Purity Ring create a Wonderland at the Warfield

by Roy Scopazzi

Now the people in the audience might’ve really loved Purity Ring, but they made sure that their Biggest Fans were on stage the whole time.

Hyuck hyuck hyuck I know, but while not actual fans, they did act as the main attraction as they turned The Warfield into a forest, an autumnal leaf storm, an enormous blaze and various other fantastical light shows as all nine span throughout the entire show. They are not new to these types of light shows, from their smallest shows at the Bottom of the Hill they’ve always had an impressive array of flashy electronics that always matched extremely well with the music that was currently playing, including lanterns and spheres that would struck to make sounds. While both of them are mostly visible through out these lightshows, they act almost as magicians who weave throughout and cast these wonderful spells rather than being the center of attention themselves.

Opener Yuniverse brought her own enormous flowers as a background to a wonderful performance to open up the show, and Brett Bolton cast a silhouette on a variety of interesting visuals as he pounded out some great beats as the middle act.