La Roux had the seemingly daunting task of going head to head with Calvin
Harris spitting fire on the main stage. Sure enough, halfway through her
performance there were apocalyptic
sounds coming from behind the A38 tent- not Harris himself mercifully, but the
deafening rumble of the fireworks being shot into the great wide open. A few
weak minded Sziget dwellers did dutifully run to the edge of the tent, but it
probably serves as a compliment to La Roux that very few people actually went
out, most of them returning promptly after briskly inspecting the celestial
spectacle.
This was La Roux’s second Sziget show, and as the first was somewhat of a
disappointment, I was a bit apprehensive about it, but it took only 10 seconds
into the first song to realize that this was to be another class of show
altogether. The very first thing that strikes you is how much more confident
she is- the laboured process which led to her second album seems to have paid
off as she belted out dancefloor favourite after dancefloor favourite to a crowd
that never stopped moving. It was the
perfect concert for the closing evening- a self assured performance from an
artist slowly but surely growing into an alternative cult figure.
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