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Devo will be coming to the Sundance Film Festival in more ways than one.
Just one day after the Chris Smith directed documentary about the New Wave bad makes its SFF debut in Park City on January 21, Devo will be taking the stage at the newly opened Marquis on the luxury ski town’s Main Street, I’ve learned.
A $50 a pop for general admission and $150 for VIP, tickets for the gig should be going on sale now. Asa Dave Grohl and Nick Cave can tell you, Sundance has long a magnet for big name bands and performers with films on their careers, so the Devo show was rumored ever since SFF’s line-up was revealed on December 6.
Coming off the Mark Mothersbaugh-led band’s 50th anniversary last year, the gig opening for Paul Oakenfold is bit of a return to an old stomping ground for the “Whip It” boys. Devo infamously closed out the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Dress in striped prison suits and the band’s trademark red energy dome hats, the show that has gone into lore and was even released as a Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig film of its own.
Formed in 1973 by Kent State students Mothersbaugh, Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis, Devo challenged the very concept of what a band was, what a show was and who the audience were. In that vein the band were heralded by David Bowie and Neil Young and charmed many more with their very distinct cover of teh Rolling Stones’ classic “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” in 1977. Devo hit the Top 40 in 1980 with the instant classic of their own Whip It from the Freedom of Choice album.
Though Mothersbaugh went on to be the music behind a number of Wes Anderson films and the likes of Pee-wee’s Playhouse and Rugrats, plus a stint on the beloved Yo-Gabba-Gabba, the band continued to tour on and off through various incarnations up until the present day.
A Premieres section of Sundance 2024, DEVO joins documentaries on fellow music legends like Brian Eno and Luther Vandross this year. The DEVO docu has five screenings at SFF, including a January 26 and January 28 shows in Salt Lake City.
DEVO is a Library Films / VICE STUDIOS production in association with Mutato Entertainment, presented by BMG, Undeniable (a Fremantle label), and Warner Music Group.
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 18- 28.
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