A long anticipated event, the second night of the UK reunion tour (chicago being the first) was a rocky evening for Eddie, John and Terry. Jobson's synth rig acted up for the whole evening. During one breakdown he explained that his keyboards were running four laptops as his rig, or more specifically, he had brought not one single synthesizer to the stage. Sure, the samples he runs are meticulously captured from his original rig, but playing a synthesizer and running clones from a laptop are two different animals. Latency( a delay between hitting a key and a sound coming out) and unwanted swells and drops in volumes were prolific. These are common problems with laptop driven keyboards, but not real synths.
This problem hampered several songs, particularly the duet on Crimson's Fallen Angel.
Wetton was in good voice on all songs, able to hit the notes that he sometimes fails to reach (it is early in the tour) and Bozzio worked like a madman to cover up the failings of the gear. Overall, not a great show, not a bad show. More like the third night of rehearsals before a real tour starts. Note to Eddie: get some real synths back into your rig and ditch the laptops. Fans want to see some huge gear out there, and a vintage board or two wouldn't hurt. Although this was only their second show in 33 years, it was a bit of a tenuous performance. Needs work.