Goldfrapp at Irving Plaza
I saw Goldfrapp at Irving Plaza last night. At one point there were two werewolves in bikinis dancing on stage flanked by two band mates playing keytars. I kid you not. The dancers were essential. Goldfrapp also had a gust of wind blowing her hair back the entire show that was a cool effect. However, I am told last night was essentially the same show from Nokia Theatre a few months ago. She lost me on some of the slow songs where she subtracted the droning bass, which left the strings a little bare. Those songs had a baroque (more like broke) sound that made me think I was at a rock opera. The obvious hits from her latest two albums were good and fun to dance to: "Ride a White Horse" (with mirror-mosaic horse dancers this time), "Ooh La La," "Train," and "Number 1." "Strick Machine," the second encore (I had no idea it would come to this but she seemed flattered), had a lot of zap live and "Ooh La La" really got the crowd jumping. Alison Goldfrapp and the band put on a tight show but I have no use for her slow songs.
One Louder and Fluxblog were also there. Sorry no pics.
SET LIST (VIA FLUXBLOG)
Utopia / Lovely Head / Tip Toe / Train / Koko / Slide In / U Never Know / Deer Stop / Fly Me Away / Satin Chic / Beautiful / Ride A White Horse / Ooh La La // Black Cherry / Number 1 /// Strict Machine
Comments
Dude, wish I'd known you were there! I agree with you too. The slow songs kinda lost me. Not a good set list really. It took a good 4 or 5 songs before I was really enjoying myself. Fly Me Away and Satin Chic were spectacular though.
Posted by: Tha Professa | May 17, 2006 01:32 PM
no pics. unacceptable.
Posted by: Amrit | May 18, 2006 08:34 PM