If I remember well, the setlist went as follows:
- Mass
- Olympik
- Sail On
- Shangri-La
- Brasil
All artists had a 30-35 minute set and were accessing the stage from the audience. I got Ed climbing onstage passing just before me as I had chosen the best spot right in front of his mike though I had to leave room to the hand cameraman and the set photographer who were both lovely people and ketp apologising for the inconvenience (so amazing how everyone was so considerate and kind during this evening — it was really like being in another dimension where everyone would care for one another and artists and audience were treated with equal respect).
All three artists were chosen for being from a different generation and the sets were filmed starting from the youngest generation that was Black Country, New Road to the last, Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth's fame), Ed being in the middle. I expected more people would have come for Ed, but actually most had come for Kim. Roughly there were about 300 people but only about 50 for the talk show.
After the sets, they had an hour talk show hosted by Jehnny Beth who is a French singer of international fame (actually I had never heard of her before) and also an actress as I've heard. Honestly, it would have been a bit stale had it been for our Ed saving the silences and taking over from Jehnny. All this will be broadcasted on ARTE channel but so far I have no date. I expected it for the end of this month but apparently it will be for the end of April. Going by the previous shows, it should be cut out and interwined with bits of interviews and the talk show but the entire live sets should be available seperately on the channel's website.
If anyone who was there took pictures (we were requested not to for the cameras that were filming), you're welcome to post them here I'd love to see them. I didn't take any because I was in direct line with the cameras. The only one I took was of Ed right before they started shooting the talk but they're not very good and you can find them in my album. The top picture is by Sabrina who was also standing a bit further on my right.
Honestly, if I didn't have all these pictures I'm on, I'd think it was a dream. And considering what happened two days after, it's even weirder. I
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