Slightly less extravagant, but just as impactful. Muse thrilled the Videotron Center on Saturday night, betting first and foremost on the striking force of its rock anthems.
In the words of a song that is invariably a bomb during its concerts, the British trio served a super massive dose of rock to their admirers, during the first of a series of four concerts in Quebec and Montreal.
Three years following her last visit to us, Muse has obviously once once more demonstrated her taste for the spectacular and the flashy, but on a more human scale. By Muse’s intergalactic standards, of course.
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Thus, the play of light was just as dazzling as during his last tours, we were treated to jets of flames, videos and messages showing a world in decay, giant and disturbing characters appeared in the background.
We nevertheless felt that the music was more the center of attraction and that the staging came to support it instead of taking up all the space.
Effective novelties
In this chapter, the songs from the new album Will Of the People were incredibly effective, starting with the explosive title track, the perfect rallying cry to launch hostilities.
To see the enthusiastic reactions of the public, one can easily imagine that the Compliancethe theatrical You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloweenlaunched by a few notes of Bach on the piano, the thundering We Are Fucking Fucked et Kill or Be Killed might remain on the program of future tours.
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On the music side, Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard have therefore opted for beefy and, following the canon start of Will Of The Peoplecontinued with Hysteria and Psycho.
Bellamy and Wolstenholme took the opportunity to meet the spectators by walking the walkway that separated the floor in two, which they will do several times during the concert.
Make way for the classics
If the novelties hit the mark, the classics still won the prize. Inserted mid-term, Time Is a Running Out fulfilled its mission of transforming the Videotron Center into a choir, as did later Supermassive Black Hole et Plug In Baby.
Afterwards, we just enjoyed following Muse in her review of her essentials, which are Uprisingand the epic Knights of Cydoniaas always initiated by Wolstenholme’s Spaghetti Western harmonica solo.
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While the confetti was falling, it was party time in the Videotron Center.
We’re doing it once more tonight, same time, same amphitheater.
Evanescence: worthy of a headliner
Thank you Muse. Confident in its means, the British group does not hesitate to invest in a first part worthy of a headliner.
Thanks to their turn-of-the-millennium rock-metal hits, which gave their performance a nostalgic flavor, and a major-league lighting fixture, Evanescence actually sounded more like the highlight of the night than a band warming up the crowds. boards.
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Always as vocal, singer Amy Lee was the center of attraction of this reunion with Quebec, 16 good years following the last presence of the formation of Arkansas at the Coliseum.
These are obviously the parts of Fallen, the flagship album of Evanescence’s repertoire, which caught the eye. Two decades later, it is clear that the Going Under, My Immortal et Bring Me to Life have lost none of their strike force, nor their unifying power.
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Amy Lee made a point of expressing her appreciation to the enthusiastic crowd. “In 2003, I might never have dreamed that we would be here twenty years later. »
One Ok Rock: Intense Japanese
The qualifier intense is the one that best suits One Ok Rock, a Japanese quartet who had two obstacles to overcome at the stroke of 6:30 p.m.
1- fight the indifference of the customary sparse crowd at the start of rock evenings in the amphitheater.
2- play in front of a new audience, since it was his first visit to Quebec.
Mission accomplished? We can say yes, judging by the reaction of said public as the group, very energetic, lined up their seven songs.
the most effective, Dove, Prove et Your Tears Are Mineeven allowed the group, led with aplomb by singer Takahiro Moriushi, to conclude in force, to the applause of the crowd.
