While pointing a spotlight back on us Torq proclaimed Hillside to be his favourite festival, a claim that is backed by his history of playing it as Memphis (2007), Hillside Inside with Stars (2009) and of course Stars opening for the Arcade Fire on this very stage in 2005. Amy was in great form in a sparkling dress and Cranley rocked some (hilariously) epic rock power-stances with his bass guitar. Most of the set was tit-for-tat Five Ghosts track for the usual suspects of older songs. A version of Going, Going, Gone had slower elements from the Nightsongs original, but brought more to life like the Sad Robots version. When Amy began singing over Chris' simple piano it really set the mood for a beautiful rendition of Midnight Coward.
With quiet hours looming over us the band stood poised for their final song and Amy said "You know what's coming" only to break into a less-than-stellar new song that signified to me that they'd be back. And they were, with the best Stars encore of the seven or eight times I've seen them. A touching rendition of the ultimate Stars lost-love duet, Your Ex-Lover is Dead was followed by a plea for One More Night. Sadly there were no more nights as another year of the Hillside Festival, dripping in all of the emotions supplied by an excellent Stars set, came to a gorgeous close.
[Set included Ageless Beauty, Take Me to the Riot, Elevator Love Letter and from The Five Ghosts Fixed, I Died So I Could Haunt You, Wasted Daylight, and The Passenger but unfortunately not Dead Hearts.]
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