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Interpol played the biggest show of their career last night (April 20) in Mexico City, before a crowd of over 150,000 people.The New York band graced the huge Zócalo square in the city centre for the free show, which they had first announced earlier this month.In a sprawling 21-song set, they played songs from across their career, leaning heavily on tracks from their first two albums, 2002’s ‘Turn On the Bright Lights’ and 2004’s ‘Antics’.Check out footage from the show below:Interpol played:‘C’mere’‘Say Hello to the Angels’‘Narc’‘My Desire’‘Obstacle 1’‘Lights’‘Pioneer to the Falls’‘The Rover’‘All the Rage Back Home’‘Rest My Chemistry’‘PDA’‘Toni’‘Try It On’‘Not Even Jail’‘NYC’‘Evil’‘Public Pervert’‘Slow Hands’‘Untitled’‘No I in Threesome’‘Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down’Interpol.

Man, this guy was so good at playing smart on TV. It seems like IRL, he’s just thinking with his ICK!

Ugh. This sux! Tori Spelling‘s kids were “shamed” by classmates for living in an RV amid their parents’ marital struggles and alleged money problems!

Interpol performed their debut album ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ in full at San Francisco’s Outside Lands last week (August 11) to celebrate its 21st anniversary.The record was released in the UK on August 19, 2002, and on the following day in the US, and featured tracks like ‘NYC’, ‘PDA’ and ‘Obstacle 1’.The band played the album in full and in order of its tracklist as they appeared at the Californian festival on Friday, performing on the Sutro stage.In addition to all of ‘Turn The Bright Lights’, they also included two special bonus tracks in ‘Specialist’ – taken from their 2010 self-titled album – and ‘Evil’, which featured on Interpol’s second album, ‘Antics’. According to setlist.fm, the 2004 single ‘Slow Hands’ was also printed on the setlist, but not was not played.Watch footage of the performance and see the setlist in full below.‘Untitled’ ‘Obstacle 1’ ‘NYC’ ‘PDA’ ‘Say Hello To The Angels’ ‘Hands Away’ ‘Obstacle 2’ ‘Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down’ ‘Roland’ ‘The New’ ‘Leif Erikson’ ‘Specialist’ ‘Evil’In July, Interpol also played ‘Antics’ in full at a special gig in Paris, months ahead of the 19th anniversary of that album.

Interpol have marked the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ by sharing its companion project, ‘The Black EP’, on streaming platforms – listen to it below.‘The Black EP’ features the studio version of the single ‘Say Hello To The Angels’, a demo of ‘NYC’ and four other songs from the ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ era that were recorded live for a Radio France session in 2002, including the non-album bonus track ‘Specialist’.Additionally, Interpol have posted a 2002 mini-documentary on the band containing interviews as well as live performance footage of ‘PDA’, ‘NYC’, ‘Untitled’ and ‘Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down’.Per a press release, the 13-minute video has been given a “glorious hi-res restoration” after previously being “lost in the annals of 144p YouTube rips”. You can watch the doc in its entirety below.Listen to Interpol’s ‘The Black EP’ on Spotify beneath, or via your desired streaming platform here.The NYC indie outfit returned with their seventh and most recent studio album, ‘The Other Side Of Make Believe’, on July 15.In a four-star review, NME wrote: “Far from a total reinvention, but all adds up to a confident, rewarding and subtly adventurous new chapter for Interpol – or, as [frontman Paul] Banks sings himself on the peak of ‘Toni’, “Still in shape, my methods refined“.Interpol are scheduled to hit the road for their ‘Lights, Camera, Factions’ North American tour with Spoon next Thursday (August 25).