Genesis World Tour 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6064022.stm

Thought I'd chime in with a BBC link

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And this one

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6067646.stm

From the website:

An official announcement about the band's plans for 2007 will be made on Tuesday, 7th November. Full details will be made available FIRST on this site at a time to be confirmed.

No further information will be supplied until that date and we respectfully ask that people desist from sending emails, letters and making phone calls for advance information - this will NOT be provided until the official date. Thank you for your patience until then.

i've kind of been to a genesis concert, because my mum was pregnant with me in 1987 when my dad and her went to Wembley to see the Invisible Touch Tour. So I was there in a way =). However, to see them properly in concert would be amazing. I'd like to see them play Los Endos because I think that's a brilliant track live.

Well, as long as PG isn't part of the set, I wouldn't desire any of the old stuff being part of the concert. I don't like PC singing those songs like Musical Box or so. The drum duet isn't my thing, either.
Today is the day of the interview, so we'll read more here soon... ;-)

Yippeee! They come to Hannover, that's quite close to my place. :-) And it's close to my wife's birthday, too, so I can make it a birthday present. cool!! Here are the Europe Tour dates:

11 June Helsinki, Finland Olympic Stadium
14 June Herning, Denmark Messecenter
15 June Hamburg, Germany AOL Arena
17 June Berne, Switzerland Stade de Suisse
18 June Linz, Austria Gugglestadium
20 June Budapest, Hungary Puskas Ferenc Stadium
21 June Katowice, Poland Slaski Stadium
23 June Hannover, Germany AWD Arena
26 June Dusseldorf, Germany LTU Arena
29 June Stuttgart, Germany Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium
30 June Paris, France Parc Des Princes
1 July Amsterdam, Holland Arena
3 July Berlin, Germany Olympiastadion
4 July Leipzig, Germany Zentralstadion
5 July Frankfurt, Germany Commerzbankarena
7 July London, UK Twickenham Stadium
8 July Manchester, UK Old Trafford
10 July Munich, Germany Olympiastadion
12 July Monaco Louis II Stadium
14 July Rome, Italy Telecomcerto at Colosseo

I was really hoping that THIS would be the full reunion ... hmmm ... i still might go though.

You know what's happening? There are people who offer tickets for ridiculous prices. They are buying as many tickets as they can, and then sell them again at those prices.
Our son is Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, and he wanted to visit the Hamburg concert. Three days after it was announced I checked for tickets. Well, sold out. Then I found a page, where some ticket shop offered tickets for around 200 Euro. The original price was something around 60 or 70 Euro. The website is claiming that they are acting for others who bought a ticket but can't go there. So they just charge additional commission for their services. Funny thing, three days after the concert date was announced and still 3 months ahead. They most definitely hired some guys to buy tickets for them.

Raelthelamb said:
Edit: Or we can hope that those prices are toatlly made up and this is a little more accurate. http://www.mojo.nl/agenda/evenement.asp?pid=1047

Let's hope it. I'd give up to 50 euros to go and see them, but not more. The mojo.nl prices are more like it...

What I forgot in the last post is that UK tickets go on sale on 24th November, so that site may well be fraugulent.

I'm saddened that Genesis has told they will perform songs "the masses are expecting to hear from us" so they'll play the hits, like Jesus he knows Me and Land of Confusion, and some medleys of old songs too.

I had high expectations of this comeback, but now it looks like they need more money or something :S.

Maybe when Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett decide to come back they'll play some of their old stuff too :)!

Well, it's Europe and North America. But you are right, this is not really a World Tour. But I can't change the title now. Of course they want to make money with this tour. They are only using stdaiums whith seat capacities of 30000 and more. Consider the cheapest possible price of 50 Euro, they get 1.5 Mio. Euro per concert. Deduct costs, there will remain a good share for each of the musicians. They will have analyzed the response in former years and decided to go to places where they are sure to fill the stadiums.
Sometimes its the country's government that makes it difficult, but I don't know about that. I remember that performing a concert in India of that size is extremely difficult to arrange and to get permission for.
I doubt that Peter Gabriel and Steve Hacket will get together for a tour. When I saw the promotion pictures, I thought: well, that's another band of old guys who want to get their shares before they can't perform any longer. Let them do it.
My wife called me crazy when I said what I paid for the tickets, and I guess that's what it is. But it's something I always wanted to do in the last twenty years, after I had been the last time to a Genesis concert, and couldn't, so I think the few hundred Euros are worth it, no matter what's being performed.

They're not coming to North America are they? Because all that's listed are places in Europe. I swear, a concert that my parents would actually allow me to go to, and which I would love to see with all my heart, and it's halfway across the globe. I mean, what did I do to deserve this?! It's torture!!