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Crystal Castles cause chaos at Leeds Festival

Pic: Jo McCaughey

Pic: Jo McCaughey

Canadians clearly haven't learned from Glastonbury debacle

Crystal Castles played a typically chaotic set at Leeds Festival today (August 22), in similar scenes to those that almost saw the band pulled offstage at Glastonbury this year.

The Canadian digi-punks' singer Alice Glass spent the majority of the band's set on the Dance Stage clambering atop the speakers and drum riser and diving into the crowd.

Glass later fully immersed herself in the front row during 'Alice Practice'.

However, unlike at Glastonbury, the band's sound was not cut and they continued a triumphant set, which included 'Courtship Dating' and 'Reckless'.

The band opened their set with their remix of Klaxons' 'Atlantis To Interzone', and proceeded to fire through an impressive set that also included 'Crimewave' and 'Black Panther'.

Crystal Castles played:

'Atlantis To Interzone'
'Reckless'
'Courtship Dating'
'1991'
'Crimewave'
'Alice Practice'
'Black Panther'
'Air War'


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TylerDurden1537 

Sep 2, 2008

'Typically chaotic' - Alice Glass climbs a short height up some scaffolding at Glasto, ala Fat Rick from the Kaiser Chiefs. Stands on the drum riser, and expresses a penchant for crowd surfing. It's not exactly 'chaotic' now is it? The context of chaos is usually created by the so called 'professional' Security people who get in the way of her doing these things, i.e. having a blast and producing a good live performance. Crystal Castles are great live, but performance wise, I wouldn’t describe them as 'chaotic', more accurately Kaiser Chiefs with a Joan of Arc hairstyle.

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