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I have been hearing about these guys from the early 90s. I have worked in the live music industry all my adult life. I have played drums since the 60s, and I was in a Pink Floyd Tribute band, also a Genesis Tribute band.I was working in a club near Chicago when a drummer from one of the top bands told me about the Musical Box in the early 90s. I was telling him about another Genesis tribute called Fayreweather that I had seen many times in the 80s. He said I should check out the Musical Box. Well I finally made it to their show in the Chicago area a month or so ago, and I was totally disappointed! The show lacked energy and power on all fronts. But the biggest problem I had was the drummer Antoine Baril. He was not the drummer that was with the band when my drummer friend in the 90s recommended them, and had he been he would not have. I have enjoyed his one man band YouTube videos, but was also cognizant that his weakest instrument from those videos was the drum parts. That said he was not the only one lacking, the whole band was lacking the spirit and power that is Genesis live.

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Saw The Musical Box 'Extravaganza' show last night at The Danforth Music Hall. Another excellent show from these super-talented musicians.

This latest show is a 3-set performance with the first set from The Wind & Wuthering and Trick of the Tail albums. Standout for me in this set was Dance On A Volcano which was perfection. The second set was The Lamb Lies Down that started with the title track / Fly On the Windshield / Broadway Melody, and also did In The Cage, Carpet Crawlers, and Lilywhite Lillith. The final set was an homage to the earlier albums including Selling England, Foxtrot, Trespass and Nursery Chryme where they did a great assortment of the earlier songs including Firth of Forth, and a briliant version of Can-Utility and the Coastliners.

The show was phenomenal as usual with TMB, although this performance had less theatrics and props than they normally use, but instead clear focused on the musical performance which was stellar!

I've seen Steve Hackett do Genesis Revisited... I've seen the Carpet Crawlers doing the Lamb, and now I've seen The Musical Box. Quite frankly the attention to detail musically is exemplary. Yes, we may forgive some of the looseness of the waistbands that come with some of the more revealing costumes, but this gig was about the sound and the music. The Sage is a great venue, and frankly it was the best sounding amplified gig I've ever been to. Highly recommended outfit to see live, will be back next year to catch the Lamb...

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This is the 4th time I've seen the Musical Box, 1st was in 2005 - Foxtrot, then in 2007 SEBTP, last year SEBTP and this one SEBTP although the 'BLACK SHOW" version that they did in the US.

I have seen the real Genesis, as many times, back in the 1970s and I have to say in my very heavy very humble opinion that they are truly the BEST Tribute Genesis Band, they performed exactly how Genesis did antics and all. It really does take you back to those days, just that the audience has a lot less hair, ha ha, me included!

The musical box was as good as ever. I've seen them many time. This time my son in law came with with and he had never seen them. He really enjoyed them and return next time they're around.

They have a new drummer since the last I saw them and he really fitted well playing all those Phil Collins fills.

All the details and all. 9.9/10 for me.

Recommend it any time.

A must-see for those Peter Gabriel Genesis era heads. Stayed true to every aspect. Close the eyes and you're instantly transported back to those glory days (open them, and be horrified at the grey balding old men, and wrinkled crones- not including me of course...)

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Amazing show performed by excellent musicians. They authentically reproduced Genesis classics culminating in an encore of „Supper‘s Ready“. Fantastic atmosphere in the concert hall and brilliant performance from the band.

Absolutely brilliant band. Second time seeing them and I certainly plan on seeing them again. There was nothing notable bad about them at all and their recreation of Genesis's Gabriel era is so brilliant you'll be at the edge of your seat the whole time.

The eighth time we've seen this band. If you've never seen genesis, see this band. If you've seen genesis, see this band! they are incredible! We have seen genesis, and the musical box is better! Unbelievable musicians.

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The Musical Box Kicks Off “Selling England by the Pound” 50th Anniversary Tour

Article contributed by sam a. marshall | published on saturday, october 28, 2023.

Beginning on November 2 and running through April 2024, the Canadian Genesis legacy band The Musical Box will be presenting an extended, multi-part tour of their acclaimed recreation of Genesis’ legendary Selling England by the Pound stage show. The tour coincides with the 50th anniversary of the original Genesis album of the same name, which was released in October 1973. Regions for TMB’s SEBTP tour will include Canada and portions of the U.S. in Fall 2023 and early 2024, and then UK and European dates in Winter and Spring 2024. Nearly 50 dates have been confirmed to date. Additional 2024 dates for Canada and the U.S. – which band management has indicated will be plentiful – are still to be announced.

The five-man Canadian rock group – now celebrating more than 30 years on stage – is highly regarded for their authentic musical and visual recreations of Genesis’ early-1970s progressive rock live productions. Although there have been a number of line-up changes over time, the band’s current personnel include the longtime core members lead vocalist/flutist Denis Gagné, bassist/guitarist/vocalist Sébastien Lamothe and lead guitarist François Gagnon. More recent members include drummer/percussionist Marc Laflamme and keyboardist/12-string guitarist/vocalist Ian Benhamou.

