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Hotpress September 2006
Curated by Damien Rice, The Big Tree Stage proved one of the Electric Picnic's Highlights" Kim V Porcelli

Hats off to Damien Rice and his big idea: to throw a festival with the best of everything, where no corners are cut and everybody performers and audience alike is treated to the gig of a lifetime.
We also got career-best performances from two performers in particular who, for our money, were the undisputed king and queen of Big Tree. Having long threatened, via the sly cover version here and there, to be a great frontperson in her own right, Vyvienne Long is today joined by a full band, plus several extra cello players; we're at first given and impression of breathy Nouvelle Vague girlieness, but it soon develops into something much weirder if anything, she's a kind of cello-playing, book-reading, boy-fancying Eartha Kitt.
A song apparently called "She Can't Wait To Get Her Hands On The Inheritance"
(chorus: "it's mine its mine it's mine it's mine") is the eccentric goddaughter of the surreal posh-Anglophile pop The Divine Comedy used to produce; a cover of "Yoshimi Battles Pink Robots" is delivered tenderly, with mournful piano, as if in sympathy for the Japanese superlady and her Kill Bill-style extreme workouts; and a satisfyingly arse-shimmying take on N.E.R.D.'s "She Wants To Move" grooves like a motherfooker and also offers us the opportunity to hear Vyvienne growlingly enunciate the line "His a55 is like a spaceship that I'd like to ride" in her plummily perfect diction, like Audrey Hepburn after several glasses of champagne.
We've already bagged our spot on the forest floor at Big Tree 2007."

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