Take a bow
GENESIS
VENUE THE O2 ARENA, LONDON
DATE 23/03/2022
A band with a career as wide and varied as Genesis are never going to please all the people, all the time. Throw in a redacted line-up and things can get even uglier with the current obsessions with belittling and bemoaning everyone and everything online. So yes, Mr I Blowhard of Saffron Waldon, we know you think Genesis ended when a singer, who’d been with them for seven years, left 47 years ago. Equally, Earnest Bedwetter of Digbeth, we too are aware you detest the success that later years brought with it. But, do we need to hear this all the time?
Certainly the 60,000-odd people who are attending these final three concerts by Genesis at London’s cavernous O2 Arena don’t, and the mood at tonight’s show, the first of the three, is one of celebration, tinged with a little sadness that this fine progressive institution are calling it a day.
Remarkably, for all the online drivel spouted, the impressive two and a half hour set is actually structured around weighty longer material, the pillars being opener , , segueing with and and finally easing into a closing . More than enough to satisfy many at one point.
