Midnight Generation Tickets

With their lose-yourself rhythms and playchest of spongy synthesizers, Midnight Generation are the curfew-crushing, fun-first dance heroes the world needs.

With Midnight Generation, one thing is certain: they’re having a boatload of fun. The Mexico City group’s most-streamed hit, ‘Don’t Wait Up’, originated as bandleader Fernando Mares tinkered with his new toy – a talkbox effects pedal. Made famous (or infamous) by acts such as Bon Jovi, Peter Frampton, and – closer aligned with the Midnight Generation sound – Daft Punk, the talkbox allows one to shape the guitar’s frequencies using their voice. Call it gimmicky, but for Midnight Generation, the robotic woh-woh trick has become something of a calling card, the goofy cherry atop the versatile sound these curfew crushers have been developing over their ten-year lifespan.

After the magic-in-a-bottle of ‘Don’t Wait Up’, the quintet were inspired to utilise their new gadget across other tracks on their 2025 album Tender Love, as well as promoting themselves via playful social media memes like “The perfect talkbox solo doesn’t exis…”, which captions a video interrupting this falsity and proving that, in fact, the perfect talk box solo does exist. Still, Midnight Generation are far from one-box wonders. This light-hearted spirit manifests elsewhere, too – everywhere else – in their matching shell-suit outfits, creative music video concepts, and joyful live shows. The latter is a sure-fire inoculation against stress or ennui. You might grip onto Mares’ hooky, positive mantras like “I got the energy” and “You gotta keep moving,” or lose yourself in the happy-feet rhythms of mustachioed drummer Samuel Marquez and recently added percussion guru Diego Bustillos. Lip-smacking guitar licks link arms with Carlos Amaya’s hot, leathery bass tones while keys magician Luis Carlos “Bica” Valderrama and his bombastic sugar-rush synths steal the show – every component equally committed to this after-hours vision.

Until recently, the band’s audiences had been limited to Latin America, the US, or their native Mexico. Formed in Chihuahua near the Mexico-US border back in 2015, Midnight Generation have put time into their local scene over the last decade, sweating through the small club circuit before graduating to bigger and bigger venues. Their now-snowballing popularity is the result of hard work and love for what they do – you can see it on their faces, you can hear it in their grooves. And it’s been paying dividends with sold-out crowds at major festivals such as Vive Latino and spots opening for Latin American stars like Camilo Séptimo (not to mention newly qualified astronaut Katy Perry, when she came through town recently).

But 2025 is perhaps Mid-Gen’s biggest summer blow-out yet: as part of their long-awaited European invasion, they’ll be hitting Lollapalooza Paris, Low Festival in Spain, and the UK’s Latitude, in good company alongside Fatboy Slim and Basement Jaxx. While their biggest bops are perfect for a balmy festival afternoon, there’s broader, lasting appeal here, too: the slower-paced sunset tunes like ‘Calling You’ and ‘Shinin’’ are sure to follow you home and continue shining through the next day and the next.