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01. Intro - Brennið Þið Vitar 02. Earth Intruders 03. Hunter 04. Unison 05. All Is Full Of Love 06. Hope 07. The Pleasure Is All Mine 08. Dull Flame Of Desire 09. Vertebrae By Vertebrae 10. Where Is The Line 11. Desired Constellation 12. Army Of Me 13. I Miss You 14. Triumph Of A Heart 15. Vökuró 16. Wanderlust 17. Hyperballad 18. Anchor Song 19. Pluto encore 20. Declare Independence |
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| Brilliant! - amazing setlist! - stunning performance by björk; crystal clear voice! - Flawless performances of the band! - Surprising guest apperances! - gorgeous sound in the apollo! Best björk performance i've seen so far! (including those on video) Higlights: I miss you, triumph of a heart, where is the line, hunter, Earth intruders... And ofcourse army of me, pluto, hyperballad & declare independence. But there was absolutely no downsides! /matsja - 3886 |
| W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L Triumph of a Heart was INCREDIBLE.... Thank You!!!!!! /bath - 3884 |
| best concert of my life TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKK /Frenghy - 3882 |
| „SHOWER OF GOODNESS...“ What a show! Wonderful setlist, an amazing Björk, and a lot of surprises… Although I have been a fan of Björk’s music for years, this was actually the first time ever I saw her live on stage. I travelled from Germany especially for the show and got ill the minute I arrived in London – but it was all worth it! Björk seemed to be in a really good mood, apparently enjoyed the show a lot herself, and was dancing and jumping around a lot of the time. I was very pleased to see her interact a lot with the audience, she even encouraged the audience to sing the chorus of “Hyperballad:” clearly one of the highlights of the show! Music-wise her performance was more than memorable: her voice as clear and strong as ever gave me shudder after shudder. But not only the leading lady herself, also her fellow musicians performed beautifully. Highly professional, imaginative, and (as it seemed) also enjoying themselves. When “Wonderbrass” joined Björk downstage towards the end of the show to play and dance, you could see that they were having fun! Supporting Björk and her band were not one, not two, but three musical guests: Toumani Diabaté for “Hope,” Antony Hegarty for “Dull Flame of Desire,” and (big surprise at least for me) Einar Örn for “I Miss You.” They all played an important part in making the show even more perfect. Leila, supporting act and former collaborator of Björk, played a great DJ-set before the main act entered the stage and got the audience into the right mood for what was to follow. Another big highight for me was the setlist: At least one song from every one of her solo albums, a great compilation (even with the shifts due to the “fuckin’ amazing” (Björk) technical problems), many favourites, and – maybe THE surprise of the evening - ”Triumph of a Heart!” All in all a really great evening – thanks to Björk, her band and her guests for a wonderful show! I cannot wait to see you on stage in Germany in July! /nannerl - 3871 |
| http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/livereviews/story/0,,2274965,00.html Politics with pom-poms on Björk's fabulous gig is exhilarating, bloody-minded and, by the way, she wants to start a revolution Kitty Empire Sunday April 20, 2008 The Observer Björk Hammersmith Apollo, London W6, touring until 4 May If gonzoid children's illustrator Dr Seuss had ever dreamed up a political animal, it might have looked rather like Björk. She arrives onstage on the first of three nights at London's Hammersmith Apollo wearing a pink and gold iridescent ballgown made entirely of ruffles, topped off by a fluffy head-dress of multicoloured powder puffs. Her opening salvo, 'Earth Intruders', is a juddering voodoo prance that doubles as a call to arms for a 'stampede of resistance'. In the background, bursts of flame almost chargrill Björk's backdrop of flags decorated with frogs, birds and the endangered caiman crocodile. She ends the show trying to foment revolution. The encore is 'Declare Independence', a track from Björk's last and sixth album, Volta. Raucous and sloganeering, it marks an abrupt shift away from her usual swooping soundcraft. Shouting like a riot grrl manqué, Björk is encircled by her troupe of air-punching, head-banging, all-female, all-Icelandic brass players ('The Wonderbrass!' Björk quips) whose own multicoloured headpieces are topped off by little red flags. Green rave lasers cut through a shower of gold glitter as the crowd air-punch back, shouting: 'Higher, higher!' in response to Björk's: 'Raise your flags!' It's a stupidly exhilarating climax to a fabulous gig, fusing the energies