The National Live at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

The National mid-set at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam — the full band spread across a wide stage, guitarist centred, keys at the right edge, the whole back wall given over to fragmented LED panels burning with pixelated colour. Blue and purple stage wash cuts across the floor; the LED screens push their own light into the room, doing as much structural work as the rig overhead. The Sleep Well Beast tour built its visual language around this kind of controlled overload — intimate and enormous at exactly the same time.