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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Video The xx "Intro" Live at the Showobx SoDo

Posted by on Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM

About that "pretty killer light show" I mentioned in yesterday's review of Monday night's xx show:

Before their set began, a white scrim hung over the front of the stage, and for opening number "Intro," the band played behind it, backlit, their shadows dramatically projected and flashing onto the scrim in multiples, first just Romy Madley Croft on guitar, then when the beat dropped Sim on bass and Jamie Smith, who plays to the back of the stage but loomed larger on the screen than either of the others (fukkin' scrims/how do they work?), tap-tapping out the beat on his MPC sampler. On the song's last note, the curtain fell to reveal the trio backed by a giant black X.

Andrew Matson has posted some video:


This doesn't quite do justice to how cool it looked in person, but you get the idea.

 

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That's the trick Sigur Ros used five years ago.
Posted by tiktok on April 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM
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I thought the trick they used five years ago was singing saddo gibberish whalesongs.
Posted by Eric Grandy on April 14, 2010 at 1:17 PM
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The light show is good because it distracts from the music being really mediocre.
Posted by Chris Pollina http://www.eldridgegravy.com on April 14, 2010 at 3:29 PM
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I finally got the ICP reference! Yay for me!
Posted by Kevin Erickson on April 14, 2010 at 6:53 PM
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It's not an unusual trick, tiktok.

Along with Sigur Rós and others I know I'm forgetting, Gorillaz, PiL, Depeche Mode, and suede have all used it over the years as well.
Posted by Dean Fawkes http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author?oid=479789&section=Blogs on April 14, 2010 at 8:12 PM
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This show was definitely the best show I've gone to in a long time!! Check out photos I took at the show on my Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamsayswha…
Posted by Adam Gaciarz on April 17, 2010 at 9:26 AM

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