Shut Up and Dance could be any one-hit-wonder story: band forms, releases a smash hit and you never hear from them again. “They had no idea I was there in the audience. ![]() “I think my favourite is stumbling in to a bar and hearing someone else do it on karaoke,” he laughs, speaking from Detroit as his band prepares to board an aircraft to Tokyo. Despite all that love, Petricca realised the song had “made it” in a less conventional manner. It has been used at weddings (and probably funerals), featured prominently in the Olympia Theatre’s pantomime and has even been covered by Irish country star Derek Ryan. His band’s name might not be that familiar, but if you have been near a radio or TV in the past 12 months, you will have heard their pop smash Shut Up and Dance. ![]() ![]() Just ask Nicholas Petricca, the lead singer of Walk the Moon.
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