OK, so reboot means time to return to the blog. Two things.
First, sigur ros is finally coming to Colorado again. I know, there's supposed to be the little thing above the "o." Sorry, can't figure that out on my computer. I'm a heathen.
Anyway, sigur ros on April 6 at the 1st Bank Center. A perfectly fine venue. But too bad it's not a month later kicking off the summer season at Red Rocks. A chilly spring evening outdoors there would be perfect for sigur ros. Probably too perfect. Maybe even so perfect it becomes a cliche.
Then again, I saw sigur ros on a blistering Chicago afternoon with about 20,000 people in a field. I've never experienced quiet like that. At times the crowd was so silent the typical concert goings on came to a dead halt. No one said a f'n word; no drunk bros hollering and shotgunning beers; no annoying cellphone gabbers; no friends "catching up" and ignoring the band. Just 20,000 people in rapture at some of the most amazing noise I've ever heard.
Second, thanks to OpenAir CPR (yes, that station again), I now love Artichoke. Horns, sitars, garage psychedelia about such things as Jesus and Satan on a reunion tour.
Somewhere the Chocolate Watchband is thinking "dammit, we should have used more sitar." Or played the guitar with a bow.
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