Horses trot through Mill Street in Gislingham
Genesis at the O2, North Greenwich, London - 24th March 2022
Nosher and Sean are at the O2 to see the much-postponed last-ever Genesis tour, which was originally supposed to have been in 2020. Phil Collins is looking frail and can't walk about much, let alone play the drums any more, but can still belt the songs out vocally, but the biggest revelation is in son Nic Collins' drum-playing ability, which is youthful and stunning. Combined with Tony Banks' choice of more analogue sounds for his keyboards, the band actually sounds closer to their early-80s live heyday than they have for ages - right down to the appearance in the set of the song Duchess, which hasn't been performed since the Three Sides Live tour. The light show is also properly impressive, given that at the start there doesn't seem to be any sort of stage set at all: after the first number starts, a whole load of movable lighting gantries appear from nowhere, and continue to move around all night, definitely providing some authentic Genesis lighting experience. Before all of that, Nosher and Harry are in Southwold for a couple of hours on the pier.
Soundtrack for this album:
next album: A Walk Around the South Bank, London - 25th March 2022
previous album: A Trip to the Violin Shop, Woodbridge, Suffolk - 12th March 2022
The boys and a nice Mini in Diss
Harry looks at the Aliens shoot-em-up game
Harry waits for a game of Air Hockey
Harry feeds the Ticker Eater machine
We share a portion of chips in the pier café
Freightliner Class 08 shunter 08785 at Ipswich
An old Class 90 - 90047 - at Ipswich
90014 'Over the Rainbow' and the former 90005 Lord Nelson
The Spitalfields' Goat statue
There's a newish elephant statue outside Spitalfields
The Corporation of London Wool Exchange
Posters on the S. Schwartz Huguenot building
The Premier Inn Hub has tiny but well-done rooms
A sweet shop opposite the hotel
Another poster-crusted shop
Watling Street on the way to St. Paul's
A view of the Shard
Inside the Anchor Pub on Bankside
Near Nando's by the Anchor pub
Sean outside the Anchor
Hanging around at London Bridge tube station
One of the bars at the O2
Sean in the O2
The O2 fills up
The band takes to the stage
Phil Collins is sitting down through the set
A wall of red light
Hands in the air for Home By The Sea
Genesis in action
Tony Banks does his thing
The lights are almost down on the stage
Mike Rutherford's got the twin-neck guitar out
More lights action
Phil Collins floats above the stage
The band plays Afterglow
Lights look like stars
There's a sort-of acoustic interlude
Mobile phones do the job of lighters for a torch song
The band play Duchess for the first time since the 80s
The crowds at the O2
There's a nice moment with cassette tape lables
A wide view of the lights and stage
More insane lights
Genesis take a bow at the end of an epic gig
20,000 people stream down into the Tube
Herds of people at Greenwich North tube station
Back at the bar at the Hub on Brick Lane
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Horses trot through Mill Street in Gislingham
Horses trot through Mill Street in Gislingham
The boys and a nice Mini in Diss
Harry looks at the Aliens shoot-em-up game
Harry waits for a game of Air Hockey
Harry feeds the Ticker Eater machine
We share a portion of chips in the pier café
Freightliner Class 08 shunter 08785 at Ipswich
An old Class 90 - 90047 - at Ipswich
90014 'Over the Rainbow' and the former 90005 Lord Nelson
The Spitalfields' Goat statue
There's a newish elephant statue outside Spitalfields
The Corporation of London Wool Exchange
Posters on the S. Schwartz Huguenot building
The Premier Inn Hub has tiny but well-done rooms
A sweet shop opposite the hotel
Another poster-crusted shop
Watling Street on the way to St. Paul's
A view of the Shard
Inside the Anchor Pub on Bankside
Near Nando's by the Anchor pub
Sean outside the Anchor
Hanging around at London Bridge tube station
One of the bars at the O2
Sean in the O2
The O2 fills up
The band takes to the stage
Phil Collins is sitting down through the set
A wall of red light
Hands in the air for Home By The Sea
Genesis in action
Tony Banks does his thing
The lights are almost down on the stage
Mike Rutherford's got the twin-neck guitar out
More lights action
Phil Collins floats above the stage
The band plays Afterglow
Lights look like stars
There's a sort-of acoustic interlude
Mobile phones do the job of lighters for a torch song
The band play Duchess for the first time since the 80s
The crowds at the O2
There's a nice moment with cassette tape lables
A wide view of the lights and stage
More insane lights
Genesis take a bow at the end of an epic gig
20,000 people stream down into the Tube
Herds of people at Greenwich North tube station
Back at the bar at the Hub on Brick Lane