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2003-06-26 Belgium Werchter Werchter Festival Festival.
Setlist Pictures (email) Observe that there usually is a NO camera policy at these concerts.
01. Hunter
02. Pagan Poetry
03. Jóga
04. Generous Palmstroke
05. Cocoon
06. Heirloom
07. Desired Constellation
08. Unravel
09. Nameless
10. An Echo, A Stain
11. Where Is The Line?
12. Hyperballad
13. It's In Our Hands (SPT mix)
14. Bachelorette
15. Pluto

encore

16. Human Behaviour
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Off course Bjork was magnificent at Werchter and I do not seem to get enough of her . I´m anxious for her next performance in Belgium or some other country nearby. Enough seems to be not enough : more is desired !!!!!!

Marc

/cram - 815
Un GRAND MERCI à toi Björk, pour cette soirée merveilleuse!!
je venais au départ pour profiter du concert de Radiohead (sans doute un des meilleurs groupes du monde) mais tu nous a enchantés... Tu m'as convaincue de la réelle poésie de ton âme et... tu as fait trembler nos tripes!
Reviens-nous vite.
BisouXxX à tous les "rockwerchteriens".
Mel

/Mely - 661
Maybe it's a bit late to write about the Björk-show on Werchter but it's a proof that you can't forget a show like the one she gave ! Amazing ! I'm still recovering of the emotional boom i got there ... It made me cry when i saw her ... she's so breathtaking !
Oh my Björk,
Dankjewel ...

/fienmasjien - 641
yuhu !
c'était vraiement génial !
vivement qu'elle revienne en belgique !
Les nouvelles chansons étaient vraiment extradordianire !
vivement également le prochain album !

AµLlY !

/aully - 600
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I LOVE HER

I LOVE HER

I LOVE HER

I LOVE HER

/mazzy* - 589
umm....yeah, what is there left to say??? i think everyone has already summed it up. this was the 2nd time i seen bjork, the last time was in california and she was pregnant. this time around she was a lot more playful and in a better state to actual dance! she was amazing and throughout the show i stood there with a permanent smile on my face. hearing her live makes my ears just want more and more. and i just have to say that i am so so so so happy she did pluto....it is my favorite thing ever live. every cell in my body exploded with joy and excitment during this number. i can't wait to see her again!!!!

bzzz...bzzz.....bee

/bee - 587
L'ayant vue à Bercy le 17 juin, je dois avouer que la préstation de Bjork à Werchter était largement supérieure. Enfin une Bjork comme je l'aime, qui bouge, qui saute, qui invente de nouvelles formes de danses (mention spéciale pour la chorégraphie de "Bachelorette", ou elle nous a fait une espèce de danse du pingouin ;-)!), qui sourit, qui plaisante. Elle a dégagé un charme fou, comment ne pas craquer???
Nous étions 3 à faire le déplacement à werchter, mes 2 compagnons de route ne venaient pas pour voir Bjork, mais pour Radiohead, REM et Coldplay. Pourtant ils ont été totalement conquis par sa préstation, ce qui me fait très plaisir.
Domage qu'en Belgique il ne fasse pas nuit avant 22h30-22h40, on ne profitait pas pleinement des effets de lumière et de pyrothechnie.
Je trouve également que Bjork à un certain courage pour chanter des morceaux comme "an echo a stain", "Cocoon" ou "Generous Palmstroke" dans un festival ou les gens ne viennent pas que pour elle. D'ailleurs durant ces morceaux il y avait pas mal de monde qui parlaient, assé génant.
Contrairement à Bercy, le son était de bonne qualité, sauf pour "Hunter".
En conclusion, Bjork a été magique, du pur bonheur, incroyable. MERCI!!! ce concert a été suivi de Radiohead, mais c'est une autre histoire... Ces 2 concerts d'affiler représentent une de mes plus belles soirées musicales, si ce n'est la plus belle!


/stapfi - 579
by the way:
-radiohead was very good too but after Bjork I actually wanted to lay down for an hour to recover... i was "oversensed"
-it was a petty that Bjork and Tom Yorke didnt do their "dancer in the dark"-duet.

