Anthony Kiedis with Red Hot Chili Peppers on the final day of Leeds Festival 2016 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been revealed as the first headliners for NOS Alive when organisers hope to bring the festival back from a year’s enforced break in July 2021.
Also confirmed for Passeio Marítimo de Algés in Lisbon are alt-J, Fontaines D.C., Angel Olsen and Moses Sumney among others, as thoughts turn towards a time when live music is hopefully getting back on its feet.
RHCP have had their own plans truncated by the coronavirus pandemic after guitarist John Frusciante returned to the fold at the expense of his own replacement, Josh Klinghoffer, though the break might well have given the band extra time to work on the new material which drummer Chad Smith told Rolling Stone they would be, ‘mostly concentrating on’ regardless. “We’re all real excited to make new music,” he added.
