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French pop dance maestro David Guetta’s ability to polarise opinion was emphasised by the British press this week, via a series of wildly contrasting reviews of shows he performed in front of tens of thousands of revellers in London, Liverpool and Belfast.

Belfast Telegraph reporter Alan Lewis branded his ‘amazing, spectacular set’ at the Belsonic Festival a ‘runaway success’, adding ‘Guetta was obviously having as much fun as the crowd, who literally bounced the night away’.

Creamfields reporter Natalie Evans was similarly impressed.

“The star hosted “the biggest party on the planet”,” she wrote in a euphoric review in local news portal Click Liverpool, “with an awe-inspiring set of chart, electro-pop and old school anthems.”

Guardian music critic Ian Gittins, however, appeared to endure a far less ecstatic experience at London’s LED Festival in Victoria Park, moaning about it taking place ‘in a mud bath under ominous grey skies and sporadic downpours’.

“French DJ/producer David Guetta has enjoyed four UK No 1 singles in the last year, a fact he continually repeated during a monumentally depressing headline set of cheesy club anthems spun from the top of a garish 30ft podium,” Gittins grumbled.

“Guetta may be a house music titan but he will always sound like a Top Shop in-store DJ who got lucky,” he complained.

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Glamour model turned reality TV superstar Katie ‘Jordan’ Price ridiculed seminal electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk this week in an interview with The Quietus.

“Never heard of them,” the hugely influential tastemaker admitted when played their ground breaking 70s pop hit The Model.

“This reminds me of ‘Don’t You Want Me’ by the Eurythmics. That was by the Human League? Ah, OK. It’s really like that though,” she continued. “What do I think of it? It’s boring. It’s all right,” she shuddered.

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Her near sacrilegious assessment struck an unlikely chord with the views of acid techno legend Chris Liberator who in an interview with Skrufff in 2004 admitted to being distinctly unimpressed with the acclaim routinely accorded to the Teutonic pioneers.

“Take Kraftwerk, for example; I love them, I went to see them live in the 80s, but I don’t see why they’re so massive now in terms of their influence on the electronic music scene,” the Stay Up Forever chief complained, “Or bands like Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire- I never got into rave or techno because of those people; they weren’t the missing link for me.”

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Chatting to Skrufff the same year Ed Simons from the Chemical Brothers was more reverential, after watching Kraftwerk at Brixton Academy just weeks before the duo were scheduled to headline Creamfields in the UK.

“Tom (Rowlands) and I were absolutely gob-smacked and energised by the absolute technicality of that Kraftwerk show; they way they synchronised the music with the visuals and the sheer artistry of the visuals and it definitely prompted us to have a big rethink about how we present our own show,” Ed admitted.

“A few days later we had a meeting with our visual guy and we conceived a new look and a new way of combining the visuals with the music. Our lighting man also designed a new stage set,” he said.

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