Two band members of The National stand facing each other at centre stage during an indoor concert, LED backdrop panels glowing blue and white behind them, stage lights cutting through haze.

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.

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