The Last Domino? Tour
The Last Domino? Tour was a concert tour by English rock band Genesis, staged following the announcement of their reunion after a 13-year hiatus. It featured the core trio of keyboardist Tony Banks, drummer/singer Phil Collins, and bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford, the most commercially successful line-up in the band's history, with Daryl Stuermer on guitars and bass, and Collins's son Nic on drums.
Start date
20 September 2021
26 March 2022
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47 (55 scheduled)
The tour comprised 47 shows across Europe and North America between 20 September 2021 and 26 March 2022, marking the first Genesis performances since the trio reunited for the Turn It On Again Tour in 2007. The UK leg was rescheduled three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the London gigs rescheduled a fourth time.
Background[edit]
In October 2007, the trio line-up of Phil Collins, Tony Banks, and Mike Rutherford completed the Turn It On Again Tour, after which the group entered a 13-year hiatus. During this time, the three reunited with former members Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett in the 2014 documentary Genesis: Together and Apart. Between 2011 and 2015, the five expressed mixed opinions about a reunion of the five-piece line-up of the band.[1][2][3][4] A return to group activity became possible when Collins ended a five-year retirement from music in 2015 and embarked on his Not Dead Yet Tour, which ended in 2019 and featured his son Nic Collins on drums. Banks and Rutherford attended one of the shows in London, after which they expressed an interest in touring with Collins again.[5][6] Later in the tour, Rutherford joined Collins on stage to perform the Genesis song "Follow You Follow Me".[7] Collins said that The Last Domino? Tour would be his final with the group. Banks was open to the band continuing, depending on how the members and the audience received the tour, though he later said that after the 2022 dates, "that will be it."[8][9]
Development[edit]
Rehearsals[edit]
On 22 January 2020, the trio were spotted at a basketball game in New York City, which prompted speculations of a potential reunion.[10] Banks said later that the band had spent some time in the city to discuss the possibility of another tour, while publicly claiming they were together just for a mutual friend's wedding.[11] Banks said that Gabriel and Hackett had not been contacted to participate, reasoning the difficulty in getting Gabriel on board to do the tour.[11] Rehearsals took place with Nic Collins and Genesis's longtime live guitarist Daryl Stuermer. The first songs they played were "Land of Confusion" and "No Son of Mine" as they were considered not technically difficult.[12] Banks praised Nic's drumming style, which he compared to a young Phil, and said his approach gave the group the opportunity to perform songs that they had previously avoided.[11] Rutherford was pleased with the sound that they achieved during these sessions, which he compared as darker to his side group, Mike + the Mechanics, and picked the instrumental sections as particularly strong.[13] American musician Dave Kerzner, who had assisted Banks with his keyboard rig for the 2007 tour, was hired to update Banks's set-ups with longtime Genesis associates, technical assistant Geoff Callingham and producer Nick Davis.[14]
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