[Brighton] Grace Jones' Set At LoveBN1Fest In Preston Park Today

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Absolutely breathtaking! Brilliant and bonkers in equal measure. Featured strap-ons, flagellation, extended hoola hooping and GJ charging through the crowd on the shoulders of a security guard. Not to mention glugging red wine and smoking a spliff handed up to her from someone in the front row. And all well before the watershed

Got a TUMULTUOUS ovation at the end. Utterly impossible act for Jessie J to follow. Talk about growing old disgracefully

 

[KingKev]

Fabulously nuts as expected - but all done with a smile on her face, which wasn’t
Top drawer entertainment - glad I went

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Grace Jones is a one off, totally unique and brilliant with it.
Nobody has or ever will come close to her performances.

 

[Easy 10]

Always thought her music was bang average to be honest. And she was shit in View to a Kill.

 

[Easy 10]

Best thing she ever did was in that ad, when someone drove a Citroen into her gob.

 

[Juan Albion]

Absolutely breathtaking! Brilliant and bonkers in equal measure. Featured strap-ons, flagellation, extended hoola hooping and GJ charging through the crowd on the shoulders of a security guard. Not to mention glugging red wine and smoking a spliff handed up to her from someone in the front row. And all well before the watershed

Got a TUMULTUOUS ovation at the end. Utterly impossible act for Jessie J to follow. Talk about growing old disgracefully

Anything about the actual music? Or is she just a sideshow?

 

[KingKev]

Anything about the actual music? Or is she just a sideshow?

Was surprisingly very good - she still has a voice
Good way to spend a Sunday evening, dancing whilst a near-naked pensioner dons a huge strap-on then hoola hoops and smokes a spliff without missing a note.
Pull up to the Bumper, Love is the drug, Slave to the rhythm...all classics. Wish she’d have done She’s lost control though

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Anything about the actual music? Or is she just a sideshow?

Little doubt that Grace Jones outrageous theatrics could never work without being underpinned by some serious musicianship, both then and now, but the music never takes centre stage. The songs last night were taken largely from the singer's classic early-80's albums 'Warm Leatherette' and 'Nightclubbing'. If you really want to know about the music, and indeed Ms Grace Jones hypnotic robotic persona, then it's all pretty much encapsulated in the magnificent cover of The Pretenders 'Private Life', featuring the brittle stripped-back dub rhythm section of Sly'n'Robbie. Now there's a track that just rolls back the years. That was the highlight for me last night. That and discovering that Grace Jones live is in fact great fun

 

[pearl]

Absolutely breathtaking! Brilliant and bonkers in equal measure. Featured strap-ons, flagellation, extended hoola hooping and GJ charging through the crowd on the shoulders of a security guard. Not to mention glugging red wine and smoking a spliff handed up to her from someone in the front row. And all well before the watershed

Got a TUMULTUOUS ovation at the end. Utterly impossible act for Jessie J to follow. Talk about growing old disgracefully

What was the rest of the festival like? I really must go, I walked nearby about 4-ish and saw several young people in Grace Jones type outfits (I think!) My friend was on their allotment in Hove and saw GJ get into a helicopter after

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

What was the rest of the festival like? I really must go, I walked nearby about 4-ish and saw several young people in Grace Jones type outfits (I think!) My friend was on their allotment in Hove and saw GJ get into a helicopter after

Caught the tail end of Grace Carter's set, and pretty good it sounded too. One for the future. Scottish pop pixie Nina Nesbitt was pretty decent also, even if her in-between-song chat was all about the familar is-he-really-going-out-with-her broken relationship stuff, suitably updated for Generation Instagram. The impressionable 15 year old with us loved the all-singing all-dancing boyband Rak Su, some kind of previous Ex Factor winners apparently. House Gospel Choir's trademark high energy set was sadly marred by malfunction of the mic shared around for the various band members solo spots. After much gesticulating by the audience towards the sound desk they finally twigged and sorted the mic out - just in time for the lead vocalist to thank in turn all the members of their crew... including 'the sound manager'. Sake! Grace Jones you already read about. As for headliner Jessie J, well sadly nothing to report there due to an unfortunate 15-year-old's-mobile-dropped-down-chemical-toilet scenario that led to an early bath. Literally, seeing as how she tried to fish it out with her hand Tho I dare say Grace Jones would have proved to be an impossibly hard act to follow.

Yeah you should really try and go next year - especially if your street qualifies for free residents tickets. It's great fun!

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Grace Jones and Iggy Pop are both amazing live and neither has lost it with time, if anything they mature with age.

Slave to the rhythm sounded pitch perfect all the way over at East Brighton Golf Course last night while walking the dog.

 

[marlowe]

Not a bad bod for a 71 year old. Not even a hint of a bingo wing.

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