Devo's red hats put to rest

Tue 16th Feb, 2010 in International News

A piece of pop-punk iconography is about to be relegated to the history books, with Devo deciding to retire its ‘Energy Dome’ helmets. The band has decided to stop wearing its trademark red hats due to (perhaps not entirely serious) “safety concerns”.

“We’d been getting some reports back that red might not be the safest colour for an Energy Dome,” Mark Mothersbaugh told Billboard recently. “People have been pulled over for impersonating peace officers when they put them on the rear deck of their car. It looked like they were putting patrol lights on their car. So we’d had reports that people were getting stopped for no good reason.”

The ‘Energy Dome’ headwear will now be blue – a new look for the group’s long-awaited new album Fresh, which arrives in April. “Blue just seemed to be a safer colour,” Mothersbaugh concluded.