Genesis Announce North American Dates For ‘Last Domino?’ Tour

Genesis have rolled out dates for the North American leg of their The Past Domino? tour. It kicks off November 15th at Chicago’s United Centre and wraps up December 15th at Boston’s TD Back garden. Pre-sale tickets go on-sale via Ticketmaster’s Confirmed Fan method on May possibly 5th and the normal public will have obtain on May 7th.

Genesis have been completely inactive since the close of their 2007 Transform It On Once more reunion tour. This time out, core members Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Financial institutions will be joined by their longtime touring guitarist/bassist Daryl Stuermer and Phil’s twenty-calendar year-outdated son Nic Collins on drums. He’s been gigging with Phil’s solo band for the previous five many years, but he has nonetheless to engage in in general public with Genesis. (Authentic frontman Peter Gabriel still left the team in 1975 and hasn’t performed with them given that a one particular-off reunion gig in 1982.)

The world tour is slated to commence September 15th at Dublin’s 3Arena. The team was supposed to start out last November, but the pandemic pressured them to push it again almost a yr. In the interim, they staged extensive manufacturing rehearsals, which they teased in January with a 50-2nd movie that discovered areas of the stage established. Collins, unable to stand for very long durations of time thanks to healthcare problems, sings from a chair as on his final couple solo excursions.

In a modern interview with Gary Kemp and Dude Pratt’s Rockonteurs podcast, Rutherford talked about rehearsing for the tour at the top of the pandemic. “We thought, ‘Are we ridiculous rehearsing for the tour?’” reported the guitarist. ” ‘It may possibly under no circumstances take place.’ Then we assumed, ‘If we never do it now and it goes back again another year and a 50 %, we may forget the whole detail. Let’s rehearse in any case. We’ll have a present we’re enthusiastic about and it keeps the momentum going’ … In our bubble, we experienced a 90-man or woman crew with lights and sound. We arrived out of it with a clearly show and we’re ready to go.”

The setlist has been a closely-guarded solution, but Nic Collins did give some hints in a latest interview with Percussion Dialogue. “There had been some music that I have acknowledged for ages,” he reported. “It was the further cuts and the much more progressive stuff…I did know ‘Firth of Fifth’ and ‘I Know What I Like’ and ‘In The Cage,’ but there ended up a handful of tunes that I wasn’t conscious of. It is been genuinely cool to prepare for this gig. As I have dug by way of the product to find out it, I’m discovering other material and becoming much more of a fan of the band.”

He went on to talk about the issue of finding out the 1976 instrumental “Los Endos” and the final 10 minutes of the 1973 epic “Supper’s Ready,” but refused to say no matter if or not they made the final setlist for the display.

A push release for the tour notes that “all venues will be adhering to all mandated precautions in accordance with point out and nearby regulations so as to present the most safe, Covid-19-totally free atmosphere possible.”

Genesis – North American The Past Domino? Tour Dates

November 15th – Chicago, IL @ United Centre
November 18th – Washington, DC @ Money One Arena
November 20th – Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
November 22nd – Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell
November 25th – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
November 27th – Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center
November 29th – Detroit, MI @ Minimal Caesars Arena
November 30th – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Home loan FieldHouse
December 2nd – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
December 5th – New York, NY @ Madison Sq. Garden
December 8th – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena
December 10th – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
December 13th – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
December 15th – Boston, MA @ TD Garden