Live music review: Mercury Rev at the Button Factory, Dublin

3/5

Life is full of surprises – but not when attending a Mercury Rev gig. Framed by dry ice and stark stage lights, in the flesh these craggy veterans fully inhabit their status as alternative rock’s pre-eminent tree huggers.

That’s especially true of frontman Jonathan Donahue, a crinkled 49-year-old with the wispy body language of an extra from an especially saturnine production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.