Sigur Ros at Red Rocks

Two weekends ago Justin Mast, one of my closest friends, came out to Colorado for a visit. The highlight of the weekend was a Sigur Ros concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheater. For those of you who are unaware, Red Rocks is the greatest place in the country to see a live show, and if you enjoy live shows then you must add seeing a show there to your list of things to do before...it's too late. This was my fourth Red Rocks show with the previous three being Incubus, DMB, and John Mayer. I hope there will be many more in the future.


Sigur Ros has been one of my favorite bands since college. Their music is incredible, as long as you don't mind that the lyrics are in Icelandic, except for the one CD they did where all the lyrics are gibberish (they call it Hopelandic). On this tour Sigur Ros was without the Icelandic string quartet Amiina who they usually tour with. Usually at any given time during a Sigur Ros show there are 12+ musicians on stage. They still produced a very polished and powerful sound but a few of the songs seemed to be missing a little something without the additional instrumentation that usually accompanies them.

We had a great time and it was a beautiful night. Below is a picture of Sigur Ros on stage with the lights of Denver in the background.


Below is one of two large rock formations which outline the sides of the venue.


An interesting side note (to me anyway) is that since college I have had a list of three bands that I really wanted to see before...you know, it's too late. Those bands were Silverchair, Radiohead, and Sigur Ros. I had the incredible opportunity to see live performances by all three in the past 11 months. (Radiohead was the best show of the three).

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