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Groove Armada talk up live show for Parklife

The decision to re-style their live show came after they found themselves squashed between the awe of Sasha and The Chemical Brothers during Japan’s Big Beach Festival last month, co-founder Andy Cato told us earlier this week.

“Traditionally we always re-write material for the big stages, but with the Black Light stuff, because it’s quite a bandy record, we ended up more or less playing the tunes as they are on the CD. By doing that, we were just missing a real trick in terms of our experience of these big gigs. We thought we should just revisit them and create some moments.”

So, despite being in the middle of a hectic European summer tour schedule, Andy and Tom hauled their posse to Andy’s home in France and in three days, with basically no sleep, completely stripped apart the live set and put it all back together again. “The basis of it all is that we’ve re-approached the songs. You’re obviously going to know the tunes, but all the structures are totally different and there are just these huge moments in the songs.”

The power of the new set saw Groove Armada emerge as the most Tweeted band at last week’s Glastonbury festival, an experience which, according to Cato, justified their decision to make the changes. “Everything feels like it’s the best it’s ever been,” he says.

Cato reveals it was never part of the plan to return here a second time this year, however the combination of the new show and an Australian audience is something the guys are really excited about. “It’s more by luck than judgment, but it’s all making so much sense now that we played ‘Black Light 1’ at Big Day Out and we’ll be playing ‘Black Light version 2’ at Parklife.”

Check out some videos from Groove Armada’s new live experience at Glastonbury last weekend.