Withing the realm of a dying sun...

I enjoyed last night's Dead Can Dance performace at the Barbican. I realised in retrospect that what I really wanted the set list to look like was this:

Anywhere out of the world
Windfall
In the wake of adversity
Xavier
Dawn of the iconoclast
Cantara
Summoning up the muse
Persphone (the gathering of flowers)

and for an encore:

In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated
I can see now/American dreaming
Spirit

which obviously wasn't going to happen. :-) It was great to finally see them live. I had tickets to the last tour which was cancelled at the last minute and saw Lisa Gerrard at the Union Chapel and Brendan Perry at The Scala. They are definitely at their best when they are together.