He kept telling me, I think that's him, I think that's him, and me only have heard their music, never seen them, didn't know what he was talking about. So after sitting around an hour waiting for the storms to subside, I confronted him. I said, "Hey man, are you in a band?"
He said "Yes" so I proceeded to ask if that band was "The Envy Corps" and he said yes. We made some small talk and got a picture taken with him and his wife-to-be. It was pretty rad.
Back to Sigor Rós...here is the beginning of Svefn-g-englar on my digital camera. Sound quality is kinda bad, but you get the idea. They opened with this song, and everyone went nuts.
After the show I was a little perturbed. First of all, there was a colossal man sitting directly in front of me. I could never see the entire stage at one time. You can see this in my photo from yesterday. He's the giant shadow-like figure on the left of the bright light.
Next, I was disappointed that they failed to play the 90+ minutes the Orpheum workers told me that it was supposed to last. So they played like 85 minutes, close enough. I got over that.
They did not play a few key songs that I greatly enjoy, which kind of disappointed me. Not only would have just one more song satisfied me, it would have also overturned the disappointment of the previous issue.
And now to the good part...
And after all this negativity, I failed to relish in the fact that they played 6-7 brand new songs that have not been released yet. At first I kind of "ho-hum"ed this fact. After a day of recollection, I am very appreciative that I got to hear them live, before most people have heard them at all. This overturned all disappointment I felt about the show, and quickly put it in the top 3 shows I have ever been to. Pretty impressive.
More (blurry) photos from the show...
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