/angelo - 567
hello!

i enjoyed the concert very very much. it was the 3rd time that a saw a Bjork-gig in Belgium and it's always a big surprise what is going to happen. this thursday it were the amazing fireworks / visuals and the uncredible setlist. aulthough the setlist was for a lot of the audience a bit to difficult i really really enjoyed it. the reaction of the audience was not 'extreme' enough for me: i danced the whole concert (even vespertine is a real dance-album for me!) but everybody was standing still: human behaviour...

thank you for your music .. it's the soundtrack of my life ..
Angelo

/angelo - 566
dankjeweldankjeweldankjeweldankjewel Bjork for:

-singing and looking so beautiful it almost made me cry
-all those wonderful songs you did, especially the 3 new songs Nameless (beautiful!) Where is the line (wow!) and Desired Constillation (yeah we got all three of them!)
-showing us your smile and looking at us :)
-doing Pluto: the one song I always wanted to see live! When we were waiting at the gate we heard the soundcheck of this song and we were like o my goooooooood
-doing that nice dance at the beats of Hunter ;)
-doing songs like Cocoon and Generous Palmstroke at a festival, it creates such a special atmosphere

and finally mercimercimerci to Bjork for just making heavenly music :)

The fireworks were great, the visuals were beautiful (especially the Unravel visuals!), standing only about 3 meters away from her was definitely worth the waiting, many of my favourite songs in the setlist, Zeena, Matmos, the violin players, Bjork was definitely definitely having a great time herself: just EVERYTHING was perfect!

Thanx to my cousin Marty for showing me the world of Bjork a long time ago ;)

"Isn't it nice when it's getting darker.." :)



/hypergirl82 - 564
and didn't anyone notice the "don't you love it when it's getting darrrkerrrr?" bubbles in my belly. i'm so in love with her! i love it when it's getting darrkerrr...

/claeriefaerie - 561
Thanks so much for this amazing concert, I'll never forget it. Her voice blew me away!

/miss amber - 560
Fantabulous, spectacular show! the 3 new songs are really really good and the visuals during Unravel were very beautiful. Bjork's taste for music, videos and clothes is so unique and she's the best singer I know. Her voice blew me away most of the time. I hope she'll keep making music for years. Thanks so much for this show!

/miss amber - 543
Hi, I was a bit impatient and already posted this in the 4-um on friday, but I'll also copy it here :)

Me and my sister Linda got there a lot later than hoped, but we were still in time to get into the first section of the field. Not front row, but we got see the stage pretty well. Because Björk was the first to perform at the festival, the whole crowd was very excited, there were a lot of Radiohead fans already waiting for them (they were on next).

We could already see everything set up, Zeena was talking to some technican about her harp, and Leila was testing her equipment. Weird sounds were sounding from the speakers, making everybody curious.

Björk started right on time (even 1 minute early) with "Hunter". She was wearing a white suit and the green feathers around her ears that she wore earlier in the tour. She was looking pretty serious in the first few songs, but she started to get more and more enthusiastic during the set. The crowd was singing along with the better known songs, and during Pagan Poetry, everybody was singing along to the "I love him" part.

I was really happy to hear "Joga", and "Generous Palmstroke" in which she sang something wrong (but no harm done). "Cocoon" was very pretty, very daring I thought for a festival. Björk took the earfeathers off during the 5 or 6th song. "Heirloom" was very nice to hear live.
"Desired Constilation" was not what I had expected (I didn't download the new songs) but was very nice. The visual for "Unravel" was stunning, I almost forgot to watch Björk on stage.

During song 9, an new icelandic song (Nameless??), the crowd cheered when she sang the highpitched ooooh's flawlessly. "An Echo A Stain" was also a bit daring for a festival, but sounded good. "Where is the line" really got the crowd going, people started to dance, and Leila was incredibly busy working on her equimpent and smiled more with every beat.

"Hyperballad" was a real succes (always a favourite with the fans) and "It's In Our Hands" really works in the remix. The half of Matmos who made the remix was headbanging behind his equipment :)
"bachelorette" was also a succes, it seemed that a big part of the crowd (well at least the ones I could see and hear) really loved hearing it.

