Genesis reunite and announce November/December 2020 UK & Ireland arena tour
Almost 13 years on from their untimely split, Genesis have reformed for a November and December 2020 UK & Ireland arena tour.
Last updated 11th Mar 2020
The current incarnation of Genesis features keyboardist Tony Banks, bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford and singer Phil Collins. Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel are not taking part in the reunion.
The core Genesis trio will be joined by Phil Collins’ teenage son Nic on drums and long-standing guitarist Daryl Stuermer at the upcoming shows.
Entitled The Last Domino? Tour, Genesis’ UK & Ireland reunion tour opens at Dublin 3Arena on Monday 16th November and calls in at Belfast SSE Arena, Liverpool M&S Bank Arena, Newcastle Utilita Arena, London The O2 (where they will be playing two nights), Leeds First Direct Arena, Birmingham Utilita Arena, Manchester Arena and Glasgow The SSE Hydro.
How to buy Genesis UK tour tickets:
Tickets will be extremely high in demand when they go on sale from Planet Rock Tickets at 9am on Friday 6th March.
Genesis’ last live concert took place at The Hollywood Bowl in California on 13th October 2007 as part of their global trek entitled Turn It On Again: The Tour. Their last UK shows were at Twickenham Stadium, Old Trafford Football Stadium and Live Earth London in July of that year.
Last June, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford shared the stage together for the first time in 12 years at the Berlin Olympiastadion. Rutherford played guitar on the 1978 Genesis track ‘Follow You Follow Me’ at Collins’ sold-out show.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain in March of last year, Mike Rutherford admitted he was open to a Genesis reunion, saying: “I’ve always said, for years, never say never and we did the tour 10 years ago… Who knows?
“Phil (Collins) is in good shape now out touring, his son (Nic) is drumming – fantastic drummer. Never say never. We’re all fit and healthy and we get on well, (we’re) good friends. I mean, you never know.”
In January 2018, Tony Banks confirmed to US radio station 91.9 WFKP he’d be up for a Genesis reunion should the opportunity arise.
“Phil is out there again, which is fantastic … a year or two ago I would have thought he was never going to be out there again,” Tony said.
“He found a way to do it. It involves quite a static performance, but his voice sounds great, and his music still sounds fantastic and everything. So, I don’t rule it out at all. Mike and I see each other all the time, we get on well, no problem, so it’s never an impossibility.
"We’re all getting a bit long in the tooth, and who knows whether, if we came back together, anything of any worthwhile nature would actually happen. We could get into a room, say, ‘let’s do it’ and find there’s nothing to do! But we don’t rule it out. Phil’s got to survive his tour, first of all, and we’ll see where it goes!”
Then in August 2018, Phil Collins said Mike and Tony were both so “blown away” by his teenage son Nic’s drumming on his Not Dead Yet! solo tour that he believes they’d be open to Nic joining Genesis.
Genesis are one of the world’s biggest selling and most successful bands of all time. They have sold an estimated 100 million albums and have played to sold-out stadiums and arenas all over the world for decades.
See Genesis on The Last Domino? Tour:
NOVEMBER 2020 Dublin 3Arena - Mon 16th Belfast SSE Arena - Thu 19th Liverpool M&S Bank Arena – Mon 23rd Newcastle Utilita Arena – Thu 26th London The O2 – Sun 29th London The O2 – Mon 30th
DECEMBER 2020 Leeds First Direct Arena – Wed 2nd Birmingham Utilita Arena – Sat 5th Manchester Arena – Tue 8th Glasgow The SSE Hydro – Fri 11th