The first persons on stage in Tivoli's Concert Hall tonight were four puppeteers manuevering a small Beck + small band members around on strings on a little stage on stage, performing to a playback version of - yes, there I go, another song-in-character! - I'm a Loser, baby... so why dont you kill me.
The puppets didn't just serve to get an obligatory hit song out the way. They were imitating the band all through the concert and getting filmed and projected up on to the large screen at the back of the stage. They were dressed the same as their live people, and we got nice closeups of Beck puppet singing away and playing guitar while Beck sung some ballads and played his guitar, and one puppet was even taking over the camera at one point, walking up to the musicians one by one, filming them and projecting them up on to the screen. The musicians were carefully professional, but casually playing around, dancing, changing instruments, enjoying a meal by a wooden table and drumming away on the plates and glasses. Not a bad evening at all.
During an encore, Beck entered the stage in a full bear costume, microphone down its throat for him to be able to sing. Theatrical seemed back in style, big time.
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