Watch Pearl Jam debut ‘Darkish Matter’ songs at opening night time of 2024 world tour in Vancouver

Pearl Jam kicked off their 2024 world tour in Vancouver on Saturday (Might 4), taking part in a number of songs from new album ‘Darkish Matter’ for the primary time. Take a look at footage beneath.

The band performed a 25-song set on the Rogers Enviornment, together with a complete of 9 tracks from their recently-released twelfth album, seven of which graced a setlist for the primary time ever.

Additionally performed on the present have been early classics together with ‘Alive’, ‘Black’ and ‘Daughter’, in addition to deeper cuts like ‘Leatherman’, on the request of drummer Matt Cameron, and covers of Neil Younger’s ‘Rockin’ within the Free World’, Tom Petty’s ‘I Gained’t Again Down’ and Mom Love Bone’s ‘Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns’.

See footage from the present right here:

Pearl Jam’s setlist at Rogers Enviornment, Vancouver on Might 4: 

‘Wash’ 
‘Low Mild’ 
‘Aged Lady Behind the Counter in a Small City’ 
‘Given to Fly’ 
‘Petrified of Worry’ 
‘React, Reply’ 
‘Wreckage’ 
‘Darkish Matter’ 
‘Daughter’ 
‘Leatherman’ 
‘Corduroy’ 
‘Crimson Mosquito’ 
‘Higher Hand’ 
‘Gained’t Inform’ 
‘Working’ 
‘Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns’ 
‘Porch’ 

‘I Gained’t Again Down’ 
‘Black’ 
‘Do the Evolution’ 
‘One thing Particular’ 
‘Alive’ 
‘Rockin’ within the Free World’ 
‘Yellow Ledbetter’ 
‘Setting Solar’ 

The Seattle band introduced the tour again in February, and it’ll proceed round North America for the remainder of Might, earlier than heading to Europe and the UK. These reveals embody Manchester’s Co-Op Dwell on June 25 and London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on June 29, preceded by Dublin’s Marlay Park on June 22. Take a look at the total dates right here and go to right here for US tickets and right here for UK tickets.

NME gave ‘Darkish Matter’ a glowing four-star evaluation, and praised it as “a few of their strongest work in latest reminiscence”.

“For these eager for the charismatic songwriting that first put the band on the map over three a long time in the past, ‘Darkish Matter’ will come as a pleasing shock,” it learn. “Not solely does it showcase Pearl Jam reclaiming the allure that first made them a power to be reckoned with again in 1991, it comes alongside a few of their most spectacular musicianship but, in addition to a dedication to take dangers after years of taking part in it secure.”

Eddie Vedder just lately mentioned that he thinks the band have “one or two” good information left in them after ‘Darkish Matter’.

“The older you get the higher you’re at residing within the current,” he mentioned. “The understanding you have got much less time is the largest quantity within the quotient. The purpose is to maintain making music.”

The band’s drummer Matt Cameron has additionally been talking in regards to the time that he acquired a cease-and-desist letter from KISS as a teen.