Burgerlicious and Sigur Ros: A Review.
I entered the mean streets of Newtown tonight with two appetites - one for a big, whopping dose of culinary awesomeness, the other for a big, whopping dose of icelandic awesomeness.
I entered a predominantly empty Burgerlicious to see a young man at the counter who's name i cant recall now , but we had met once at a house party and he was very amused by my lack of sexual prowess.
Nonetheless we said g'day and i ordered, a build-your-own meal with chicken, avocado, bacon, lettuce, sweet chilli, and mayo.
The service was quick and the food great - but it was the little things in the experience that changed it for me.
Other than the rather trivial disappointment of my ketchup being a bit smaller than i remember, thus me running out a little early, the main one was the chicken. Although it was delicious, it was cut in a strange way, with big bits hanging out, but the last chunk of the burger was chicken-less, leaving a nonetheless enjoyable, but somewhat anticlimactic end to the meal.
Burgerlicious is Burgerlicious though, and you can't really go wrong with it. Pair it up to any other meal i've had in the past month, and it still destroys it. But it just seemed to be somewhat below the collosal standards that it has already set for itself.
The same must be said for Sigur Ros. In effect they delivered a great companion set to last year's Enmore show - gone was Svefn-G-Englar, Vidrar, Untitled 1... In was E-Bow, Untitled 9 (i think), and did i hear Death Song? Or am i getting it mixed up with another song?
The performance was gorgeous - the staging, lighting, screens all gorgeous. But somehow, it just seemed a little more flaccid than last time. The climaxes weren't so climactic, the overwhelming jonsi guitar noise wasn't so overwhelming, and it just seemed to be missing something.
Was it that i was a few metres further back this time? Perhaps. Maybe it wasn't ever going to be the same cathartic experience the second time round.
But, as with newtown's best burger joint, a sigur ros show is a sigur ros show, and although i can't say it beats everything from the past month (if the roc is in the building say hell yeah!), it was a fantastic experience, and if they're coming your way, its an opportunity you'd be a damn fool to miss.