Foals are planning to play some stuff we’ve not heard for a while on their forthcoming summer dates.
The band are set to play a few festivals this summer, including a headline set at London’s Citadel Festival and the Eden Project in Cornwall, and they’re intending to do something a bit different to last year’s run.
“For our own enjoyment, we’re gonna play songs that we haven’t played before – or haven’t played for a very long time,” frontman Yannis Philippakis told Radio X. “Some of the material is pretty recent and some of it goes back to 2007. We want to try and play a pretty fresh set and air out some songs that don’t normally get a chance to be heard.”
“We’ve all picked the songs we want to do, but I’m pretty sure it is gonna to conjure up some old war wounds.”
When asked about new material, Yannis explained: “There are just bits and bobs at the moment, But I wanna get bored again and then be itching to do it. I don’t want writing to be just routine.”
He did add that they may debut some new stuff at the shows, if they’ve got anything written by then.
“I’ve been writing with Tony Allen, Fela Kuti’s drummer,” he added. “I started doing some tracks with him last year and then I was on tour. So I went back to finish them in Paris. So he’s writing a record and hopefully some of the tracks we’ve been working on will be on that album.”