"It's a Pagan-Burning Man-Mad Max-Aesthetic," read the email from the producers.
"DUH," we thought. That's kinda what we do! The event featured the totally hot right now Australian pop-duo Empire of the Sun, a band known for its theatrics, dancing, amazing costumes and HEADDRESSES.
We were a perfect fit for the show, which was a free "secret" concert taking place at Gotham Hall on June 20th, the first in the 2.0 collection of the Music Experiment series.
Flambeaux Fire performed a six person fire show to the sounds of African drummers and tribal-themed projections integrated with the megalithic architecture of Gotham Hall.
The audience was right there with us, almost close enough to touch and there was almost a call-and-response atmosphere with the whole room responding to our movements with screams and cheers. There was a sea of cell phones taking pics and recording, so from stage it looked like the whole room was lit up like bioluminescent creatures (wish we had a pic from our view on stage of y'all!)
Some of our costumed performers roamed the room, partying with everyone and rocking out with LED hula hoop and angle-grinders. It was such a fun, amazing night and we were totally stoked to be a part of MTV Iggy's concert series. Big thanks to Nusrat and Roye at MTV for having us as well as Giant Step Productions and Atomic Entertainment! You guys totally rocked us out!
photos by Warren Whitmore, Ray Wu, MTV, and from random twitter feed....
