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Media Review - JUDAS PRIEST + DEF LEPPARD - Oslo By Andrea Chirulescu

Oldies but not all goldies

One interesting lineup combo for this year was having Judas Priest, Def Leppard and Five Fingers Death Punch sharing the stage during their European tour (at least). While for some people it might not be an easy choice which one should the headliner be, for a lot of the young people at Spektrum scene in Oslo, it looked like FFDp was the absolute favourite. But then again, there's quite an age difference between the 5 Americans and the members the of other British legends. But the mix of old and new fans made it that the stage had a decent amount of crowd at the early sart of the concert. Despite that, I believe that FFDP was really taken by surprise by the lack of response of the apathetic Norwegian crowd. Some hands raised in the air every now and then, a shy moshpit attempt towards the end of the concert and well, that's all you got to build your good mood on stage. Besides the mandatory applauses between songs.

The band members kept up a decent face and jumped around, interacting and showing off their skills, but to very little success. A very nice moment was when the singer invited a kid on stage and his mum along with him. But the kid was too shy to react much, so having such a crowd on stage when you sing a song titled 'Burn MF', was not the most inspired choice. But it was nice to watch the details of the show, such as everyone's outfit or hair colour - one had dreads hanging from his chin, another from the head, one had no hair, another had dyed parts of it red and the drummer was wearing a skeleton like costume so you couldn't tell how he looked like. One guitarist had some very funky moving green lights on his guitar and if I remember correctly, he even showed up with a double neck guitar at some point. That part was enjoyable and I hope to get to see them with a more suitable audience, so that their music reaches out in a better manner.

Half an hour later I get to see Def Leppard for the first time in my life. I know the band, but I don't recall too many of their songs being included in my grow up playlists - unlike other such 'old' bands. Hence, there wasn't much anticipation from my side. Nor did they manage to impress much altogether. It was one more show for them, with rehearsed tricks and cool moments and very little feeling - but then again, bloody static crowd... They projected images from old concerts during one of their songs and I consider that a bad move since they looked way more interesting back then than they did that evening in Oslo. One think that bugged me the whole concert was why does the drummer have a sunflower next to the drumkit and does it really contain burning incense? Actually, there was another thing - why did they place a drumcam that is showing the back of the drummer and is shaking most of the time? I know, I have only negative comments and it was sad to watch and hope for the concert to end very soon.

By Eternal Terror 2015 - Read the full review via the link.

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