Gig Review: The National, Manchester Hop & Grape, 20th November 2005
I barely know anything about The National but they seem to have garnered a fair amount of critical praise for the Alligator album from certain reputable journals as well as receiving rave reviews on their notorious tour with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah where they played to half full venues every night with much of the crowd leaving after CYHSY’s support slot. By happy coincidence we had tickets to see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah in Liverpool the following night.
Support came from Film School who impressed when supporting Okkervil River at the Night & Day earlier in the year. Again, they were very good but didn’t make me want to rush out and buy any CDs. The excellent rhythm section drove the songs along while the effects-laden guitars floated menacingly above like fog above a motorway. They brought to mind shoegazing, and The Cure, and drew warm applause from the crowd.
The National, however, did make we want to rush out and buy their CDs, or at least put them on my Christmas list. I was expecting some sort of retro Americana (I expect this from any band endorsed by Uncut magazine) but instead The National are more like an American Tindersticks with singer Matt Berninger’s low croon recalling the Tinders’ Stuart Staples and occasionally Mark Eitzel. Berninger looks like an ungainly cross between Thom Yorke and Tom Hanks but his onstage demeanor is thankfully closer to the hunched intensity of the former rather than the vomit-inducing schmaltz of the latter. The rest of the band provided excellent backing with the twin brothers on guitar duties particularly catching the ear.
“Wasp’s Nest” and “Daughters Of The Soho Riots” were mesmerising, atmospheric slowies while “Mr November” was an intense rock out which drew an ecstatic response from the enthralled crowd. The one song I’d heard previously, “Karen”, sounded better than it’s recorded version and the band claimed it was the first time they’d ever played it live, though I’ve no idea if this was true. The Clap Your Hands Say Yeah gig the following night was good but didn’t come close to matching this.
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