Girl Talk got the coveted main stage set right before Outkast, so anyone concerned with having a good spot for the headliners ended up watching Gregg Gillis too. Gillis’ live show has always been crazy, even when it was just him gradually stripping to his underwear while his audience danced around him on stage. It’s even crazier these days. The crowd still gets on stage, but now there are a bunch of props and video displays and confetti too, and at Coachella there are guest rappers like Juicy J and Busta Rhymes. Gillis came through with a number of zany mashups too; I particularly appreciated the complementary mixture of Blur and 2 Chainz and the audacity of mixing Radiohead’s hyper serious “Idioteque” with Quad City DJs. But the variable that pushed this circus over the top was this: At one point, for like 15 minutes straight while Girl Talk raged on, the video screens that flanked the bacchanal were showing Bryan Ferry’s performance at the nearby Mojave Tent for no apparent reason. Here was Ferry, looking not unlike Bill Nighy’s character from Love Actually, serving as Girl Talk’s absurd window dressing. Not sure whether this was a technical glitch or a prank or somebody at Coachella just decided they’d seen enough footage of non-famous people dancing on stage, but regardless of why it happened, it was perfect.