Living Colour in Buenos Aires: a big short-waited return celebrating 40th years on the road!

Right now, I can’t remember another situation of a band returning to Buenos Aires less than year and a half from their previous concert and playing in a venue twice as big wearing a “SOLD OUT” with pride.

In october, 2024, Living Colour played at Teatro Flores, I’m sure it wasn’t even a sold out show. But now, february 24th, 2026, their 40th anniversary tour brought them back, this time at C Art Media. 

Inbetween that time, they didn’t release a new album or got into the mainstream for a random reason (as Kate Bush with the Stranger Things case). So, the only reason I find is that people who saw them the last time enjoyed it so much that they would totally repeat the experience, and people who never saw them just heard about how magnificent their performances were, that they wouldn’t miss this gig.

And they weren’t wrong.

With 3 shows scheduled in Argentina (Mendoza and Rosario too), Living Colour arrived at Buenos Aires, where they were accompanied by two local bands: Renzo Leali and Madzilla.

First artist, Renzo Leali, came onstage around 19.30.

The band gave us a good dose of Hard Rock, with a rebel grungy sound on vocals. It’s curious how it contrasted with the second band, Madzilla, with an agressive Metal sound, fast tempos and heavy guitar riffs. 

I guess it’s a hard work to find local bands that sound similar to Living Colour. But being a band that experimented with a lot of styles alongside their carreer; to put a Hard Rock band and a Metal band as local support acts makes a lot of sense.

At 21.30 Living Colour came onstage, starting their set with “Leave It Alone”, a really heavy song from their heaviest record “Stain”; followed by “Middle Man” and “Memories Can’t Wait”, returning to their debut album “Vivid” and then going back to “Stain” with “Ignorance Is Bliss” and “Go Away”.

Sooner than later, I found out about Will’s shirt behind the drums, it has a portrait of María Remedios del Valle, a afroamerican woman who fought at the Argentine War of Independence, known as “Madre de la Patria”. It’s good to see that artists are truly interested in learning about the history of countries they’re gonna play to.

The anti-racism track “Funny Vibe” were next on the setlist, then “Bi”, and “Open Letter (To a Landlord)” (starting with a snippet of “Hallelujah”, with an amazing vocal performance by Corey, earning a well deserved applause by the crowd).

After that, the band left the stage to Will, who played an incredible drum solo, using crazy techniques that you wouldn’t expect on him. It made him look more like an Extreme Metal drummer.

His partners came back with him and played “This Is the Life” and “Pride”, from “Time’s Up”. The whole set focused only on their first 3 records: “Vivid”, “Time’s Up” and “Stain”; the golden era. I supposed that they would included songs from their latest catalog, as they were touring celebrating 40 years of carrer. But I hardly can think of anyone who wasn’t just happier than ever with the setlist they’ve played.

Doug took the lead to make one of his “Doug Hops”, followed by “Glamour Boys”, “Love Rears Its Ugly Head” and “Type”, all of them big hits that made the crowd go insane.

Before the encore, “Time’s Up” and “Cult of Personality” were played, to make everyone jump and even open mosh pits.

That huge amount of energy became to relax and even an emotional moment, when the band returned onstage and played “Solace of You”, one of their beautiest tracks. And the final song was a… ¿cover? Yeah, why not?

The last title on the setlist was “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash, ended with a snippet of “What’s Your Favourite Colour?”, where people, of course, replied to Corey “Living Colour” on loud.

Photos by Eliana Fernandez

Review by Agustin Lopez

Produced by AV Producciones Argentina & Mts Agency

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