The four-time Oscar nominee and former lead singer of Oingo Bongo will perform with a 50-piece ensemble in San Diego and Irvine. No one is more surprised than him at his return to concert stages
Danny Elfman had at least two compelling reasons to return to the rock concert stage and to resume writing and recording rock songs after a three-decade hiatus. But neither had anything to do with his former band, Oingo Boingo, his Oscar-winning work as a film composer, or his burgeoning career writing classical music concertos and chamber works.
“Life is strange. If you would have asked me, at 30, what my life would be like at 69 or 70 — let alone told me that it would be the busiest year of my life — I would have said: ‘I’ll either be dead or retired.’ Or, as he put it in a 1989 San Diego Union-Tribune interview: “The only possible advantage of not having any musical training is not having a lot of preconceptions about things. Otherwise, I can list a whole lot of disadvantages, because I do orchestral compositions and my writing is very slow. And when I say I’ve had no training, I mean“I write music, but I don’t read it.
“My writing is quicker than it would have been back then. My reading is probably the same as it was then. I can slowly read through the notes, but — like back then — one note at a time.” “It will be the same number of musicians — 50,” he said. “At Coachella, we only had 30 minutes to set up the stage for a 50-piece group and there were problems as a result,” he said. “At the bowl, we had all day to set up”
Yahoo Entertainment’s headline read “Coachella 2022 Saturday: 68-year-old Elfman, 20-year-old Eilish make festival history.” “I’ve had a very weird career. Most people know me as a film composer. Some know me for Oingo Boingo. And some for my newer works as a classical composer. Those are almost three different audiences! So, to meld my music altogether, I didn’t know that would happen. But there was no other way to present myself without all three facets of my music — and I wanted to include crazy visuals.”
Equally memorable, during an updated version of “Insects,” a 1982 Oingo Boingo song, a video collage was shown with images of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell being sucked into former President Donald Trump’s mouth. Drummer Josh Freese was on board when Elfman performed last year at Coachella and the Hollywood Bowl. His role is now being filled by Rubin, who was just 32 when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nine Inch Nails. He is also a key member of Angels & Airwaves, the band co-led by blink-182’s Tom DeLonge.
“Ilan stepped right in and he’s been killing it. It worked out very well for me that Nine Inch Nails is not touring this year.”
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