The National Live — Sleep Well Beast Tour, Amsterdam

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

Stage and screen locked together, the LED backdrop pushing deep violet across the full width of the venue. The National played Amsterdam on the Sleep Well Beast tour with this kind of production: curved LED panels stacked above the band, purple wash flooding everything below, the performers silhouetted at the bottom of the frame. The lighting does double duty — it is a visual event as much as an audio one, the kind of rig that makes indoor concert photography a study in how much colour a camera can hold before it clips.