Live music - Kraftwerk
On a weekend when some of the world’s top electronic artists were playing at the Forbidden Fruit festival in Kilmainham, the likes of Orbital, Aphex Twin and Hot Chip should all have been doffing their baseball caps to the act performing across Dublin at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre.
Kraftwerk are the grandaddy of them all. Ralf Hütter and his various collaborators were producing sounds on Minimoogs and other primitive synthesisers back in the early 1970s, and really deserve their place in the pantheon of the most influential groups in popular music.
