Genesis

The legendary group Genesis bid farewell to their French audience across two exceptional evenings at Plenitude Arena. A superb, deeply rock show, rich in emotion, filled with love and passion.

Two nights to say goodbye to a Rock Legend

Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford gave their fans nearly two and a half hours of music, delivering a concert that will be forever etched in the history of Plenitude Arena.

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On March 16 and 17, 2022, Plenitude Arena vibrated to the rhythm of fifty years of progressive rock. For their final European tour, The Last Domino?, Genesis chose Europe’s largest indoor venue for their farewell to France, offering thousands of fans two evenings of rare intensity.

Fifteen years away, two nights at Plenitude Arena to close the chapter

This long-awaited return to the stage, after nearly 15 years without performing together, was the centrepiece of their tour entitled The Last Domino?. And to bring this immense story full circle, only one venue could carry the weight of the occasion : Plenitude Arena, Europe’s greatest indoor stage.

For these two Parisian concerts, Genesis fans had the extraordinary privilege of seeing the trio of Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks perform live once more, joined by guitarist Daryl Stuermer and Nicholas Collins, Phil’s 20-year-old son, on drums. A passing of the torch as much as a final hurrah.

Two and a half hours of classics : a journey through an entire era

The March 16 concert at Plenitude Arena ran for approximately two and a half hours. The setlist spanned five decades of discography, from the Peter Gabriel era to the great Collins years. Among the tracks performed :

• Behind the Lines / Duke’s End
• Turn It On Again
• Mama
• Domino
• Throwing It All Away

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The band moved between 1980s classics such as Invisible Touch, Land of Confusion and No Son of Mine, Peter Gabriel-era tracks including I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe), and songs that had not been played live in many years.

A hundred million albums sold, and a group that remains irreplaceable

Genesis is one of the great adventures in rock history. Their worldwide album sales are estimated at 100 million copies. Records like Invisible Touch (1986) and We Can’t Dance (1991) shaped entire generations of music lovers, well beyond the world of progressive rock alone.

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Their story truly accelerated from 1978 with And Then There Were Three and the hit Follow You Follow Me, followed by Duke (1980), Abacab (1981), Genesis (1983), Invisible Touch (1986) and We Can’t Dance (1991). At Plenitude Arena, all of these chapters of rock history came together in a single evening, a luxury that only farewell tours can offer.

The night Plenitude Arena held its breath

For thousands of fans who had sometimes waited decades to see Genesis on stage again, these two nights at Plenitude Arena were as much a pilgrimage as a concert. Audience members had travelled from across France and well beyond to share something that will never happen again. Every note of Afterglow, every riff of Invisible Touch rang out through the vastness of Plenitude Arena like an image burned into memory, never to be erased.

The Last Domino? The question was rhetorical. For everyone who was there, the answer was clear : no, Genesis will never truly be forgotten. And Plenitude Arena, true to its reputation as the stage for the greatest moments in live entertainment, was the perfect setting for this final page of history.