Sufjan Stevens, Royal Festival Hall, London gets 5 stars!

[Neil McCauley]

Writes Any Gill as follows:

"These are songs about love, death and the apocalypse," explains Sufjan Stevens a short way into his set. "Should be a lot of fun."

He's not wrong, either. In terms of making the apocalypse palatable, the church could learn a lot from Stevens, although there are similarities between the raiment and ceremony of the Catholic church, and his own stage performance. Although no minister of the church ever had the guts (or, indeed, the wings) to wear a giant pair of angel wings, as Sufjan does during one of the many epiphanic climaxes that punctuate the show. Nor, indeed, the giant tinfoil pyramid headdress and mirrorball robe donned for part of the monumental half-hour-long "Impossible Soul", which closes the set."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...n-2284973.html

[WAD62]

Writes Any Gill as follows:

"These are songs about love, death and the apocalypse," explains Sufjan Stevens a short way into his set. "Should be a lot of fun."

He's not wrong, either. In terms of making the apocalypse palatable, the church could learn a lot from Stevens, although there are similarities between the raiment and ceremony of the Catholic church, and his own stage performance. Although no minister of the church ever had the guts (or, indeed, the wings) to wear a giant pair of angel wings, as Sufjan does during one of the many epiphanic climaxes that punctuate the show. Nor, indeed, the giant tinfoil pyramid headdress and mirrorball robe donned for part of the monumental half-hour-long "Impossible Soul", which closes the set."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...n-2284973.html

Would this be the very same Andy Gill who's sold out the Gang of 4's heritage to Microsoft?

Sounds like he had some good drugs for the show, I've heard a little of Sufjan Stevens on mp3 but wasn't suitably inspired to buy the CD...but each to their own, a little too camp for me