The National Live — Sleep Well Beast Concert Tour, Netherlands

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

The National mid-set on the Sleep Well Beast Concert Tour, somewhere in the Netherlands. Green stage lights rake across the front of the stage; diagonal light beams cut through atmospheric haze behind the band. The vocalist and guitarist anchor either side of the frame while the drummer holds the centre — a full band in full motion, the production as loud visually as the music is acoustically. Stage spectacle does the compositional work here, the lighting design as deliberate as anything else in the show.