VENUE O2 ARENA, LONDON
DATE 03/06/2024
“Let’s go for a fucking trip!” James Keenan. Like a sitter guiding a budding psychonaut through their initiatory travels, he sternly unloads a list of regulations for the evening.
“Stay connected, stay together, stay present” and in now customary fashion, absolutely “no mobile phones”, the latter order arriving with a sharp-edged semirant about technology addiction.
Domineering though Keenan may be, what he delivers is a meticulous, no-nonsense event. Simply titled ‘Tool In Concert’, the floor of London’s O2 is even packed out with chairs, restricting fans from excessive movement but directing their view forward to the vast stage screen. And as Tool begin their ascent with set opener Jambi, the monitor lights up with a series of hypnotic kaleidoscopes that later transition into absorbing and often…
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