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Date 26/08/05
Country France
Town Paris
Venue Festival Rock en Seine, Domaine National de Saint Cloud
Setlist 01. Train
02. Tiptoe
03. Number 1
04. Yes Sir
05. Ride a white horse
06. We are glitter/strict Machine
07. Ooh la la
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Note Images & ticket provided by David & Stéphanie from http://goldfrapp.free.fr. Images also provided by Alexis (aka setsuno) and Sophie Jarry.
Reviews -Hi Deers,
I went to Rock en Seine festival in France on Aug 26 to see Goldfrapp playing. It was my first live with this band that I do really appreciate for many things and sounds.
Anyway, I want to make a quick description of this show and to get your opinions of previous concerts in order to know if it was better as usual, worst, or cold as usual....
First, concert started late (like many others bands so I didn?t care), then, the show became really interesting, Alison was beautiful in her black sexy suit, and two she-wolfs came to dance around her. The Audience was very quite, except some fans like me and others, but it was in a festival which is really different from a dedicated concert.
Will wasn?t there (it is normal ?), but there was a chorist/synths player, 2 dancers, 1 guitar-bass player, 1 synths/guitar player and of course Alison to vocals.
Then, they played only songs from Black Cherry and Supernature (and one not extracted from an album, if you guess which one it was, please let me know). They played about 8 or 9 songs, for about 45 min. (a bit short, I wanted to dance more?. Do you know how much time is a concert ?)
Alison excused her for getting sore throat and having an undertone voice and we did not blame her of course (so happy I was the concert wasn't cancelled !!!).
To that point everything was going okay, but? the sound on ?Ride a white horse? was awful, too much loudy, and then problems appeared from that moment... Alison was becoming angry, we did not know why but we saw it on her face. A song started later as on the CD, we had a back view on her, and she was looking for somebody in the staff. Then she started to sing and finally during instru, she was saying something to staff...
Something was doing bad.... and finally on Ooh la la, the machinery broke down, they started the song again and then she said "good by" and the concert was finish. Abruptly !
Do you know if that kind of ending is usual from Alison ?
I red many topics on internet saying Alison was like a Diva, and that she do not really fancy concerts and meet fans. It is true ? What is your opinion about lives ? Does somebody was there with me ?
Thank you for your answers?. It will help me to decide if I will go to La Cigale in Paris on November.
satin_chic from the official forum.

- Well, to me, the concert did not begin that late, only 5 minutes.
You mentioned a quiet audience, yeah I agree (except some youngsters - drunk & doped & therefore despisable - who kept pushing the other people who were trying to enjoy the show, and they kept throwing themselves into the crowd. They also shouted nasty things at Alison in French (fuck you!, fuck off!, in the altogether!).
Or else it was quiet, and a quiet audience does not mean they do not appreciate, on the contrary! I am rather quiet you know & I adore the band!
Will, since the Black Cherry tour, has been off-stage (he was in Paris cf. the France Inter interview).
They only played 7 songs (a lucky number though), none from Felt Mountain. They cut down the setlist to 7 songs because, as she told the audience, she was suffering a "bad throat". She also apologised for "singing out of tune". The sound was horrible, it was louder than you can imagine, this is due to the fact that it is a festival and it has to be L O U D.
Alison did not seem to be satisfied with her performing, and every intelligent person will not blame her : she was ill -she's human-, the sound was horrible, problems with synths etc... but hopefully it was not cancelled. She said at the very end "You're kind. Goodbye".
Looking forward to seeing them live on Nov 7th, during their own Tour, which I'm sure it will be different (as they played at 4:15 pm the use of light effects was useless, consequently the dancers did not stand out at all).
David from Goldfrapp.free.fr.

-Hi everyone !
I really really enjoyed seeing them live... But how frustrating ! lol It was sooo short ! I don't remember them starting late, but it only lasted 45 minutes... Only 7 songs and none from Felt Mountain (was so looking forward to hearing Utopia..)
Great show though... I had never been to a concert during daytime so it felt kinda weird.
I'm also really looking forward to seeing them again in their own show. I wanted the audience to get WILD !! But obviously most of them had never heard of Goldfrapp before.
I felt a bit out of place, surrounded with strangers who hardly moved a feet when they got excited (none of my friends could make it... I was on my own...)
2 songs made the audience more lively : Strict Machine and Ooh La La.
Oh and I loved the dancers lol.
They were dressed as wolf ladies on Train, glitter horses on Ride a White Horse and..... erm.... black kinda ghosts (?) on Strict Machine.
They had to start Ooh La La over again after a few seconds. Alison went "If it's not the voice then it's the machines that are broken" then she coughed quite loudly (and purposely) in the microphone hehe
Anyway, I hope I'll be able to see them in Madrid and/or Barcelona since I'll move to Spain in October (Granada, here I come...)
Oh and by the way... The sound WAS shitty and loud !! (didn't waste much of the concert for me though)
setsuno from the official forum.

 
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