So my European concert binge is finally coming to a close and I couldn’t think of a better ending than seeing Antony & The Johnsons performing for a massive crowd inside a circus tent. I shit you not. It was one of the most bizarre and surreal combination of artist and a venue I have ever seen — prompting Antony to quip “I expect a trapeze artist to come down from the ceiling at any moment.” Needless to say, the twenty minute “dance” introduction only heighten the absurdity the situation. However, when Antony took the stage, nothing else really mattered as I, like everyone in the audience, became hypnotized by his fluttering vocals.
Once my thesis gets turned in on Friday (YAY!), I’ll be sure to do a complete write-up of the show. Highlights had to be the new song “Hope Mountain” about Jesus’s return as a women to save humanity stuck on a mountain after a Noah-esque deluge.
