And good lord, it was hot
Kelis took Manchester to bits last night. Took it to bits, put it back together again, and then took it to bits one more time before sending a sold-out crowd into the night to ring the sweat out of its clothes on the street.
Caught Out There was accompanied by world class production from The Neptunes, at the time an emerging duo from Virginia Beach called Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams. It was a feminist call to arms, while follow-up Good Stuff was a straight up club banger.She was not to be ignored, and quickly cemented herself as a enviable solo artist with the 1999 album Kaleidoscope, a stand-alone hit factory. Since her more aggro era, covered in paint and furious, she's calmed some.
On a swelteringly hot night on Peter Street, she commanded the stage of the brilliantly decrepit Albert Hall, surely one of the best - if not the best - live venues in the city, a warm-up for a stage-headlining set at Glastonbury this weekend. Then when you thought maybe she'd peaked too soon, we were quickly reminded of the breadth of her work. Fire, with Sean Paul, Trick Me, Finest Dreams, her Human League-sampling collaboration with Richard X, and then Milkshake, probably the biggest of them all, which was mashed up with Wu-Tang's Gravel Pit. It's easy to forget how many hits she's plucked for herself or helped procure for others.
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