"Martin Creed, contrasting the London Sinfonietta’s strict concert-black attire with an outlandish cardigan which spoke of 1970s children’s TV presenters, performed a set of miniature ‘conceptual’ numbers with his band in the second half, occasionally alongside rather rude videos featuring nudity and vomiting. Song lyrics ranged from the refrains ‘I like things a lot’ and ‘I dunno what I want’ to oblique but engaging recitations of the alphabet and all the whole numbers up to 100. There was also an instrumental piece: a slowly rising and then falling chromatic scale which accompanied a video of a penis whose motion charted the same trajectory."
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