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Nicolas Godin live review
Published on 11th November 2015
There’s something unseemly about seeing Nicolas Godin, one half of lifestyle-furniture debonaires Air, immaculately turned-out Parisian and walking definition of suave, playing an old warehouse in Hackney. (Indeed, support act Meilyr Jones, once of Race Horses, now peddling Jarvis-does-Talking-Heads whimsical pop as a solo indie fop, fits the occasion far better.) Still, Godin doesn’t seem too inclined to help his cause: he reels out an hour of his latest solo album with meandering polish but without so much of a glance at the crowd, then disappears. When he shuffles back on, to cover Chic deep cut At Last I’m Free, there’s a glimmer of the urbane seduction he once mined with such confidence as he croons into the vocoder. But it’s not enough – what’s French for “insouciance”, anyway?
