Marina and the Diamonds at the Northrop – 10/30/2015

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Friday’s show at the Northrop Auditorium was packed with young (and some older) fans and the line for the merch booth was the longest any of the staffers can recall seeing. Welsh singer Marina and the Diamonds brought her Neon Nature Tour to the UofM campus and many of her fans were dressed up for Halloween or simply choose to manage Marina’s flashy outfits.

Opening was French Singer Christine and the Queens. I was not familiar with this artist previously, so her set came as a quite positive surprise to me. She is popular in France and other French speaking countries and is just starting to gain a foothold in the US. Her live show incorporates dance and I really enjoyed her music. She commented on the venue that she felt like she should be quoting Shakespeare and introduced her “Paradis Perdu” a mashup up French Singer Christophe and Kanye West as “weird because it’s French”.
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Set List
iT
Science Fiction
Paradis Perdus (Christophe cover)
Tilted
Safe And Holy
Narcissus Is Back
Saint Claude
The Loving Cup

Marina Diamandis was born and raised in Wales and burst into the scene in 2009 with her album “The Family Jewels”. She describes herself as “indie artist with pop goals” and her stage setup was definitely pop and geared toward her audience. Her band was on a raised platform and it’s 6 foot height was used to display animations. Starting out as a Jungle for Mowgli’s Road it transformed to a assembly line for “I am not a Robot”
Marina separated her performance into 3 distinct acts based on her albums
The Family Jewels
Electra Heart
Froot
For Electra she transformed into her blonde alter ego Electra Heart and for Froot she joined her band on the raised platform. Overall this was a great show perfectly suited for her fans and fun to experience.
Set List:
Act I: The Family Jewels
Mowgli’s Road
I Am Not a Robot
Oh No!
Obsessions
Hollywood
Act II: Electra Heart
Bubblegum Bitch
Radioactive
How to Be a Heartbreaker
Primadonna
Lies
Act III: Froot
Froot
Savages
Can’t Pin Me Down
I’m a Ruin
Forget
Immortal
Encore:
Happy
Blue

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