Watch The Who play ‘This Music Is Over’ dwell for first time as band shut TCT gigs with Invoice Murray in crowd
The Who carried out ‘This Music Is Over’ dwell for the primary time on the 2025 version of the Teenage Most cancers Belief gig sequence. Take a look at footage from the set under.
The gig came about final evening (March 30) on the Royal Albert Corridor in London, because the final of the scheduled gigs deliberate for this yr’s live performance sequence.
The occasion kicked off final week with a present from Intercourse Pistols and Frank Carter, and was adopted up with an evening of comedy starring Micky Flanagan, Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, a set from James Arthur, a line-up curated by the founding father of the East London label Erased Tapes and a present from The Corrs.
Roger Daltrey and co. have been set to play two reveals, with the primary one held on Thursday (March 27), which noticed their first efficiency of ‘Love Ain’t For Keepin” in over twenty years.
The second came about final evening and noticed them shut out the gig by performing ‘This Music Is Over’ dwell for the primary time. The music featured on their traditional 1971 album ‘Who’s Subsequent’ and has by no means been performed within the 54 years since, till final evening.
Amongst these within the crowd have been Invoice Murray, Sadie Frost, Paul McKenna and Tracy-Ann Oberman, and different highlights of the set got here because the band broke out renditions of classics like ‘Baba O’Riley’, ‘Received’t Get Fooled Once more’, ‘My Era’, ‘The Seeker’ and extra.
“A lot of you’ll know this isn’t my chosen profession – I might have most well-liked to have been a dustman, to be sincere,” guitarist Pete Townshend joked through the gig. “However it’s superb to be right here with folks such as you tonight. Thanks a lot.”
Singer and bassist Mark King added: “Thanks for coming alongside and supporting this unbelievable charity, Teenage Most cancers Belief… take a look at the cash you’re elevating for these guys, thanks a lot. They do an unbelievable job.”
“On this unbelievable venue, too. What an unbelievable deal with! It at all times blows my thoughts after I come and stand right here. I don’t stand right here fairly often, as you’ll be able to think about!”
Take a look at the footage and the setlist under.
The Who’s setlist was:
‘I Can’t Clarify’
‘Substitute’
‘Who Are You’
‘The Youngsters Are Alright’
‘Discount’
‘Pinball Wizard’
‘Love Ain’t for Keepin”
‘The Seeker’
‘Behind Blue Eyes’
‘The Actual Me’
‘5:15’
‘I’m One’
‘Love, Reign O’er Me’
‘My Era’
‘Cry If You Need’
‘See Me, Really feel Me’
‘Eminence Entrance’
‘You Higher You Wager’
‘Baba O’Riley’
‘Received’t Get Fooled Once more’
‘The Music Is Over’ (Reside debut)
The Teenage Most cancers Belief live performance sequence was launched by the band’s frontman Roger Daltrey in 2000 and has gone on to boost over £34million for the charity. The musician confirmed that he could be ending his time because the curator final yr, though he’ll stay because the charity’s patron.
It was just lately introduced that subsequent yr’s TCT gig sequence can be curated by The Remedy’s Robert Smith.
As for the way forward for The Who, Daltrey gave an interview in regards to the band’s plans final yr, wherein he mentioned he was “completely satisfied” that “that a part of my life is over”.
Quickly after, Townshend then instructed NME that he was “fairly certain” there could be extra reveals by The Who sooner or later. “I can’t actually see the purpose of creating an enormous deal of [last Who shows], other than the truth that it’d assist promote a number of tickets,” he mentioned. “The story of the top of The Who’s gonna be when both Roger or I drop useless or can’t operate anymore on the stage.”
Going into 2025 nevertheless, Daltrey turned 81 earlier this month, and instructed The Times final yr that he “must be lifelike” about his age as he’s “on the best way out”. Extra just lately, he mentioned on stage final week that he was knowledgeable by a health care provider that he was dropping his sight.