Biting down or being bored, the real life exemplifier of her generation considers “Royalty” a question of consumerism and sex a matter of biting lips. And at Roseland, in a fine 70 minute dash through the album plus an excellent cover of Son Lux’s “Easy”, she began to feel comfortable with the craziness
So this tour, her two nights at Roseland an instantaneous sellout by the way, is a victory lap or a farewell to stardom. Usually I can take an inspired guess but now I can’t because there is too much riding on what you can change up on the next album.
The West 52nd room began its life as a dance club and it retains the same floor because think about it, how can you have a dance floor on a slope? And this means the 3500 SRO capacity club is a nightmare for the height impaired such as yours truly.
Hhow many Bowie shows open with “Wild is the Wind”? he might as well have had a huge sign reading “Strap Yourself In It’s going To Be A Bumpy Ride”. In a good way, needless to add.
There is something tough minded about the B-52’s; it’s, in some ways, what I imagine Talking Heads being like today if Byrne hadn’t left with his bat and ball. There is no twinkling, no playing off the past: it is by the numbers but the numbers add up.
Roseland is a straight, long floor, and if you are at the back there is nothing to do but listen to people buy drinks and get hassled, jostled, bumped into and irritated by fatheaded fans.
Concert Halls are an experience in ritual humiliation, with paying customers herded like cattle, branded like refugees in a camp, and treated like people of interest in the kidnapping of a six year old girl from the Bronx.
David Attenborough, who sounded like he’d just been hijacked off one of the old Disney TV shows nature specials, An early “Crystalline” gets a good hand and the video of worms are kinda cute. Bjork says “thank you” after each song twirping like a bird being fed a worm. And the set rolls along well oiled and running like clock work, but a little mechanical rather than natural
jumped over a few heads, punched a bunch of persons in the stomach
Anyone ever taken the helicopter from manhattan to jfk airport cuz u were that late?
