In an astounding second of stress with no launch, the sound was reduce at a Journey live performance on Friday night time proper earlier than the drop of “Don’t Cease Believin’,” because the band was compelled to cancel the rest of the present attributable to {an electrical} hearth.
Movies of the second have been uploaded on-line, exhibiting frontman Arnel Pineda singing the tune’s iconic opening strains to an excited crowd on the Houston Livestock Present and Rodeo hosted at Houston’s NRG Stadium. Every thing seemed to be going as deliberate till the primary “It goes on and on and on and on,” when the gang sang “on and on,” and the band… didn’t.
As a substitute, their sound went out and so they appeared confused, with keyboardist Jonathan Cain shrugging to his bandmates and Pineda nonetheless singing into the mic as if it was on. The gang stored singing although, up by means of the excessive notice on “Hidin’ someplace within the night time,” at which level the shortage of accompaniment caught up with them.
Watch video of the second under.
In line with TMZ, stage fingers rushed the stage in some unspecified time in the future with hearth extinguishers, and the gang was finally instructed that the rest of the night was canceled. In a press release, the rodeo stated, “Resulting from an unexpected electrical incident underneath 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 relating to rescheduling choices and refunds as quickly as attainable.”
Lately, the Pineda-fronted Journey is a reasonably skilled touring act, however this isn’t the primary public hiccup they’ve had in current reminiscence. Final 12 months, Pineda supplied 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 legal resolution to a few of their disputes final August.
In the meantime, Journey will play their remaining present that’s at present on the books on Sunday, March sixteenth in Highland, California. Get tickets here.
Wow. @JourneyOfficial present canceled at @RODEOHOUSTON after electrical hearth….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