"Pluto" was the real big crowd pleaser, with Björk running around during the songs and getting people to dance and swing their arms. The visual got some laughs. I was wearing ear plugs so I didn't realise there were big fireworks (I just saw them on the belgian news), I only noticed the small ones on the stage. It was really good to hear such a techno song, it worked really well.

After a really short break, She came back with a white attachment to her suit, a fold-out thing, that opened like the feathers of a peacock (I have no idea how to descibe it, but I think I've seen it before on some pictures in the gigography). When the beat of "Human Behaviour" sounded, the party was complete. Björk was clearly enjoying herself, when she started singing 'there is definitely no logic' she kept singing 'definitely' over and over, throwing some giggles inbetween.

She stopped right on time (maybe one or 2 minutes late) and inbetween songs she kept saying 'dankjewel', 'merci', and even 'takk' with something in icelandic (thank you very much?).
One time she made a little mantra, saying 'dankdankdankdankdankjewel' a few times, and 'mercimercimerci'. Nice to know that some artists realize that Belgium is bilangual, although I didn't expect less of Björk.

We were standing a bit too close to the speakers, so the bass was really loud, but you could always hear her voice (I think that they turned her up during the first song). The sound further from the stage must have been pretty good, because when we were watching Radiohead and Underworld from a bit farther away, the sound was fantastic.

We had a great time, it was really worth it. I was sorry she didn't do "5 years" and "Nature is Ancient" but she only had 1hour and 15 minutes, and she used every minute of it. Overall it was a nice set and I'm happy she did all the new songs and "Joga".

Hope you enjoyed this review,
Love, Meta

/eisbaer - 542
oh this just brings me down to read all the "it was just wonderfull!"-writings here, but hopefully you all who had a chance to see Björk liked it ;)

/chilipepper - 541
Bonjour, ...

C'est la troisieme fois que je vois bjork en concert .... Et cette tournée est TERRIBLE!!!!
On a eu droit à 3 nouvelles chansons !!!!!
Elle a eu du mal au debut mais des que unravel a commencé ..... Elle nous a porté dans une autre galaxie , un autre ère et ses nouveaux morcaux montrent bien qu'elle continue de surprendre encore et encore !!!!

Vivement le prochain album :-)))

/gullfoss - 540
@ webmasters (or anyone):

is it possible to show the designer's name of björk's tremendous clothes she's wearing on all of performances? (eg comme des garçons, viktor&rolf etc.) Also, does anyone know who the "exploding" naked man on the big screen is during pluto? Apparently it is not Matthew Barney. I know this is not a review, sorry, but i did not find your direct email....Thanx for any help!!

björk i can't stop thinking of you you are my inspiration. un abbraccio di cuore. yours possibly maybe, marco

/thehunter77 - 538
superbe...

dommage qu'au début, sa voix n'était pas parfaite, mais dès Unravel le show était magnifique.. les beats me tremblait dans tout mes os et c'était impossible d'arrêter de danser!!

les chansons était choisies méticuleusement: ses plus intimes au début, elle était pas en forme parfait, mais ses petits pas me faisait rigôler.. après Unravel et An Echo, A Stain, le techno devenait plus hard et sa voix s'entendait plus fort et tout le monde qui était en face du podium devenait fou!!

le nouvelles: Desired Constellation, Nameless et Were Is The Line 'rockt'!!! tout le monde sautait, dansait et criait avec.. l'atmosphère parfaite..

le concert était complètement different de celui qu'elle a joué au septembre 2001 à bruxelles, mais c'était au moins assez bien.. de nouveau un orgasme musicale!!

dommage que ça n'a duré qu'une heure et quart et que la conne à coté de moi pouvait pas arrêter de crier.. vraiment ça m'a fait chier, parce qu'au quelques moments, je pouvais plus entendre Björk!

merci björk, aussi pour le rap au début de Human Behaviour (la robe!!!!!!).. c'est bien que t'a enfin découverte qu'en Belgique; il y a aussi des gens qui parlent le néerlandais!!

highlights: Nameless (1000 fois plus beau et intense que Cocoon), Where Is The Line, It's In Our Hands (SPT-rmx), Hyper Ballad et bien sûr Pluto! le feu d'artifice nous avait supris, mais c'était chouette..

