This time, she was the headliner, and the show was completely in her hands. There was a set; the lighting was extravagant; there was choreography; a costume change; songs were tight; effects were coordinated; there were no amplifiers on stage; some of the effects on her guitar seemed to be controlled off-stage (maybe timed?); the rest of the band (two keyboard players and a drummer) was dressed in black and pushed to the corners, leaving Annie Clark as the focal point. <\/p>\n
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And she made good use of the attention.<\/p>\n
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She stayed in her detached sexy art robot persona during the songs, and did a few wry, surreal, Byrne-style chats with the audience, in-between.<\/p>\n
Some songs, she did from atop her little ziggurat. <\/p>\n
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Or while crawling on it. Or sliding down it.<\/p>\n
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She got a lot of use out of the floor, too. <\/p>\n
The show<\/em> was really spectacular, especially for such a small stage. The lights and the bits of choreography (not like Britney dance moves, more like disaffected synchronized music robots) and the electronics were in a completely different league from anything I'd ever seen in a small club. Very cool.<\/p>\n The music was, of course, mostly from her current record, with a lot from her previous one, and just a few from the rest. All good songs, though as always, a couple of my favorites got left out. The sound was loud, super-bass-heavy and really great - no amps on stage meant no real stage sound to compete with the PA. So everyone got the full sound-guy mix - none of the stage-sound blast that nearly wrecked it for me, last time. And no time spent fiddling with electronics<\/a>, either. That's something I wish more bands would try: all direct sound. IMO, the days of needing a big-ass amp on stage should be over soon - small amps and electronics can handle 99% of what a guitar player needs. Let the PA handle the volume.<\/p>\n \n And she's a fantastic guitar player and singer, too. <\/p>\n Pretty wild stuff. See her\/them if you have the chance. She's one of a kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ...at the Haw River Ballroom. The last time I saw St Vincent, I had no idea who they were. They were just an opening band that I thought might be interesting but couldn't really appreciate because of sound issues. This time, she was the headliner, and the show was completely in her hands. There was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20086"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20092,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086\/revisions\/20092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/images\/stvincent5.jpg\")
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