Photo of Bjork's at the Fox Theater in Atlanta by Lauri Piper. (This was just below our seats.)-
Trying to describe Bjork's Monday night concert at the Fox Theater in Atlanta reminds me of those who claim to have been abducted by aliens then returned to earth with warped memory. I knew the 87-year-old venue would be perfect, intimate with beautiful antique Arabian details including an evening sky ceiling with stars.
The crowd was like 5,000 kids on Christmas morning, thrilled beyond belief and Bjork brought it getting everyone to their feet for most songs, all with dropped jaws.
To briefly recap some elements of a Bjork concert that, unsurprisingly, still put her as the queen of her self-designed ring:
- Vibrant face paint worn by every woman on stage
- A laser light show (like the Atari game "Battlezone" was being played live)
- Paper webs, a la Spiderman, being shot from her hands into the audience
- An explosion of metallic confetti towards the end of the concert, giving the entire lower section the apperance of a snow globe from a different world.
- A ten member all-female brass band dressed in multicolored outfits, with facepaint with flags above their heads. They are known as Wonderbrass and the look like the Teletubbies got tangled up with some creature of the set of 1971's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Here's photographic evidence from Ashley Williams of Pitchfork.
She covered a wide-range of her catalogue, from 1995's "Post" to the recently-released "Volta," paying particular attention to her 1997 masterpiece "Homogenic." The crowd was left invigorated, enamored and grateful that the Icelandic Goddess decided to land her spaceship in the southeast, at least for one night.
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