Chris, iconoclastic songwriter and singer of Christine and the Queens, had nowhere to hide last night. As the 6 Music Festival entered its second night, so did he, shirtless in a black waistcoat, the rest of the band clad in black too.
There was no stage set to speak of. No visuals, no light shows, no bells, no whistles. Maybe it was this lack of distraction that made it all so completely spellbinding.
With three albums down and another to come in the summer, this was the world debut of his new live show, a pared down, minimal representation of some of the most arresting music to have emerged from France in decades.
