November 03, 2008

Girl Talk. Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles.

By Johnny Wombus

Greg Gillis – better known as Girl Talk – shook up the Fonda last weekend with a packed-house performance. The borderline between performer and audience was broken down and the stage transformed into a sort of VIP dance floor. In the center of the action was Gillis himself, poking away at his laptop and bobbing his sweaty mane along to the surrounding throng while a band of Hollywood girls danced against him on all sides.

The energy onstage rippled out into the large crowd like a wave, no one able to withstand the musical mojo that Girl Talk perpetually churned out. Many points of the show resembled moments off of Gillis’ latest LP, Feed the Animals, but he dabbled in his fair share of improvised DJing as well. When he hit it just right, as on the pairing of Rod Stewart and Kanye West, Gillis would go as crazy as anyone in the place, and believe you me, that was no easy task.

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