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

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

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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

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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/

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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/

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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

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I assume you went Dangum...waiting for a review!

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Setlist:

1. All Over You
2. Selling the Drama
3. Operation Spirit
4. Pain Lies On The Riverside
5. Siren's Call
6. Iris
7. The Dolphin's Cry
8. 6310 Rodgerton Dr.
9. Lakini's Juice
10. Lightning Crashes
11. I Alone

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video by [GreenEyed Tiger]

I Alone


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAtokZXw1Ww

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There was no tour merchandise for Live. No shirts, caps, posters, anything. Lots of Def Leppard stuff though.

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There was no tour merchandise for Live. No shirts, caps, posters, anything. Lots of Def Leppard stuff though.

Very odd. Never seen a big band play without a merch table.

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Photos by Matthew Picken

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.7...hc_location=ufi

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Another review. This one wasn't kind to Live.

Def Leppard, Baby Animals - Red Hill Auditorium
Nov 21st 2015 | Shane Pinnegar


Idyllically set in bushland, with the city and sunset glinting in the distance, Red Hill is a hidden treasure, and one well-catered for with excellent facilities and a bevy of shuttle buses ferrying punters in and out. The scene was set for a great night of rock'n'roll.

Baby Animals took the stage as the sun edged lower, local frontwoman Suze DeMarchi packing as powerful a punch as always through a set which focussed on their 1991 debut. Favourites Rush You, One Word and Ain’t Gonna Get were all delivered with rocking fury, with last year’s scathing Email a more contemporary highlight.

Americans Live seemed an odd fit and stood out like a sore thumb on the night. Bookending their set with their big hits All Over You, Lightning Crashes and I Alone at either end of a too-long set, they played all the wrong cards. New singer, Chris Shinn, resembled a tribute band version of Ed Kowalczyk, and the rest of the band had no engagement with the crowd at all, resulting in a tedious hour or so.

Def Leppard had no such problems, bursting onstage with new single, Let’s Go, and delivering a selection of their greatest hits with a couple of surprises thrown in for good measure. Guitarists Vivian Campbell and the seemingly permanently topless and baby-oiled Phil Collen threw all the right shapes as their guitars meshed perfectly, while the faultless rhythm section never skipped a beat.

With so much material to choose from, these old pros did a good job cherry picking a hit-packed 90 minutes. Animal and Armageddon It had the crowd singing along, their modernisation of David Essex’s Rock On was a winner, and singer Joe Elliot’s solo acoustic performance of the band's best non-album track, Two Steps Behind, was a treat.

At their rocking best for the early instrumental Switch 625 and the double-whammy encore of Rock Of Ages and Photograph, Def Leppard gave Perth a little bit of everything that has made them endure so well for so many years, leaving Red Hill well and truly Rocked.

Originally published at X-Press Magazine

http://themusic.com.au/music/livereviews/2...shane-pinnegar/

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I came across this article about Live's final show with Chris Shinn. I must have missed it 5 years ago...

LIVE The Nails Of Success
June 16, 2015 at 16:16

Live play Red Hill Auditorium on Saturday, November 21, in support of Def Leppard (along with Baby Animals), their first visit to our shores since recruiting frontman Chris Shinn in 2012. SHANE PINNEGAR reports.

It seems that Live guitarist, Chad Taylor, did his homework before doing interviews in the lead up to the band’s tour here with Def Leppard.

“Well, the last time that Live played in Perth was October 24th, 2006. Our history with Australia is interesting… we were supposed to do our very first Australian tour in 1992, but that tour ended up getting cancelled.

“Of course, then we wound up building this incredible momentum through the Throwing Copper album,” he continues, “and we came down in 1995, when we were just so young. I can remember that I was so amazed that we were so far away from home, physically. If you think about it, now go from those early shows in 1995 all the way to today, it’s remarkable. I was driving around in my friend’s Volkswagen van, and we were listening to High ‘n’ Dry and later Pyromania – we were just huge Def Leppard fans.

“One of the things I want to really point out and emphasise,” Taylor stresses in regards to Live’s support slot, “is that we are, as very special guests, delivering a full set. It’s not a traditional support act slot where you’re going to get 30 minutes of music. We’re really going to put on a show that showcases all angles of the band, including tons of songs that people know, and some new stuff. They’re going to see a show that really stands our 30-year career.”

Despite Taylor boasting of loving Def Leppard’s albums, the pairing of the two bands isn’t immediately an obvious fit. For one thing, Def Leppard were ‘hair metal’ poster boys at the same time that Live were forging a darker path of indie, grungy rock. Could Taylor ever have imagined that one day the bands would be on the same bill?

“I would have never,” the guitarist says in disbelief. “In fact, I called one of my childhood friends – the guy who used to drive me in that Volkswagen – and just basically said, ‘hey, can you believe that Live is doing a tour with Def Leppard?’ It’s amazing. I will say this: it’s certainly intriguing to have some time pass. One of the things that you realise is that a timeless song is a timeless song – it doesn’t really matter what the genre was.”

Live’s breakthrough came with the eight-million-selling Throwing Copper album and its hit singles Lightning Crashes and I Alone, and it’s just-as-big follow-up, Secret Samadhi. Live would go on to make four more albums with singer Ed Kowalczyk, before he left the band in 2009 amid a flurry of lawsuits. The band and Kowalczyk settled their differences, but the animosity seems to simmer still, not far under the surface. Taylor is diplomatic but cutting in his response to his former bandmate’s public put-downs.

“It’s interesting,” he says with a thoughtful pause. “How I experience success and how I view success is when I make others around me better. There’s a certain humility that’s needed to submit to a song and to submit to your creative partners in order to create great art, especially ensemble art.

“When Ed stopped submitting to the higher calling in the band, I knew it was over. When it became about Ed and not about the song, or the creativity, it lost its spark, it lost its essence. I tried my very best to encourage everybody – the fans, the band members, our management around us, and everyone – to pay attention and to guard that special relationship that each of us have had in being creative members of Live.

“It’s just that at some point, it’s difficult to rationalise or to figure out why one person is experiencing one thing and three of you are experiencing something totally different. From that aspect, I think that the key is forgiveness, I think that it’s really, really important that we allow each other space to know that we did so many great things together – things that we should be proud of. At the same time, we should also be proud that we picked ourselves up and we found a way to carry on.”

Chris Shinn has been Live’s singer now since 2012, and with their first album together, The Turn, being released in 2014, and their Australian tour plans, it doesn’t seem like Live are being held back in any way.

“One of the things that we’re all conscious of,” enthuses Taylor, “is that we don’t want to replace anybody. We just want to hold the music sacred, and make great songs, and have fun playing music. First and foremost, music is just supposed to be fun. If you’re not having fun doing it, then don’t do it! So our attitude is let’s embrace this fully and enjoy it for what it is. So much of our youth was spent running for cover, trying to figure out what’s next and dealing with the pressures of life. Now, as adults, we look at it and go, ‘man, this is the best job in the world! Let’s go play I Alone and have people sing along!’”

http://xpressmag.com.au/live-the-nails-of-success/

Some interesting pieces of information. I didn't know that Live intended to tour Australia in 1992.