There’s a few technical hitches - Sam Fogarino’s snare drum only properly thwacks into life half way through the album roll-out, and Paul Banks is let down by his microphone during ‘Obstacle 1’ - but for the most part, Interpol are impeccably tight this evening. For a record so insular, dark and personal for so many, it’s easy to forget how many others it connected with, and still does - tonight’s show is a brilliant reminder of that. Opening lyrics of the following song on the album are sang before the band even start playing. The album is so ingrained into pretty much most of the 10,000 gathered in North London tonight that every backing vocal, guitar lick and drum fill is acted out or badly imitated. With those who were in the formative years of their teens when ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ came out stood alongside some who weren’t even born, the set is a unifying experience.
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Sure, ‘Is This It?’ by The Strokes is remembered as ‘the sound of ’00s New York’, but ‘Turn On The Bright Lights is an album with a vision so strong that it’s impossible to not be transported across the Atlantic to its birthplace when cruising through its fifty minutes.įrom the moment those iconic opening chords of ‘Untitled’ ring out across a packed Alexandra Palace tonight - mid-way through an extensive tour playing the album in full for its 15th anniversary - this becomes a show like few others. No album in this millenium has quite captured a time and (particularly) a place as well as Interpol’s 2002 debut ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’.
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