Fresh from the release of their latest track ‘SO WHAT’, the latest single from their upcoming new album 3AM (LA LA LA), Australian powerhouse partystarters Confidence Man have announced a show in Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on Tuesday 10th December 2024.
Tickets priced from €32 including booking fee & €1.50 restoration levy went on sale with Ticketmaster Ireland, however are now sold out.
The ‘let’s av’ it!’ atom-bomb of ‘SO WHAT’ embodies the legendary energy of the Prodigy’s Keith Flint, with frontwoman Janet Planet sneering amid some seriously epic breakdowns as the band explains: “We’re back with the on shoulders anthem you never knew you needed. It’s hard. It’s fast. It’s basically Muhammad Ali and your ears are everyone he ever boxed. They say it gets lonely at the top, so we made this banger to share the view.”
Since they high-kicked into view with their 2018 breakthrough album, Confidence Man have won hearts and lost minds around the world with their arch pop-dance confections and cute choreo – but, like, in a hot way. On 3AM (LA LA LA), Janet Planet, her floppy-haired foil Sugar Bones and instrumentalists Clarence McGuffie and Reggie Goodchild are delving deeper into UK rave sounds of the 90s and 2000s, from trippy acid techno and trance to breakbeat and big beat. It’s darker, sexier and more surreal. They gave us the first taste of the album with ‘I CAN’T LOSE YOU’ back in June, a sugary shot of euphoria that saw the pop-dance delinquents setting out their stall from a great height: they want to whisk you away from the dull wasteland of modern mediocrity, pump up the volume and, with their typical unseriousness, crashland on the dancefloor…naked.
Following the huge acclaim of their last album, 2022’s TILT, Confidence Man’s next club-focused chapter began with the release of 2023’s ‘On & On (Again)’, co-produced with Daniel Avery. They’ve since released underground hits with DJ Seinfeld (‘Now U Do’) and DJ Boring (‘Forever 2 (Crush Mix)’, as well as a remix album (Confidence Man Club Classics Vol 1.). At first, the band “wanted to dehumanise pop music and make it over the top and ridiculous again,” says Planet. But now they’re bringing those pop sensibilities to classic UK rave. “We wanted to revisit those sounds and then add pop hooks and vocals to them,” she continues. “I feel like that hasn't really been done before, besides The Prodigy.”
3AM (LA LA LA) references what you might call the flow state Confidence Man found when writing and recording the album at Pony Studios in east London, with sessions that would go on all night. Vocals were improvised in the moment, and often captured in the first take. “We pretty much wrote every single song when we were wrecked,” says Planet. “We’d get blasted and stay up till 9am coming up with music, but we noticed that 3am was the hottest time for when we were on it and the best ideas were coming out.”
Confidence Man have quickly attracted a hardcore fanbase of ravers, young and old, through their jaw-dropping, high octane performances. For the first time, they’re building an ambitious set – helmed by Rob Sinclair, lighting and production designer for none other than Madonna.
