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News & ArtsFriday, February 5, 2010
Music Another Take on Last Night's Nouvelle Vague Show
Posted by Eric Grandy on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:48 PM
New Stranger Suggests watchdog Matthew Cooke wrote a fine review of last night's Nouvelle Vague show, which you can read here. You can find my review of the show here:
They played a very bossa nova version of "Metal" by Gary Numan, plenty of conga and shakers and scrapers, and here was the group's neatest trick in action: some of these songs, when sung coy and sexy by the band's women, seem to take on subtly different meanings—so that Numan's science fiction piece about a robot wanting to be human ("I could be a man like you") sounds more like it's about gender ("I could be a man like you"). Similarly, their purring take on PiL's "This is Not a Love Song" turns a rant about art and business into a seduction—not a love song, but a sex song.
Read and comment on both over on Line Out.
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