The subtle lighting describes faint sketches of amplifiers and the shapes of keyboards, drawing the crowds attention to the flowers scattered across the stage, each one containing its own bulb. It’s moody, it’s beautiful, and it’s Stars.
As the band arrive on stage to ‘The Beginning After The End’, the opening track of new album In Our Bedroom After The War, the crowd cheer and applaud, but still maintain a palpable level of reverence before tonight’s entertainers.
Across the following ninety minutes the band serve up almost their entire creative repertoire, with singer Torquil Campbell delivering an occasional speech, one concerning his accident during second song ‘The Night Starts Here’, in which he solemnly declares “Ladies and gentlemen, I am wounded. I have incurred my first ever on-stage injury”, chipping a tooth on the microphone. The second sermon is spent reflecting on the legend that the Irish provide the greatest crowds of any tour. As this is their debut date in the country, he proudly proclaims the challenge that “Dublin will have a lot to live up to tomorrow night”.
As they work their way through the highlights on each of their albums, the band give it everything they’ve got. In a live setting, the self-confessed cold distance of their music is given warmth and closeness, enveloping the crowd with tales of seduction and submission. As come to close their set, Torquil hopes that everyone will leave and forget about the people on stage, but hold on to the places that the music took them. Judging by the response, the wish goes ungranted. They’ll never forget such a show so easily.
Posted on: October 31, 2007
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