Best Live Music Experience: Bjork

By Guest on Nov 20     Filed In ACL, Austin, Texas, Live Music     4 Comments

The best concert I’ve ever attended begins and ends with Bjork’s show at ACL Fest 2007.  To that point, I’d never seen her live, and the anticipation of her closing performance made the heat and the crowd and the drunk kid that came bursting out of a the port-a-john vomiting all over himself (and others) fade into the background noise of my excitement.

You could feel tangible fervor in the crowd before the show started.  A young girl standing in front of my wife was asking everyone around her, “Do you like Bee-york?” to which we replied, “Heck yeah, we do!”  It was touching to see that the youth has better options for inspirational female musicians than Hannah freakin’ Montana.

The sun went down and Bjork took the stage, barefoot and painted and fierce (and cute), and began to knock out tracks from her entire catalog, one right after the other, ending each song with a demure curtsy and a girlish “Thhhhank you” in her adorable Icelandic accent.  This delicate display was nicely juxtaposed next to her amazing and intense vocals on songs like Declare Independence, which had all of the Festival stomping around and waving their freak flags higher, higher.

Accompanying her delicious and complex cacophony that night was a ReacTable, a sort of digital synthesizer turntable thingy that produces amazing sound and a spectacular visual.  The swirling lights and noise from this machine displayed on the giant screens did nothing to hamper the show’s affect, believe you me.

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We danced and cheered and stood in awe at the perfection of Bjork’s show set against the backdrop of the stunning Austin skyline.  I held my wife tightly during Joga, a song that always brings a knot to my throat.  It was by far my best concert experience to date.

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by seanningham

show at ACL Fest 2007. To that point, I’d never seen her live, and the
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