The room was smaller than the press had suggested, the lights were lower than the band probably wanted, and the kick drum landed two beats deeper than the building had been designed to receive. For most of the first set this seemed like a problem. By the encore it had become the entire point.
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There is a particular kind of show that does not really finish when the music stops – a kind where the air keeps moving for several minutes after the last note, where the audience seems reluctant to admit, even to themselves, that the thing they have just been part of is now over. This was one of those.