Why to see the Icelandic ambient band Sigur Ros when they play Madison Square Garden on March,25th, 2013? Sounds like a drag right? Music to wallpaper the back of your brain to? And have you heard their music? Man, is it hard to concentrate on!!!
But these guys are really special. here is Alyson Camus on the band from a review of their gig at Hollywood Forever Cemetry back in August: “This Sigur Ros’ concert was a stunning experience, musically and visually, as the three screens around the stage were projecting abstract, fuzzy and moving images or poetic scenes such as calming dark-green seas or enchanted glittering forests, and the lights from the top were spreading green, red, orange, white fumes, inundating the musicians on stage. There were no confetti or balloons, no that’s not the type of these Icelanders, but the ever-changing visuals around them were totally fitting their sprawling songs, and their unique sense of space, calm and fury.”
It sounds like something very different and as for the bands popularity, you don’t hire out MSG unless there is a goodish chance of filling it out. On the other hand… Alyson is a damn good writer! Either way, I'll be there.