Album anniversary tours are fun because you get to revisit a classic for the night but they are also not fun because they remind you how old you are. Take Interpol’s upcoming Antics tour, for example, celebrating the 20th anniversary of a dynamic indie-rock cracker that feels like it only came out yesterday but did not only come out yesterday. It came out in 2004, which is why Interpol are embarking on a 20th anniversary tour of it. It all makes sense now.
In an interview with The New Cue published tomorrow (Monday 21 October), frontman Paul Banks said he was mentally prepped for the upcoming deep-dive into the past. “We’ve done a couple of these shows already, so I know the drill,” he said. “There seems to be a lot of exciting and there’s interesting nostalgia components, because you just don’t feel that much time has passed. But I recognise there’s a whole new generation of people experiencing that record for the first time.”
