Watch Interpol’s mini documentary on huge Zócalo, Mexico City show

"It was an incredible night with an incredible crowd and something we will certainly never forget"

Interpol have shared a mini-documentary of their massive gig at Zócalo, Mexico City that took place earlier this year. Check it out below.

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The NYC rockers took over Zócalo Square in Mexico City to a giantic crowd of over 150,000 concertgoers on April 20, and have now created a short documentary of the performance featuring crowd shots, clips of them backstage, and footage of them performing ‘Evil’, ‘Untitled’, ‘Public Pervert’ and more.

“It’s not every day you get to perform in front of 200,000 people. Mexico City this was a show we’ll never forget and in celebration of the monumental event, we’ve teamed up with Bartleberry Logan and Van Alpert to create an official film. This one’s for us all,” the band shared in a tweet.

“One the day, we drove in a police escort to the site to do the show and when we arrived, a mariachi band were playing some of our songs. It was amazing,” frontman Paul Banks narrates over footage of the band arriving at the location. “The crowd was really warm and welcoming. They were just great.”

“Getting to see the crowd getting really into it just makes you really excited to play right after which is the best,” guitarist Daniel Kessler shared. Banks added: “And then we took the stage and the rest is Interpol history.”

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Speaking about the first time he visited Zócalo Square, Banks said: “I was a high school senior, really just having the time of my life and my dreams of being a rock musician were very much in the nascent stage in that time but I did have dreams of one day performing as a rock musician but I definitely never dreamed that I’d be returning to Mexico City 25 years later to perform in front of upwards of 100,000 people at the Zócalo.”

He continued: “It’s always felt, for me, not just a homecoming to this important place of my youth but also just one of the most amazing crowd energies that we’ve ever encountered anywhere in the world.

“It can’t really be overstated how special that performance was for us. It was an incredible night with an incredible crowd and something we will certainly never forget.”

During Interpol’s massive show in Mexico City, the band performed a 21-song set which saw them take on tracks from their first two albums, 2002’s ‘Turn On the Bright Lights’ and 2004’s ‘Antics’.

Previously speaking to NME about the progress of their upcoming work and potential new album, Banks shared that it is going “Pretty great, to be honest with you. I’m pretty pumped about the stuff that we have worked on so far. That’s all I can really say: it’s an enthusiastic ‘yes’. It’s pretty cool.”

He also confirmed that the band’s next album will be a “rock record” and added: “It sounding weird is probably one of the benefits of writing it more remotely. Having written in the lockdown, and then rehearsing a bit allowed for a certain characteristic. With this [next] record, we’re getting back to writing together in a room and my favourite tracks so far are quite high energy.”

When asked if he thinks fans will be able to hear the new album next year, Banks said: “I think that would be possible. We’ve been on the road a lot and we might want to take a little bit of time to regroup and just be people, but it’s possible.”