut album, the seminal Q: Are We Not Men, We Are Devo! in its entirety from beginning to end at London's Kentish Town Forum. Released in 1978, the seminal album produced by Brian Eno and recorded in Germany features such notable tracks such as the band's cover of The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Mongoloid" and "Jocko Homo." Next up on Friday, May 8, they'll headline the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Somerset at the Butlins Holiday Centre.

Formed in 1972 in Akron, OH, DEVO--short for "de-evolution"--began as an art project cautioning that humans were devolving and regressing into a herd mentality of American society, not evolving. A conceptual band from the beginning, DEVO were ahead of their time, incorporating elaborate aesthetics into their live shows and seamlessly combining their music with visuals years before MTV or any music-video culture existed. Indeed, the group's first appearance at Kent State University in 1973 was recorded with a black and white portable video system. Societal satirists, DEVO's lyrical mix of comedy and quirky wit, warned of the dangers of rampant capitalism in "Whip It" and "Freedom of Choice", and the devolution of society in "Jocko Homo" and "Beautiful World." Onstage in their early incarnation, the group began with a mixture of synthesizers and rock instruments; as they developed in the late seventies and early eighties, DEVO became one of the first American acts to perform using only synthesizers. DEVO have now returned with an evolved look, ready to impact the vastly devolved world we now find ourselves trying to navigate.

http://www.atpfestival.com/sized/files/img/events/20090506-devodlb_670x0.jpg

v. excited

interestingly they are using the brilliant US sleeve and not the fucking awful UK sleeve for the advert.

Got all misty reading this thread.

ATP needs to get the Q: Are We Not Men show in America for reals.

Seconded

DEVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I want to see these bastards live again as a p

Download of new song "Fresh"

http://splash.clubdevo.com/olympics/

Did anyone here go to the gig at the Fourm? it was intense.

The new songs are actually not bad in my opinion. I mean, who really gives a shit about new Devo material at this point anyway, but they are better than 95% of the last two albums. I really think that production is their main focus now. They have become masters of the ultraslick movie soundtrack whooshiness thing but I wish they would think about getting a cool, creative producer to work with them instead of doing it themselves. That would perhaps put their creativity back into the songwriting, arrangements and so on. Their best stuff was always done with big-name producers with lots of ideas and their own sound.

The best song they have recorded in the last 20 years was Huboon Stomp from the South Park Chef Aid disc - but that was an old song, written in the mid-70s. And it is really mad. These new songs are quite sedate in comparison. They try to make them as exciting as possible by polishing them to perfection, but it's the lacklustre songwriting that causes them to fall short.

Still like them though.

Voting starts tomorrow on the twelve songs that will make the upcoming album:

http://songstudy.clubdevo.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9GEicoX0c

Ugh. Auto-tuned DEVO is not what I was hoping for. I'm doing the study now and so far I've heard one song I like out of sixteen.

My favorite was Sumthin, but there were at least ten I honestly felt good voting for. And then another two that would be my preferred filler.

I'm a big fan, but this is an over-produced post-Shout parody of themselves. Bummer.

Fresh was my favorite. Sumthin starts with the Whip It beat :(

I'm a big fan too, but I guess I'm too generous.

Cap'n Save-a-Mothersbaugh

Auto-tuned DEVO

I think these may be the worst words in the English language (and also why I am not going to hit "play")

Sorry to be a spoiler Spacecadet. It's not criminal over-use of auto-tuner. But it is there...

Complete Philly show is up on YouTube, with a pretty good zoom lens and from behind the soundboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJpyQQjXZNg

I had modest expectations given their age and that two members of the classic line-up are no longer with us (though tbf Alan Myers stopped touring with them 40 years ago), but this looks like a really solid show. The performances from the classic era were pretty intense and athletic (check out the one for Paris television in 1978, my personal favorite until something better circulates) but if you never saw any of that footage before, I don't think you'd realize that Mark had slowed down because he's still in good health and fairly active onstage.

Kind of wild that Freese has been in this band for 29 years

Jeff Friedl is playing on this tour, but Freese apparently comes back once in a while. (I think he sat in for a few shows in 2020 after five years away?)

FWIW, here's the Paris television performance, but someone reinstated a handful of songs that were cut out of the broadcast (though the reinstated songs are in poorer quality with substantial stretching). There are two complete 1978 shows that were filmed in Devo's archive, reportedly in excellent quality - hopefully they'll get a nice Blu-ray or DVD presentation someday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JCjn3pksCk

Lots of big Devo news: Netflix announced they were the ones who acquired that doc so it's coming soon. And Devo is actually touring with the B-52s! Another band from that era who's touring after an ostensible "farewell" tour, but I don't care, I'd rather see them play again.