*** All the pictures were taken with my camera phone, I left the S90 behind and am kicking myself for it! ***
Last night I went to see Air in concert at the Berklee Performance Center, I have seen over a hundred concerts and I have to say that this ranks amongst the absolute best I have ever seen. If Air is playing in a city near you and tickets are available, you need to do yourself a favor and buy them.
I’ve been listening to Air since “Moon Safari” came out, for some reason I never have seen them live until yesterday, though they have been one of those bands that are on my “to do” list of must see performances. The show last night was amazing for many reasons, in fact one large part of what made it a huge success was the venue itself. Who would have thunk that watching a band perform in a venue engineered to be acoustically perfect (it is a college devoted to music, after all) would make for an amazing experience. Even the band commented at how amazing the sound was in the venue, seriously it’s as if you had a super rich friend that let you listen to his $1 million + sound system.
The performance was amazing, I would compare the show to seeing a great concert pianist or classical concert (not that I have done either or am in the know on those genres). The reason I make the comparison is that the technical level of musicianship was just amazing. Even to a non-musician such as myself, you really could see the level of perfection and complexity in the performance. Not a note was missed and the detail in how the arrangements were built on themselves was part of the show. I honestly hope that there is a bootleg of the performance somewhere out there on the internet. For a live performance it actually sounded like a studio recording. It’s as if Air decided to record a greatest hits album in one session, no retakes and in front of a auditorium of people.
I am most familiar with Air’s earlier material, especially “Moon Safari” and “10,000 Hz Legend”. The band played a little of everything, in fact I honestly hadn’t been keeping up with their new releases and am making it a point to check them out. The encore were two of my favorite songs: “Sexy Boy” followed by “La Femme d’Argent”.
As mentioned before all the pictures were taken using my cell phone… Unfortunately the quality will be terrible, I really wish I had my S90 with me…
