That would have been a fucking legend! This year, I’d have done it again – in front of every fucking camera!” Imagine if nobody knew if I did a line of blow in front of 80million people or not. “I fucking regret my decision to shut it down!” says David after maniacal cackle. They denied it and the singer passed a voluntary drugs test. The millions who saw them to victory through the public vote found a breath of fresh air among the usual cheese and pomp of the song contest.įame met infamy, though, when they immediately became international tabloid-fodder after some viewers thought they caught David snorting cocaine off a table in the green room. With their leather, studs, bare chests, massive guitar licks, they looked and sounded like a young, Mediterranean Jane’s Addiction. It was a year ago this week that the band first came to the attention of the wider world when they were crowned victors of Eurovision 2021 with the Italian language hard-rock stomper ‘Zitti E Buoni’. Life in Måneskin wasn’t always festival buzz and celebrity eggs, of course. Raggi – fearsome on stage but the more timid of the four-piece in interviews – agrees: “It’s hard for Americans to find an Italian band that makes it over there and plays a real instrument.
“People are fascinated by that, and Americans are obsessed with Italians. “We’re not new in that thousands of bands have played as good as us or even better, but nowadays it’s unexpected to see a band break globally,” says David. But Eurovision-sanctioned Italo-rock? Who the hell could have seen that catching on? All aged 21 to 23, they’re a hot mess of eyeliner, long hair, tattoos and leopard print – the gang your mother warned you about. Meeting these four fabulous friends all happily huddled onto the same small sofa, you can easily see why America has taken to splashing them over billboards and late night talk shows. “They were good eggs,” adds Torchio, though it’s not clear if he’s referring to the meal or his hosts. “That was pretty, ‘What the fuck!?’”ĭavid agrees, still buzzing with disbelief: “Yeah, Dakota Jones cooked eggs for us, Sean Penn was there. “I would say breakfast at Chris Martin and Dakota Jones’ house,” chuckles De Angelis. Were there any other super surreal moments with the glitterati’s best and brightest? “He was there in the crowd!” beams Torchio. Even Hollywood megastar and Thirty Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto was queuing up for a selfie. Their rock’n’roll spirit, glam look and no-fucks-given attitude have been getting them a hell of a lot of attention Stateside. “At Coachella there were like three other bands.” “Everyone who came to our gigs was saying: ‘We’ve seen no bands like this’,” says bassist De Angelis. They were one of the most talked-about acts at the festival on a line-up largely dominated by pop and solo acts including Billie Eilish, Harry Styles and Megan Thee Stallion. The flamboyant rock band, completed by bassist Victoria De Angelis, guitarist Thomas Raggi and drummer Ethan Torchio, previously played two back-to-back weekend slots at Coachella in California. “It’s going to be our biggest gig here in Italy, or anywhere.” “It’s cool and weird in the best way possible,” frontman Damiano David tells NME in their backstage dressing room ahead of the show, puffing a cigarette and sipping an espresso with an almost cartoon level of Italian cool. All day, fans have lined up around the sun-soaked Piazza Bra central square in scenes you might expect of the Pope coming to town. Having not played a show on home turf in two-and-half years, Italy’s Eurovision Song Contest 2021 victors Måneskin, who already had two albums to their name when they smashed the competition, have returned as bona fide global superstars. Built in 30AD, the Arena Di Verona has seen much drama play out within these ancient walls – from gladiator battles and medieval jousts to opulent performances of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, the latter of course set in this palatial city of romance. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene: 22,000 howling teenagers have packed out the city’s pristine Roman amphitheatre.
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