Tag: Live

It was more of the most high anticipated gigs of the year – it sold out within minutes and tickets were being sold for up to twice the original selling price. Friday seen the Red Hot Chili Peppers roll into town to play at the O2, Dublin.

It has been a good few years since I last seen the Chili Peppers live. They seemed to of had a love affair with Ireland for a few years making appearances at Slane, Lansdowne Road (now known as the Aviva) and also a huge concert at the Phoenix Park.

Despite approaching their 50th birthdays, the surviving founders of California’s premier rock outfit still know how to bring the house down. Support on the night came from Fool’s Gold from Los Angeles but unfortunately due to the match traffic on the way into town – I missed the majority of them. From reports I was told that they were really good and it is a pity I missed the chance to see them.

According to RadioAndMusic.com, MTV India will broadcast METALLICA’s first-ever concert in India.

The channel, in association with F1 Rocks, will telecast the one-hour special of historic METALLICA performance one week after the live event.

F1 Rocks and MTV have organized a nationwide band hunt where a lucky band selected through online voting will get an opportunity of a lifetime to perform at the concert. MTV will telecast this nationwide search as four half-hour episodes.

METALLICA performed in a front of a capacity crowd of 100,000 last on Saturday, July 16th this year’s edition of Quebec’s Summer Festival.

Festival d’été de Québec runs July 7-17 in Québec City, Québec, Canada, with an incredible 300 shows spanning 11 days, making it Canada’s biggest outdoor artistic festival.

“When I was a kid, this was my dream,” METALLICA frontman James Hetfield told the crowd toward the end of the concert, according to Spinner.

As the hype is building up for the Belfast and Dublin dates that Alice Cooper is playing with Thin Lizzy and Def Leppard and also an appearance at Download festival next weekend, we are pleased to report that due later this month is the original Alice Cooper group box set.

It comes in a commemorative 12-inch square “school desk” box and looks the business.

I love when artists put the effort into the presentation of their box sets. I collect them for a hobby and have to say that rock and metal acts do produce some amazing sets.

This festival review was written by Lorna Begg and first appeared on State.ie

Sonisphere may be only into its second year, but already the weekend has cemented itself in the metal festival calendar alongside Download and Reading and Leeds as the new big boys in town. Taking place solely at this venue last year, 2010 saw it become the only travelling festival of its scale, taking place in eleven venues across Europe including Poland, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Sweden to name a few. The capacity increased this year and so did the stages – going from three to five but with no two acts playing at the same time on either of the main stages the issue of sacrificing one band to see another was solved and also provided plenty of opportunities to burn off those festival burgers and beers.

You get a sense of the festival’s status when the Friday, considered a warm up day, included acts such as 65 Days of Static, Terrovision, Europe and Alice Cooper. Europe took to the Saturn Stage around 7pm and put on an impressive show that included a cover of ‘No Woman No Cry’ and of course finishing the set with ‘The Final Countdown’ which was sang by just about everyone in the festival grounds. Next up after a quick run back to the tent to stock up on cider was Gary Numan. Numan puts quite a show, and his set included new songs along with classics such as ‘Cars’ and ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’ which was the highlight of his performance.65 Days of Static clashed with Alice but still managed to attract a massive crowd to the Bohemia tent, and it was clear to everyone why. This post-rock instrumentalists played an unforgettable set with ‘Retreat, Retreat’ being one of the highlights. It is definitely time to put this impressive band on a main stage slot. Cooper, meanwhile, closed the Saturn stage on the Friday with his amazing theatrical show that rarely disappoints. He is a master at shocking and entertaining people and had the crowd singing along to songs ranging from ‘Poison’ to ‘Cold Ethel’. The full show included a guillotine, straightjacket and various torture contraptions that are used in his Theatre of Death show.