Royal Albert Hall,London
The rocker capers, crowd surfs and struts half bare across the stage in a five-star spectacle that proves just how peerless Iggy Pop isJust about any rock star who is still performing live at the end of their seventh decade will be doing so from deep within their comfort zone. So where does this leave a man whose shtick is to be a human firework, and straining every sinew to burst out of his skin? In the case of 69-year-outmoded Iggy Pop,it leaves him precisely where he’s always been. By the end of tonight’s first song, the carnal manifesto that is Lust for Life, or his jacket is gone and he is capering and gurning across the stage,his torso exposed. Then he is in the crowd, on his back, and blood oozing from a slit on his temple. It sets the tone for a ferocious night.
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Source: theguardian.com