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Live Review: Lytham Festival 28/06/23-02/07/23
This year, Lytham Festival has lined up a stellar list of artists for the annual 5-day festival featuring a myriad of music genres ensuring there’s a little bit of something for everyone. Originating in 2009, historically the festival was more of a classical music event however over the years it has evolved and diversified incorporating …
News: Full lineup announced for Lytham Festival 2023
Jamiroquai, George Ezra, Sting, Lionel Richie and Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe will all headline Lytham Festival 2023. The line-up of international rock, pop and funk legends and multi-award-winning musicians will see Lancashire’s biggest live music festival return for what is set to be five unforgettable nights. Along with the headliners, US rock band Blondie, indie heroes Kaiser Chiefs, award-winning hitmakerGabrielle, Scissor Sisters’ frontman Jake Shears, New York’s …
News: Def Leppard release new album ‘Drastic Symphonies’
Friday 19th May 2023 will see Def Leppard release their new album “Drastic Symphonies” through Mercury Records. The band also play their most intimate UK/European show in 35 years, a homecoming show at The Leadmill, Sheffield. It has been quite a week for the band. Following The Leadmill show and release of Drastic Symphonies, the band …
News: Def Leppard announce one off club show at The Leadmill
In what will be one of the live events of 2023, Def Leppard are coming home! On the eve of the bands biggest ever European tour and the launch of new album, “Drastic Symphonies”, Def Leppard are set to play a one off club show at the iconic Sheffield venue, The Leadmill. The 850 capacity …
News: Def Leppard announce new album ‘Drastic Symphonies’
May 2023 will see Rock and Classical royalty unite on a brand-new euphoric album titled “Drastic Symphonies” – Def Leppard’s greatest produced tracks dramatically reimagined and sounding larger and more exhilarating than ever before, teamed with London’s iconic The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Def Leppard have deconstructed and rebuilt not only some of their most well known tracks but also some of their …
News: Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard announce ‘The World Tour’
Hot off the heels of the biggest North American stadium tour of 2022 with more than 1.3 million tickets sold, the world’s most iconic and celebrated rock legends Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe are going global in 2023 with their co-headline ‘The World Tour’! Produced by Live Nation, the world tour kicks off on Saturday, February 18th, 2023 …
Live: Download Festival Sunday 16/06/19
If you lasted the full weekend at Download Festival then full marks to you, this years washout of mud and rain was unbearable for most revellers and that’s before anyone even mentions the price of the food and drinks! Having watched Slipknot absolutely annihilate the main stage headline slot on the Saturday, it would be …
Live: Download Festival Friday 14/06/19
Donington Park has always been the spiritual home of rock music; first we had Monsters of Rock festival which ran from 1980 to 1996, then step forward Download Festival, the newer younger model of the festival which has been a constant since 2003 at the Moto GP Racecourse grounds. This year the line-up was extremely …
Preview: Download Festival Saturday
With the festival gates well and truly open this by time next week, here at Backseat Mafia we’re going to look into a few bands that you should absolutely check out if you’re not too hungover from the mass hysteria of Def Leppard…. sorry, ha! If you lived under a rock last year then you …
Classic Album: Def Leppard – Hysteria
The trials and tribulations on the road to releasing Hysteria have been well documented, and given the amount of work Def Leppard and producer Mutt Lange put into this album, it is perhaps no surprise that it sold in the eye-watering volumes that it did. What is more of a surprise is how little credit …