No rock band brings a light/slide show more suited to the spectacle of arena performance: Take "Land of Confusion," where the animated images of stacked toilet paper and face-masked strangers nodded overtly to pandemic reality. The latter was the evening's clear low point - coming off as slightly under-rehearsed, though rescued by the falsetto backing of touring members Daniel Pearce and Patrick Smyth.) But even if there were a few hiccups (like some flubbed lyrics to Invisible Touch epic "Domino"), collective joy always won out. ![]() ![]() (The one switch-up: swapping out the dramatic Duke rarity "Duchess" for that album's much more famous pop hit "Misunderstanding," dusted off for the first time since 1984. ![]() That assessment applied to the whole performance: a versatile, 23-track set that stuck almost entirely to the earlier blueprint of their Last Domino? tour, with sweeping prog pieces butting up against candy-coated pop.
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