WHEN U.K. dance music duo Jungle landed in Mumbai for the first time in 2019, Tom McFarland says an instant memory that was imprinted in his mind was the traffic. “I’m a Londoner and there’s a lot of traffic there as well but it was quite remarkable [in Mumbai] – it was hot, it was exciting and vibrant. There were a lot of people, a lot of noise. That’s what makes you feel alive,” he says over a call.
It was an “attack on your senses, but in the very best way,” as McFarland puts it. He’s ready to dive into it all over again, five years on as Jungle return to India on January 28th, performing at the second edition of Lollapalooza India in Mumbai. It’ll be a day before his bandmate and co-founder Josh Lloyd-Watson’s birthday, which they’ll be celebrating. McFarland adds about what’s different now compared to their 2019 visit to headline SulaFest in Nashik, “Five years on, we’re a little bit older, a little bit wiser. The idea of what constitutes a good night out has changed a little bit, but I’m just excited to get back into the buzz of the environment.” On a tangent, he shouts out U.K. DJ Yung Singh, as a “really amazing Indian DJ” that he highly recommends.
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