Styx London Palladium - Tuesday June 4th, 2019
The American band Styx has been going since 1972, and as is typical of a group with this kind of longevity, has gone through several line-up changes. It was eight years ago since they last played London at the Wembley Arena in a bill that included Journey and Foreigner on precisely the same day, but tonight they’ve opted for the 2,200 seater historic grade II listed London Palladium, to a sell-out crowd with just themselves on the bill.
Unusually, their performance is divided into two parts with an interval in the middle, but when you have 22 songs in your set list, this is probably a sensible idea. Appropriately they open up with the song 'Gone, Gone, Gone' which contains the opening line “Light it up, let’s get this show on the road…” This introduces newcomers (including this reviewer) to the band and what they are about: vocal duties are shared amongst Lawrence Gowan, the keyboardist, and the two lead guitarists, Tommy Shaw and James ‘J.Y.’ Young, who intermittently take lead or harmonise together, all accompanied by an accomplished bassist in Ricky Phillips...
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