This gig passed my expectations: I thought it would be interesting:
But it was much more than that with the well over two-hour set often verging on and entering the sublime:
Only discovered Percival a few months ago while Youtube surfing with a few beers one Friday or Saturday night.
Didn't take me long to recognise that their 'Wild Hunt' set was something special. Just love the music, don't really know much about the game which the music relates to and everybody in Poland is currently raving about.
Some of the stage theatrics which accompanied the gig last night were absolutely stunning.
Especially the acrobatic swordsman:
And the concentration and skill of the musicians and singers, to keep up such musical beauty for 140 minutes or so non-stop:
Almost forgot about the Venetian Carnival-type dancers:
At one point, they went down from the stage doing a sprightly dance up and down the aisles with unsuspecting members of the audience.
Yeah, the whole experience was magical:
Below, the band are taking well-earned, mass applause at the end of the show (no sooner had the show ended than the band were out greeting people in one of the bar areas at the Stodola).
Almost forgot about the nymphs too. They were sometimes doing acrobatics on the stage, and other times unexpectedly arriving in the audience to surprise people.
Yeah, all in all, this was my equal favourite gig of the year alongside Blue Oyster Cult at Manchester Academy in late June (when BOC did the whole of their psychaedelic-type, debut album all the way through).
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