birdfingers: Sigur Ros play Happy Birthday, then hilariously…
Sigur Ros play Happy Birthday, then hilariously fuck up Hoppípolla.
(St. Paul, MN – April 3 2013)
I’d heard about this (the singing happy birthday, then messing up the opening to “Hoppípolla” and having to restart), but hadn’t seen the video yet. But of course it’s on YouTube, because everything that happens at any decent-sized concert these days is on YouTube from 17 different angles.
The part that makes it funny (besides Goggi’s universal “wtf” gesture) is that Jónsi is notoriously such a perfectionist, while always insisting that he’s not in charge (because nobody is in charge; the process must be organic). But really, he’s in charge. And after he screws up the lyric (I’m pretty sure it was he who screwed up), it looks like he’s turning to each member of the band in turn, asking what went wrong, and each of them just grins and points back at him.
It reminds me of the funny moment during “Boy Lilikoi” in the duet Jónsi did with Nico Muhly at Bethnal Green, when he (Jónsi) made a mistake on guitar and the camera caught his “oops” face. Because Muhly is classically trained, and Jónsi very much isn’t, and as awesome as he is, there’s an adorable dorkiness that comes through in his performance sometimes. I mean, he’s perfect. But he’s not perfect.
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