Sorry Sydney (Hi Bec!), but Bjork was amazing - such a powerful voice in such a tiny freak. The most exciting thing about her set wasn’t the 20 million piece horn section dressed like extras from The Mummy 3, the ethereal sounds emanating from her back up singers or the very fact she hasn’t come to Australia in about 13 years. The real highlight was the super-dooper-sick magnetic fuck-a-tron synth from the future that her band used. The large screens either side of the stage were fixated upon it for almost her entire set, which i actually missed the end of because i went to see a bit of Kraft Kuts.
Now, break-beat is not usually my thing. It’s a style of music that sometimes attracts an strange crowd who take strange things and dance in strange ways. But i’m a convert. Hearing a top notch breaks DJ pound out the Soulwax remix of Phantom Part 2 was pretty special. As was the jacking mix of Bittersweet Symphony Krafty played at the end of his set - when that track hits the blogs there will be a bunfight.
LCD Soundsystem. Amazing. High-energy, professional musicianship from James Murphy and his crew. Pat the drummer, however, had hurt his ankle while riding a bike along Melbourne’s tram tracks - seriously those things are a public menace - and it showed. Highlight was definitely All My Friends - euphoric, blissed-out and beautiful. The refrain of ‘where are your friends tonight’ lifted the roof off the Boiler Room.
Actually, ‘Boiler’ room was a bit of a misnomer this year, thanks to over-zealous security with high pressure hoses. They insisted we all needed to be doused with freezing water at regular intervals, despite the ambient temperature in the tent being well below 20 degrees. Fucknuts.
And Rage Against the Machine was good. I guess. Go buy the DVD.
Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover)
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Hi Duncan!
But I was at the Melbourne BDO!!!
Oh yeah… i was just trying to stir the pot a ‘lil
Oh wow, just got back from Perth BDO, and LCD were the best thing I saw by a country fucking mile. Managed to arrive about halfway through, post-Bjork, in time to see them belting out North American Scum with the Arcade Fire, but from then on in it was absolute insanity. All My Friends was fucking beautiful and then Yeah turned into one of the most explosive dance tunes I’ve ever seen. Absolutely consummate.
Fuck you all. I thought I made a good call because I hate festivals but LCD sounded amazing. Should have caught the sideshow…
Man, their Perth sideshow was abysmal. That was one of the better things about the live set; it made up for the two hours of relentlessly torrid and boring faux-tribal house they’d inflicted upon us the night before. It was like every DFA remix you’ve ever found frustrating. The phrase ‘deliberately esoteric’ leaps to mind.
Yeah, James Murphy played bdo a couple of years ago, I think maybe after Peaches? But his set was booorring. Like seriously, I’ve-Just-Been-Forced-To-Listen-To-Beat-Connection-For-The-Tenth-Time-Today
boring.
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