The Latitude Report #2: Bishi

The very first music act we had the pleasure of regarding was Bishnu Priya, or Bishi to you. Bishi is an Anglo-Asian singer-songwriter, DJ and 'multi-instrumentalist' (which seemed to be buzz word of the festival). Although one of our number was vaguely familiar with her music before (through her friendship with Patrick Wolf) and didn't particularly have an impression of it, we decided to give her a go, and were pleasantly surprised. Despite her lyrics occasionally erring on the side of cringe, her music was overall rich, diverse and exciting, and she had oodles of stage presence. Her backing dancers, dressed as sort of BNP fetish bunnies were a little bit Lady GaGa Impersonation Fail (only a little bit) but she made a pleasing and diverting start to the festival proceedings.

Stuck In Our Head: "Theseus" - Patrick Wolf

Something folky and ethereal for a Monday. Tilda Swinton's spoken word introduction is pure essence of lovely and the sitar strains (we presume played by Patrick's BFFL, Bishi) are also whimsical and evocative. There's an interview with Patrick in the current issues of Attitude magazine and it just confirmed what we already know. You know... well it's not entirely positive. We'll put it that way. Nonetheless: it's stuck in our head.

Recommendations
"Tristan" - Patrick Wolf
"The Magic Position" - Patrick Wolf
"Never Seen Your Face" - Bishi