Cult Following At Sundance

01/31/2000 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(1/31/00, 1 p.m. ET) - The Cult played its first show as a Lava/Atlantic Records band at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Friday (Jan. 28). The gig took place at Harry O's and featured the debut of a new song, "Libertine," that will be on the band's new, still-untitled album, which the label hopes to release in time for summer. A tour is being planned to coincide with the release, and the album is close to completion, with producer Michael Beinhorn at the helm.

Singer Ian Astbury tells LAUNCH about the decision to get the Cult back together. "I finished a solo record and, after I did that, I sort of got my wild oats out of the way," he says. "Everything I wanted to do outside the Cult, I got it out of the way. And I thought, 'What would I like to do now?' Go back to a rock 'n' roll band?' What's the point of starting a new rock 'n' roll band when I can be in the Cult?"

Astbury was involved with his side project Holy Barbarians in the mid-'90s; the group released the album Cream in 1996.

-- Darren Davis, New York

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