Coachella 2015: Yelle, loose-limbed and lots of fun
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Who: Yelle in the Gobi Tent
In 3 or Fewer Words: Voulez-vous? Oui.
Memorable Because: “Are you ready to move your hips with me?” Julie Budet, aka Yelle, asked denizens of the Gobi Tent in her lilting French accent. They were. As she did in 2011, Yelle worked the crowd like a mime on a street corner, her slender body, wrapped in a blue-and-white-and-black print jumper bearing her stylized insignias, cavorting to her eclectic disco. She performed in front of two white-dressed drummers on risers; they came out from behind their kits at one point to shake their behinds at the crowd. Yelle has released one album since she last played Coachella, 2014’s “Complètement fou.” You only had to witness the crisply choreographed set, not consult a translator, to figure out that means “very crazy.”
What I’d Tell My Friends Who Were at Hozier: Didja really need your nap that bad?
— K.B. (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
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