Comments on: Bjork, Hammersmith Apollo, 17/04/08

By: Leila, Blood Looms and Blooms (Warp) « mapsadaisical

Leila, Blood Looms and Blooms (Warp) « mapsadaisical — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:05:17 +0000

[...] Arab has hopped back on her bike for another crack. And she won’t let the small matter of being booed by some brain-dead Bjork fans deter her [...]

By: mapsadaisical

mapsadaisical — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:48:39 +0000

Not only are you thoroughly lacking in eloquence Lucian, but you appear to also be using my photos on your website without permission - give me credit or take them down. Thanks.

By: Lucian

Lucian — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:36:15 +0000

leila sucked.

By: mapsadaisical

mapsadaisical — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:19:11 +0000

Artur - I know what I do with my pics - as you can see (and I don’t show them to anyone after I take them, I’m with you on that). But I have always wondered what everyone else who is taking them does with them. A blurry picture of Bjork just about visible between two people’s heads on a mobile phone. What use is that to anybody?

By: artur

artur — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:47:50 +0000

It’s really annoying standing behind people taking ‘photos’ on their mobiles and on cameras - either they block your view or the sight of lots of lit-up screens is distracting. More annoying is that virtually everyone who takes a picture then shows the picture they just took to their friend standing next to them (who is also there, in case you didn’t realise). If no-one took pics then there’d be no security shining lights. Plus most of the shots you get are shit. What are you going to do with them when you get home? Enjoy the moment…

Amazing gig.

By: mapsadaisical

mapsadaisical — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:57:16 +0000

Thanks Paddy!

*updates celebrity underwear spreadsheet*

By: paddy

paddy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:31:40 +0000

I was there Sunday - scorching gig!

I’ve not seen Bjork since a festival years and years ago, and this was SUCH a treat ot be at Hammersmith last night. So glad she did a load of really abrasive noisy tracks as well as the prettier one. And she finished with Declare Independence as I was praying for her to do. That’s a head banger of a track, and no mistake. Other highlights were Anchor Song with the brass, Hyper Ballad and the way it descended into lunacy, the streamers shooting from her fingertips in Hunter, and sitting behind Damon Albarn, and checking out his underpants (orange, “bugle boy” or something).

Bjork is a raven haired alien genius. She is musical light years ahead of a mere earthling like me… we’re lucky to have here here on this planet.

By: mapsadaisical

mapsadaisical — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:37:00 +0000

Very poetic Linda, much more eloquent than the twats to which you refer.

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:08:52 +0000

It’s nice that your major complaint amounts to purple t-shirted bouncers though. I feel sorry for Leila, but when you’re as big as Bjork, people go to her shows out of inertia and the assumption that it’s going to be big (their kind of big), loud (their kind of loud), and a general mind fuck.
It’s commendable that Bjork can do things her way and be popular with the masses. But give these twats more indiscernible frequencies for their ears will eventually see beauty in lack of formulaic harmony.

By: Roo

Roo — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:00:10 +0000

Corsano’s role was quite prominent when I saw her last, but there were fewer people on stage than her current set-up.