Bjork gives first TV performance in nearly seven years

Bjork gave her first TV performance in almost seven years on Tuesday (22May18), playing two tracks on BBC music show Later… With Jools Holland.
The eccentric Icelandic singer performed Courtship, from her recent album Utopia, alongside a group of flautists imitating birdsong, and also treated U.K. viewers to a rendition of her classic 1993 track The Anchor Song.
She last played on TV in November 2011, when she also appeared on Jools’s show. For her latest televised performance, she filled the BBC studio with plants and wore one of her signature masks.
Her brief gig divided viewers, with some tweeting that her singing sounded like “shouting down the microphone” and that she was “way beyond crap”. Others praised the Oh So Quiet singer for her originality, however, with others calling the set “brilliant” and “absolutely amazing”.
Bjork is playing at British festival All Points East on Saturday, where she will play Utopia in full at the top of a bill that also includes Beck, Father John Misty and Friendly Fires.
The Play Dead singer expressed her excitement ahead of her set in London’s Victoria Park on Twitter, writing, “i (sic) am soo o o o oo excited to share utopia live with you , first festival show in london coming up !! we have been rehearsing , preparing , planting them mutant plant-bird human hybrid seeds for yah and look (sic) : it’s harvest time !!!”
Other performers on Tuesday’s episode of the BBC late night music show included The Breeders and Laura Marling and British rocker Mike Lindsay’s new musical project LUMP.