Perth, Australia (Red Hill Auditorium), November 21, 2015 Options

[dangum]

November 21, 2015
Perth, Australia
Red Hill Auditorium

Opening for Def Leppard. Also on the bill will be Australian band "Baby Animals"


Edit: corrected date.

This post has been edited by dangum: May 24 2015, 9:15 pm

[Bremang]

i suppose someone could email ticketek

http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=DEFLEPPA15

[dangum]

Australian dates are back up on the Freaks4Live site
http://freaks4live.com/shows/

[dangum]

According to Chad there are no plans for additional Australian shows but Live will be performing a full set.



https://twitter.com/thechadtaylor/status/609371652598710272

[dangum]

Live live on after losing their Ed

Ara Jansen
November 10, 2015, 12:15 pm

When Live take the stage in Perth, it will be the band we might love — but not as we know them.

The 20-million-selling Pennsylvanian quartet, known for charging alt-rock hits like Lightning Crashes and I Alone, will introduce fans to their new singer at the Red Hill concert alongside English hard rockers Def Leppard.

Forty-one-year-old Chris Shinn, formerly of Unified Theory, joined the band in 2012 after the departure of Ed Kowalczyk in 2009.

“We look and feel and sound like Live but Chris has his own piece of ownership now,” founding member and guitarist Chad Taylor says. “We had to give into the powers of being creative and embrace a new band mate.

“I was really precious about our band: this sacred thing that I wanted to return to its original form. I never anticipated the end of an era or the birth of a new one.

“What’s exciting now is that we keep feeling this great sense of anticipation,” Taylor adds. “This is a band re-inventing and we’re out to prove something.”

As kids who got together for a school talent show, their biggest dream was to write songs and perform for people. Over the years Live have lived that dream to the full.

Taylor is thankful true fans have stuck with the band and understand “what rock’n’roll really is”, including supporting the release of their new album with Shinn, The Turn, released in October last year.

“It has been hard to be a Live fan in the last few years,” the guitarist concedes. “When I was a kid I remember having conversations with Ed. We were Beatles devotees and said we would never wind up like them — we would never break up.

“I never thought it would happen and I’ve lived right through that and watched a great relationship and a brotherhood shatter and fall apart.”

Having gone from a teenager when the band formed in 1988 to a man while in Live is a daily reminder for the guitarist that they are blessed to still have music in their lives.

Taylor insists Live still make music for their soul, not for commercial purposes, no doubt helped out by the band “owning a bunch of companies”.

“My expectation has always been to make great music, not sell albums,” he says, “and there’s a great freedom in that.”

Live play Red Hill Auditorium on November 21, with Def Leppard and Baby Animals. Tickets from redhillgigs.com.au.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertain...th-def-leppard/

[dangum]

Band is in Perth
https://instagram.com/p/-Va37AA5qF/

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A photo of the early crowd venue
https://twitter.com/FansOfLive/status/668010713210728448

Some photos from Chris Shinn's Instagram account

Chad Taylor and Chris watching Def Leppard sound check
https://instagram.com/p/-XZ0Q2g5uO/

Pic of the venue
https://instagram.com/p/-XaUVcg5vR/

The band's dressing room
https://instagram.com/p/-Xa-_Xg5gy/

Chris and Rick Allen
https://instagram.com/p/-XeEh2A5nQ/

Rick Allen on stage
https://instagram.com/p/-XdWdHg5l3/

[dangum]

Review from WAToday.com.au

Def Leppard show they're ‘still rollin’, rock and rollin’ at Red Hill Auditorium

November 22, 2015 - 9:53AM
Pippa Doyle



It was about big sounds, big hair and big boobs.

Despite it being a sweaty Saturday, by the time Red Hill Auditorium opened its gates, a blessed breeze had made its way to the tucked-away bush venue.

The heat hadn't, however, zapped the energy from the crowd.
Def Leppard turned back the years - performing to a heaving crowd at Red Hill



We knew exactly who we were here to see: Def Leppard. The support acts, the Baby Animals and Live were simply the icing on the 1990s cake.

There was no mucking around, there was a stack of music to get through.

