Archive Live at Warsaw Stodoła 28-11-12

I purely went to this out of curiosity, as Archive are well known on the continent, but not many people talk about them in Britain.  I knew some of their more famous stuff like 'Fuck You'; 'Again'; and 'Bullets', so I was always going to recognise some of the set, which was fine.  However, my favourite track of the night was 'Hatchet' which somebody has very kindly filmed and put on Youtube:

Unfortunately, the Stodoła was absolutely packed out, and, for me, this makes it more difficult to enjoy a gig.  Having said this, Archive are very tight live, and with the different male and female vocalists, the songs are never dull and boring.  Yes, Archive are very creative and interesting, and in better conditions, this would've been a concert I would've really enjoyed.

However, I can only take the sardine can experience for so long, and after about 70 minutes, I retired to the Stodoła hallway to have a nice cold beer, and take some pictures of the interesting decor in this area (I did exactly the same thing at Steve Vai, I just don't like tightly packed in crowds).

Really like this kind of stuff, whoever thought it up had a great brainwave, I think.  When I think about it, I guess that it was designed to have a soothing effect on people just coming out of a packed out room.  It's true, some people sit on the steps in this bar/hallway area, just listening to the live music, and consciously or subconsciously taking in the decor.  Having said all this, I may be dragging the significance of this decor out of all proportion, as it's taken me years to really take notice of it.