![]() ![]() Rufus fans – who have collectively streamed their music nearly a billion times – are passionate, loyal and enraptured to see the trio playing live for the first time in 18 months. The band only released its latest single, the dark, swaggering On My Knees, this same day, but you wouldn’t know it from the audience’s response to the new tunes. ![]() Rufus Du Sol received two Grammy nominations in 2020. Their 75-minute set plays like one long continuous mix, loaded with their best-loved tracks plus a few from their imminent fourth album, Surrender. ![]() Some barely dressed fans seem oblivious to the night chill as they skip towards the stage, the first chords from Rufus’ Grammy-nominated 2018 track Underwater pealing into the night air.Ītop three tall white blocks and in front of huge monochromatic projections of themselves, singer Tyrone Lindqvist, keys/synths player Jon George and drummer James Hunt, all clad in black, look more like rock stars than a dance music act. The indie-dance band was second only to Eilish on today’s bill and the crowd that’s assembled before their stage is testament to their huge following in the country they’ve called home for the past three years. On a Friday evening in New York in late September, two acts are yet to take the stage on day one of Governors Ball Music Festival: teen sensation and headliner Billie Eilish, and Rufus Du Sol, “Sydney’s finest three-piece” according to BBC1 Radio host Pete Tong. ![]() Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]()
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