'Ticket's There' – Irish and International Music Blog

With the arena world filling up with reformed pop bands and mediocre indie acts like Coldplay, Snow Patrol and the Kings of Leon, it’s about time the people who do it best return and show the kids what a live performance is all about. When you take two bands like Def Leppard and Whitesnake and put them in a venue like The Ambassador or The Olympia, they’ll give you an incredible show, but when you throw them into an arena, they’ll put on a concert worthy of the gods.

These aren’t guys used to playing a corner stage in a tiny venue with an acoustic guitar, they’re road trained, crowd pleasing beasts who’s command of the crowd and stage only grows with a bigger space to fill. The last time Leppard played a big show in Ireland was 1996 at the Point Depot, tonight they return to the new O2 Arena to reclaim their crowns as kings of arena rock….

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This entry was posted on June 17, 2009 at 12:24 pm and is filed under Gig Review with tags Def Leppard, Def Leppard Dublin, Drop-D, Whitesnake. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.