The Aussie electro-pop partystarters are coming to back to Ireland, fresh from their All Together Now set this past weekend.
With a new album on the way called 3AM (LA LA LA) this October, Confidence Man are one of the fun bands on the circuit at the moment, and they are set to play Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on 10th December 2024.
Janet Planet, Sugar Bones and instrumentalists Clarence McGuffie and Reggie Goodchild’s new show will feature an ambitious set – helmed by Rob Sinclair, lighting and production designer for none other than Madonna.
Tickets are €32 including booking fees on sale Friday 9th August at 10am from Ticketmaster.
Confidence Man’s third studio album, 3AM (LA LA LA) released via Chaos / Polydor Records/ I Oh You Records, sees the delinquent party starters popify 90’s UK rave sounds like no one before. Inspired by a recent move to London, meeting their idols KLF, and becoming immersed in the queer club scene, Confidence Man have taken the ideas of hedonism, ecstasy and losing yourself to the music and distilled them into pure a-grade euphoria. The record spans the electronic spectrum from breakbeat and trance, to left-field Underworld size techno and the “let’s ‘ave it” punk energy of legacy artists like The Prodigy.
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) follows their hugely successful second album Tilt, which featured breakout single and festival crowd favourite ‘Holiday’. Staunchly defying trends and bringing Janet, Sugar, Reggie and Clarence along for a helluva good time, 3AM (LA LA LA) feels bigger, bolder and in some ways brutal, but like, in a hot way. 3AM (LA LA LA) is a welcome escape from the dull wasteland of modern mediocrity, bringing the weird and wonderful world of Confidence Man to the masses.
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.”
Tracklist:
1. Who Knows What You’ll Find?
2. I Can’t Lose You
3. Control
4. So What
5. Breakbeat
6. Sicko
7. Real Move Touch (Feat Sweetie Irie)
8. Far Out
9. Janet
10. So Tru
11. Wrong Idea
12. 3am (La La La)
