Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival 2000
Macy
Gray
Pyramid Stage
Friday 23rd June 2000
As
eFestivals suspected all along Macy Gray was the Special Guest who
took to the stage before the Chemical Brothers on Friday Night.
Her unique voice has attracted a lot of attention recently and her
first album 'On How Life is' was a tremendous success last year,
so huge crowds turned out to see her in action.
She
arrived on stage in baggy green trousers, long pink shirt, green
and red hat, large dark blue shades and a very white fluffy cardy.
She immediately sang the first two funky tracks from her album 'Why
Didn't You Call Me' and then 'Do Something' before turning to the
audience to get their involvement by shouting 'put your hands in
the air, now scream'. Macy then proceeded to tell us how she didn't
give a fuck and how much she liked sex before launching into 'Sex-O-Matic
Venus Freak'. So far the music played was very similar to the album
and plenty of people sang along. However, her attempts at getting
the crowd to shout out various things such as ' I love the dick,
the dick, the dick,' were not so successful.
Moving
on she sang 'Still' which was her glorious emotional bluesy second
single which had us swaying our hands in the air and a nice piece
of guitar at the end. 'I've Committed Murder' had a phat base line
and those trumpets were blasting as we moved into a jazzy style.
Again Macy attempted to split the crowd in two and have us shout
different phrases but there was confusion and it really didn't work.
She attempted 'all the ugly people be quiet'- nothing, and finally
'Oh sexy people make some noise' - that worked!
Macy
then took a break while her band got down to some jazz and when
she came back on she was wearing a coat - had it got cold or was
it us? It all went a bit gospel after that, Macy sang a bit of 'Que
Sera, Que Sera' followed by a new song and then into 'I Can't Wait
To Meechu' and she still wouldn't give up on getting the crowd to
shout stuff - anything. Towards the end she went and shook a few
hands in the crowd before finishing off with 'I Try' into which
was mixed a little of 'Everythings Gonna Be Alright' - Bob Marley
style.
Macy
gave a good performance of her songs and received great applause
and huge cheers but if she's looking for audience participation
she needs to rethink her act.
review by Skye Hi
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