Get the latest gossip
Self Esteem review – straight outta Gilead
A triumphant staging by Rebecca Lucy Taylor of her new album, A Complicated Woman, is part artistic statement, part power pop club night
Photograph: Aaron ParsonsLies – a new song about the falsehoods we tell others to make them comfortable and how we believe them ourselves because it’s easier – plays out as a seated circle, with the lights revealing the foreboding Club Gilead space around the performers to be a well-used community hall; piled-up benches, visible backstage clutter. It starts off sublime; an unexpected highlight (if that’s the right word) is a projected image of the South African polymath Moonchild Sanelly, a guest on the album, weeping silently circa In Plain Sight. Soon there’s a simulated dating app projected on the screen starring inflatable tube men and real ones on stage; Taylor and her performers bend them over to make a wind machine for her hair.
Or read this on The Guardian