Rick Savage and Joe Elliott of Def Leppard were recently interviewed by Birmingham Mail. Andy Coleman caught up with Sav and Joe and talked about the London show at Islington Academy, Sav's health, touring and of course...Tim McGraw.

Interview Quotes

Rick Savage - "I've been a little under the weather with a kidney infection which leaves me weak," he reveals. "When we came off stage I told the others that I wouldn't want to do that kind of show every night for a living!."

Joe Elliott - "There wasn't room to swing a cat on stage. It was a bit like Manchester United turning up at Wycombe Wanderers.

"Being so close together on stage you hear the sound in a different way. It takes time to adapt."

Rick Savage - "We were never artists that looked to get our music across in an intimate setting," agrees Sav. "We thrive on playing big gigs."

We knew the show would be in a club-style venue and it would be hot, sweaty and loud so it was more appropriate to keep the mood uptempo," says Sav, explaining the absence of ballads from the set.

"For our proper shows there will be Love Bites, an acoustic version of Bringing On The Heartache and a second stage in the middle of the audience where we'll play the ballads.

"We aimed to play for 75 minutes at Islington but when we were calculating the timings we forgot we weren't doing an arena show where there's more of a gap between songs. When we came offstage we were told we'd only done 55 minutes so after our planned encore we did two extra songs - Wasted which we've only played three times in ten years, and Mirror Mirror which we'd performed on our American tour."
By Birmingham Mail 2008.

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