The greatest synth-punk nerds open for Metallica and somehow nobody gets hurt.
The film details an entire live performance from Devo's 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down set consisting of songs from their first three albums, filmed at Irvine Meadows, California.
Direction
Joe Rees captures the Lollapalooza chaos without losing DEVO's surgical precision.
Practical Effects
Actual energy dome helmets. No CGI required, obviously.
Director
Joe Rees
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEVO invented the concept of 'selling out as performance art' decades before irony became the dominant internet language.
This was their first proper tour since 1981—fifteen years of silence, then suddenly they're opening for Metallica in football stadiums.
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