In May 2012, the band returned to touring, playing several festivals during the summer of 2012 including a headlining slot at Field Day festival in London’s Victoria Park. Other appearances included Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival, Montreal’s 2012 Osheaga Music Festival, Chicago’s 2012 Lollapalooza Music Festival, Belgium’s Dour Festival, Portugal’s Marés…
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Gotye performed “Somebody That I Used to Know” on Saturday Night Live on 14 April 2012 along with “Eyes Wide Open”. These collective performances helped the single to reach Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending 28 April 2012, giving Gotye his first U.S. Number 1…
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Alt-J supported Wild Beasts in April 2012
The magazine American Songwriter named Gotye their Writer of the Week for the week of 6 February 2012. On 31 May 2012, Gotye announced that he would release a digital compilation of the 10 official remixes of “Somebody That I Used to Know” on 8 June.
On 1 February 2012, Gotye made his American television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! , performing “Eyes Wide Open”, “Somebody That I Used to Know” with Kimbra and “State of The Art”. On 12 February 2012, “Somebody That I Used to Know” reached Number 1 on the UK singles chart.…
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The band went on to support Snow Patrol in February 2012, and Muse in November and December.
In the US, an acoustic version of “Trojans” premiered on MTV2 ‘s show 120 Minutes on 13 January 2012. It was filmed by Mike and only features Keith on guitar and vocals. Other reviewers called the single “slick” and “a solid summer jam” with “melancholy introspection” and “finger-snapping funk”. In…
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Like Drawing Blood was officially released in the U.S. in 2012.
Their first 2012 release for Infectious Music was the triangle-shaped 10″ “Matilda” / ” Fitzpleasure “.
In January 2012, Klaxons announced on their Twitter account that they were to begin recording their third album on 30 January. NME reported that the album was “expected to be released later” in the year and that the band were working with James Murphy and The Chemical Brothers . At…
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