![]() On record, the Ashnikko co-written track is unpredictable and experimental, but TXT keep things tight while maintaining the spirit of the song in their delivery. There’s ‘Frost’, from ‘The Chaos Chapter: Freeze’, which they seamlessly flow into after a burst of a gorgeous ‘Eternally’. The latter, though, gets an update, the original’s spellbinding sparkle amplified and twisted into a thumping call to escape into TXT’s magical world.Īs well as old favourites, ACT:BOY presents a chance to see some of the band’s newer songs performed live for the first time. ![]() ‘Crown’ and ‘Blue Orangeade’ remind us of TXT’s beginnings as refreshing young rookies, while the likes of ‘Can’t We Just Leave The Monster Alive?’ and ‘9 And Three Quarters (Run Away)’ already feel like nostalgic classics. The setlist runs in a largely chronological order, making the group’s growth all the more obvious. ![]() The five-piece – completed by Soobin, Yeonjun, Taehyun and Hueningkai – are brilliant, though, nailing their complex choreographies with ease and injecting fresh life into songs that are now old, familiar favourites. Watching it through a screen, with piped-in crowd noise and flashing lightsticks in the seats around the stage representing TXT’s fans MOA, is bittersweet – “It’d be a lie if I said I’m not at all disappointed about our first concert being an online one,” Beomgyu admits as the show wraps up. It’s a shame that ACT:BOY follows suit – in-person, it would be spectacular. READ MORE: Tomorrow X Together: “We tell stories of our generation, a generation at the crux of growth”.Then, when they were hitting their stride musically and likely ready to take things up a notch, the pandemic hit and forced them online. Two months after they debuted, they held a six-stop showcase tour in the US and were booked for festivals and fashion shows in America and Japan. It’s been two-and-a-half years since the fourth-generation leaders made their debut but, so far, they’ve had to make do with showing off their developing performance skills in limited ways. Tomorrow X Together’s first solo concert has been a long time coming.
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