![]() ![]() ![]() However, the camera phone photographers sprinkled throughout the audience continued to click away - and would soon get a healthy dose of that Punk Attitude.With bombast from longtime drummer Martin Chambers, the band launched into “Message of Love” and as Hynde kicked and struck naturally cool guitar poses, the audience responded wildly. ![]() The professionals got up close, snapped and retreated to their side of the stage. After “Talk of the Town”, Hynde announced to the photographers (professional and otherwise) that now was the time to take their shots. Toying with the crowd, she shimmied to the edge of the stage singing to audience. Amid cries of “Chrissie!” Hynde took the mic, sans guitar, coyly asking, “Are there any gentlemen in the house?” before leading the band into “Don’t Cut Your Hair”, another new cut. With its brick walls and sticky floors, the Electric Factory was a fitting scene for the band’s first tour in several years - grizzled yet venerable. Standing tall at her mic in a tailed black blazer, perfectly fitted blue jeans and high-heeled boots, she and the Pretenders tore into “Boots of Chinese Plastic” off their rootsy triumph, Break Up the Concrete. To say nothing of her voice, which is simultaneously smooth and snarling, just like the woman herself.In Philadelphia, the crowd - her crowd - was instantly transfixed and endlessly adoring from the moment she strutted up to the mic and greeted the giddy (and lubricated) people at her feet. Her trademark bangs, her unparalleled confidence, her killer songs - all of these combine to create an almost visible aura of authentic, natural cool. She embodies the punk attitude so many talk about, but not many can pull off. Yet these words are starkly evident from the second Chrissie Hynde takes a stage. Certain words in music criticism are severely overused. ![]()
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