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Richard-Eastham wrote: Sat Jun 07, 2025 6:05 pm I have just booked my Eurostar and accommodation for Brussels; it’s cost me a fortune!
Having seen the rehearsal reels and other behind the scenes stuff recently, esp. hints about the refreshed track list I am now starting to get excited

Congrats! Get the party on!
Even if I have some displeasure toward the circumstances of this tour project, I say we should appreciate he's touring.

I sort of wonder if Claude and Adiescar will be on stage too. From the lighting design and lasers etc, it seems like it -might- be a solo tour?

yeah, that's my suspicion too.

I'm loving the fun, cartoon-like graphics. Going way back to Place de la Concorde, the visuals and ambiguous pop-art style graphics of a JMJ show have always been intriguing to me. Animals, plants, space imagery, astronauts, figures from history – John Lennon, Alfred Hitchcock, Picasso and more. The Docklands graphics were stunning, most of them missed in the VHS edit – boo! – but so much about the history of that part of east Lonon. In the Electronica era, everything went too geometric, just simple shapes and colours. I loved what he did for Bratislava and La Rochelle, and this looks like another step in that direction. Should be great!

Richard-Eastham wrote: Sat Jun 07, 2025 6:05 pm I have just booked my Eurostar and accommodation for Brussels; it’s cost me a fortune!
Having seen the rehearsal reels and other behind the scenes stuff recently, esp. hints about the refreshed track list I am now starting to get excited

Way to go. That's the way to live : zero kicking ourself we didn't do something.

thesynthesist wrote: Sun Jun 08, 2025 2:02 pm I sort of wonder if Claude and Adiescar will be on stage too. From the lighting design and lasers etc, it seems like it -might- be a solo tour?

I'd be disappointed (a little) if it was a solo show. Place de La Concorde (1979), Notre-Dame (2020/21), Élysée Palace (2021), and Versailles (2023) were all just one person surrounding by a bunch of kit - were there any others?

But it isn't so convincing as a performance. When he shares the stage with other musicians - and more, such as choirs, orchestras, giant marionettes and Japanese dancers - his shows are much better.

I wish everyone who is going to the upcoming tour a lot of fun and Enjoy the show(s) you are going to!!!
Looking forward the read all the stories of the tour and hopefully Some bootlegs will suffer.

So it looks from the Helsinki timetable that the concert might only be 90 minutes...

Or perhaps a festival-format duration for Oslo, Helsinki, Seville and Stuttgart...?

Robi83 wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:27 am Or perhaps a festival-format duration for Oslo, Helsinki, Seville and Stuttgart...?

Aren't all the shows this summer part of a festival event of some sort? I know in Brussels it's a two-day event and JMJ is the second night, with Neil Young the night before. I assumed all of these summer shows are just one slot as part of established events.

Richard-Eastham wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:11 am Aren't all the shows this summer part of a festival event of some sort? I know in Brussels it's a two-day event and JMJ is the second night, with Neil Young the night before. I assumed all of these summer shows are just one slot as part of established events.

Interesting. The one in Poland is a part of a festival; The one in Sofia... not sure: there's an "AURA festival" from 20.06 to 22.06, but JMJ (23.06) doesn't seem to be a part of it. There's also an AIR concert there the following night. In Pula there's a bunch of "Rocks & Stars" concerts from 25.06 to 29.06, but again, JMJ (28.06) is not a part of this.

For Seville is 90min. It starts at 22:30 and at 00:00 there is a DJ set.