![]() “I reckon we’re gonna sell out pretty soon. We still have proper pop aspirations of making a whole pop album I reckon we’d get away with it and still look cool,” she muses. “Part of our charm is that we are exactly what we are. You’ll have to do some research on the YouTube comments.”ģ00,000 Glasto punters await at Worthy Farm – but Planet is already thinking about the next thing for Confidence Man. For real? “No no no, nahhh, I don’t know, I’m not supposed to talk about it. “Noel and The Edge are actually both hidden on the record somewhere,” she says, then clams up. While on the subject of rock star friends, NME asks Planet to confirm the rumour Confidence Man have a recording of The Edge of U2 playing tambourine they plan to use. “He sent through the other day ‘You guys are supporting me on all my shows! Can’t wait to hang out!’ I’m like, oh no – I’m going to get so wasted and embarrass myself. “Noel still messages me all the time,” Planet says gleefully. But even if he doesn’t, he’s having them as special guests when he headlines Margate Summer Series earlier in June. “Fingers crossed Noel introduces us on stage,” she says. But before that they’ll play Glastonbury Festival in the UK for the second time. ‘Angry Girl’ is an example of the latter, Planet snapping “ All I see is red, off the chain, off the meds.” She blends the two on ‘Break It Bought It’: “ Keep your hands to yourself because if you break it, you bought it.”Īs Planet says: “It’s aggressive and bossy and, y’know, takes charge.”Ĭonfidence Man will bring the bangers on their Australian album tour in August, supported by Korean-Aussie rap crew and fellow hard-partiers 1300. “The motto of the record is partnering this soft, feminine energy with also this hot, feminine energy.” It’s pop on a tilt,” Planet says, dropping the album title with a straight face. “I feel like the pop music we’re writing has an edge. Out April 1, ‘TILT’ leans into the resurgence of high-energy ’90s rave – a sound currently resonating with everyone who feels a rager is well overdue. “ sent through the other day ‘You guys are supporting me on all my shows! Can’t wait to hang out!’ I’m like, oh no – I’m going to get so wasted and embarrass myself” The other thing that saved us was DJ sets here and there,” she adds, laughing. It saved us, we had something to aspire to. It was a wild time, Planet remembers: “We were all on JobKeeper every day was 9-5 jamming… then at night we were getting drunk and jamming. So they all moved into a house together in the Victorian suburb of Thornbury with a single goal: write the album. “I wanted to bring in new costumes and do new songs. I realised I’d been playing these songs for almost six years,” she says. The label was like, ‘Where’s the album?’ We didn’t have any time. It was a good thing, we’re a little surprised to hear Planet say. They dropped stopgap single ‘Does It Make You Feel Good’ in 2019 and hit the road again – then the coronavirus stopped everything. European shows led to an eventful night in Primavera Sound in Barcelona where they turned up as nobodies and won over a 2AM crowd of 15,000 frothing Spaniards. Sneering keyboard warriors couldn’t stop the tour dates from rolling in. “If this is the best… then we as a nation are fucked”, read the most popular comment.īut Confidence Man licked their wounds and got on with the job, putting out ‘Confident Music For Confident People’ in 2018 with piss-taking dance-pop cuts ‘Don’t You Know I’m In The Band’ and ‘Better Sit Down Boy’. In the bad old days before triple j moderated their Facebook page, Confidence Man were tall poppies scythed down after lacklustre footage from Splendour in the Grass went up with the caption: “Is this Australia’s best up-and-coming live band?” The throng sprung up and just like that, Confidence Man became the talk of the weekend. ![]() ![]() Planet held the revellers back like William Wallace in Braveheart before leaping in the air and yelping “Get down!” as the band kicked back in. The quartet had an unlikely breakout moment at the festival Golden Plains in 2017, where McGuffie and Goodchild wore black beekeeper headwear as Bones and Planet threw shapes out front and snake-charmed 10,000 people to crouch low during the breakdown for ‘Boyfriend (Repeat)’. ![]() Confidence Man’s career went from zero to turbo very quickly. ![]()
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