Enter Shikari/Twin Atlantic Live @ Debaser Slussen, Stockholm

First of all, wow. This show was beyond amazing. With opening act Twin Atlantic pulling off an incredibly energetic live performance, they really got the crowd in the mood of what was to come. They had really good stage presence, and they even noticed a guy singing all their lyrics at the front and kinda "thanked" him for it with nice words and a handshake. Apparantly it wasn't what they expected!
Since I'm not much of a listener to Twin Atlantic, I only got to sing along to the chorus of Lightspeed, their first song. However, with such a great performance it really pushed me in a direction to listen to them a lot more.
When the time was in for Enter Shikari to enter the stage, some soundchecker made a pretty huge mistake that ruined the whole start. He was supposed to go onstage and put on Common Dreads, but he accidently managed to knock the guitar over, whereas it was laying on the floor. When he was done putting the song on, he had to take the guitar up and tune it again right in the middle of the stage. It would've been a nice opening with Common Dreads but he completely ruined it. Well, mistakes can happen.
When their opener Solidarity came on I was a little disappointed in the low volume of the intro. I love it, but it came out very weak. And the guitar stopped working when it was time for him to start playing, which was probably because of the little accident before. But when they got it together and everything was working fine, it was totally awesome from start to finish.
Enter Shikari played only a few songs from Take To The Skies (most good ones, apart from Return To Energizer, Jonny Sniper and OK, Time For Plan B), and almost all songs off of Common Dreads. It was a... different experience... hearing all those techno and dubstep intermissions on a live show. But Enter Shikari succeed where others fail. Mixing such genres are pretty risky, but they make it so awesome and completely natural, like 'why wouldn't these genres be together?'. The intermissions invited to dance, which some people did. There was a lot of sing-alongs, and a lot of activity from the crowd - stagedives, ceiling climbing (yes.) and whatnot. And not only the crowd went wild, even ES themselves threw themselves out every now and then, and the guitarrist was pretty fond of climbing on the light arrays and beams in the ceiling. He even got so excited that he managed to break off one tuning screw when he flew back up on stage and had to change guitar.
And then there was another technical fault. In the middle of Sorry You're Not A Winner the keyboards stopped working for some reason, right in the middle of the keyboard interlude. So while a stage helper and Rou were working on fixing the problem, the rest of the band talked to the crowd a little, improvised a little, thanked us for staying with them through their problems they had during the show... They made something fun of it, so the problems weren't a big deal though.
All in all, an awesome performance from both bands, even though some minor setbacks. I've heard talk of Enter Shikari sucking live, and I have no idea how they can say such a thing. They were almost as good live as in studio, and that's not very common. If you're thinking about catching either of the band live, don't hesitate and do it because there's no chance in hell you're going home disappointed.