VGC spoke to geoffkeighley to find out why, after 10 years of The Game Awards, he believes this weekend's Hollywood music concert 'makes a lot of sense'.
Of course, this isn’t the first time the Hollywood Bowl has opened its doors to video game music, nor is it the first time the LA Phil has performed it. But if Keighley can manage to fill the Hollywood Bowl close to capacity, he’ll have pulled off one of the biggest video game concerts in the world. So, why a concert? After ten years of music at The Game Awards, it just makes sense.
“We thought it was a really cool opportunity to do something at the Hollywood Bowl, an iconic summer night of video game music and 70 minutes of orchestral music, which we’re really excited about,” Keighley told VGC in a video call. It wasn’t until 2017 that Keighley could actually afford an orchestra to perform at The Game Awards. Since then, the show has culminated with an orchestral suite featuring the Game of the Year nominees. The biggest difference between the upcoming 10th-anniversary concert and the performances at The Game Awards is conductor Lorne Balfe and the LA Philharmonic have had months to rehearse, while The Game Awards performances come together in a matter of weeks.
“It’s an amazing sprint because we don’t know the nominees until the middle of November. We can obviously guess – this year it’s likely that Tears of the Kingdom will be in a montage in some way so we can do some prep work – but we don’t really know until mid-November when it’s set,” Keighley explains. “It’s a real race to the finish for our production team and also our music team to make those orchestra moments happen.
While the orchestra didn’t appear until 2017, music has always been an important part of The Game Awards, and Keighley spends just as much time playing music matchmaker behind the scenes as he does organising and hosting the show. When Keighley launched The Awards in 2014, he introduced
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