Matt Berninger Feels It
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So I was kind of pissed that we had to leave during the encore because of the last train (and thus in all likelihood missing what I find to be their best song in "About Today"), and that feeling was both worsened and soothed by the overall quality of the gig, which was absolutely amazing.What adds to that is that the band plays with feeling, and especially that Matt Berninger sings it with so much feeling and emotion, that it really comes across. The poetic lyrics are sung in the way they should be sung.Matt overscreams "My mind's not right" and "I won't fuck you over, I'm Mr. November", he almost apologetically says "You know I dreamed about you, for twenty-nine years, before I even saw you". Without stumbling he finds a way through the impossible sentence "It's just another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent life of adults", and he actually recoils from the mike to sing into open air the last lines of "Daughters of the Soho Riots", not caring one bit if anyone can hear it or not.Needless to say, he is not an entertainer. He stands there because he loves the music and the music is close to him. At one point he has build up so much emotion that he, off mike, starts to scream, inaudible, but visible.The rest of the band knows what to do. The violin player darts across the stage with the same poise and vigor that Matt sings with, and the twin brothers do a good job on guitar. The drums never seem to miss a beat.In a set of nearly 1 1/2 hour, in which they alternate songs from "Alligator", their latest "Boxer", and the EP "Cherry Tree", I have to miss the final part, because people apparently don't realize not everyone going to a gig lives in Amsterdam. Too bad, because it was fantastic. I know at least two people that will be standing at the front when they next play Holland.Uploaded here is the mp3 of "Daughters of the Soho Riots", one of their calmest songs, but also one of their most beautiful in my opinion, with the heart wrenching line "You must have known I'd do this some day".
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