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by Andrew Trendell | Photos by Lucy Bridger
Beautiful photos of St Vincent + Belle & Sebastian at Pitchfork Paris
Exclusive shots of the indie heroes stunning in Paris
Tags: Future Islands, St Vincent
31 October, 2014: St Vincent and Belle & Sebastian bring day two of Pitchfork Paris to a magnificent close. Check out our beautiful, exclusive photos from the festival here.
The electricity of anticipation for St Vincent hung heavily in the air, before the tension was burst with the arrival of her dystopian fever dream and the bubbling menace of 'Rattlesnake'. The wide-eyed firecracker adventure of 'Digital Witness', 'Marrow' and 'Cheerleader' held all present enraptured as Annie Clark and band artfully led through the clockwork-choreography of their alt-rock freakshow.
As the insanity of 'Krokodil' and 'Your Lips Are Red' brought things to a close as this future icon terrified the front rows, our only criticism was that it ended too soon. We could watch this all night.
If you can think of a more perfect place to see Belle & Sebastian than in Paris in the twilight hour of Hallowween, then we'd love to hear it. Opening with 'You're Just A Baby', 'Funny Little Frog' and 'Sukie In The Graveyard', their bookish romance and melodrama blossoms in the open arms of their madly doting following. The love is reciprocated as they ask those not in fancy dress to expose those who have made the effort, before inviting them on stage for a surreal dance-off.
The classics 'The Fox In The Snow' and 'The Boy With The Arab Strap' are welcomed as old friends, while the bongo-driven disco curiosity of 'Perfect Couples' and dancefloor-filling 'The Party Line' showcase a refreshingly surprising new direction on upcoming album, Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance.
Belle & Sebastian played:
You're Just a Baby
Funny Little Frog
Sukie in the Graveyard
Allie
Perfect Couples
The Fox in the Snow
Like Dylan in the Movies
I Didn't See It Coming
The Party Line
The Wrong Girl
The Boy with the Arab Strap
Sleep the Clock Around
Encore:
Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 concludes tonight with sets from Jamie xx, Caribou, Four Tet, Jungle, Tune-Yards, Charlotte OC and more. Check back at Gigwise for the latest news, reviews, photos and more from Pitchfork Paris 2014.
