Roseland

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.

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.

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

playing tetrus