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Frontman Tim McIlrath laments the death of the American dream with old-fashioned showmanship – and occasionally compromised songwriting
In Chicago in 1999, when singer Tim McIlrath was starting the band that became Rise Against, he decided that he would sing about what he wanted to, whether or not anyone ever got to hear him. He needn’t have fretted. From melodic hardcore beginnings on a small label, the four black-clad mature men are now one of the biggest punk(ish) bands in the US, with a global fanbase who, here, instantly take up the 39-year-old frontman’s chant of “Rise! Rise!”
If this momentarily sounds like a call to a revolution, rather than the beginning of a rock gig, it’s just the start of the old-fashioned showmanship with which Rise Against have made their name. McIlrath stands on the monitor and uses a megaphone; guitarists crisscross the stage. It’s not punk as British audiences know it, but it’s certainly a spectacle.
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