Goldfrapp live!

• 12 November 2008 at 14:25
• Music, cinema, TV, books...

I finally saw Goldfrapp live, last Monday, after all these years listening to their albums one after the other.

First of all, I have been surprised by the diversity of the audience. Young people, less young people (in average, in their 30ies), straight people, gay people and most of all, a lot of gay couples, kind of depressing. I found a friend there by chance, Adrian.

When the gig started, I was impressed by the amount of people on stage (8 strings, 5 vocalists, 1 harpist, 1 keyboardist, 1 guitarist, 1 bass player, 1 drummer, 4 dancers and 1 Alison Goldfrapp) but Will Gregory, the other band member, was missing. She started with Paper Bag, whose first lyrics are:

No time to fuck

I was happy because they sang a lot of my favourites: Utopia, You Never Know, Train, Number 1, Monster Love... I would have liked them to also play Crystalline Green, Lovely Head, Pilots or Ride A White Horse...

The concert was nice as a whole but the singer tended to hide a little too much behind her hair (even though I loved when she shouted "Come on!" on Ooh La La). And I liked because I'm a fan, someone who didn't know them would not appreciate the concert properly, I think.

The ending on Strict Machine was delirious and I left with a good feeling.

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