In March 2013, the band was not allowed to perform at a music festival in China due to unspecified "political reasons".Kraftwerk denied festival appearance in China. The Guardian. 29 March 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013 In an interview in June after performing the eight albums of The Catalogue in Sydney, Ralf Hütter stated: "Now we have finished one to eight, now we can concentrate on number nine."P Street, Andrew. Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter: 'Now we can concentrate on album number nine'. The Guardian. 12 June 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013 In July, they performed at the 47th Montreux Jazz Festival. The band also played a 3-D concert on 12 July at Scotland's biggest festival – T in the Park – in Balado, Kinross, as well as 20 July at Latitude Festival in Suffolk, and 21 July at the Longitude Festival in Dublin.
