MGMT to play at Vodacom in the City
MGMT are heading to South Africa and will play hits such as Kids, Electric Feel and Time to Pretend when they take the stage in Joburg at Vodacom in the City, Mary Fitzgerald Square, on Friday, 3 October, 2014.
MGMT join the already announced international line-up of UK's Brit Award winning drum-and-bass maestro's Rudimental and British electro-folk band Crystal Fighters.
Ben Goldwasser and Andrew van Wyngarden formed the first incarnation of MGMT (then called "the management") as fellow students in 2001. When they released "Oracular Spectacular" in 2008 their reputation began snowballing on both sides of the Atlantic. Not only were they nominated for a Grammy Award (which French dance act Justice picked up for remixing one of their tracks), but the UK's leading music magazine NME dubbed them "the best NY band about" with Rolling Stone proclaiming them one of the "Top 10 Artists to Watch in 2008". Today, "Oracular Spectacular" with its major singles Kids, Time to pretend, Electric Feel, and The Youth is consistently ranked amongst the most celebrated pop albums of the 21st century.
Without skipping a beat, MGMT, began writing and recording their second album "Congratulations", which was released in April 2010 and debuted at number two in the Billboard charts.
Their latest eponymous album, "MGMT", has been described as perfectly "on the current pulse, drawing seasoned fans and new initiates alike into the band's eureka zone".
"This album feels to us like coming down to Earth in a way," admitted Goldwasser. "We're trying to be accessible, but we're trying to do something new within the realm of pop music. When we finally came close to finishing MGMT, everyone in the studio had the feeling that we'd made something really great."
Cape Town fans can catch MGMT, Rudimental and Crystal Fighters at Rocking the Daisies from 2 to 5 October, 2014.
