Twenty One Pilots to Headline Atlas Weekend 2020
Another loud announcement from Ukraine's largest music festival.
TK Media has learned that the American band Twenty One Pilots will be the second headliner of Atlas Weekend 2020. The organizers of the annual music festival announced this at the Atlas Weekend Headliner Shower event.
Twenty One Pilots is an American duo made up of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. The band was formed in 2009. The group has released two albums: "Blurryface" and "Trench". In 2017 the duo won a Grammy in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category. The authoritative publication Billboard named the album "Blurryface" the most successful record of the decade.
The band's music video for the song "Stressed Out" has garnered nearly 2 billion views on YouTube.
TK Media spoke with the festival organizer Dmitry Sidorenko.
— Why Twenty One Pilots?
— For two years now we have been running a survey among festival attendees asking who they would like to see next year, and for two years attendees have asked for Twenty One Pilots. People ask, we bring.
— Was it difficult to arrange the performance?
— It was very difficult and very expensive, but thanks to our partners, in particular the company PopCorn Ca, to whom we express special gratitude for helping make it happen, we finally did it.
— When can we expect the next announcements?
— We have already scheduled around 80% of the entire lineup. We are signing contracts and approving print materials. Right now Catholic Christmas is starting in Europe, and artists and agents are getting ready to celebrate, so I think the next headliner announcements will come after January 10. That's why you should buy tickets now, as prices will go up with the new announcements.
Earlier, Atlas Weekend announced the British indie rock band alt-J and the American hip-hop artist A$AP Rocky. A$AP Rocky was supposed to headline Atlas Weekend 2019, but ended up in a Swedish prison over an incident involving a street brawl. The rapper denied his guilt and left prison before the verdict was delivered after intervention by US President Donald Trump.
In addition to them, the arrival of the British band Metronomy, the Dutch symphonic metal group Within Temptation, the German rock band AnnenMayKantereit, the Icelandic indie folk group Of Monsters and Men, as well as Tom Grennan, Battle Beast and Gloryhammer has already been officially announced. In addition, the organizers announced the debut visit to Ukraine of the indie band Two Door Cinema Club from Northern Ireland.
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Atlas Weekend 2020 will take place from July 7 to 12, 2020. Tickets for the festival can be purchased via the link.
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