Iggy & the Stooges

Blond hair, tanned exposed torso and blue jeans, he throws himself about the stage kicking and screaming, he’s wiry, he’s athletic and he’s screaming that “He took a ride” and more and more people are joining the crowd. Then he starts making monkey noises and screeching during ‘No Walls’ before saying, “We’re the Stooges, we’re happy, happy to be here, happy to be anywhere.”

The Stooges are on good form hammering out the stark single-note volleys on ‘1969’ as Iggy throws himself over the stage kicking and hollering “Another year for me and you, Another year of nothin’ to do” giving us hardly time to applaud before telling us. “I wanna be a dog!” and dropping to his knees in the sunshine and barking. The Stooges build a punishing wall of noise.

He jumps into the pit and parades before the crowd and throws the microphone behind him before leaping up to finish the song and raking his fingers acroos his chest drawing blood. “Happy f**kin’ sunny holiday.” He yells to the moving crowd. ‘Keep that TV on me’ and still thrashing ‘Dirt’ follows while he prances like a stallion, jumping and then rolling across the stage.

Just before ‘Real Cool Time’ he calls everyone on stage, but fortunately for the security no one tries it. He then mounts one of the cameras and says, ‘TV Sucks’. Then referring to the pit and the space to the crowd he says, “It’s no fun to be on my own.” Security ignore him as he breaks into ‘Rock N Roll Fun’ he climbs out to the barrier, chest now red to sing it.

Pete Doherty is such an amateur at these kind of antics by comparison. “I feel alright, alright ‘til I’m blown away!” yells Iggy and throws a bottle of water over himself. We certainly are by his crazy antics.

Afterwards I’m talking to my wife who tells me a few hours before she was going into photograph a band and saw Iggy apparently limping as he passed her. I wonder how on earth he was able to throw himself around like that with an injury and at two years off sixty he has incredible energy.

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