Rock In Rio
‘It falls to Muse to show stadium-level rock a way forward.’
Rio De Janeiro Olympic Park
The great, the good and the just-got-lucky go nuts at a something-for-everyone bash in Brazil.
P!nk somersaults on to a gigantic chandelier suspended from the lighting rig. Bruce Dickinson swashbuckles his giant pet zombie. Jon Bon Jovi transforms the huge arena into a church to himself. Yet none of the on-stage madness at Rock In Rio 2019 comes close to outshining the sheer spectacle of the event itself, a South American legend that crams Rio’s Olympic Park with all the glitz of the carnival, the enormity of Corcovado mountain and the colour of Copacabana.
The entire velodrome has been converted into the world’s biggest projection screen, where punters trampoline through digitally mapped tsunamis and sandstorms, a hi-tech statement on climate change. In an adjoining arena, acrobats from Argentina’s circus theatre Fuerza Bruta swing above the crowd through sheets of water representing the downpours of ’85, and
