The National Live — Stage Lighting at Amsterdam Concert

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

A guitarist mid-performance, silhouetted against a spread of cyan beam lights cutting through a purple-washed stage. The National's Sleep Well Beast tour brought this kind of light design to Amsterdam — disciplined, angular, each beam directed rather than scattered. The rig does as much work as the band: it narrows the eye to a single figure at the microphone while the rest of the stage holds its breath in violet.