The Musical Box

Their mission is to resurrect a legend of the 1970s, to sound like their idols with a comma ready, to replay concerts as if they had been those superstars. And it works! The Genesis musicians themselves sometimes call them "better than the originals" and come to their concerts. It has to be said that The Musical Box is not really a tribute band like the others.

What they want is to create the perfect illusion, to make their audience feel like they are attending one of the original Genesis concerts. Whether it's Selling England by the Pound, which they sometimes play in a Black Show version, or the legendary 1974 tour of the rock opera The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. They don't hesitate to transform themselves into bookworms before the show. Ready to dig in the archives, as video was rare at the time, to exhume old photos, unearth new details and reproduce the atmosphere, costumes and sets to perfection.

And on stage, led by Denis Gagné as Peter Gabriel, it was as if everything had been frozen in the 70s. As much an actor as a singer, the hundreds of hours spent studying the slightest gestures of their idols bear fruit. From a distance, it is difficult to distinguish the original from the copy. No homage and no nostalgia for this group which simply wants to make the public discover a bygone era. And if some in the halls are old enough to have lived through this period, most of them could hardly remember this visual aestheticism and these sounds that already belong to another time.

But Genesis - the real ones this time - have warned: they plan to return to the stage in 2021. An announcement that delights the members of The Musical Box, all of whom were fans from the very beginning and who definitely don't take offence. When will there be a spatio-temporal and on-stage reunion between the Genesis youth version recreated by the tribute band and the original versions that have certainly aged but retained their genius?