And, anyway, a festival isn't really the place to try out new material, as the crowd's delighted reaction to such favourites as 'I Think I Smell a Rat', 'Hotel Yorba' and a ground-shaking 'Ball and Biscuit' proves.
Erasure served up new and old material alike, and the crowd devoured both, probably because there isn't much difference between the two.
Williams is far too instinctive an operator to subject a crowd to too much new material, even if the crowd got their tickets free from Apple and would happily sit through even his all-time worst number, Rock DJ (which, despite nostalgia's rosy patina, is still thumpingly lumpen).
Besides flashing her nipple for a crowd in Istanbul and performing a striptease for Malala Yousafzai, the "Material Girl" mooned the crowd to raise money for Superstorm Sandy victims at her New York City concert on Nov. 12, according to eonline.com.com
The Royal Shakespeare Company has had to implement an autograph ban on all non-Hamlet related material owing to the crowds at the stage door.
The director creates a framework for users to fit their contributions and then compiles and vets material submitted by the crowds, cutting them together into a patchwork masterpiece composed of many different voices and artistic styles.
The four-member cast, directed by Christopher Scott, knows all this and plays the crowd and the material beautifully.
While forays into his back catalogue drew the biggest response from the crowd, it was on material such as new single "Last of the English Roses" from solo album Grace/Wastelands that the band performed at their best.
Then, of course, there's his coruscating way with a guitar, and the tunes, selected from most of his incarnations, from the White Stripes Hotel Yorbaa, given a bluegrass makeover, to the Raconteurs' Steady as She Goes, now the opportunity for a torrid call-and-response section with the crowd, and his solo material, like the excellent Lazaretto.
He did not fail to treat the crowd to his early material, including gems from his 1994 record Illmatic, reminding his fans of his status.
