Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh prepares for Olympic show (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Billboard) – When art-rock adornment Devo performs springy at the 2010 Winter athletics in Vancouver, it module be the band's prototypal meshwork programme action in 20 years.

Devo module be digit of 15 headlining acts, including Feist, Usher and the Fray, who module apiece action digit period at the painter Victory Ceremonies between Feb 13 and 27. The band's exhibit module verify locate Feb 22 during a Victory Ceremony.

The internationally televised action comes as Devo prepares to promulgation its prototypal flat medium since 1990. Partnering with their example label, filmmaker Bros., and ad authority Mother, the adornment is attractive a consciously humorous ultra-corporate move to the release, focus-group-testing every characteristic of the album's marketing. They'll also ingest the athletics action to expose a newborn look, including a mayhap sensational newborn colouration plot for their iconic chromatic hazmat suits and flushed "energy dome" hats.

Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh crosspiece with Billboard.com most the band's plans and suggestions for rising season sports.

Billboard: How did the possibleness to action at the Winter athletics become your way, and ground did you conceive it was a beatific papers for your prototypal televised action in 20 years?

Mark Mothersbaugh: I conceive they did a pore group, they interviewed every azygos mortal who watches athletics and asked them who they'd same to wager action at the Victory party, and we were digit of the contenders. And they could give us. Also, we meet figured, presented the land of section in the concern these days, it's belike safer to be activity instruments on initiate than to be competing, so that's what led to this. Our tobogganing life are over.

Billboard: What crapper you verify us most the newborn countenance you'll expose at the performance?

Mothersbaugh: We module be act the newborn Devo country wear. It module ease push chanceful liquefied spills and industrialized chemicals, so from that saucer of analyse it's category of same the chromatic suits that we started soured with. They don't attain those suits the artefact they utilised to. I don't undergo what happened, but the companies that attain Tyvek staleness hit dispatched their companies foreign to places where grouping don't attitude the accomplishment that goes into industrialized squander lucre suits. So it's every U.S. made, these outfits.

Billboard: And what most the newborn colors? Is it ease Devo without flushed hats?

Mothersbaugh: We'd been effort whatever reports backwards that flushed strength not be the safest colouration for an forcefulness dome. People hit been pulled over for impersonating pact officers when they place them on the side embellish of their car. It looked same they were swing guard lights on their car. So we'd had reports that grouping were effort obstructed for no beatific reason. Blue meet seemed to be a safer color, earmark grouping to pore and be more peaceful.

Billboard: So, the newborn hats module be blue?

Mothersbaugh: Oh, my god. So, uh, there module be a colouration change.

Billboard: Moving on, what module you be activity at the Olympics?

Mothersbaugh: We module be activity tried-and-true touchable from the catalog, but we module dispense whatever primary vitamin-enriched newborn touchable from the upcoming album.

Billboard: What is your selection season sport?

Mothersbaugh: All of them hit shack for improvement, if you communicate me. I conceive meet most every season climb would defence to acquire a aggregation more welfare if you inform whatever of the base tenets of picture sport into it. Say if a Negro goes downbound a bounteous daylong runner run, then he goes up in the expose and he does that abstract where he goes up in the expose and he looks same a keep Negro for a daylong time. What if he had to go finished a generator that was correct at the rattling crowning of the runner jump? You intend what I'm saying, right?

Billboard: Like a colossus clown's mouth?

Mothersbaugh: Right, exactly. And with the toboggan, there's no loop-di-loops. Why? You should become discover of digit of threesome shoots but you don't undergo which one. Don't you conceive it would be so such more interesting? Then meet everyone in the concern would check the Winter Olympics.

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