Well, I was not expecting my night to turn out like this, one minute I am on my way home the next I have a Bjork ticket in my hand, I am in the queue, I have a cold beer and before you know it, I am stood at the front waiting excitedly. The lights fade the room is in complete silence and Bjork enters onto the wonderfully atmospheric circular stage of the old Campfield Victorian market hall, exhibiting a huge orange wig, sequin mini dress, blue cape and a painted blue line around her face.

Accompanying her on stage were some weird and wonderful custom built instruments including a 30 foot pendulum harp, a digitally controlled pipe organ, a giant silver (what I can only describe as) a mangle with two huge trumpets attached to it with a man who turned a wheel at the side to produce a “jackinabox”- style sound. Along with all of this and many more things I can’t describe was a 24-piece Icelandic all female choir. Still in the dark, a voice appeared, it was none other than Sir David Attenborough, and he was the narrator and introduced the show “Biophilia - a link between nature, music and technology”.

Bjork describes Biophilia “As a 21st century music of the spheres which celebrates natural phenomena from the atom to the cosmos”. It made sense at the time. Surrounding the stage were eight large video screens playing visuals controlled by an i pad, actually this is the first album to be released with an educational app for each song which combine a nature- science topic and music feature, how very Bjork! As I am not a die-hard fan of hers nor her visions. However, I can still appreciate her music and I extremely enjoyed her performance. Bjork embraces many genres of music and her voice is one of the most extraordinarily beautiful and experimental forms of lyrical expression. Her projection and volume are astounding and her lyrics are enormously touching and quite personal. The choir seemed to start out quite dull to say the least, even got me thinking ‘they should be enjoying it more’ I couldn’t have been more wrong! The choirgirls started to embrace the music and by the end were literally raving about like they were at a sweaty “Dubstep” party in Brixton!

The whole show was mesmerising, at one point the pendulum started to move, plectrums plunking at the strings as they swung by, there was a big electronics set up and Manu Delago on percussion, with all this going on you couldn’t help but notice the craziness going on above your head, as ‘Cystalline’ plays, you are dragged through a virtual tunnel within a tunnel collecting diamonds and crystal structures. Suddenly the madness stops, Bjork turns to face our side of the stage to perform with just the choir as music, it was amazingly sweet and such a contrast. But then it was over and back to the madness. The night comes to an end and all she asks if that we put a little effort into the last song and dance before uttering her famous words in Andy Coffman’s character Latkas voice…Thank you very much!