The Aarhus-based NorthSide music festival has announced that the legendary hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan will be one of the main performing acts at next year's festival.
The nine-man group straight out of Staten Island, New York City – consisting of RZA, Raekwon, Method Man, GZA, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cappadonna and Ghostface Killah – have just released their first album ('A Better Tomorrow') for seven years. A number of departures to embark on successful solo careers in recent years had brought a halt to productivity.
”We have always wanted to have hip-hop acts on the bill, and earlier this year we had great success presenting A$AP Rocky and Jurassic 5 at NorthSide,” John Fogde, the spokesman for NorthSide, said in a press release.
”But there can be no doubt that with the Wu-Tang Clan, we have moved up into another league. They are legendary, not just in hip-hop circles, but across all genres and can rightly be described as one of the most influential acts of the ‘90s.”
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Strong looking line-up
The festival has also signed up US singer/songwriter Matthew E White and Danish psychedelic rockers Spids Nøgenhat, who just won two Danish Music Awards.
Other already confirmed performers for NorthSide include the Black Keys, Sam Smith, MØ, Alt-J, FKA Twigs, George Ezra, Interpol, Jack Garratt, John Grant, José González, St Paul & the Broken Bones, and the Parov Stelar Band.