à la prochaine, björk et 'takk fyrir'

/bazz - 537
Hey everybody...omg what a great show. Now even after 2 days, i still get ghoosebumps when i think of her show on werchter! I'm totally in love with her! What a woman! So full of energie, *especially her funny dances*, great voice *even live*...beautifull songs, each and everyone of them....

It was a birthdaygift of my boyfriend...and it was (is) the best gift ever!
I really hope i can see her another time "live" .

With Love Fem!


/Femke1984 - 536
it took us nearly 6 hours from our home (wich is about a 1,5 hour driver from Werchter, on a normal day) to get onto the field at Werchter, we missed most of the show, waiting to get in, standing in line. we finally got in at 22:45 and saw the last two and a half song... boohooo :o(..... I felt like crying that I missed the first hour. I loved what I saw, but hate Werchter now for the unprofessional way everything was arranged. it was a complete disaster. still, Bjork was great as usual (what I saw of it and heard while standing in line.. grrrrrr), loved the fireworks and the smile on her face. I never get enough of her shows!

/pbutz - 535
mmm...was she wearing Bernhard Willhelm?

/helmut - 534
I was there aswell. She always let me standing there breathless totally.
I love her emotional booming voice and her very exotic clothes.

What a master piece! What a woman! What a night!

greetings to Björk fans B J :O R K 4 EVA loco2

/loco2 - 533
What more can i say??

Heel erg dankjewel for the wonderful preformance Björk!!!! I was (and i'm still) so impressed of her yesterday. The way she sings, the way she danced and the way she looked at the audience.........It almost makes me cried. What a show and what a lovely charisma. i don't know exactly how much crowd thare was yesterday but i think almost 60000 and when she started to play everyone was be amazed at her show, i'm sure of that. She really hits my heart. I wonder if she knows what she and her music means for lot people but one thing i already knows: Björk, You are amazing!! dankjedankjedankjewel

/bierbrouwer - 530
my first life concert from Björk

oooh

breathtaking

did you look at her pretty hands? :)

(so cute)

but verry strange is that you see björk at +- 40 meters far, but she's so unreachable for me...
I mean, I would like if I can have a good conversation with her.
I think she's verry smart and of corse very special and AMAZING
If I hear her music, I have such a big feeling inside, (I felt nothing like that before)

mmm

great night
I hope not the last one

ooh, please come back
:-)

dankjewel Björk, for the amazing night





/eliasheuninck - 529
as it was my first time to see björk live, i did not really know what to expect.
* i cried a bit during generous palmstroke, hearing that song in a live version makes me so emotional
* i could not move during unravel, the sound, the video, everything was absorbing me and despite the gigantic crowd, me and my friend where holding hands and cuddling, it felt like we where alone for moments during cocoon and the more quiet songs
* the suit was absolutely not what i had in mind, i thought she would wear something more fairytalish. my word for the suit: galaxy. ah that could fit in the new project thing.
* i so so so badly want the bootleg of it, if there is one.
speaking of this concert as a milestone in my life is maybe a bit exaggerated, but i am sure i have never experienced such an intimate moment in a crowd, and i will not so soon go through something like that again.

/timestoodstill - 528
Génial! Le concert était superbe j'étais juste devant la scéne. Les nouvelles chansons était éxtraordinaire vivement le prochain album... et la prochaine tourné. Le show était vraiment époustouflant. Je me souviendrait longtemps de mon premier concert de Björk.

/siesse - 527
Bedankt Caro, uw rug heeft me nooit zoveel plezier verschaft ... voor review buiten deze dankzegging: lees onderaan :)))))

xxx

/roelipilami - 526
Hello!

Björk at Werchter was so so so fABULOUS

Björk était magnifique dans son ensemble blanc brillant venu de l'espace! Elle arborait des pétales de fleurs vertes autour de ses oreilles!!! Un vrai petit elfe avait fait son apparition parmi nous!

