In an astounding second of rigidity with no launch, the sound was minimize at a Journey live performance on Friday night time proper earlier than the drop of “Don’t Cease Believin’,” because the band was pressured to cancel the rest of the present as a consequence of {an electrical} fireplace.
Movies of the second have been uploaded on-line, exhibiting frontman Arnel Pineda singing the music’s iconic opening traces to an excited crowd on the Houston Livestock Present and Rodeo hosted at Houston’s NRG Stadium. All the things gave the impression to be going as deliberate till the primary “It goes on and on and on and on,” when the group sang “on and on,” and the band… didn’t.
As an alternative, their sound went out they usually appeared confused, with keyboardist Jonathan Cain shrugging to his bandmates and Pineda nonetheless singing into the mic as if it was on. The gang saved singing although, up by the excessive word on “Hidin’ someplace within the night time,” at which level the dearth of accompaniment caught up with them.
Watch video of the second beneath.
In keeping with TMZ, stage arms rushed the stage in some unspecified time in the future with fireplace extinguishers, and the group was ultimately informed that the rest of the night was canceled. In a press release, the rodeo stated, “As a result of an unexpected electrical incident below the stage space, we regretfully announce the cancellation of tonight’s Journey live performance. We sincerely apologize to all followers for this disappointment.”
The rodeo additionally added they’d “present updates concerning rescheduling choices and refunds as quickly as potential.”
Nowadays, the Pineda-fronted Journey is a reasonably skilled touring act, however this isn’t the primary public hiccup they’ve had in latest reminiscence. Final 12 months, Pineda provided for followers to vote him “out for good” after he had vocal points at a efficiency in Rio, which Neal Schon then blamed on Avenged Sevenfold. Schon and Cain have additionally been feuding, although the 2 reached a authorized decision to a few of their disputes final August.
In the meantime, Journey will play their ultimate present that’s at present on the books on Sunday, March sixteenth in Highland, California. Get tickets right here.
Wow. @JourneyOfficial present canceled at @RODEOHOUSTON after electrical fireplace….in the midst of ‘Don’t Cease Believing.’ Right here is when stage energy went out. pic.twitter.com/j0XWX0WHMV
— Randy Klein (@rklein1010) March 15, 2025