With the band silhouetted behind her in apocalyptic orange, Weyes Blood started the set with "It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody" AitD,HA's reassuring ballad of alienation. In her flowy all phantom-white ensemble, she threw out the video's twirls and kicks, swishing her cape around her patent-leather Beatle boots. Mering has a calm alto which guides the "we" in her songs through desolation, but the wry arrangements (ethereal synths on "A Given Thing" and jaunty pianos on "Everyday") can recast her scenaria as sad, camp, and anthemic. It's good theatre.

When Mering asked if anyone likes Adam Curtis, I could hear an adoring voice intoning this from two rows behind me, "Of course, she loves him." The same voice also insisted Mering had to be a capricorn. Curtis is a filmmaker who uses his access to the BBC's archives to create mesmerizing documentaries on the emotional decline of our contemporary empires. His bespoke visuals for "God Turn Me Into a Flower" was a montage of Mering twirling, majorettes marching, exorcisms, shotgun cops, and Bowie. Without explicitly illustrating the song, it complimented the themes of fragmentation and Mering's best performance that night.