May 26, 2003

I'd never seen Bjork before last night. I don't think words actually describe the experience, so I'll keep my gutteral cooing and gushing to a minimum and just keep to the facts.

The opener: Soft Pink Truth: Varied electronic squelching to a backdrop of hilarious 70s and 80s gay porn (the premises, not the actual penetration or anything). Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? Genius.

Her dress: Bright fuschia taffeta dress with massive flower on one shoulder, large pink eye makeup, corn-rowed hair with pink threads. I'm thinking I need to adopt this look NOW, minus a few inches of eyeshadow.

The setlist: If I would've been asked to predict the setlist, never in a million years and my wildest dreams would I have come up with this. This was clearly a fan's setlist, with only a few singles played, loads of album tracks, some really old b-sides that made me weak at the knees, and even some new ones thrown in! If you've got tickets for the upcoming shows and you haven't been following Bjork for years and years, START STUDYING NOW to avoid frustration at only hearing one or two you know. Oh my, it's worth the download times.

Highlights for me were Joga (obviously. one of my favorite tracks, simply amazing). Generous Palmstroke directly followed by Nature is Ancient (I'm in b-side heaven!!!).

And I *heart* Bjork.com for getting the setlist up already this morning, though it's missing "You've Been Flirting Again" which she sung in Icelandic...

Take a gander at this:

01. Pagan Poetry
02. 5 Years
03. Hunter
04. Desired Constellation
05. Unravel
06. Jsga
07. All Is Full Of Love
08. Heirloom
09. Generous Palmstroke
10. Nature Is Ancient
11. Hyperballad
12. It's In Our Hands
13. Nameless
14. Crave
15. Where Is The Line
16. Pluto

encore
17. Scary
18. Isobel

I am absolutely overcome with awe and love for her.