Tonight I saw one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. I got chills about 30 seconds into the first song, and it just kept building, crescendo after crescendo. Sigur Ros was amazing.
Laura and I got to the theater about when I thought the show was going to start (6:30), hoping they still had tickets left. We could hear the sound check through the door. The doors opened at 7:30. We purchased our tickets and walked through the skyways to find a mediocre dinner in City Center.
When we returned, turns out we had slightly better seats than the friend who got free tix from radio k, and considerably better tix than the friend who had purchased tickets as soon as he heard they were coming (months ago). I felt kinda bad about that, but the place did fill up just before Sigur Ros took the stage, so I’ll bet laura and I got some cancelations or something.
I found myself thinking at one point that Sigur Ros has a lot in common with Pink Floyd. I’d never made that connection before, but I think there’s something simmilar about them, a feel, a slowness, intensity, I don’t know yet. Maybe if it comes to me I’ll let you know.
I took some pictures, (actually, more after and before the show than durring), and I was thinking about uploading one or two, but it’s so much work to get them all ready to post and stuff. I really need a new digital camera before a photo blog becomes at all practical.