Deadmau5 Reveals Some New Details About His Next Tour

If there’s anyone in the industry right now who knows how to do social media right, I’m beginning to think it’s deadmau5. Aside from all of his award-winning rants and absurd YouTube comments, the hype surrounding his forthcoming While (1<2) album is palpable.

Deadmau5 has just recently returned to Toronto from his Miami to Ibiza Gumball 3000 trip (where he won the “spirit of the gumball award“), and a reporter from The Standard was able to talk with him during a stay at Top Gear’s racetrack in Surrey. Among the topics discussed was Joel’s new upcoming tour, but not before Joel gave another of his award-winning opinions on the festival scene a bit.

“It’s another thing I can’t f*****’ stand, you know? Festivals are being branded bigger than the acts, which is totally backwards in my head,” he spits. “It’s ’cause of those acts that you’re a festival! Who wins? The promoter. The guy who’s throwing this festival that’s branded bigger than you, that you think you’re awesome for headlining. It’s a shame, so that’s why I’m pulling out.”

About the new tour, Joel says “The show is gonna be a whole lot better than all eyes on you in some confined cube. It’s gonna be way more immersive. It’s in the round. We have Hollywood screenwriters coming up with a script.” He’s even got his video game roots covered, too. “We have Chris Ha over at Blizzard [the video game developer] doing storyboards for it. We’re producing it like you’d produce a film. I’m really excited about it because it’s a sink-or-swim thing. Even the accountant’s freaking out.”

We’ve already seen deadmau5 put out a few singles (1) (2) (3) and we’re now only 4 days away from the full album release. Joel has said that the tour will likely be sometime in 2015 with all of the set-up that has to go into it. But guaranteed that all of his fans, myself included, will be waiting with bated breath.

Source: The Standard