Three-man dance rock band goes from opener to headliner
After three successful American tours and one world tour as an opening band, New Politics recently started their first headlining tour.
Made up of Louis Vecchio, David Boyd, and Søren Hansen, New Politics moved to America to sign with RCA Records in 2009. Under RCA, they released their only two albums to date, “New Politics” in 2010 and “A Bad Girl in Harlem” in 2013. Before the release of their second album, they toured as openers for Twenty One Pilots, Fall Out Boy, P!nk, Paramore and Panic! at The Disco.
With the popularity of their most recent single “Harlem,” New Politics got the chance to travel on their own headlining tour sponsored by Music Farm Productions.
Prior to signing with RCA, Hansen and Boyd moved to Brooklyn, New York in search of American fame.
“It was like a childhood dream,” Hansen said. “It was something we had always wanted to do.”
In New York they met their drummer Vecchio and started recording together. Through personal connections and hard work, the band managed to get signed to RCA only a year later.
Their self-titled album featured their hit single “Yeah Yeah Yeah” and became popular enough to be featured on the MTV Artists to Watch tour with Five Knives and Twenty One Pilots. The tour brought them through the venue Amos’ Southend in Charlotte, N.C. for the first time and now, eight months later, they have returned to headline their own show.
“It’s so surreal,” Boyd said, “to be back here and to see a line out the door waiting for us.”
With the explosive popularity of their song “Harlem,” tickets for their Harlem USA Tour quickly sold out for every venue. On Thursday, January 23, patrons lined up outside Amos’ for over four hours waiting to get front row spots for the show. Fans waited by the buses, hoping to get a glimpse of the three men inside. The sudden flood of support seemed to have come as a shock to the band.
“We’ve written this music in a bedroom,” Hansen said, “and now we play it live and we see people singing along and that’s amazing.”
Inside Amos’, it seemed fans knew every word as they sang along to each song on the set list. New Politics fans, self-named “newps,” can not only sing along but dance along with David Boyd, who is known for breakdancing both on stage and in the crowd. Between songs, Boyd jumped into the crowd and danced to the beat with the fans circled around him.
The band strives to create a connection to their fans and to give them the best experience possible at shows.
“There’s one thing that has always been the most important to us,” Hansen said. “There’s this kind of weird electricity that spreads through everyone when we’re all enjoying the music, and it’s such an amazing experience.”