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

On a quiet Wednesday night in these recession times, surprises are welcome treats to break our attention from the constant news update about how screwed we all are. Tonight there’s more than one in store as The Academy fills up with members of Whitesnake, Def Leppard and their entourages to watch Man Raze in action.

Formed in 2004 by Phil Collen (Def Leppard), Paul Cook (The Sex Pistols) and Simon Laffy (Girl), Man Raze have been working on and off ever since. Because of the members touring and recording commitments with their other bands, they have only recently managed to release their debut album, Surreal and play a hand full of shows around the U.K. Tonight see’s them in Dublin for their first ever Irish gig which they’re using as a warm up performance for their set at this years Download festival.

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This entry was posted on June 18, 2009 at 10:20 am and is filed under Gig Review with tags Def Leppard, Man-Raze, Man-Raze in Dublin, Paul Cook, Simon Laffy. 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.