2011-03-01 Janelle Monae @ Roundhouse - Overture, Dance or Die, Faster

On Tuesday evening I went to see Janelle Monae perform live at Camden's Roundhouse theatre. This fan footage shows how the show opened and the following look and style to her stage show. The opening songs are performed in order to her Archandroid album, using her costumed backing singers to highlight significant themes and messages behind each song. In the second clip I have posted, the background imagery is more clear, showing black and white footage from Fritz Lang's Metropolis during the song, "locked inside". The entire show was incredibly cinematic, using the distinctive Paramount pictures mountain logo and replacing the title as an "emotion picture" experience.