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By Christopher Gray, Fri., June 30, 2006

Photo By John Anderson

WHERE IT'S AT

Dubbing themselves Ima Robot and semidisguised in "Sabotage"-like wigs and shades, Beck's backing band played a surprise set of slippery space-funk at the Continental Club last Tuesday following their sold-out Backyard date (which, by all accounts, featured a killer puppet show). Although the diminutive Guero left the packed house wondering where he's at – the answer was upstairs in the recently opened Continental Club Gallery, reportedly sidelined by a groin injury – Brit Backyard opener Jamie Lidell (above right) filled in admirably with a pristine falsetto and rubber-legged dance moves that should have Beck watching his back.

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