Electric Picnic, County Laois (pronounced ‘leash’), Ireland has announced headline acts for this September’s music and arts festival 2 – 4/9
Joining New Order, Lana Del Ray, and The Chemical Brothers to headline the Main Stage, LCD Soundsystem return to Europe after recently reuniting.
Featured on Consequenceofsound, frontman James Murphy said:
“Early in 2015, I realized i had more [songs] than I’d ever had in my life.”
Murphy continued:
“this isn’t a victory lap or anything, which wouldn’t be of much interest to us.” [ . . . ] This is just the bus full of substitute teachers back from their coffee break with new music and the same weird gear—or as much of it as we still have (it’s very interesting to re-buy the same gear, and in some cases buy gear back from people you sold it to), and rambling around trying to be louder than everyone else.”
Read more at: http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/james-murphy-says-lcd-soundsystem-will-release-new-album-in-2016/
James Murphy makes things clear on the LCD Soundsystem website under the title: Let’s Just Start This Thing With Some Clarity.
“i write songs all the time. sometimes they’re just weird songs i sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that i sing to myself, or to friends while sitting at a bar, or about christmas, or new york. sometimes these songs live in my head for years and have verses upon verses added to them, almost infinitely. sometimes they’re just ghosts of ideas, and sometimes they’re fully-formed things which float in front of me, seeming like they’d be easy to make flesh, only to fight furiously as soon as i try to pin them down in any way. some of them I make with friends in a room with instrument things.”
See: http://lcdsoundsystem.com/main/ for Murphy’s full fan letter.
Before Ireland, UK fans have chance to catch up with LCD Soundsystem at T in the Park – Strathallan – Scotland – 7 – 10/7 and Lovebox – Victoria Park – London 15 -16/7.
LCD Soundsystem are joined by Hot Chip guitarist, Al Doyle fresh from his world tour with the electro group promoting their new album Why Make Sense?.
See http://www.electricpicnic.ie/ for the full Electric Picnic line up.
