In an astounding second of rigidity with no launch, the sound was lower at a Journey live performance on Friday evening proper earlier than the drop of “Don’t Cease Believin’,” because the band was compelled to cancel the rest of the present resulting from {an electrical} fireplace.
Movies of the second have been uploaded on-line, exhibiting frontman Arnel Pineda singing the music’s iconic opening strains to an excited crowd on the Houston Livestock Present and Rodeo hosted at Houston’s NRG Stadium. The whole lot gave the impression to be going as deliberate till the primary “It goes on and on and on and on,” when the group sang “on and on,” and the band… didn’t.
As an alternative, their sound went out they usually appeared confused, with keyboardist Jonathan Cain shrugging to his bandmates and Pineda nonetheless singing into the mic as if it was on. The gang saved singing although, up by means of the excessive notice on “Hidin’ someplace within the evening,” at which level the dearth of accompaniment caught up with them.
Watch video of the second beneath.
In accordance with TMZ, stage arms rushed the stage in some unspecified time in the future with fireplace extinguishers, and the group was ultimately instructed that the rest of the night was canceled. In a press release, the rodeo stated, “As a result of an unexpected electrical incident underneath the stage space, we regretfully announce the cancellation of tonight’s Journey live performance. We sincerely apologize to all followers for this disappointment.”
The rodeo additionally added they’d “present updates relating to rescheduling choices and refunds as quickly as doable.”
As of late, the Pineda-fronted Journey is a reasonably skilled touring act, however this isn’t the primary public hiccup they’ve had in current reminiscence. Final yr, Pineda provided for followers to vote him “out for good” after he had vocal points at a efficiency in Rio, which Neal Schon then blamed on Avenged Sevenfold. Schon and Cain have additionally been feuding, although the 2 reached a authorized decision to a few of their disputes final August.
In the meantime, Journey will play their last present that’s at present on the books on Sunday, March sixteenth in Highland, California. Get tickets right here.
Wow. @JourneyOfficial present canceled at @RODEOHOUSTON after electrical fireplace….in the course of ‘Don’t Cease Believing.’ Right here is when stage energy went out. pic.twitter.com/j0XWX0WHMV
— Randy Klein (@rklein1010) March 15, 2025
