Sigur Rós, last night at Starlight (review)
It has been several years since I last saw Sigur Rós in Kansas City. That performance was at the now-defunct Madrid theater, and it was memorable for a couple of reasons. First, the band was as impressive live as advertised. Heightening the performance was the added spectacle of incredible lighting and a number of visual elements that were totally novel, including these opaque screens in front of the band that created intense shadows when hit with the stage lights. Second, the crowd was reverent. Like, silent-throughout-the-show, no-shouty-drunks reverent, except for the rapturous applause at the end of each song. It was so ridiculously spectacular that I figured there was no way the band could recapture that kind of magic several years later. I’m happy to report that I was mostly wrong about that.
