Perfume Genius played his biggest show after Primavera, before Glastonbury (pics, video)

photos by Rachel Juarez-Carr

also, watch Belle & Sebastian’s entire Primavera set

Perfume Genius has been on tour this year, and just played what was reportedly his largest gig yet. It happened Wednesday (6/10) at London’s 2,500-capacity Royal Festival Hall, and we’ve got pictures of it in this post. That show was not long after his set at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound:

Hadreas and his band came out all in black, and, bathed in red and white lights. The disparity between Hadreas when he’s singing and when he’s speaking is half stunning and half funny. During the highlights of the set — the brooding, electronic-oriented stuff like “Grid” and “Longpig” — he swayed and thrashed, possessed. And then he’d sorta-bashfully say “Thanks y’all” in between songs, like he’d very briefly come back down to earth. I was going to leave early to make it to Sleater-Kinney, but I wanted to hear “Queen,” one of the best songs of 2014. Hadreas wisely saves it for the end, where it functions as a closer that burns down whatever’s left of the place. [Stereogum]

You can watch some videos from that below. Soon, he plays another big festival on that side of the Atlantic, Glastonbury, where he annoyingly plays against Belle & Sebastian. B&S just played Radio City, and also played Primavera. Watch their full set from that below too.

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Perfume Genius @ Primavera

Belle & Sebastian @ Primavera

Perfume Genius @ Royal Festival Hall