"Does anybody even remember Infinite?" Greg Oldson recently, characteristically bemoaned, "If they don't, I'll fill you in. We took over the world with catchy beats and a motor-mouthed, unforgettable frontman. Everybody seemed to like us. Well, they liked him, at least. It was great. And then he killed himself. We're your generation's Nirvana. Fucking unfortunately."

His grumblings hold a kernel of truth. The days in which Infinite, led by the (in)famous Eric Quillington, leveled stadiums with incendary shows when they weren't busy racking up awards for their multi-platinum albums belong to another era. The band's legacy has become something of a patchwork, thorny affair; they are remembered fondly by an ever-growing cult following, but Quillington's suicide, which occurred mere moments after Infinite's final show at Wembley Stadium, has darkened the memory of the eccentric singer and the band that blended anthemic Britpop with the darker corners of electronic music in five albums of ever-evolving soundscapes.

But, all that time ago, on Eric Quillington's last night, that very career was celebrated for what it was; glorious light, radiating against the crushing, inevitable darkness that surrounded it. A whopping 27 songs, it's setlist covered the entirety of the band's discography, and was divided, fittingly for this most theatrical of bands, into three acts. The first, accompanied by the chorus of the 70,000+ voices in attendance singing along word-for-word, barreled through the hits and beloved deep cuts scattered across Infinite's first three albums; the bittersweet joys of Blue Nebula, Midnight Skies' dreamings and realities, and the schizophrenic crescendos of Insomnia. The far more personal second act, on the other hand, dove into the two albums Eric Quillington and co. crafted as the singer began lapsing into the symptoms of Huntington's; the hedonistic, twisted sarcasm of Dancing about Architecture, and the heartbroken harmonies of (the still-unreleased [OOC: sorry]) Light in Motion. The third act, perhaps serving to wrap up the band's career, is comprised of Dancing about Architecture's closing set of songs, once described by a tongue-in-cheek Eric Quillington as 'our Abbey Road Melody'.

Now, for the first time, that concert is presented in it's entirety. Witness the triumph and ruin of Infinite's closing moments.

(And, while you wait for it's upload, you can watch Infinite's previous Wembley concert HERE.)



[OOC: Hello again! I'm back to annoy and pester you all with yet another of my periodic visits. I've wanted to do this Concert RP for a while, as a way of summing up everything I did with Infinite. Hopefully I'll actually finish what I started this time....]

Edited by user 20 August 2013 15:24:43(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified