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Sep 07, 2005 20:23

Alright, as some of you may have read I went to see Sigur Ros last night and this is going to be a post all about the show so if you don't care to read about my first Sigur Ros experience then scroll on...

Last night I went to Atlanta to see Sigur Ros. It was in the Woodruff Arts Center at the Atlanta Symphony Hall. I had no idea what to expect. I found an usher and showed them my ticket and they showed me my seat. AMAZING! The hall it was in had floor seats, a balcony and another balcony over it. I was in the first balcony, second row, exactly in the middle, no one to either side of me or in front of me. So it felt like Sigur ros was playing just for me and only me.

Well the band that travels with them and always opens for them, Amina, opened but only played four songs because some of their instruments got lost. For the most part they are just a four girl string quartet, but they also play xylophone, and one girl spun her finger around some glasses to give that hum effect, just little neat things like that. They were very entertaining.

Well they were done and it was time for Sigur Ros. Sigur Ros played from about 9:00 to a little after 11:00. It was the first time I had ever seen a band and after every song I said to myself "please don't let that me that last one, please play one more. So the entire time they played they had a gigantic screen behind them and for the first and last song they had a gigantic sheer screen in front of them and they shined their light through it so it just formed silouetts on the wall and screen. It was very colorful, vivid, and beautiful.

I never imagined Sigur Ros being intense live, I just figured it would just as mellow as it was on recording, but live they are so loud, dynamic, and intense. You never know whats going to happen next. Songs are much longer with something new around each corner.

I have never seen a band take up so much stage space. The drummer was to the right and he had a medium sized kit but behind him what what I think I saw three keyboards, and on the other side of the state was about 5 keyboards, two zylophones, several guitars, and a string section. Jonsi, the vocalist, was one of the thinest people I have ever seen so when he hunched over to play his guitar with a bow he look zombi like. It was very eerie.

The whole performace was very moving, and as cheesy as it sounds, for me it was spiritaully moving. They would do these dramatic pauses during intense part of the songs and just leave this, at least 500+ capacity room, in dead silence. It was seriously as if I was the only one in the room.

They played every song I wanted them too except the one from Life Aquaitc. I forget the name of it, but it was seriously amazing. Now, after last night, every band I ever see again will suck compared to last night. It was udderly amazing.

I will stop writing and boring you know because honestly, words can't do it justice. All I can hope for is that I get to see them again and to bring more money. All their shirts were $25 because they handmake them in an igloo next to their studio. I just picked up an Anima 10 inch and a button.

It was the perfect evening, and as cheesy as this is going to sound, the only thing that could have made last night better was if my girlfriend was there. She is amazing. Just like Sigur Ros.
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