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Rating: Go to see a tribute band concert, and you might expect some inaccuracy in sounds and voices, and possible imperfections in stage presence. Sometimes there's a lack of scenic, artistic, technical, and musical apparatus. Then, on the evening of July 12th, you head to Nepi to see the Into the Groove, and you encounter many pleasant surprises that dispel the preconceptions you left home with.
The Into The Groove are not four desperate individuals throwing a gig at night in the most disparate and often desperate venues. On the contrary, Into the Groove is a project, complete with planning from the outset, with costumes, choreography, arrangements, and a philological attention to the hits and videos of Louise Veronica Ciccone, known as Madonna. The fidelity of the sounds, with a hint of creativity in the arrangements, constitutes the main element that stands out. In addition to the cold precision of the sequencers, the musicians (4: Maurizio Piacente: keyboards & programming, Max Bossi: guitars & choirs, Alessandro Vedovini: bass & choirs, Alessandro Cartina: drum) manage to add that 'quid' that goes beyond the electronic recording and fully enters the realm of live instrumental performance. Very skilled in their executions, precise, innovative on many tracks, perhaps with intros a bit too lengthy, but you understand that these are part of the technical times of the show, characterized by continuous costume changes, changes in choreography, to which you must give a few seconds of breath to then bring about the effect they have on stage. A well-prepared, agile, swift dance troupe, who clearly have absorbed, frame by frame, the choreography of Madonna's videos and concerts. Here, too, with some innovation that deviates from the original, like the fire dance or the general digressions in costumes. And then there's her, Roberta Torresi, sometimes more Madonna than Madonna, clear, pure voice, well-extended, capable of not panting during the choreography of each song, as much as or more than the original. As mentioned, the stage costumes of the singer and the dance troupe are rich, the sound is clean and precise (also thanks to one of the most prepared services in Central Italy, GregStudio, and its 'deus ex machina at the mixer and effects, Greg Puccio), rousing, engaging, evocative, and appropriate the lighting park (which GregStudio entrusted to light designer Gianluca Menichini, with good reason). No dead times, one track after another, the dancers ready and precise, Torresi always in the mood.
A well-made show, thoroughly enjoyable, involving even the most reluctant and chair-bound audiences. Two hours that fly by, leaving you with the childish cry of "encore" in your throat when the last note fades from the excellent EV heads and related subwoofers. It was not a wasted evening, quite the opposite.
Piero Poleggi
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