As well as being one of the most successful post-rock bands in the world, Sigur Rós are also among the most enigmatic. Playing the first of two nights in London, they shuffled onstage with heads bowed, dressed all in black – hard to read and deadly serious. Their challenging tunes almost lost the audience’s patience in the first half but emerged sublimely powerful in the second.
By structuring their performance around an intermission, Sigor Rós have themselves to blame for the comparison. The break was welcome in a marathon two-hour-and-a-half set, bravely performed by lead singer Jonsi Birgisson, bassist Georg Hólm and with Kjartan Sveinsson on the keyboard.
