The Red Hot Chili Peppers are playing a gig in front of the Egyptian pyramids

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced an exciting new gig at a pretty impressive venue… one of the eight wonders of the world.

On March 15th the iconic funk-rock band will grace the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, joining the likes of Pink Floyd, Shakira, Mariah Carey and The Grateful Dead who have also played at the historic landmark.

It will be the first time the Peppers play Egypt, having only visited the African continent once before in 2013 to play a set of shows in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.

In anticipation for the sure-to-be-legendary show, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released a teaser video on the Live At The Pyramids Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/LiveAtThePyramids/videos/2165591547036644/

It’s unlikely that any music from the group’s highly-anticipated twelfth LP will be played at the March gig, due to an unexpected delay in the production process.

In an interview on Sirius XM’s Volume West programme this Monday, drummer Chad Smith explained that the follow-up to their 2016 release, The Getaway, had been delayed by the recent Woolsey wildfires which destroyed 1,500 homes in California.

Smith explained: “We started to work on [the new album], which, for us, is just getting in a room and making some noise and putting some notes together, and then the fires came, and the house we were working in – there was no damage, it didn’t burn down, but we couldn’t get back in there. So that halted our [progress].”

Tickets for Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s Live At The Pyramids go on sale Friday 18th of January 2019, and can be purchased here.