The National Live — Sleep Well Beast Tour, Amsterdam

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

Two performers at the centre of a darkened indoor stage, the room split between deep red wash from the flanks and a fan of cyan beam lights driving down from the rig above. The National's Sleep Well Beast tour in Amsterdam — intimate in scale against the sheer volume of light the production throws at a nearly black room. Stage lighting this deliberate doesn't accompany the music so much as argue with it, and the argument is the point.