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I am beat. But I shall share with you a few photos from last night's show. I'll write up a more detailed story later but for now, I'll just say a few highlights about the show. Stay tuned. I will come back after I sleep.

Here's the setlist from last night's show:

Goldfrapp, Roseland NYC Photo by Amanda Nanawa

Highlight: During "Train", the Theremin went M.I.A. That's right. It wasn't on stage for Alison to do her trademark rubbing, slapping and tongue licking antics. In fact, a stagehand was about to step on stage and hand it to her when Alison basically motioned her to stop and don't bother. The song and the Theremin moment was just about over so she had Rowan (the drummer) just end the song and the band followed suite. I just witnessed a technical fuck up. What transpired was a comedy of errors. And on the last gig of the tour of all things.

Alison performing the song "Utopia"

Goldfrapp, Roseland NYC Photo by Amanda Nanawa

Highlight: Alison was in fine form that evening. Her voice was crystal clear as shivers went down my spine whenever she would hit those soprano level notes. "Utopia" is a perfect example as it shows off her range. During "Lovely Head", a mini-fight broke out between two women. One woman was pushing her way to the front and she ticked off one of the people she pushed. So, the pushee pushed back and suddenly the two women began swiping at each other's heads -- during the song "Lovely Head".

Goldfrapp, Roseland NYC Photo by Amanda Nanawa

Highlight: Alison kept going backstage because of technical difficulties. She took those difficulties in stride and whenever she came back to the mic, she would jokingly say, "Minor technical difficulties -- Hello NY!" She would call out NY about 5 or six times. She rarely holds a conversation with the audience and always utters -- at most -- about 5 words. She's quite terse but in a good way.
I did like the extended opening bars to "You Never Know". I wasn't at the Irving Plaza show in May so that was a first for me.

I want to quickly talk about the dress she wore on stage. It was a red short dress adorned with loops, buckles and an O-Ring holder (I dunno what the fuck you call that but that's what it looked like to me) to hold the straps that graced her torso. It kinda looked like a cross between a pilot's jumpsuit, a cocktail dress and a parachute stripped of it's straps. The dress was so short that the front row got some fan service -- her black knickers made several appearances that night.

During the song "Ride a White Horse", a mini mosh pit (this Goldfrapp show pretty much had it all) started to brew and bodies just surged forward in my direction. The people who were trying to start a mosh pit were surreptitiously met with security and the mosh pit never came to fruition. But that was weird. A mosh pit at a Goldfrapp show?

Alison Goldfrapp performing "Black Cherry"

Goldfrapp, Roseland NYC Photo by Amanda Nanawa

During the first encore, the band performed "Black Cherry" and somewhere near the middle of the song, Alison stopped singing. She literally stopped, turned away from the audience and clutched the mic and mic stand. She was fighting back tears. Alison realized at that very moment that this was it for the Supernature tour and it overwhelmed her. She recovered slightly to try and sing the rest of the song. It was quite a sight to behold. That was the most human and vulnerable moment I had seen Alison and that made the show more personal.

I'll write up a nice story in a bit. I must sleep now.