Bjork's Cornucopia (2025)

Corncuopia was an extravaganza of a concert tour by Bjork that lasted four years and which only resulted in 45 shows, partly a consequence of the pandemic and partly due to its immense scale and expense. Luckily, a performance was filmed courtesy of Icelandic director Ísold Uggadóttir.

What kind of scale are we talking about? I'll leave it to the artist herself to describe the show's concept, which blends 19th century theatre with 21st century digital technology:

“This vision was realised with 27 moving curtains that captured projections on different textures and LED screens, creating a digitally animated show: a ‘modern lanterna magica’ for live music. I also wanted to feature bespoke instruments: a magnetic harp, an aluphone, a circular flute, and a reverb chamber, specially built with an audio architect to enhance the most intimate version of a performance – in a personal chapel.”

Screw your meat and potatoes, 'good, honest music' - I love this kind of huge-scale multimedia artistic expression stuff. A shortened version of Cornucopia is already up on Apple TV, but the full version will be in UK cinemas for one day, which means someone might actually see it. This event is in screen 1 of the Genesis, reputedly East London's largest screen, which means it should look and sound incredible.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvSoLELzCDk

And tickets here: https://genesis.admit-one.co.uk/tickets/?perfCode=3757

Movie starts at nine so let's meet for a pre-drink at half eight in the bar.