{"id":3045,"date":"2025-06-23T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/neil-young-and-the-chrome-hearts-tioren-copenhagen-june-22-2025-150234\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:03:20","slug":"neil-young-and-the-chrome-hearts-tioren-copenhagen-june-22-2025-150234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/neil-young-and-the-chrome-hearts-tioren-copenhagen-june-22-2025-150234\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts, Ti\u00f8ren, Copenhagen, June 22, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s 8pm on the button when Neil Young<\/strong> ambles on stage wearing a grey baseball cap, Maple Leaf t-shirt, check shirt and jeans, straps on his acoustic guitar and harmonica rig to deliver the first surprise of tonight\u2019s show. A song about the passage of the years and a changing world, \u201cComes A Time<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 making its tour debut \u2013 introduces one of several themes that weave loosely through the setlist of Young\u2019s first European tour since 2019. As with \u201cLooking Forward<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cOld Man<\/strong>\u201d much later on tonight, these songs have been waiting patiently for him to grow old enough to fully reveal their gifts. What once seemed like uncannily wise observations from a blossoming songwriter have taken on a pathos, humanity and warmth that comes with age. These are now songs of experience: \u201cLook at how the time goes past<\/em>,\u201d he sings on \u201cOld Man<\/strong>\u201d; written by Young when he was 24 but now delivered by the man a few months\u2019 shy of his 80th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n

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Our venue, Ti\u00f8ren<\/strong>, is a park by the beach to the south east of Copenhagen, where the vibe is more mini-festival than outdoor gig. Even the roar of an aeroplane taking off from the nearby airport can\u2019t quite damped the atmosphere. The merch tent is doing a busy trade in t-shirts branded with \u2018Make America Great\u2019 and \u2018Keep Freedom Free\u2019 \u2013 but Young\u2019s early start time clearly catches a lot of people unawares, causing both the merch tent and bars to clear pretty swiftly. As with the two previous shows in Sweden and Norway, the main set is locked, with only the first song and the encore changing. So tonight we get \u201cComes A Time<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 a beautiful song for this warm evening, but it\u2019s spoiled by a poor vocal mix. The problem persists unfortunately, even when he\u2019s joined by The Chrome Hearts<\/strong>, kicking off a blazing electric run with Greendale<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cBe The Rain<\/strong>\u201d, and is never satisfactorily fixed (the absence of video screens add further frustration for those towards the back of the site). For a set that otherwise leans heavily into Crazy Horse<\/strong> or Stray Gators<\/strong> material, these Greendale<\/strong> songs (\u201cBe The Rain<\/strong>\u201d and later \u201cSun Green<\/strong>\u201d) are evident outliers \u2013 I can\u2019t be the only person who wished Young had included \u201cOrdinary People<\/strong>\u201d in the tour setlist, after performing it in April for the first time since 1989. But \u201cBe The Rain<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cSun Green<\/strong>\u201d at least allow for further head-to-head communion between Young, guitarist Micah Nelson<\/strong> and bassist Corey McCormick<\/strong> \u2013 and there is a lot of that on display tonight.<\/p>\n

Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts play Glastonbury on June 28 and also BST Hyde Park on July 11<\/strong>. Click here for tickets to BST Hyde Park<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In fact, Young\u2019s playing is incendiary, even by his lofty standards. There are multiple solos on \u201cWhen You Dance I Can Really Love<\/strong>\u201d, or he locks in riffing with Nelson and McCormick on \u201cCinnamon Girl<\/strong>\u201d, moving through the grunge grind of \u201cFuckin\u2019 Up<\/strong>\u201d or the Sabbath-like heaviosity of \u201cHey Hey, My My (Into The Black)<\/strong>\u201d and its freak-out ending with fierce purpose. You suspect \u201cLike A Hurricane<\/strong>\u201d could have gone on for another hour, say, as Young carries on soloing into infinity while Nelson plays the Stringman synth suspended on wires, rocking back and forth as if buffeted by Young\u2019s playing. Nelson is a good lieutenant for Young \u2013 he\u2019s a likeable and adaptable player, a less forceful personality than Poncho Sampedro<\/strong>, say, but capable of following in whichever direction Young leads. A momentous \u201cLove And Only Love<\/strong>\u201d finds the pair duelling, seemingly oblivious to the 5,000 people watching their every move, with McCormick and drummer Anthony LoGerfo<\/strong> in dogged pursuit for the song\u2019s 10-minute duration.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s moments like this where the Chrome Hearts<\/strong> cleave closest to the expansive dramas of Crazy Horse<\/strong> \u2013 the band that in some respects they are here to honour after the Horse\u2019s abandoned 2024 tour. Mostly comprised members of the Promise Of The Real<\/strong>, the Chrome Hearts<\/strong> might lack the Horse\u2019s ragged charm, but they more than compensate with the renewed energy they bring to their leader. Encouraged by Nelson, McCormick and LoGerfo, Young wrings solo after solo from Old Black<\/strong>, sending swathes of feedback into the midsummer night.<\/p>\n

Changing pace for an acoustic section finally gives us a chance to hear Spooner Oldham<\/strong>, whose keyboards have largely been drowned out by Young at full pelt. \u201cThe Needle And The Damage Done<\/strong>\u201d, \u201cHarvest Moon<\/strong>\u201d (which raises a collective, and rather sweet, \u201cOoooh\u201d from the crowd) and a gorgeous arrangement of CSNY<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cLooking Forward<\/strong>\u201d showcase Oldham\u2019s warm, discreet playing.<\/p>\n

The main set finishes with another CSNY<\/strong> cut \u201cName Of Love<\/strong>\u201d and a rousing \u201cOld Man<\/strong>\u201d, with Young\u2019s voice high and strong. As a setlist, you suspect it\u2019s predicated around his Glastonbury<\/strong> headline shot this coming weekend: a hits set, after a fashion, with plenty of opportunity for Neil and his latest cohorts to dig in and only a handful of deep cuts. For tonight\u2019s encore, we get a tour debut of \u201cDown By The River<\/strong>\u201d, wild and elemental, driven by LoGerfo\u2019s pulverising drumming and Young\u2019s monolithic solos and followed by an unexpected and entirely welcome \u201cRockin\u2019 In The Free World<\/strong>\u201d (only three false endings, mind).<\/p>\n

Sound issues aside, there\u2019s a lot to like in this set list and this latest grouping of musicians. Whether Young will get bored eventually and start swapping out songs remains to be seen \u2013 an unlikely move, I think, until after Glastonbury at least, as this set is bedded in too well to undo now. But this might just be my favourite Neil Young set since the Alchemy<\/strong> tour of 2013. There\u2019s a lot of joyful playing and camaraderie \u2013 and as \u201cRockin\u2019 In The Free World<\/strong>\u201d finally melts away into the night air, there\u2019s a lot of hope, too.<\/p>\n

Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts setlist Ti\u00f8ren, Copenhagen, June 22, 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comes A Time
Be The Rain
When You Dance, I Can Really Love
Cinnamon Girl
Fuckin\u2019 Up
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
The Needle And The Damage Done
Harvest Moon
Looking Forward
Sun Green
Love And Only Love
Like A Hurricane
Name Of Love
Old Man<\/strong><\/p>\n

Encore
Down By The River
Rockin\u2019 In The Free World<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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