MGMT on the potential of an “awesome” Las Vegas residency for ‘Oracular Spectacular’

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MGMT have discussed the “awesome” possibility of taking on a Las Vegas residency for their debut album ‘Oracular Spectacular’.The duo performed their 2007 record in full at the Just Like Heaven Festival last year, and in a new interview, they have opened up about the “incredible” prospect of replicating that performance across a full residency.During their appearance on the Midnight Chats podcast, the band’s Ben Goldwasser reflected on the fun they had putting on the show at Just Like Heaven. “We worked with a friend [Tom Scharpling] who writes comedy,” he said. “So we wrote little skits in the middle.

I ended up having a really good time with it. And, I think, in some ways reconnected with the spirit of the band, like before things really blew up.”Check out the full podcast below:When asked by host Greg Cochrane whether they would entertain the possibility of a Vegas-style residency, Goldwasser replied: “We have slightly tongue in cheek approached that subject.

I mean, it’d be incredible. But I don’t know.”His bandmate Andrew VanWyngarden added: “I think it’d be awesome. I really was getting into this sort of that different style of rehearsing and where it’s like a production and there are set changes, costume changes, scene changes and lines and all this stuff.

I was like ‘this is nice’ – the whole communal group production thing.”A post shared by Midnight Chats (@midnightchatspod)MGMT recently released their fifth studio album, ‘Loss of Life’.