Love The Chase – DREAM TOUR

In this Dream Tour segment, the indie electropop artist, Love The Chase, lets you know who he would like on his ultimate tour lineup. You can check out the feature, after the break.

My dream tour would have three Acts. Love The Chase would be woven into each Act in some cameo role but the logistics of that are not important.

For Act 1, Bush would take the stage and play a long set, including at a minimum Everything Zen, Comedown, Glycerine, Inflatable, and The Chemicals Between Us. A wide variety of music has influenced Love The Chase, and Bush is one example of a band that managed to cover a broad range of human experience, seamlessly transitioning from great ballads to harder grunge-rock to electronic pop/rock. I aspire to do this with Love The Chase’s monthly single releases, from downtempo songs like Nothing Else and Rainbow’s End leading into Epilogue (link below) and then building up to the more uptempo electronic track Love You To Death (forthcoming) and beyond.

But Bush wows audiences not only with their stylistic range but also with their vivid lyrics. Gavin Rossdale’s chorus for Out Of This World says, “Are you drowning or waving?” And I hear: it’s golden hour on the beach and you should be relaxed but she swam so far out into the waves as if on a dare from herself and now the setting sun is blinding you while you strain to discern whether she is proudly celebrating her victory at this moment or begging you to rush out into the current and rescue her. You always suspected the latter, even though she kind of doesn’t want you to know.

After a short break, Michael Jackson would begin Act 2. Because dream. And true to form, MJ would literally explode onto the stage and then stand there for at least 30 seconds without moving a muscle. He would be healthy and not lip-syncing. He would be accompanied by Slash from Guns N’ Roses. He would hit all the high points: the moonwalk, the Smooth Criminal anti-gravity lean, the undeniable energy.

Quincy Jones used to say that Michael Jackson uniquely understood drama. I think music performance needs drama. Not necessarily narrative, but some kind of arc with emotional resonance, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It can’t be flat, and it can’t be rushed, foreplay to finale. It should manage and then defy expectations.

So Act 3 of my dream tour would be a short and weird coda. Bjork would show up unannounced and seemingly uninvited, do extended cuts of All Is Full Of Love (electronic ballad) and then Pluto (hard techno) — a duology of birth and death — and then just drop the mic. At this point the audience is saying “?” but the lights are coming up so call your ubers.

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