Karl Bartos, former member of Kraftwerk, live at the BFI London IMAX. In pre-gig interviews, Bartos was claiming he would only play three songs by his old band. On the night, he obviously thought 'bollocks to artistic integrity', and the set was roughly a fifty-fifty split between solo material and Kraftwerk Klassics. Compared with the sleek, subtly updated versions on the current Kraftwerk live album, Bartos' versions are a bit clunkier and more 80s-sounding. But it makes the three guys on stage
interesting to watch, as they're visibly doing stuff to make these sounds happen, rather than just pushing a button on a laptop and walking away for four minutes. Strangely, they turn out to be more interesting to watch than the accompanying video backdrop - the usual cute animations, archive footage and abstract imagery, the only real innovation being the sheer bloody size of it as it's spread across a large part of the IMAX screen.