Après une entrée en matière assez calme et pleine de poésie (hunter, pagan poetry), les premiers effets grandioses firent leurs apparitions avec "Yoga", pirotechnie et artifices à gogo!! La chanson charma tout le public! Chaque chanson était représentée par un effet particulier : soit le feu (un véritable délire plutonique!), soit les artifices éclairant le ciel de Werchter dans l'extase Yogienne, soit le rétroprojecteur géant où la magie opéra dans le nouveau titre "desired constellation"!

"where is the line" m'a laissé sans voix! La foule de Werchter était déchainée! Tout le monde l'a compris: c'est sans hésitation un futur succès interplanétaire!

Ce fut une Björk souriante, forte et fragile à la fois, qui sautillait et faisait balancer ses bras comme un enfant sur scène : du pure björk qui émerveilla et enchanta et illumina toute la plaine de Werchter. Le festival pouvait maintenant prendre sa vitesse de croisière après ce décollage plein de puissance et d'émotion.

Reviens nous vite Björk, tu nous manques déjà!

Valky.

/valky - 525
I can t find any words to descripe this feeling deep inside, it was just:

{ }

thank you so much (dankjedankjedankjewel)

ps: To want more would be greed, but mmmmh, I rrrrreally want more :-)

groenten en fruit, hans


/iglo - 524
what a shame i missed that gig. reading all the reviews im getting really envious! ive seen björk this month at the amphitheatre in verona on fri and sat, which has been great, but i'm really curious about this definitelx8 - thing...! a relaxing weekend to all of you. marco

/thehunter77 - 523
Thank you Bjork, for the great performance!
I really loved it, nice videoanimatios, lights and everything. Too bad it wasn't dark enought yet for all those beautifull fireworks, cos it was a really nice opening for Werchter!
One minus; I thought the sound could have been better sometimes, her mic could have been a bit louder, sometimes her voice faded away (soft) cos the mic didn't picked the loud/high "belting" parts when she took a little distance of it. But that's not her fault.... so sound engeneer....
I was very pleased that Bjork played "Unravel", I really love that song, I can get really emotional about it so beautifull, out of the heart. Unfortunately she doesn't play it that often on live shows. (possibly because of the chorus where the voices mixup???).
Anyway, I had a very god spot in the audience, I stood there already from about 19.00 hrs but it was worth it! Me and my boyfriend (who saw her performing live for the first time and was stunned!) came all the way from Amsterdam , the Netherlands to she her. I got home at 5.15 in the morning: we where exhousted, but I 'm so happy I went! I think Bjork is DEFINITELY DEFINITELY DEFINITELY the best live-artist in the world!
Bjork, you're the best, please visit our country (the Netherlands) some time again too, cos we LUUUUUVVVV you!
XXX Maedy


/mt5 - 522
i wish i was there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) so beautiful

/magnicat - 521
I never been so disgusted as yesterday,
during her whole concert I was waiting outside the festival terrain to get in,
almost 2 hours to get in. :'(

/benoiod - 516
it was so amazing!! what a show!!
so beautifull! nameless!! whoooohiee!!
when i think of it i'm feeling the tears comming again...


/sterra - 513
It's a pity the planes that flew over all the time didn't crash behind the stage during Pluto. That would have been spectacular.

I've already said my word, I just wanted to add that every single song she did, was a perfect version. Impossible to pick a favourite or a 'best performed'; every song was unique, in some there was even improvising, but all of them were to be remembered as 'ideal' or something. Whatever I mean by that. I was really impressed, actually.

/MirrorMirror - 512
WHAT A KICK OFF for Werchter!!!!!!!

