Desire at Arci Bellezza, Milan (12 Dec 2024)

Montreal’s electronic band Desire (featuring Megan Louise and Johnny Jewel) recently headlined Arci Bellezza, in Milan, on December 12, 2024, as part of their Games People Play World Tour.

The band wrote that Orion and System Olympia (they only played three dates in England) were joining the tour.

 

It’s been a long time since we saw Desire, when they were in Minneapolis with Chromatics in May 2019: “Next up was Montreal’s Desire, featuring frontwoman Megan Louise, with Johnny Jewel on synthesizers, and Aja (from Heaven) on additional synth (she took place for Nat Walker, who is normally in the band). The group is probably the most pop of the three bands, as evident by their stand-out pop-ish song “Mirroir Mirroir”, telephone-prop for “Don’t Call”, and their Italo Disco cover of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle”. That was such a great cover, that it was hard to follow that up with their closing song, “Under Your Spell.” However, it’s still a good choice, because it’s probably their best-known song. The song was featured in the underrated and amazing Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive soundtrack (we mentioned the soundtrack in 2011).”

Our Italian music partner, Kalporz, via Raffaele Concollato, reported on their show on December 12th.

I’m very happy to see them doing so well. The report mentioned that Orion was the project of Orion Rigel Dommisse, playing “a set with keytar (the shoulder keyboard) full of lights and visuals… which she dubs as ‘cybernetic spacedisco’.”

As for Desire, they played a cover of New Order’s cover “Bizarre Love Triangle” and the encores were “Saturday”, “Sad Ibiza Song” (covers by Wolfram Eckert) and “Drama Queen.”

Again, happy to see them on tour, and hoping to catch the band at a future date in America.

Full report over at kalporz.com.