Chilly Gonzales Ft. Feist - Manchester Hop & Grape, 19th April 2002.
Chilly Gonzales Ft. Feist - Manchester Hop & Grape, 2002.
Call Chilly Gonzales what you want, the
Worst M.C, Prankster fly, but you can't call him boring.
The Gonzales live experience is one that
puts most to shame. You get dedication,
passion, comedy and five costume changes, and it never slides into Butlins
style cabaret, or high camp.
Schemes and Variations kicks off
proceedings, armed with only two melodikas and current sidekick Feist, it's stripped down from it's electro-funk origins,
and turned into something that wouldn't sound amiss from the soundtrack to the
film Amelie!
Many tracks appear as an altered version, be it <b>Why
don't we dissapear, from Gonzales Uber Alles as a
tender duet with Feist, or Take me to
Broadway as a dirty electro-funk epic, Gonzales knows how to keep a crowd both transfixed and in the mood for partying, as Chilly and Feist found out for themselves
as they burst into the crowd to meet the party people of Manchester.
After 10 years of reviewing concerts, I can honestly say
I've never seen a gig like Chilly Gonzales' show.
He may be a self-proclaimed musical genius, but he is
also the killer of live music, as everything after a Chilly
gonzales gig will seem DULL!!
