I've never understood why anyone takes any journalistic point of View on anything Jarre does seriously,every review spouts the same crap,like he living in some form of 70s bubble.
Today pulling people into arenas is whats important,and after almost 40 years in the business I don't think he's done too badly still putting arses on seats at concerts
One thing these Journalist people forget about todays concert concepts is that the days of individuality and creating something vastly mindblowing are gone,Jarre's concepts are not about whats relevant or fresh musically but the reasoning behind what he does visually,his music is simply just an add on to his future experiments,you need to see what he does and why he's doing it not what he sounds like to understand where he's coming from
the internet has killed those routes off of large unique ideas,and the same technology is availible to almost everyone,you can now experience a concert from the PC,gone are the days of the La defense ideas,Jarre must have seen this coming and hence why he's been playing with the More typical intimate concepts and looking to make them so with his own idea
Jarre has turned concert ideas around from his early biggies to the more typical evolving intimate concepts which Jarre I forsee is seeing how it will be using smaller venues and more intimate visuals,certainly the LIYLR Oxygene DVD was a nod to his vision and now
his Avatar type approach to Experimenting in 3D is only showing this is how it will be and although his ideas may run parallel today with other artist on stage with Laser and video effects,eventually I see the concert ritual as something which will become extinct once technology in our homes become more suited for visual effects without having the need to experience the atmosphere of a real venue,much of the magic of a concert has gone with a video or news being posted on the internet within Minutes of it starting,gone are the days of people being awestruck,immediacy and technology have changed our wow factor
I don't think its about financial risk of a large scale idea nowadays it about technology influencing the needs and demands from the general public,Look at the TV technology nowadays,I see that the days of people flocking to go and see the latest movie at the cinema are numbered and with the advance of 3D tv ideas,people will no longer want to go through the effort and expense of traveling to the cinema if they can download the film from the comfort of their armchair,Cinemas will become a thing of the past,much like People needing to buy Cds now
As for his music not being fresh!!!!well he created a phenomenal album called Oxygene in the mid 70s(incase you people reading those reviews weren't aware),he's now playing arenas in 2010,and still playing some of those older tracks.......yes its called a Back catalogue you F**kwit journalists!!!
If the music was not relevant today he wouldn't be putting arses on seats in arenas,after all every person buying a ticket possibly has the CDs to listen to,so wouldn't it be cheaper to stay at home!!!! No Simply because they still enjoy it 30 years later and flock to see him Live!!!its about sharing an Audio Visual experience,the music is secondary if its 30 or 3 years old
I think half of these reviewers just simply like to bring him down because he's not your typical mainstream pop face,adding shitty digs whilst trying to admit subconsciously they like his music and stuff but don't want to be seen to be,this is pretty much how most Depeche Mode Reviews seem to go..
I would never leave in the middle of a JMJ concert without good reason. I would have to be dragged out. Personally, why leave when you have spent money to attend? Some people just don't know how to appreciate properly. It's not gonna be there forever. 
