Jesus would ya look at that - 3 posts (WITH photos people!!) in the one day!
So as a birthday present (sooooo old!) i got taken to the Arcade Fire gig in the Phoenix Park - twas a good gig but I think by comparison to the gig in the Olympia it lacked something. The visuals were amazng with huge velvet curtains up giving a beautiful background to these massive silhouettes of all the band in full theatrical dancing - it looked almost like a marionette puupert show! The sound was great and you could tell the crowd was really up for it.
Personally like i said it was good but not great - an hour and a half with a VERY brief encore - it kinda felt like we'd just finished the trek from Parkgate St when we were leaving again. I suppose you could call it the Arcade Fire backlash - I mean 3 times in one year - (I think only CSS are beating them in terms of number of appearances!) - but there was definitely a little something lacking. Having said that the fact that we were right at the very back didn't help either! Hence the crap photos!
So as a birthday present (sooooo old!) i got taken to the Arcade Fire gig in the Phoenix Park - twas a good gig but I think by comparison to the gig in the Olympia it lacked something. The visuals were amazng with huge velvet curtains up giving a beautiful background to these massive silhouettes of all the band in full theatrical dancing - it looked almost like a marionette puupert show! The sound was great and you could tell the crowd was really up for it.
Personally like i said it was good but not great - an hour and a half with a VERY brief encore - it kinda felt like we'd just finished the trek from Parkgate St when we were leaving again. I suppose you could call it the Arcade Fire backlash - I mean 3 times in one year - (I think only CSS are beating them in terms of number of appearances!) - but there was definitely a little something lacking. Having said that the fact that we were right at the very back didn't help either! Hence the crap photos!
One of the more unexpected highlights of the night was walking out of the tent to arrive into this really eerie but beautifully lit dense fog - I will freely confess to being a wannabe amateur photographer and keep threatening to buy myself a digital SLR one of these days. Anyhoo I got some nice photos of people dissolving into the fog. Here ye go
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