It’s not every gig you almost get flattened by the lead singer, but this wasn’t every gig, and The National’s Matt Berninger is not every singer.

Now that Cincinnati’s finest have taken their lovely, gloomy love stories and hitched them to even catchier tunes like last night’s Marquee set opener, ‘Don’t Swallow the Cap’, the buzz is even better than ever.

“Sorrow found me when I was young, Sorrow waited, sorrow won.”