I’m a huuuuge fan of Yelle / TEPR / Grandmarnier’s stuff so it was damn fulfilling to see them killing it before a packed auditorium. Speakers stacks shook, lighting rigs trembled, and faces gelatinated like silly putty in a microwave.

There’s been some debate lately as to what constitutes live performance and what doesn’t and I don’t really care where the line is drawn, just make it awesome and that’s what counts right? It was two years ago I wrote to Yelle’s myspace trying to book some US shows for her; while I was probably not well-equipped to do so at the time (and possibly would still not be), and I can now see why she and her camp waited. Translating studio tracks into a live show is not easy work and it was so much more kinetic, forceful and gratifying to see Yelle’s tracks translated off sequencers and onto live drums and synth than it would have been to see her backed by a DJ.

But all in all this was just something I’d been wanting to see for really about two years and, well it was just as good as I imagined it’d be.

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