The National Live in Amsterdam — Sleep Well Beast Tour

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

Five musicians spread across a dark stage, blue stage lights cutting through haze, a fractured LED screen blazing white and colour above them. The National mid-set in Amsterdam — the production as deliberate as the music, every panel and light positioned to make the room feel smaller than it is. Stage design doing the same work as the songs: controlled, precise, and bigger than it looks from the outside.