Blog: Bananaspam!

Sigur Rós are often called a post-rock band, and they were certainly out in full-on rock mode at Friday night's show at UC Berkeley's Greek Theater . The band performed as a four-piece (absent the string and brass players from recent tours) in a guitar-oriented configuration that allowed the band to explore the darker, prog rock-tinged aspects of its often ethereal catalog. The stage design—epic green backlighting, smoke and saturated high-contrast close-ups of instruments—perfectly set the mood; not to mention lead singer/guitarist Jónsi Birgisson's dark-prince-from-the-future costume and tortured, spastic bowing. When rain came down late in the set, [...]