WHAT A GOOD MOOD SHE WAS IN!!! (and what a difference with Paris 17/06...)

dankudankudankudankudanku
mercimercimercimercimercimerci
bcpbcpbcpbcpbcpbcpbcpbcpbcpbcp

/lalili - 511
I just come from Werchter (or the train station where i slept...)
What a nice concert! I was on the front, next to the central part for vip people and security system. Björk was in a very good mood, she danced all around the stage, smiling to the audience, improvising a little "dankjedankje...mercimercimerci" song. She was very well-dressed, it perfectly fit with a festival concert. The first part of the concert was very calm. But An Echo A Stain rocked the audience. And we had Where Is The Line!!!!! But it was playback!!!!! I'm sure of it, i could see her lips, the place of the microphone... But what a fantastic song! She was dancing on stage like in a disco, very amazing! People got crazy with Pluto, it was terrific.
But the fireworks weren't very good. I couldn't see the fireworks exploding above the stage (i was too close to it), and the flames makers weren't very impressive... There was no synchronisation with the music... not so good.
Just before Radiohead's concert, she appeared with Matmos in the audience!!! She snicked through the central part (there was only security agents) and went far from the stage. I didn't see her after she passed 1 meter from me...

/mihfolya - 510
Salut à tous,

A peine rentré de Werchter, encore baigné de la très chouette atmosphère de ce jeudi mémorable ou j'ai enfin pu voir on stage la fée Bjork, j'ai très envie de vous faire partager ma joie.
Il fut total.
Bjork, est apparue tout de blanc vêtue, le visage enserré dans une énorme fleur bleue (ne me demandez pas laquelle, je suis piètre botaniste), souriante et détendue.
Dès le premier morceau, Hunter, elle a charmé un public qui n'était pas forcément venu pour elle (Radiohead devait suivre). Elle enchaîna avec Pagan Poetry, morceau qui, je le crains finira par me rendre cardiaque tant il me comble d'aise.
Sa voix de cristal m'a immédiatement envoûté, d'autant plus qu'à la grâce s'est ajoutée la puissance.
Ce mélange de fragilité et de force qui rend Bjork si étrange, unique et attirante.
Un spectacle à la fois apaisant avec une première partie plutôt calme, la seconde plus pêchue avec effets pyrotechniques sur scène et feux d'artifice (plus haut bien évidemment).
Entre autres, une version de Pluto décoiffante et particulièrement impressionnante.
Je ne vais pas décrire chaque morceau car il me faudrait écrire un bouquin entier pour vous narrer toutes les sensations ressenties.
Disons simplement que j'ai particulièrement craqué pour Its in our Hands, Cocoon et Unravel.
Nous avons aussi eu droit à un nouveau morceau dont je n'ai pas retenu le titre mais qui fut tout simplement extraordinaire.
Vraiment un superbe spectacle ou Bjork nous a encore une fois laissé entrevoir l'étendue de son talent et de sa créativité.
Car le meilleur reste à venir soyons en sûr.
Elle était rayonnante, souriant et remerciant le public en plusieurs langues, plaisantant même durant le rappel (unique hélas), Human Behaviour.
Bjork dégageait une joie de vivre très communicative.
Comme beaucoup, j'avais espéré le duo avec Thom Yorke, Radiohead étant un de mes groupes favoris, espoir déçu mais nous l'entendrons sûrement une autre fois.
Mille fois merci Bjork, pour ce grand moment de bonheur et surtout,....... reviens nous vite !!

Yves de Bruxelles

/aqxs0008@wanadoo - 509
Björk said: "dankje, dankje, dankjewel, dankje, dankje, dankjewel...", but I have to say "DANKJE Björk!!!" because it was an incredible performance. I'm sure she enjoyed it as much as I did, especially the 'definitely...definitely...definitely...def-definitely...'-part in Human Behaviour :)

NO LOGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


/profiler - 508
A first class concert. The sound was superb; Björk's voice was really loud. Secondly, she was in top form. She really reached incredible high notes, even from the first songs (Hunter & Pagan Poetry) onwards.

I've seen her in Paris (17th) as well, and this show was even a thousand times better. Björk was just in a great mood, and she sounded as if she had eaten honey for weeks. She didn't hide away as in Bercy, but came near the public, made faces towards them and reflected how fun it was to be the festival's starter.

The setlist was really nice; the first 7, 8 songs were calm ones. Only after 40, 45 minutes the dancebeats started with It's In Our Hands, Where's The Line, Hyperballad and Pluto (the sun set, spectacular fireworks filled the air and planes flew over, bedazzled). People who came to see Radiohead were really amazed: "Woow they'll really need to play their asses off to attain this kind of power," it sounded. (Radiohead would indeed prove to be a lot more conventional and less inspired than Björk).

