Sundance To Whip It Good: Devo Set To Play Park City As Band Docu Debuts At Snowy Fest
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: 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 band 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.
At $50 a pop for general admission and $150 for VIP, tickets for the gig should be going on sale now. As Dave Grohl and Nick Cave can tell you, Sundance has long been a magnet for big-name bands and performers with films on their careers in the festival, so the Devo show was rumored ever since SFF’s lineup was revealed on December 6.
Coming off the band’s 50th anniversary last year, the gig opening for Paul Oakenfold is a 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 has gone into lore and was even released as a Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig film of its own.
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