French duo Air will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their classic Moon Safari album at The Summer Series at Trinity College Dublin on Sunday 30 June.
It follows news that Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel will play the widely celebrated album in its entirety across Europe for the first time this February and March.
All dates on the original tour sold out in record time and new dates have been announced.
A 25th anniversary deluxe edition of Moon Safari will be released on 8 March, featuring a 2CD/Blu Ray audio-video package with a Spatial Dolby Atmos audio version of the original album along with rare or previously unreleased tracks as well as Mike Mill's 1998 documentary film Eating, Sleeping, Waiting & Playing filmed during the band’s first ever worldwide tour.
Godin and Dunckel were 20-somethuing students of astrophysics and architecture who had only released one EP when Moon Safari, which featured the hits Kelly Watch The Stars, All I Need and Sexy Boy, catapulted them to the forefront of electronic music in 1999.
"We were a duo doing some electronic thing, dreaming of selling 10,000 copies and being recognised by other musicians as cool," says Dunckel. "Then suddenly, we met the world."
The album sold two million copies and the duo’s fans included David Bowie, Madonna, Beck. They also went on to work with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kevin Parker and Sofia Coppola.
Dunckel sums up his own album as "a deep, universal spell, full of love and mystery." "To me," Godin adds, "Moon Safari is perfect."
In other gig news, 90s shoegaze pioneers Ride will play the 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin on 3 September and Cyprus Avenue, Cork on 4 September, with tickets on sale this Friday.
The band have just released their new single Last Frontier, the second offering from their recently announced seventh studio album, Interplay.
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