During the encore (Human Behaviour), Björk wore her huge spiderweb-wings with little christmas lights in it. And behind her, the bushes flamed (I thought those were typical for Isobel, but she didn't play that).

This was one of the most astonishing and inspiring performances in my life. I'm so happy the sound system was so perfect, and that Björk herself was in the best of all shapes. May many years of creativity come to you, miss. Thank you.

/MirrorMirror - 507
Hi,
I literally *just* returned from Werchter ... it was FAN-TAS-TIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to my best friend's well-washed greaseless back I penned down the setlist, here goes (people always stare at me at certain points, very bizarre :))):
1. Hunter
- she started at the foreseen time, perfect! wearing a beautiful silvery short dress with pants of the same fabric underneath them + the green ear-things ... cristalclear voice, I've never heard her sing that beautifully ... and noooo I wasn't emotionally prejudiced, it's just a fact ... petty it wasn't already dark ... AND: fireworks !!!!!!!!! -
2. Pagan Poetry
- mmmh, I couldn't hear the violins that well during the song, but heeey I'm not complaining one single second -
3. Jóga
- the "frontrow" fireworks started flaming + beaaaats -
4. Generous Palmstroke
- of course with a huge applause in between the two parts; I didn't!!! Nonononononoooo ... she did get mixed up at the beginning of the song with the lyrics, Zeena had to improvise for one second -
5. Cocoon
- Nice surprise ... reminded me of the Coachella-atmosphere ... Cocoon at a festival, it's a bizarre combination ... again: a crystalclear voice
6. Heirloom
- fabulous! Bjork did get mixed up again with the lyrics ... "we feel a ...mmmh .... dark ... glowing liiiiiiight", you know ;) -
7. Desired Constellation
- and a plane flew over ... "how am I going to make it right" ... yeah yeah LOL -
8. Unravel
- wooohooooooooo, nice video by the way, real yarn! -
9. Nameless
- this was the point where people started getting all excited; quote: "AAAAAwhoooooooooooo" + beats performed miracles!!!!! .... better live than I had already heard on some MP3's; elektro-extravaganza -
10. An Echo, A Stain
- what do I need to say, this one was phenomenal ... "I'm sorry he saw that" and the heavy beats fell in ... divine -
11. Where Is The Line
- I mean: WOW! ... it was just too good to get played a few times at a concert; never to be recorded ... so we definitely neeed that song -
12. Hyperballad
- shouting + dancing all around us, it always works this song: Björk doing her typical "I'm flying over the stage-thing" -
13. Our Hands
- nice, vivid, fast, elektro ... -
14. Bachelorette
- Fitted well in the bombastic atmosphere -
15. Pluto
- ............. I got totally mad, I freaked out, fireworks all over, the frontrow flames doing their best ... it was TREMENDOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!! -

16. (encore) Human Behaviour
- this was by far the funniest part of the show, Björk showing up again with this huge silver web-thing on her back, forgetting a big part of the lines when she started singing "there's definitely, definitely, definitely ... def-def-definitely, definitely, definitely, def-def-definitely, definitely ... x8 ... no loooogiiiiiiiiiiiiic" ... hehe, hilarious, she started laughing herself! Something that showed: she was very happy all the time, really enjoying herself.

So that was it .... great show, a lovely talkative Björk (dankjewel!!!, she said a couple of times, even making a little rap out of it: dankjedankjedankjedankjeweeeel, mercimercimercimerci bieeeen ... think someone told her people in Belgium speak Dutch and French ;), she also said takk fyrir ... or how do you spell that ... and she danced heaps, fooled around, didn't care ... having a great day I guess.
If I got the chance to pay a lot of money only to see her do exactly the same show again *now*: I would ... a well-recorded bootleg of it MUST be great to listen to ...

Great night, it really was!
I always forget how big a fan I actually am ... too big for reason to grasp :)

XXX
Roel


/roelipilami - 506
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