Photos: A Perfect Circle at the Hollywood Bowl

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A Perfect Circle at the Hollywood Bowl (Photo by Jazz Shademan)
A Perfect Circle at the Hollywood Bowl (Photo by Jazz Shademan)

Although it’s been 13 years since their last album and more than three since they released their retrospective, A Perfect Circle showed Sunday night at the Hollywood Bowl why they’re still a huge attraction.

With their post-2011 lineup of principals Billy Howerdel and Maynard James Keenan along with guitarist James Iha (The Smashing Pumpkins), drummer Jeff Friedl (Devo/The Beta Machine) and Matt McJunkins (Eagles of Death Metal/The Beta Machine), they started their set in grand fashion, silhouetted by a curtain for 2003’s “The Package.” The curtain came up for “The Hollow” and “The Noose,” revealing Keenan on his podium and the rest of the band below.

During the course of their rapturous set on a chilly Sunday night, APC played the new songs “Hourglass” (a new version, according to their setlist) and “Feathers” (ending the show), which ostensibly will appear on a new album they recently announced they have in the works (likely to arrive in 2018). “Vanishing,” played mid-set, got a huge crowd response. Earlier, APC had covered John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Depeche Mode’s “People Are People,” and Keenah had spoke of rock music’s relationship to politics, and how musicians have an obligation to speak out against injustices.

Photos by Jazz Shademan