Last year (and possibly earlier?) Beck shows featured puppet performances. There’s a nice description of a concert at Cup of Coffey.  Youtuber jeffreyharrell got a good shot of the show they did at Bonnaroo:

There’s a number of different performances posted on YouTube.  Here are some more…

This one is labeled by fockinpauly as “2006-10-21 Jersey City, NJ”

This next video is not as great quality, but still okay.  ok4mymemory has noted that the show was in Dublin.

And here’s a music video featuring the puppets:

Phil Collins, Genesis, Land of Confusion. How could I, up until now, have forgotten about this video? I have a blog featuring puppet videos, and I neglected to post The Land of Confusion. The singularly most disturbing musical incorporation of on-screen puppetry ever. My reference list is a little convoluted for this one: a post at Puppetbuzz referenced a post at PuppetVision which referenced the original post at Culture Bully that featured the Top Five Music Videos to Ever Feature Puppets. I love all those websites so I had to give them creds. Srsly, though, here’s the video:

I didn’t realize how closely Phil Collins resembles a potato until he was so deftly represented in puppet form.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, the first place award went to Mr. Oiso’s Flat Beat video.

Time for another music video. This is the electronic hip-hop group Puppet Mastaz with a song called “Pet Sound.” I think they’re German. I’m not sure whether I like them, but they apparently have committed 100% to the concept of having all-puppet personae. It’s like Gwar-to-the-next-level, or something.

Here is a Lily Allen music video starring a hilarious puppet as her little brother Alfie (as well as some adorable little birdie puppets). Beware: Alfie does things on-screen that some viewers may disapprove of or find offensive. I’m not a big fan of pop music, but this is a fabulous video anyway. I should give the credit that I originally found this in a post on PuppetVision.