The National Live on Stage — Sleep Well Beast Tour, Netherlands

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

Five musicians spread across a wide indoor stage, the full lighting rig exposed above them. Green wash from the LED backdrop floods the rear wall; blue beam lights cut low across the floor, catching haze and hardware in equal measure. The National's Sleep Well Beast tour filled every corner of the room — the production as precise and deliberate as the band's reputation suggests, the intimacy of the songs somehow surviving the scale of the room.