After the band play several numbers without him, Olomide strides on stage wearing baggy trousers and a curious half-kilt.
The trim, tanned 63-year-old man in combat trousers, bearing a startling resemblance to Dustin Hoffman, strides on stage, picks up his viola and fires into Venus in Furs, the Velvet Underground's classic paean to sexual decadence and sadomasochism.
Then he strides on stage — in a living room, a basement, a community center or, in Westfield on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, in the home of Wendi and Mitch Cohen, whose son, Matthew, was turning 5. "Are you ready for a magic show?" Mr. Tanis asks, repeating the question over and over until the assembled children answer "Yes!" loudly enough to satisfy him.
Not that age has mellowed John Lydon, who strides on stage wrapped in what looks like a fisherman's anorak, rams a pair of rimless specs on his nose and glares out at the crowd with cartoon balefulness: "Ah, there you are, you ugly fuckers!" The opening, new track is equally laden with attitude.
With the 1982 publication of Indemnity Only, in which her tough-minded, big-hearted, fiercely self-reliant private investigator VI Warshawski strides on stage, she did just that; five years later, she instigated the social change she had dreamed of by founding Sisters in Crime, an organisation committed to "helping women who write, review, buy or sell crime fiction".
"The Kardashians could walk through the crowd right now and no one would notice". At 7 30, after a clock on the video screen counts down two minutes to the frenetic Pee-wee's Big Adventure theme song, Wallace strides on stage to announce the Orange Team, the first presenters.
When Mr. Chávez strode on stage, the crowd erupted.
The Ramones stride on stage, plug in their guitars, and take off.
When Trump finally strode on stage he received a raucous standing ovation.
A few hours later, he strode on stage, my friends and I in the front row.
When Patricia Arquette strode on stage to collect her Oscar for best supporting actress in February it was no surprise.