of punk and rave culture with Björk's own bloody-mindedness. You can see how this sort of thing might have upset the Chinese authorities just over a month ago when Björk added a chorus of 'Tibet, Tibet!' to 'Declare Independence' at her Shanghai gig. A couple of weeks earlier, Björk also came out in support of Kosovo's split from Serbia. Serbia's music festival, Exit, promptly dropped her from its bill, proving that pom-pom-clad creatives can still touch raw nerves. There's no explicit dedication tonight to any bit of Britain trying to shrug off the imperial yoke, but Welsh-speakers and Cornish separatists will have gone home even happier than the rest of us. In between, Björk's politics are implicit, rather than explicit. Billed as Björk's return to the dance floor after an absence of nearly a decade, Volta is actually more of a world music piece in which artificial borders are trampled over by stamping feet. Tonight's first unannounced guest is the feted Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté, who arrives in a gust of robes and coaxes origami arpeggios out of his instrument on 'Hope'. ('Hope', lest we forget, is about a pregnant female suicide bomber.) One of a slew of old favourites she plays tonight, 'Army of Me' has martial club overtones. With the stage bathed all in red, and Björk's core players - LFO's Mark Bell on digitals, avant-garde drummer Chris Corsano on percussion, musical director Damian Taylor on more gear - jacking their bodies to beats so hard they are almost nauseating, it feels like the rave at the end of the world. The term 'life-affirming' is so often a euphemism for sentimental old tripe, but Björk's works demand it. 'Hunter' is redder in tooth and claw than usual, with innard-resonating bass, but Björk's grasp of drama is a joy. As the musicians and machines build to a crescendo, Björk ejaculates streams of silly string out of her hands like Spiderman. It gets caught in her hair puffs. Another old favourite, 'Hyperballad', starts off with the crowd bawling the verse, then turns the beats and bass up even further. From austere beginnings, 'Wanderlust' turns into a Rio carnival tune, punctuated by Björk hissing 'Relentlessly! Restless!' - a concise summation of this gig, and her art. The quieter segments are no less mesmerising. Accompanied by suited and bespectacled harpsichordist Jonas Sen, who spends the gig looking like he ought to be playing keyboards on Phoenix Nights, she sings 'Vokuro', an Icelandic song from her 2004 album Medulla. Antony Hegarty turns up for 'Dull Flame of Desire', looking like a cross between the Cure's Robert Smith and a bag lady, but crooning powerfully in his effeminate husk as the Wonderbrass trump along. On the record, the song really takes flight at the end, when Antony and Björk trade wordless ululations. Regrettably, he scampers off before that can happen. But some of the most skin-prickling moments of the night find Björk at her most post-verbal, just opening her mouth and issuing sound. She trades notes with the organ on 'The Pleasure is all Mine', and gives voice to some unnamed beast on 'Vertebrae by Vertebrae'. Björk may have become a radicalised creature of late, with her pronouncements on liberation. But it's when language falls by the wayside that her power is even more apparent. /Kitty Empire - 3856 |
| I waited years to have the chance to write a review in this box. Love her since Debut era and finally I saw Her. If I had to use only one word to describe what happened yesterday, "Energy" would be that. She was so lovely, smily and playfull. Being on the second row, watching her face expressions and powerful eyes was a breathtakingly experience. Great intro with Earth Intruders and if I had to pick the best performances that would definately be: I miss you / Army of me / Triumph of a heart / Vokuro / Hyperballad and Declare Independence of course. There were many songs I'd love to hear like Unravel and Pegan poetry but it really didn't matter. I felt like she was peforming the same tune throughover the concert, the tune of happiness and givingness. It is true that she seems very happy on the stage this period, comfortable and close to the audience, which yesterday was great. I couldn't believe that she left us sing a chorus from Hypeballad! God, she was smiling all the time. The only bad thing is that now I want more of Her, so please dear Bjork add Greece to your schedule. Thank you very much for your music. ( Is it just my idea or you gestured "thank you" when I waved hello...?) P.S: The opening act lady that was mixing the songs was great. Who is she, why she is never officially mentioned? /vag - 3850 |
| very very very very very wonderful. come back soon B. x /johnnyhyper - 3848 |
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