Monday, July 9, 2012

Bjork serenades Denmark in giant worm dress

By Seth Abramovitch , The Hollywood Reporter

She's the pop star who makes Lady Gaga look like she shops at Loehmann's.?Icelandic art-rocker?Bj?rk, 46,?commanded the headliner spot at Denmark's Roskilde Festival this weekend, emerging onstage encased in a tangle of giant, black, worm-like tubing. A multi-colored hawk's nest of a wig was perched atop her spritely features, now showing some age.

Malte Kristiansen / AFP - Getty Images

Icelandic singer Bjork performs at the Roskilde Festival in Roskilde on Sunday, July 8.

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Bj?rk's main?set, a multimedia visual feast, consisted of 15 songs, oscillating between familiar hits like "Hunter" and "Isobel" and newer songs from her 2011 release "Biophilia" -- songs like?"Virus," "Mutual Core," and show opener "Cosmogony."

The two-song encore consisted of "One Day," from her first solo album "Debut," and "Declare Independence," a rousing cry of rebellion off "Volta."?

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More photos of the performance are available at bjork.fr.

Watch?Bj?rk?perform "Virus," from "Biophilia," in the audience-shot video below.

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