The National Live – Sleep Well Beast Tour, Amsterdam

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

The National mid-set on the Sleep Well Beast Tour, somewhere in the Netherlands. Two band members face each other at centre stage, the guitar low, the posture unmistakably mid-song. Behind them, the LED backdrop runs blue and white in wide overlapping panels — abstract enough to be painting, functional enough to be a wall of light. Stage and screen do different jobs here: one holds the people, the other holds the atmosphere.