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Ghost cancel the first of three Mexico City shows this week
Announced before the gig, Ghost had to pull the first of their three shows at the Palacio de los Deportes due to Tobias Forge suffering from food poisoning.
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Ghost filmed the final two dates of their 2025 Skeletour
Wrapping up this year’s Skeletour with two nights in Mexico City, Ghost have revealed that these shows were filmed “for the rest of the world to see at some point…”
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- Emily Garner
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Despite having to cancel this week’s opening show in Mexico City due to Tobias Forge having food poisoning, Ghost have revealed that they filmed the final two dates on this year’s incredible Skeletour.
While we don’t yet know when more gigs will be announced (but they are definitely happening), the masked superstars captured their two performances at the huge Palacio de los Deportes on September 24 and 25 “for the rest of the world to see at some point”.
They also reveal that everything was filmed on 16mm, so it’ll probably look quite a bit different to their big-budget 2024 cinema spectacular, Rite Here Rite Now. Can’t wait.
Ghost posted on social media: “Children of Mexico! Two out of three nights of heat, jumping, singing, passion, rawk, roll and filming at the classic Palacio De Los Deportes. We shot it all on 16mm, for the rest of the world to see at some point. But for now it’ll be our little secret.
“Again; Deepest apologies for the first night being cancelled. Thank you and Good Night / A Nameless Ghoul.”
Of course, these were all phone-free shows, with fans attending the Skeletour locking their mobiles away in Yondr pouches. Explaining his reasoning behind this, Tobias said in March that it was inspired by what they did for Rite Here Rite Now.
“I can speak for myself but I think there was a lot of reflection that came in as we had done the LA shows where we recorded [Rite Here Rite Now],” he said. “Because of the nature of filming, we decided to do the Yondr pouches then. And the first thing that hit us, the first night we came offstage, was the crowd was phenomenal.” He added that, “It’s so hard to get people to engage,” especially in big cities where there’s an abundance of live music for everyone, and gig-goers can sometimes be “blasé”.
“The face value of not seeing phones was literally like time travel,” he continued. “I’m not talking about like back to the ’80s, I’m talking about maybe 10 years back in time when people were generally not filming as much, whereas now in modern times it’s just ridiculous. If you’re playing in front of 10,000 people, 8,000 people are holding a phone. And we just said, ‘I wish it was like this all the time.’”
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