I hadn't heard a Baby Animals track for years, but as soon as front woman Suze DeMarchi opened with Rush You, it was a case of total recall.
All the hits came out as the English rockers played their way through a near 40 year back catalogue




DeMarchi, a Perth girl, still looked effortlessly rock chick (or is that rock chic?) decked out in black pants, a billowy white shirt and a peek-a-boo black bra as she belted out One Word followed by Painless.

There's no gimmicks with the Baby Animals, it's just good Aussie pub rock, and they delivered. And with that, they finished their short and sweet set with Early Warning, and a satisfactorily warmed-up crowd.

When I saw Live on the bill, I thought it was a typo.
Baby Animals front woman, and Perth girl, Suze DeMarchi belts out a few tracks before the main act



I remember when Throwing Copper came out in 1994 – don't we all have a copy of it on a forgotten CD tower somewhere? But I couldn't name an album of theirs after that without checking Wikipedia.

They launched into All Over You. It was brilliant.

It was halfway through the song that I was thinking, wow, the lead singer has gotten hot. He'd filled out a bit, he had some stubble and there was no shiny party hat.

While I recognised the intensity, the guy I did not. This wasn't the same bloke. It wasn't Ed Kowalczyk.

I then learned that this was actually a completely different frontman: Chris Shinn. He replaced Kowalczyk in 2012.

Anyway, this guy sounded more Live than Live. It was like we were hearing a recording, not seeing Live, well, live. Yes, Shinn was really that good.

I had also forgotten how many hits this band had, but Iris, The Dolphin's Cry, Lakini's Juice… the energy they were putting out was phenomenal.

Live finished strongly with the slow-building Lightning Crashes followed by the intense I Alone.

I made a note to myself to find my Throwing Copper CD.

The thing is, when getting ready to go out to a concert, I'll spend most of that day listening to the band's music and watching a few of their vids.

I don't know if it was the heat or the fact they followed Live's super high-energy set, or maybe it was a new, unfamiliar song (Let's Go), but Def Leppard's entrance seemed to just miss the bullseye.

But I will say this. Joe Elliot (lead vocals), Rick Savage (bass) have been in the band since its inception – we're talking 1977. Rick Allen (drums) joined a year later in 1978. These guys have been together for almost 40 years. So you know what? I'm giving them a pass.

The newest album, a self-titled offering, has only been out a couple of weeks, so some tracks, like the aforementioned Let's Go, and Dangerous, while still having that quintessential Def Lep sound of jangly-guitar and on-point harmonisation, they hadn't had much time to make their way into high rotation yet.

But we knew what was coming.

Shortly after Animal, the unmistakable few bars to Love Bites turned everyone wild. I was getting right into it when I realised that the girl next to me was perched on someone's shoulders, completely topless. That was it, we were now totally back to the 80s.

Elliot cooled everyone's heels with the acoustic Two Steps Behind, but we barely had time to catch our breath before they launched into Rocket.

Each band member seemed to just keep to their part of the stage – Elliot never really veered to either side of the stage, preferring front-and centre, and from where I was standing, we seemed to only be graced with Phil Collen's shirtlessness as he pulled his porny faces while he grinded his guitar.

We were treated to an amazing drum solo from Rick 'The Thunder God' Allen (who in 1985 had his left arm amputated after a car accident, but was able to keep playing with a modified drum kit), and being outside meant the intermittent breeze was a natural wind machine for Rick Savage's lustrous mane.

Love and Hate Collide was followed by Hysteria, and we were treated to a montage of old Def Leppard clips as they sang the same song. It was like they were singing along with their younger selves. It was glorious.

The answer to the string of slower tracks? Let's Get Rocked. Once again Red Hill was heaving.

They kept us sky high with their signature tune, Pour Some Sugar On Me.

They then left the stage but we knew better.

One encore, two songs.

Rock of Ages packed a punch, reminding us they were 'still rollin', rock and rollin".

They wrapped up the night with the song that shot them into the stratosphere in 1983 - Photograph.

While some of the band members have changed over the years, like Elliot swapping out his gorgeous mullet for the straightening irons, this Leppard never has, and never will, change its spots.

http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/de...122-gl4tsx.html