Next, after being introduced to the audience by the master of ceremonies, the contestant launches into a song, a dance, a juggling act--whatever.
"O.K., cool, that's good," Randall responded, and the band launched into a song from "Weirdo Rippers" called "Everybody's Down".
Nearing the end of his set, Alf switched his American Telecaster for a beautiful Swedish Hagstrom twelve-string, and quickly launched into a song I thought I recognized.
"I'd rather not say the name," she mutters, before launching into a song called Dumb Fuck, "but he's a dumb fuck".
"This is for Billy Bragg," he said before launching into a song called Tsunami about a set of twins who were struck dumb.
"Not right now," she adds, before launching into a song the tempo of which hovers defiantly around mid, "but I'll bear that in mind".
"Something happened in January that changed our cultural story for ever," a folk singer tells the crowd before launching into a song, "If not now, tell me when".Across the street, an argument breaks out.
Whenever this tension threatens to become overwhelming, Bond launches into a song that pulls the elements of the show together in one big brass spittoon of humor and spite.
"This is dedicated to our father Ali Farka Touré," announced lead singer Aliou Touré, somewhat confusingly, as the band launched into a song that started like a speeded-up African blues by Mali's legendary guitarist, but then spiralled away into a furious and exuberant Hendrix-like improvisation, driven on by insistent bass and drums.
