Setlist: Kanye West at Austin City Limits Music Festival, Zilker Park, Sept. 16, 2011
Act 1: H.A.M. intro / Dark Fantasy / Power / Jesus Walks / Can’t Tell Me Nothing / Hell of a Life / Monster / Flashing Lights / Good Life (with snippet of Michael Jackson’s P.Y.T. for intro)
Act 2: Love Lockdown / Heartless / Run This Town (partial Jay-Z cover) / N****s in Paris (partial, cut off) / Through the Wire / All Falls Down / Touch the Sky / Gold Digger / All of the Lights / Stronger
Act 3: Runaway / Lost in the World / Hey Mama
Photo also by David Hall, for The Orange County Register.
With the performances I’ve caught over time at Austin tx City Restricts Music Pageant, none possess achieved something as aesthetically stunning as Kanye West’s demonstrate to Friday day, the spectacular cap to Day 1 of the festival’s 10 anniversary copy in Zilker Park.
His Coachella-closing set in April is longer along with harped for the reason that groundbreaking just by critics through the board, but right at that moment it didn’t get me. It has been overshadowed by just about the most outstanding pageant marvels I’ve experienced: Arcade Fire’s breathtakingly triumphant switch on Saturday, which ended with a magical steady stream of 3, 000 round lanterns pouring above the stage’s prime and onto an definitely dazzled market belting out and about the deliriously uplifting intro from “Wake Upwards. ”
That Canadian collective closes out and about this ACL birthday bash On the night, and they may well trump Kanye overall. But until his position Friday night, made even more significant because of it being the final gig associated with his visit behind go on year’s known album This Beautiful Dark Twisted Illusion – truth be told there wasn’t a lot of else competitors.
Of course, that’s not saying that Daytime 1 wasn’t filled with myriad talents.
[More... ] Brandi Carlile, clearly ecstatic to become making the girl first ACL look and feel, wowed a early-bird target audience with balmy vocals together with catchy music, which bundled her now-standard but incredibly rousing Johnny Cash discusses, “Jackson” along with “Folsom Dejecting prison Blues. ”
British electronica composer Brandon Blake’s specify (immediately after Carlile’s) wasn’t much to check out – merely nearly expressionless young man at a keyboard complemented intermittently using a drummer and guitarist. Yet a sizable crowd were standing transfixed, detained by your partner’s intricate beats. It’s hard to not ever lose you in her transcendent mixture: minimalist structures quite like early Sufjan Stevens, demure yet forceful shades with Thom Yorke in addition to Portishead’s trip-hop leanings, furthermore beautifully quavering, gospel-toned vocals echoing this off-kilter tunes of Grimy Projectors. (I count on his gigs Saturday and Monday within the intimate Audio Box shall be even far more impressive. )
Which includes a slew involving Outkast gets in tow line, Big Boi incited a good formidable creep party (as usual), though We was a bit disappointed which he wasn’t backed from the gaggle of highly synchronized dancers within matching jumpsuits, one of his show’s a lot of enlivening factors, and a relentless at each and every gig I’ve caught on this tour. Likewise, Cold Struggle Kids in addition to Bright Big eyes played recommended to their strengths, peppering their own sets using ample gets into and cuts from their respective newest albums, Mine Can be Yours along with the People’s Vital.
Other respectable mentions comprise of Austin’s ascending king with the blues, Gary Clark Junior., who level my words shall be graduating to be able to larger fest stages and Ancient greek language Theatre-sized venues very fast. Just previous to him, Foster the public – simply one this day’s largest draws – generated for a tightly packed side-stage performance. In your half-dozen moments I’ve witnessed the L. A. -bred group this current year, frontman Level Foster has not performed along with such unrestrained bliss, dancing to be a Footloose aficionado and even embarking using a short crowd-surfing session in the end of “Pumped All the way up Kicks. ”
Coldplay’s establish was in the same as it’s at Lollapalooza previous month, just slightly lower. I absolutely adore the group’s more powerful hits (“Yellow, ” “In My own Place, ” “The Scientist”), but a portion of the new material – particularly the show-opener in addition to coming album’s concept track, “Mylo Xyloto” : are snoozers. Those tunes certainly didn’t enthrall enough to keep me from getting a swift journey with the park’s antipode end meant for West’s extraordinary evening-ender.
I still contain a personal burgers with Kanye: I was one of many thousands who waited for hours at Bonnaroo with 2008 meant for his overly-hyped glow-in-the-dark demonstrate to, only to finally acquire disgruntled, annoyingly antagonistic Western side at approximately 4: 35 a. m., with about 20 minutes ahead of sunrise proficiently ruined their extravagant arrange. That fail, plus some previous working experience at Lolla 2006 where he cussed out and about his crowd for breaking “his” city, seriously marred my opinion of him for many years.
Friday day, however, West redeemed himself in its entirety. With the same eye-popping Greek frieze for any backdrop since he hired at Coachella, using an affiliate internet marketing of Cirque du Soleil-esque ballet/hip-hop dancers flanking him in addition to a light demonstrate to that invests Muse to be able to shame, he decided the stage for a solid hour and thirty minutes by having a show separate (literally, based on a large screen) into three “Acts. ” The mix of dazzling elements was a testament to your success associated with his visionary prowess.
“This could be the last night of this demonstrate, ” he said, in advance of launching into an extended version associated with “Runaway” to begin the previous segment. “There will be new times (ahead), but most people gotta remember these times, ” your possible allusion so that you can his certain Watch your Throne expedition with Jay-Z. Accept it from people, Mr. Western side: after a good run associated with shows just like these, we’ll many have challenges forgetting on the subject of your Dark Twisted Fantasy for a long time.
