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. The stage is built around massive LED panels running purple and white visuals — abstract, glitchy, disorienting in the best way. A guitarist holds the right side of the frame while the frontman works the left edge, the crowd a dark silhouette beneath them. Live production at this scale turns the room into a second instrument: the visuals don't illustrate the music so much as expand it.