That same day, the band played a concert benefiting the Plus 1 Ukraine relief fund at the Toulouse Theatre in New Orleans , marking their first full-band performance in over two years.
On March 14, the band announced a new song titled “The Lightning I, II”
The track is one of two new songs on the greatest hits compilation Hits to the Head , which was released on 11 March 2022.
Franz Ferdinand performed at Night for Ukraine, a fundraising benefit held at the Roundhouse in north London on the evening of March 9, 2022, with the funds raised being donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal, to provide aid to people fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion . The event…
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“Opiate” was re-recorded and released as “Opiate²” or “Opiate Squared” on March 1, 2022. It is almost twice as long as the original and includes the same lyrics as the live version, plus the extended instrumental midsection.
In March 2022, Gilmour and Mason reunited as Pink Floyd, alongside Pratt and the keyboardist Nitin Sawhney , to record the single “Hey, Hey, Rise Up!”, protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine that February.
In March 2022, Carey announced they were working on new material for their sixth studio album, noting that “..it won’t take us this long for the next one. We even had some stuff left over from the last one that we’ll develop. We have head starts on three or four…
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In March 2022, the documentary film In the Court of the Crimson King was premiered at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival. Directed by Toby Amies and filmed between 2019 and 2021, it covered live and backstage activity by the then-current band but also featured a historical overview plus contributions from…
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In March 2022, fans received postcards marked with the band’s logo; the postcards included the note “We missed you”, musical notations, as well as an image of an eye with the word “Unsubscribe” written below.
Later that week, Will Butler announced he had amicably left the band in 2021 shortly after the completion of We .