Franz Ferdinand triumphant at INmusic Festival
Moby, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and N*E*R*D also perform in Croatia
Croatia | 30 June 2009
Franz’s first song ‘Do You Want To’ saw the entire crowd shouting, “Lucky lucky, you’re so
lucky!” before a ferocious ‘Take Me Out’ followed suit and by the time ‘Matinee’ kicked in there
were people on each other’s shoulders.
Like the man who inspired their name 95 years ago and 178 miles to
the east in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Franz Ferdinand go out with a bang, playing ‘The Fallen’ towards the end.
On Thursday
(25 June) Moby’s many talents - not eating meat, playing
bongos and strumming a Gibson SG – are on show, with an euphoric crowd becomes over excited.
“Fuck
you” Moby says mid song, as he is hit with a glow stick,
before complaining, “Do not throw glow sticks, because when you throw them and they hit us, they hurt!”
Things are patched up later when Moby plays ‘Porcelain’,
‘Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?’ and ‘Body Rock’, before a sea of glow sticks stuck firmly in the
hands of the crowd. ‘Lift Me does exactly that, as does closer ‘Feeling So Real’, which is jungle
massive.
No such problems for N*E*R*D, who hurl hundreds of glow sticks into the crowd and see
them returned. Also, if fans weren’t lubricated enough already, the band bring out the water pistols and soak everyone
within range.
Playing the melodic ‘Maybe’ and ‘Sooner or Later’, as well as the heavier
‘Brain’ and ‘Lapdance’, Pharrell whipped fans into a frenzy.
There are riotous scenes for
the last few songs, as N*E*R*D fill the stage with delighted ladies from the crowd, who happily dance along
to a mash up of ‘Everyone Nose (All The Girls Standing in the Line…)’ and The White Stripes’ ‘Seven
Nation Army’.
On the second, Nokia stage, Kawasaki
3P play Balkan brass, ska and a riff stolen from MC Hammer’s ‘Can’t Touch This’. At one
point the band cluck like chickens.
Later Yeah Yeah
Yeahs ripped up the same stage and on the T-Mobile Stage, German godfathers of dance Kraftwerk got the crowd going.
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