DEVO have Plans for Fetirement and Currently Playing their Last Dates

DEVO has devastating news for the fans as the band stated the ongoing world tour will surely mark their final shows together. After 50 years of touring together and making music, the band has finally taken the decision to retire. In a new interview with the Guardian, DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh went into great detail about the band’s decision of wrapping the tour up. He stated, “Are you married? Imagine you had four wives and you worked together. It’s tricky being in a band.” Then Gerald Casale continued by saying, “You’ve got a body of work informed by a whole manifesto and philosophy. Do you let go and move on to the next thing? You want change, otherwise, you’re stale, but you don’t want to be contrived.”

The Ohio new wave group has already announced a farewell tour for 2023 earlier this year. This new interview has again confirmed the decision of them taking retirement and explained why they took the decision. Gerald Casale, the bassist of DEVO went ahead and explained that the band has gotten a “fully formed” identity which meant that they were not as a matter, of course, vulnerable to people who just want to “grab you when you’re malleable and change you”, however, “they couldn’t do that to Devo because the armour was too strong”.

Mothersbaugh then joked about how he was “looking forward to 2073″ and said “We’ll play 100th anniversary Devo shows and then maybe retire.” This soon was repudiated by Casale who said Mothersbaugh was definitely “in denial”. He then added, “Because I love performing and I’ll hate to see it go. It was part of Devo’s DNA. But we did as well as we could, for as long as we could.”

The band had recently wrapped up a chain of shows and gigs in Europe and the UK. In November, the band will start on their journey of west coast shows including stops in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Along with this, the band also has an appearance planned at the Darker Waves Festival in Huntington Beach. Several shows and dates are already sold out with few seats left to be purchased. The sold-out show at London’s Eventim Apollo last weekend (August 19) marked the band’s end of their European tour. Back in March, a new full-length documentary about the band was also announced. The documentary is titled ‘Devo, the film’ and will be directed by Chris Smith, the director of American Movie (1999) and Fyre (2019).

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