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Goldfrapp @ The Beacon 4/29/08

Posted on May 01, 2008

Thanks to the Limewire crew for the invitation to join the merry band of bloggers here. I'm a girl with a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

I've lived in New York for close to 20 years, and in all that time, and all the countless gigs in strange and not so strange places (more on that in another post), I had never ever been inside the Beacon Theater. I'm not really a big show kinda gal, I prefer grittier, dirtier, smaller, etc etc, but given the opportunity I'll pretty much go anywhere. So last night, I had the opportunity, and I busted my Beacon cherry for Goldfrapp, fresh off the boat from Coachella. I'm a total sucker for old fashioned theater theaters, they really give you a sense of occasion when you're out. You totally feel like you should be wearing ribbons in your hair with white tights, a velvet dress and Mary Jane's when you look up and see this:

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Nope, that's not Kenny's Castaways, kids.

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Back to the music...

Alison Goldfrapp is a drama queen, and I mean that in the best possible way. My gawd, the woman can belt...with this setting and her voice, for a second I thought I was in that crazy scene in "The Fifth Element" when the blue, rubbery opera singer is giving it her all right before the weird, pig creatures bust in shooting, and Bruce Willis digs "the stones" out of her torso. You know, you know what I mean.

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And members of her band were dressed up like Dryad Princess Leias on their way to celebrate the solstice. DSC_0365

And they projected a liquidy, lava lamp light show on rattan screens on the stage. Eye candy!

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But one of my favorite parts of the show, aside from the setting, the belting, the lighting and the like, was the fans... DSC_0157 DSC_0170

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