Sigur Ros turned the theatre into a post-modern exhibition space, projecting vector art animation of soaring birds and insidious storm clouds swirling around the stage. The ceiling space is a chasm so big it could house another concert hall.
It’s fictionally gorgeous, an LSD Rococo fever dream that would have been built by a European King in the 1700s after he overtaxed his subjects. Every cent of the $95 million reconstruction budget can be felt in Kings Theatre’ 2-year renovation from last year. The group’s two-show run in Brooklyn earlier this month had the added benefit of taking place in an 80-year-old movie theater refurbished into a god-cave of gold trim and red velvet. The Icelandic trio of vocalist/guitarist Jónsi Birgisson, bassist Goggi Hólm and percussionist/ keyboardist Orri Páll Dýrason (Kjartan Sveinsson left the group in 2013) weaves aural magic, pure and simple. A disclaimer: Sigur Ros is Sigur Ros and no pictures will ever do their concerts justice.
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