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Jungle Keeps Fans Moving — and Wanting More — at Sold-Out Hollywood Bowl Show: Concert Review
British band Jungle threw an all-killer-no-filler dance party at the Hollywood Bowl.
Kicking off the show before sundown, Bas established the easygoing, tropical vibe that Jungle would later ramp up into a carnivale-like spectacle, performing the Afrobeat-influenced “Spaceships + Rockets” before enlisting the crowd to thicken up the chorus to “The Jackie.” After a brief detour into old-school hip-hop — his DJ deftly shuffling through Naughty By Nature’s “Hip Hop Hooray,” Onyx’ “Slam” and DMX’s “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem” — he concluded with “Costa Rica” and “Down Bad,” two tracks from the 2019 compilation “Revenge of the Dreamers III.” The pacing felt like a testament to the freedom they still enjoy as superstars still able to maintain if-you-know-you-know status: by the time it arrived, they had covered that first gold single (“Busy Earnin’”) and subsequently traveled through some lesser-known material, but never compromised their audience engagement. Rather than fealty to boilerplate concert pacing — letting the band catch its breath while the audience dutifully applauds — the absolute ocean of cell phone flashlights shining back at them to return for an encore after “Good Times” felt like an earned gesture of reciprocity.
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