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| Date |
25/06/04 |
| Country |
England, UK |
| Town |
Glastonbury |
| Venue |
The other stage, Glastonbury festival |
| Setlist |
01. Utopia
02. Crystalline Green
03. Lovely Head
04. Train
05. Human
06. Deer Stop
07. Yes Sir
08. Tiptoe
09. Twist
10. We Are Glitter/ Strict Machine
11. Black Cherry
12. Interview#1
13. Interview#2 |
| Reviews |
- You're not going out like that, young lady, are you? Dedicated Alison-watchers'll be delighted to know that, this evening, she's decked out in thigh boots, a tight black mini-dress, a lovely spangly wrap and, as has become her custom these days, a horse's tail. She's just your Christmas-enlivening auntie and your minxy schoolmistress all rolled into one, isn't she?
And yet there's always been something slightly difficult about Goldfrapp in the past. Maybe it was the fact that they hadn't quite established that distinctive image until recently, or perhaps it's just that they could often seem a little too acutely metropolitan for the majority of the public. No longer, though. The '04 model Goldfrapp is suddenly a crowd-pleasing, irresistible, top hit fiesta, and it's really something to behold. Obviously a lot of it's in that voice, which strolls majestically from grandiose whispering to velveteen ripples and even a slice of almost Sean Connery-styled seduction, but even Alison's presence has come on in gravity-defying leaps, even if the sight of her pleasuring the monitor is still a tad on the bizarre side. Moreover, there's no underestimating the sheer breadth of imagination on show in the songscaping: 'Strict Machine', which feels ever more the classic, is a genius ball of Cocteau disco that brings forth the throng's inner eruptions. 'Human' is just the sort of tune we imagine the Banshees would be recording now if they'd stayed together. 'Lovely Head' puts the arch into, er, mariachi. And there's even some decidedly smoky chanteusery at hand as well. Blimey!
All of which is done with the utmost of taste - love those strings! - and, especially once 'Twist' gets flying, with an unholy amount of floor firepower too. Oh, and there's loads of gratuitous theremin abuse as well. Essentially, then, it's their moment of triumph; they came as pop's token oddballs, but they leave as the band that taught Glastonbury to dance again. Result!
(Iain Moffat, from Playlouder.com)
- Goldfrapp Get It Up
There's often a suspicion at festivals that bands are touting a generic set around the green fields of Europe, in an if-this-is-Saturday-this-must-be-Roskilde fashion. Goldfrapp (Other Stage, 8.50pm), however, have seized their chance and crafted the show of their career, and of the weekend so far. Fizzing with glamour, wit and tooth-and-claw sexuality, Alison Goldfrapp's world is half Cabaret, half Brothers Grimm. To the theme from Black Beauty she strides on in thigh-high boots, a sequinned cape and what appears to be a tail. Her voice is a marvel: by turns a dominatrix purr, an operatic soprano and the voice of the Mysterons. During Train's electroshock grind she plays a hand-held electronic gadget with her crotch, flanked by dancers clad in bikinis and stags' heads. A less level-headed observer might call this pure festival viagra. But not me.
(Dorian Lynskey, from The Guardian) |
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