Footage resurfaces of MGMT playing ‘Kids’ as college students

Footage has resurfaced online this week of MGMT playing ‘Kids’ while still college students – check it out below.

Back in 2003, the band’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser were calling themselves ‘The Management’ and one day while still students at Wesleyan University, the pair set up a gig on campus and played songs to their friends and peers.

Footage from this performance has resurfaced this week and sees the band performing early versions of songs that would go on to become some of their biggest hits, like ‘Kids’ as well as a cover of Talking Heads‘ ‘This Must Be The Place’.

The previously unseen videos of the set were uploaded to YouTube by user Rad Scientist, who said they found the footage “on an old drive” that they thought was “gone forever.”

Other songs in the set included: ‘Money to Burn,’ later included on their 2005 demo album ‘Climbing to New Lows’ as well as ‘Funky Legal Beats’ and ‘I Am One of the Smartest Apes in the World.’

Check out the videos here:

MGMT spoke to NME back in February about their latest album, ‘Loss Of Life’, which came out on February 23.

Vocalist Andrew VanWyngarden said of himself and bandmate Benjamin Goldwasser: “We’ve grown and changed a lot as people but I think our new album is proof that we have the same creative spark we had when we met. There’s some kind of alchemical magic that happens when we get together.”

In a four-star review of the album, NME said: “‘Loss of Life’ is imbued with just enough sweetness that by the time it reaches its overarching message – “nothing prepares you for loss of life” – it doesn’t just make you want to prepare yourself, it makes you excited to do so.”

Back in July, the American indie duo hit back at the Conservative Party after the Rishi Sunak posted a campaign video, sponsored and promoted by the party, to his X/Twitter and Facebook accounts featuring a slowed-down, unauthorised version of their track ‘Little Dark Age’.

The band exclusively told NME: “How many times do we have to remind you jokers that this song is NOT fair game for your utter garbage? Let’s all laugh at this dingus. Clock’s ticking, mate. Happy Independence Day”.