In June 2013, Hewlett confirmed that he and Albarn planned to someday continue Gorillaz and record a follow-up album to Plastic Beach , saying “We’ll come back to it when the time is right.”
In June, other European dates were confirmed for early 2014.
Rock Am Ring and Rock im Park festivals in Germany in June,
Random Access Memories was released on 17 May 2013. The lead single, ” Get Lucky “, became Daft Punk’s first UK number-one single and the most-streamed new song in the history of Spotify . At the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards , Daft Punk debuted a trailer for their single…
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Delta Machine spawned two further singles, ” Soothe My Soul ” on 6 May
In May, the band supported Bring Me the Horizon ‘s headline tour of the United Kingdom. After their tour with Bring Me the Horizon they performed two headline shows at the Barfly in London and the Sugarmill in Stoke supported by We Butter the Bread with Butter , but due…
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To coincide with 29 April release of Sempiternal the band made their first headline tour of the United Kingdom in 18 months with Crossfaith and Empress AD .
The release date in the UK was pushed back to 18 March 2013 (17 March 2013 on iTunes). The physical release still bore the Mute Records logo, even though the band have now severed ties with their long-standing label. Fletcher mentioned in an interview this was due to their “devotion”…
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On 4 March 2013, the band returned to the studio to work on their fourteenth album, and continued during the week beginning 23 September. They reconvened 13 to 18 December. On 31 December 2013, the band posted a mixtape curated by John Taylor as a New Year’s “thank you” to…
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In March, the band announced North American dates to their Delta Machine Tour , starting 22 August from Detroit and ending 8 October in Phoenix .