In addition to Selling England by the Pound, TMB’s other album-themed productions have also included Foxtrot, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and A Trick of the Tail. As a more recent change of pace for their tours, the band had also presented various Genesis anthology shows in between some of the various thematic tours. Recent tours in 2019 and 2021 – dubbed The Genesis Extravaganza I & II – encompassed songs from various Genesis albums from 1970 to 1978. Focusing on a wider range of Genesis’ songwriting than TMB’s historical show recreations, these special shows gave keenly interested audiences a chance to hear many early songs that Genesis themselves had seldom played or never performed live. Of course, a good selection of the must-hear classics were still included.

Since their earliest days, The Musical Box have received full approval and historical/technical guidance from the musicians and production team of the original Genesis. (For their various limited-run productions of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway , TMB also secured special licensing from Lamb lyricist Peter Gabriel.)

More specifically, for several of their productions, including SEBTP, TMB have been using original slide projections that Genesis themselves used in their original stage show. In addition, TMB’s production team has done extensive photographic and film research to analyze all staging elements. This painstaking attention to detail has enabled them to replicate the sounds of all of Genesis’ original instruments and amps, the lighting and effects, and the many elaborate costumes that were part of the original stage production.

In particular, the vintage 1973 concert film, Genesis: Live at Shepperton Studios , was a strong historical reference for TMB. The film, which has been included on a bonus DVD in the Genesis box set, Genesis 1970-1975 , documented one hour of material from the full SEBTP stage show. (On YouTube, there are variously sourced versions of the film, but the one meticulously restored version by The Genesis Museum  is a must-see for every Genesis fan.) So that film served TMB as a strong, primary visual reference, not only for the staging elements but especially for the narration and theatrical postures and gestures of Genesis’ lead singer Peter Gabriel .

But the research didn’t stop there. The band’s team have used many professionally shot photos – such as from acclaimed Genesis photographer Armando Gallo – and audience-sourced photos, film clips and audio recordings to gain maximum insight into fine-tuning the performances – for SEBTP and other shows as well. As for musical authenticity, the band emphasizes the use of the same kinds of vintage instruments, amplification, and effects, and they faithfully follow Genesis’ song arrangements and setlists. This desire for exact replication assures every fan that they can be totally immersed in the mythical world of early Genesis that’s just as mysterious and hallucinatory as if it were yesterday.

Notably, with the full endorsement and technical assistance from the creators of the music, The Musical Box have also had the honor on several occasions of having guest performances from original Genesis members. For example, in 2002, Steve Hackett joined TMB for an encore at a UK show to replicate his stratospheric guitar solo on the SEBTP song “Firth of Fifth.” Also, at a 2005 show in Switzerland, Collins joined them for an encore performance of “The Musical Box” from Genesis’ 1971 album Nursery Cryme. (Btw, this song served as the musical inspiration for the band’s name.) And last, but not least, another very special guest attending a full performance in the UK was once Peter Gabriel himself.

"TMB recreated, very accurately I must say, what Genesis was doing,” Gabriel said of the performance he attended. ”I saw them in Bristol with my children so they could see what their father did back then.” And perhaps, in his own blunt praise, former Genesis drummer Phil Collins summed it all up best: “I think these guys play it better than we did.”

So can TMB really have a more ringing endorsement than any of these affirmations, from the music’s own ‘parents’, as it were? Well, TMB have also enjoyed a working relationship with original Genesis photographer Armando Gallo , who has documented their performances very much in the same style as his classic Genesis photos that fans have been admiring for years. You’ll see some of his stunning images of TMB included in this article.

Interestingly enough, in the days that Genesis first performed the SEBTP show live, the band had different versions of the stage production and slightly altered setlists for different legs of the tour. Famously, with a white diorama structure and amplifiers on one tour and a black background and gear on a later version, these SEBTP tours were known, logically enough, as the White and Black Shows . And TMB has actually done both versions, and I have seen them performing both. (I actually think the White Show – in which the white surfaces and even some costumes and face make-up took on a ghostly glow under blacklight – is more vivid visually and, therefore, more memorable. As always, the music was transcendental.)

Setlists during Genesis’ tours were generally the same for these two versions, encompassing four different albums – SEBTP, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and sometimes Trespass . So SEBTP was not performed in full as part of the original Genesis stage show, and TMB faithfully follows Genesis’ same setlist and sequences. But the SEBTP songs “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight,” “I Know What I Like,” “Firth of Fifth”, “The Battle of Epping Forest” and “The Cinema Show” are always centerpieces of the show, and they comprise about 80 percent of the album. Other always-played songs include “Watcher of the Skies”, “The Musical Box” and the 25-minute, apocalyptic Genesis musical and theatrical masterpiece, “Supper’s Ready”, from the 1972 album, Foxtrot . Variable songs, usually as an encore, have included “The Knife” and “Return of the Giant Hogweed”.

