The Dandy Warhols & Sigur Rós - You Have Killed Me

So I've had a pretty action-packed Sunday/Monday double combo. Last night I scoped out The Dandy Warhols at the Roseland with my best friends Zac & Linds. The show was super dope and they played for a solid two hours - from 11pm to 1am - after the first two bands, one of which had reunited for the Dandy's tour after several years apart. They were called Swoon23. I wasn't as big a fan of The Dandy Warhols before seeing them, but when I did see them live last night, I fell in love. Way rad band and you should see them live if possible.

Moving on from that show and on to the one I just got back from - Sigur Rós! Oh man oh man oh man was that the best show I've ever and will ever be privileged to attend. I'm so glad I got my tickets months ago cause it was packed out at the Schnizter Concert Hall. That place is so beautiful and it provided the right atmosphere for Sigur Rós. There was a band called Parachutes that came out before them and I thought it was Sigur Rós. They sounded very similar and had the same length of songs as them. They were sick and I got into them really easily. After they took a humble bow - all 8 or 9 of them I think - they cleared off and the stage was re-arranged for Sigur Rós. At 9pm, they took the stage to raucous applause, hooting and cat-calls. The keyboard/piano player Kjartan came out wearing a conductors tux jacket with long tails, sat at the piano and played one single note and I already knew the name of the song they were about to play: Svefn-G-Englar off their first official album Ágætis Byrjun. I knew this was going to be an amazing show. Here's the setlist from what I can remember and in no particular order:

Svefn-G-Englar
Flugufrelsarinn
Ný Batterí
Glósóli
Með Blóðnasir (For this one, the lead singer Jónsi asked everybody in English to sing along in a low voice while he sang the high part and everyone sang the Ohhh ohh ohhh part. It was beautiful)
Við Spilum Endalaust
Hoppípolla
Heysátan
Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
Sæglópur
Fljótavík
Gobbledigook (They had Parachutes come back on stage with a bunch of big drums and everyone was clapping along with the song. Then a ton of confetti shot out everywhere at the end - It was epic!)
Untitled 8 - Popplagið (Nice ender song - well played)

During the show, there'd be projections going on behind them. Sometimes it would show a close-up camera angle of Jónsi playing his guitar with a cello bow, or their drummer Orri hitting the bass drum, or their bass player Georg. I'm guessing there must have been a few cameras stationed around them. It was really cool when it was projected behind them. Sometimes there were these white floating globes that would have lights shining on them. Most of the time the projectors would have close-up distorted images of children's faces moving around. It was eerie and cool at the same time. It definitely added a whole other dimension to the show. It was everything I was hoping it'd be and a trillion times more. Sigur Rós is a band that I've been dying to see ever since I first heard them and I knew that their kind of music is huge and it's really hard to see them. They don't come to the states all that often and the last time they came was a year ago. But now I've seen them live and I can die happy. Thank you Jónsi, Kjartan, Georg and Orri. You guys have made my night and probably my next few weeks.