The group New Order will perform at Primavera Sound 2023. The festival has confirmed this Tuesday through social networks the participation of the band, a pillar of British electropop, in the next double edition to be held in Barcelona and Madrid.
The Manchester band will perform at the Parc del Fòrum on June 1 and at the Ciudad del Rock in Arganda del Rey on June 8, joining the front line of two days on Thursday, also led by Blur and Halsey.
The organization of the event has confirmed the presence of the British group precisely on the day that blue monday turns 40 The song, which was released three years after the death of the band’s singer Ian Curtis, became an electronic pop hit.
This is also good news for lovers of electronic pop, since the festival will bring together three of the great references of this genre: New Order, Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys. It is not the first time that the band has performed in Barcelona, not even at the Parc del Fòrum festival, since they already delighted their fans in 2005.
As is customary at the festival, its managers have created certain expectations at noon by launching a tweet announcing that there would be a new confirmation soon. The band’s biggest fans will soon have guessed who it was because the ad used the exact same font as the album. substancefrom 1987, an album that precisely contains his emblematic single Blue Monday.
New Order will coincide in a poster with other very popular artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Rosalía or Calvin Harris, among others.
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