Botanic Park Set List Notes Reviews Media

Details

Date
March 07, 2015
Venue
Botanic Park Adelaide, South Australia
Billed As
Taste The World
Gig Type
Concert
Guests
Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift

Notes

WOMADelaide Festival
Rosa Matto, Robyn and Emma preparing a meal and talking about sex, food and death interspersed with some songs

Set List

  1. Nietzsche's Way with Emma Swift
  2. The Cheese Alarm with Emma Swift
  3. Victorian Squid

Media

Audio recording of show

Reviews

Online review by user 'Sprocket Henry' on Steve Hoffman Music Forum
Even better was their appearance at Tasting The World later that afternoon. Visiting festival artists will cook a dish from their country offering a running commentary with the host and then sharing the finished dish with the rest of the audience. Robyn offered an 'edible clock' in the form of a pizza base, Emma's guacamole as a base, a 'corona' of goat's cheese, a hard orange cheese representing numbers and two large prawns for the short and long hands of the clock. Remarkably, it looked uncannily a lot like one of Robyn's paintings.

The edible clock was one thing, but the running commentary was priceless. The regular host (I can't recall her name) has a tendency to be unbearable at times and dominate proceedings regardless of how interesting the guests might be. Much to the delight of myself and my partner (who detests the host even more than me) Robyn's unique and articulate stream-of-conscious nonsense ran circles around the host, whose fairly rote questions about Robyn and Emma's respective backgrounds resulted in anecdotes about Tilda Swinton being trapped in a freezing train carriage, a wife massaging cream cheese into her husband's biceps and the fact that only two of the songs on The Beatles Revolver are less than three minutes in duration. Whilst the pizza base was cooking Robyn and Emma played a handful of songs: "Nietzsche's Way", "The Cheese Alarm" and "Victorian Squid".