LIVE: Tool / Brass Against @ 3Arena, Dublin
There’s something to be said about ’90s pageantry in rock. We may give all our love to the grand stadium performances of pop and hip-hop of the modern era, and rightly so. The art of the live show has been perfected and with the high quality of audio visual production complemented by ever growing spectacles in pyrotechnics, light shows and video supplements, concerts in the 21st century are more exciting than they’ve ever been. Yet there’s still some things the rock bands of the last 20 years can teach you. While Los Angeles 4-piece Tool were never particularly calm and collected folks in terms of their stage shows, there was always a paradoxical restraint to their music that gave them a (sometimes bordering on condescending) sense of aloofness in the scene. Interwoven through intens...