Above and Beyond, Joy Theater, New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans hasn’t seen a night like this since the late 1990’s. The theater was packed to capacity, hands were in the air, sweat was dripping off of every forehead in the building…listening to TRANCE MUSIC!?!??!?!
Indeed trance it was. New Orleans’ own group therapy session by none other than London’s Above & Beyond. Jono Grant and Tony McGuinness took the Anjunabeats helm for the night. Paavo Siljamäki was
unable to make the show for reasons unspecified. The DJ/Producer trio, who is ranked in DJ Magazine’s top 100 list of DJ’s year after year since their inception in 2000, and riding high with a current wave of success having placed at #4 in 2008 & 2009, #5 in 2010 & 2011, and most recently at #25 for 2014.
For tonight’s show, forget London and anything to do with the UK. Tonight Above & Beyond was pure New Orleans. Fans filled the historic Joy Theater. The theater was built in 1947 on Canal Street. It was New Orleans’ newest and most modern film temple”, destroyed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and just reopened in December 2011.
This being Above & Beyond’s first stop in New Orleans ever, they pulled no punches in making a lasting impression. Playing their new album, “We Are All We Need”, in full; sandwiched between sweet, progressive melodies that took us back to when there was no “EDM”. Greeting fans in between songs, pulling anxiety stuck girls to the stage to “PRESS THE BUTTON” as if Avicci were alive and real, ready to DROP THE BASS and shoot death lasers from his eyes. But tonight there were no death lasers, just beautiful music. Trance Music.
Article and photos by: Nick Solari
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