Since their earliest shows in 1993, The Musical Box have performed for more than one million spectators, in some of the most prestigious venues in the world. These include such large theatres as London’s Royal Albert Hall and the Olympia Theatre in Paris. When they are branching into new regions and cities, however, TMB will often perform in more intimate theaters and cabarets, sometimes with more stripped-down shows. And in warmer seasons, they can often be seen headlining at large international music festivals, which give them the inspiration to pull out all the production stops.

I’ve periodically attended TMB shows myself as early in their career as 1997, when I saw them perform an early version of SEBTP , in Philadelphia. ( SEBTP was the band’s first full thematic show, but according to TMB creative director Serge Morissette, TMB performed mixed setlists of Genesis songs – similar to the Extravaganzas – in their earliest shows and worked their way up to a full SEBTP show. That is when their reputation began to take hold.)

Over time, with more experience and inside knowledge of the show’s design and details, TMB has lovingly developed the show into one of their most exciting and finely-tuned presentations. I’ve personally seen and heard the evolution of SEBTP from the more basic production that I witnessed in 1997 to my last time in 2018. My one great regret was never getting to see Genesis during the Gabriel years, but even at that Philadelphia TMB show, I had felt as if I had traveled back into those fabled Mists of Time in some crazy kind of time machine. And that is exactly what makes The Musical Box so special.

TMB’s 2023-2024 production promises to be the most authentic and thrilling production of Selling England by the Pound to date. So come celebrate the 50th anniversary of SEBTP and TMB’s 30th anniversary of live performances, and experience the mythical world of early Genesis as only The Musical Box can recreate it.

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The dates for The Musical Box’s special 2023-2024 production of Selling England by the Pound include the following dates, venues and cities. For more information and additional tour dates, please visit TMB’s website, https://www.themusicalbox.net/tour . You can also follow TMB via their Facebook page for updates on confirmed dates for the coming tour. Also, if you wish to read more about the history of the original Genesis album, Grateful Web recently featured an in-depth story about it. For more information about The Musical Box, please visit their website: 

Nov 2 – Théâtre Granada – Sherbrooke QC

Nov 3 & 4 – Capitol De Québec – Québec City QC (2 nights)

Nov 9 – Wingham Town Hall Theatre – Wingham ON

Nov 10 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto ON

Nov 12 – L’Odyssée – Gatineau QC

Nov 30 &Dec 1– The Coach House – San Juan Capistrano CA (2 nights)

Dec 2 – The Canyon Club – Montclair CA (First of two venues with the same name.)

Dec 3 – The Canyon Club – Agoura Hills CA (Second of two venues with the same name.)

Dec 5 – Rialto – Tucson AZ

Dec 6 – Celebrity Theatre – Phoenix AZ

Dec 8 – Paramount Theatre – Denver CO

Dec 10 – The Regency Ballroom – San Francisco CA

Winter/Spring 2024

Jan 7 – Wellmont Theatre – Montclair NJ

Jan 9 – Birchmere – Alexandria VA

Jan 19 & 20 – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier – Montréal QC (2 nights)

Feb 29 – De Montfort Hall – Leicester UK

Mar 1 – Corn Exchange – Cambridge UK

Mar 2 – Forum – Bath UK

Mar 3 – Eventim Apollo – London UK

Mar 6 – Barbican – York UK

Mar 9 – Symphony Hall– Birmingham UK

Mar 10 – Bridgewater Hall – Manchester UK

Mar 12 – Tyne Theatre – Newcastle UK

Mar 13 – Oval Hall – Sheffield UK

Mar 14 – Usher Hall – Edinburgh – Scotland – UK

Mar 16 – 02 Academy – Glasgow – Scotland – UK

Mar 18 – G Live – Guildford UK

Mar 21 – Teatre Coliseum – Barcelona SP

April 4 – Casinos Barriére – Enghien-Les-Bains FRA

April 5 – Salle Pleyel – Paris FRA

April 7 – Theatre Casino – Lille FRA

April 10 – Casinos Barriére – Toulouse FRA

April 11 – Theatre Casino – Bordeaux FRA

April 13 – Le Carre – Liege BEL

April 14 – Cirque Royal – Bruxelles BEL

April 17 – Tivoli – Utrecht NLD

April 19 – Theater Am Aegi – Hannover GER

April 20 – Jahrhunderthalle – Frankfurt GER

April 25 – Muziekgebouw– Eindhoven NLD

April 26 – Ruhrkongress – Bochum GER

April 27 – Kongresshalle – Boblingen GER

April 28 – Neuberinhaus – Reichenbach GER

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