Friday 20th, 01:15 Escenario Verde

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Devo is to pop what Suicide is to electronic music, what The New York Dolls or Television are to rock. They got together in Akron, Ohio back in 1972 and released four absolutely essential albums between 1978 and 1981: “Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!” (1978), “Duty Now for the Future” (1979), “Freedom of Choice” (1980) and “New Traditionalists” (1981).

Robotic movements, mongoloid dances, Playmobil settings, workmen’s overalls, straight-to-the-point and cutting guitar riffs, and voices blaring from fairground megaphones are the basic elements with which Devo have moulded their own world and expressed it to us all in hard-hitting pop explosions – veritable hymns for students of Artificial Intelligence.

FIB Heineken once again transports them from their American base to the Green Stage on July 20 so Mark Mothersbaugh and his band can blow us all away with their interplanetary harangues and spasmodic guitar solos.