Just got home from Jonsi.
It was a beautiful concert.
Adam and I went and ate dinner in the food court at Pacific centre after escaping the rain, and I mean RAIN, the torrential downpour, soaks-you-to-your-bones, kind of rain. Lovely.
Anyways he got some sushi that he knew wasn't very good but got anyways (question mark?) and I got these awesome vegetarian egg rolls and a lemon poppyseed muffin from some vegetarian foood store that I can not quite remember the name of. They werre both very good though.
After that we sort of meandered back to the theatre (The Vogue)
and got in line. It was only six ish, but we (i) have an obsession with getting to be front row at things,
so we wanted to get a good spot. We were about tenth in line,
and waited for a while just talking about, well life. Round six thirty Adam went to get us drinks from Starbucks to warm our chilly bones and I eavesdropped on some attractive Icelandic fellows standing in line behind me. Suffice it to say, I did not learn much.. They were speaking Icelandic...
Anywho, we got in,
I immediately bought Jonsi's CD for a whopping fifteen bucks, the guy at the merch table didn't have change so he paid me back too much and told me he'd cover the rest (I love random kindness)
and I went and saw the seats Adam got us. FRONT ROW.
I almost fell asleep to tell you the ttruth, there was really calming, serene music playing, and we had an hour to kill b efore the opener.
Anyways, at eight o clock this guy walks on stage. Lights don't really dim, nothing fancy happens, and I thought he was a lighting guy or something: long, brown hair down to his but, ordinary clothes, attractive enough, carrying a guitar with electrical tape on it, I didn't think hee was the opener.
He was; he was Death Vessel.
Now I thought he was very talented. He is an awesome guitar player- sort of folksy, indie music, almost reminiscent of Fleet Foxes or Midlake, and his voice is beautiful to match.
His voice is very soft, tender, and if I could designate an adjective I would call it Alabaster.
At first I thought he sort of sounded like Sufjan, just because of said innocence in his voice, but that opinion changed.
Now the first song was wonderful, and the second song was also good, but this guy, Death Vessel, did not pause in between his songs, except for applause, did not speak, did not really look at the audience or smile, aqnd just kept playing. By doing that, he really didn't catch the audience's attention, and all the songs started blending together and Adam even stopped clapping.
I still think he was good, but he really needs to work on his stage prescence.. I sound like Ellen on Idol.. Oh god.
It was funny because about halfway through his set an old man in the front row yelled out "CAN YOU TALK?" and the singer was like "WHAT?" and the old man said "WELL, ARE YOU ALLOWED TO SPEAK?" and the singer said "Uh , yes. Hello. My name is Joele, and your friend might have this band in their itunes library. I'm called Death Vessel" This is Death Vessel. below, with shorter hair.

And that was all he said, except for applauding Jonsi's awesomeness.
Anyways he finished, and it was a good thing because I was getting drowsy..
Adam and I chatted/slept for the next however long, and at nine THE LIGHTS DIMMED.

I was all a tingle. And in the darkness came JONSI, and others. Nico Muhly, Alex (of Jonsi and Alex, his boyfriend) and others I can't remember the name of :s.
Anyways they were all dressed in these crazy costumes, that were sort of conglomerations of all these different types and stris of fabrics, which hung off the outfits in strings or which  were pieced together in a sort of patchwork way. They had these black pants that were sort of rouched at the bottom as well.

This is just a picture of Jonsi.

Anyways he stepped out and launched right into song, Stars in Still Water to be exact (I happened to come across a set list too by the way:D)

I will scan and post the set list later.

Anyways, Jonsi is odd loooking. I don't mean to sound prejudiced or racist but the band looked like these wonderful, pale, alien, Icelandic Nymphs, and they all had soft white pallours and wide set blue eyes. And odd hair cuts. Very odd hair cuts.

I have been wiki creeping Jonsi and discovered that the Band member that I had eye contact with the most was the oddest looking band member, Alex, Jonsi's BF.

Also, Jonsi is blind in his right eye, incidentally, the one i thought I was having awesome staring contests with..

So Jonsi was amazing for these reasons:

* they had an xylophone section where literally the whole band were playing different variants of xylophones

*all their songs were very long, very instrumental-ish despite the vocals, and Jonsi used TONS of looping to create beautiful ethereal effects with his voice

*the instruments the band used really varied, but there were tons of synths and keyboards, as well as odd percussion instruments

*they barely spoke, but the few times Jonsi did his accent was wonderfully Icelandic and thick

*they were super appreciative, and after the encore they came back on again and bowed, looking super emotional and smiling a lot

*someone threw a rose at them...

*during the last song before the encore, Jonsi went a bit nuts (the song was Around us) and used two microphones, AND he like, lightly threw the mic stand to the ground, but in a gentle way.. also he like, flipped this one box over a lot... he looped his voice and like remixed it in a wonderfull techno fashion

*for the encore he came out wearing a feathered headress..... he danced with it a lot

*His vocal range is incredible.... I was moved to tears

I am too tired to continue raving, but it is tied for best concert I've ever seen with Patrick Watson.

Incidentally, Adam was at both, and both were at Vogue.

Hmm....