– Iggy Pop – live at Down The Rabbit Hole Festival 2015 – June 27, 2015 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – The Netherlands –
Iggy Pop, in concert at Down The Rabbit Hole, recorded on June 27th 2015 by the venerable VPRO and broadcast live via 3VOOR12–FM.
No stranger to festivals, no stranger to these pages, Iggy Pop is an institution – and to prove it, he now has a regular lecture series on BBC 6 Music as well as his own show, which you should catch.
Godfather of Punk with an encyclopedic knowledge of Film, Iggy Pop just keeps on going – with no let up in sight.
Iggy Pop’s music has encompassed a number of styles over the course of his career, including garage rock, punk rock, hard rock, heavy metal, art rock, new wave, grunge, jazz, blues and electronic. Though his popularity has fluctuated, many of Pop’s songs have become well known, including “Search and Destroy” and “I Wanna Be Your Dog” by the Stooges, and his solo hits “Lust for Life”, “The Passenger” and “Real Wild Child (Wild One)”. In 1990, he recorded his only Top 40 U.S. hit, “Candy”, a duet with the B-52s’ singer Kate Pierson. Pop’s song “China Girl” became more widely known when it was re-recorded by co-writer Bowie, who released it as the second single from his most commercially successful album, Let’s Dance (1983). Bowie re-recorded and performed many of Pop’s songs throughout his career.
Although Pop has had limited commercial success, he has remained a culture icon and a significant influence on a wide range of musicians in numerous genres. The Stooges’ album Raw Power has proved an influence on artists such as Sex Pistols, the Smiths, and Nirvana. His solo album The Idiot has been cited as a major influence on a number of post-punk, electronic and industrial artists including Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Joy Division, and was described by Siouxsie Sioux as a “re-affirmation that our suspicions were true: the man is a genius.”
And to prove that – crank this show up – it’s a shortened version from his full set at Rabbit Hole, but you get the idea that Iggy has become an institution.
