Sigur Ros LIVE

macedon · Post by **macedon** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:52 pm

Has anyone else seen Sigur Ros live?

I went to see them in Austin, and other than the sound engineers cranking up the volume way way too much for a concert hall, they rocked. The visuals were OK, but watching Jonsi (lead singer) and the drummer perform was amazing. YOUSOOOOOUUUUUU YOUUUUSAAAAIIIIIII ALLLLLOOOOO-FIIIIIIIII, YOOOOOUUUUUUUSAAAIIIIII and then the drummer is beating all these complex beats really hard out on his drums -- good thing he is too scrawny to break the equipment. But man, he was raising his forearms above his head and everything when the energy of the music picked up, and brought them down hard. Jonsi had his famous violin bow on guitar thing going, altough my friend hates that sound. I have to agree, that on the albums they engineer that reverb to sound really good and in harmony with all other instruments, but they have a hard time doing as well it live. The keyboarder and bass guitarist are good musicians as well, but from a visual standpoint their perfomance is more static.

They did songs from Agaetis Byrjun, (), and Takk all mixed. The first song was Intro/Glosli, and they ended with Untitled 8. It was badassness the entire way through. I had a center front-row seat on the highest balcony, which is probably the best seat in the house even though it's in the nose-bleed section, because I am high up enough to see the entire band really going at it, and I was leaning over the rail the entire time. My eyeballs shriveled into raisins by the end because I didn't blink often enough or something, but I don't give a damn.

The only omission which I resent is Svefn-G-Englar (sleepwalkers or something like that).

There was also this Icelandic quartet of four women before Sigur Ros, called Ami IIRC. They were pimp as well. Very interesting and at the same time melodic music (unlike some of that weird cacophanous shit Aphex Twin likes to release once in a while that is innovative but unlistenable IMHO).

WTF is up with Iceland recently -- Bjork, Mum, Sigur Ros. Something in the water? I can understand the UK explosion in late fifties and sixties with Beatles/Led Z./PF/KC etc. But its not like there is any cultural upheaval going on in Iceland...maybe they don't have low-latency broadband out there or something.

Yeah, just wanted to rant about how Sigur Ros rocks my socks.

Unpronounceable_Symbol · Post by **Unpronounceable_Symbol** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:18 pm

Múm and Sigur Rós are part of the same scene and Björk came out in the '80s, so it's not so much of an Icelandic explosion as it might seem like. There are just a few very talented musicians that happen to have converged in the same area. Agreed, though, that they are cool.

And I have not seen them live. I would imagine they are a spectacle.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:48 pm

Thanks for the confirmation; I'm seeing them in may with my brother (ordered tickets already).

I'm not really a fan of theirs per se (that's my brother's job), but I like them and I'd expect that the live show will be quite something!

macedon · Post by **macedon** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:20 am

For those of us unable to see the concert live, good footage can be found on the official English site http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/dldvideo.php

The first one, Live from Iceland, is pretty much identical to what I saw.

The music videos rock too.