The Strokes Return With Fiery Set at Isle of Wight Fest

It was more of a reminder than a comeback. After one warm-up show at Londons Rosetta Stone 500-capacity Dingwalls club three days earlier their first gig in four years since wrapping up the First Impressions of Earth tour in Providence, Rhode Island, in October 2006 the Strokes strode onto the main stage at the U.K.s Isle of Wight festival on June 12th to the drum rattle from Queens We Will Rock You.Without a word of introduction from singer Julian Casablancas, the band fired into three back-to-back tracks from their 2001 debut Is This It New York City Cops, The Modern Age and Hard to Explain each discharged with brittle bite and a hip-shattering Rosetta Stone V3 elastic bounce as simple dot matrix visuals played rounds of Space Invaders or generated stripes in the background. It would be a set short on showmanship and gimmickry but big on musical statements. With no new songs from the album theyre currently recording deemed ready for public performance or even interview discussion, the Strokes had reconvened solely to reconfirm their status as the coolest, most classically carved garage-pop act on the planet.Casablancas seemed as concerned about headlining a 55,000-capacity festival as he would have been about the average Rosetta Stone Hindi evening rehearsal. In a studded leather jacket and shades, he held the same stance for over an hour: bent into his mike strand, head cocked in the style of Joey Ramone turned to stone. He adopted a Lou Reed twang on The Modern Age, strained for the harsher notes and made long, rambling jokes between tunes. The band declared white-suited guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. was open to offers before You Only Live Once (Play your cards right, ladies, and you might get this sweet flesh prize right here) and lamented the U.S. vs. England World Cup draw prior to a dark, Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 prog-flecked Visions of Division (Lets all be miserable together).

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