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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Train to perform at The Big E Arena in September
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Members of the multi-GRAMMY Award-winning band, Train, are coming to The Big E to perform on September 27th. The American pop-rock band was formed in 1993 in San Francisco, and currently the members include Pat Monahan, Taylor Locke, Hector Maldonado, Jerry Becker, and Matt Musty. Train has had 14 songs on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and 13 albums on the Billboard 200 chart. Top hits include 'Meet Virginia,' 'Drops of Jupiter,' and 'Hey, Soul Sister,' to name a few. Train recently released a new album, Live at Royal Albert Hall, recorded live from their sold-out, debut performance at the iconic and historic Royal Albert Hall in London. Busta Rhymes and Rick Ross coming to The Big E to perform on opening weekend They have sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide, with multiple platinum/gold citations, including three GRAMMY Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, and dozens of other honors. They are scheduled to perform at The Big E Arena on Saturday, September 27th, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. Tickets include admission to the Big E Fair when purchased in advance of the show date. Also scheduled to perform at The Big E Arena are Busta Rhymes & Rick Ross, The Avett Brothers, Foreigner, and ZZ Top. The 109th Big E Fair will run from September 12th through September 28th. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Age
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Pop-rock veterans Train deliver a crowd-pleaser with special Sydney surprise
Say what you will about American pop-rock veterans Train, but they work hard to get the audience on their side. In third song If It's Love, frontman Pat Monahan pulls out his phone and begins filming the room, asking the crowd to go crazy for the clip he'll post to Instagram. During an extended Meet Virginia, which gives guitarist Taylor Locke an opportunity to show off his chops, Monahan takes a break from singing to lob Train T-shirts into the masses. The cleverly constructed set-list also plays its part with staples such as Hey, Soul Sister, Play That Song, a spirited Save Me, San Francisco and a beautifully tender Marry Me peppered with several moments tailored for the Sydney audience. First is a cover of Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know, with Scottish artist KT Tunstall – who earlier delivered a hugely entertaining support set – singing the parts made famous by Kimbra, before duetting with Monahan on the slick country pop of Train's own Bruises. The other surprise guest is INXS' Andrew Farriss, who wanders onstage and dutifully makes it his own for renditions of INXS classics Never Tear Us Apart and Don't Change. The band even cede the spotlight before the latter so that Farriss can show off an abbreviated country-rock version of the song, which proves to be more puzzling than anything else. Oddly, though, it's in these moments that the show really comes to life, with Tunstall providing an injection of joyful energy, and Farriss an element of spontaneity, that are otherwise largely absent. There's no faulting the band, their musicianship or the smooth precision with which they perform hits such as Drive By or rousing finale Drops of Jupiter, every vocal harmony immaculate.
