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Snakes alive! It’s Leppard


Forever In Blue Jeans


CELEBRATING 20 years on the road, Forever In Blue Jeans brings an exciting new produc- tion to the Borough Theatre on Friday, June 19. This promises to be a great night out with su- perb singers, dancers and musi- cians playing the best in Coun- try Music and Rock ’n’ Roll. This big-hearted show in- cludes songs from Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Mavericks, Tammy Wynette, The Carpenters and Carole King and hits from the great Western Musicals such as Oklahoma and Paint Your Wagon plus many, many more. Tickets, which cost £16 (con- cessions £14) are available from the Box Office 01873 850805 or online at boroughtheatreaber gavenny.co.uk.


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ICONS: Def Leppard and (inset)Whitesnake


ROCK icons Def Leppard and Whitesnake will play a joint headline UK & Irish arena tour with support from Black Star Riders at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena on Decem- ber 16


Speaking about the co- headline tour, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott said: “I am very excited to be work- ing with Whitesnake again; we had such a wonderful time when we did it back in 2008. It’s a great experience for rock fans to be able to see two great live bands on the same stage on the same night.” Formed in Sheffield, Def Leppard have been hailed


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as the UK’s greatest-ever arena rock band. They have sold over 100 million albums worldwide in a career that spans three decades and have a highly anticipated new self- titled studio album coming in late 2015. Def Leppard’s influential


career includes countless hit singles and ground-breaking multi-platinum albums – in- cluding two of the best-sell- ing records of all time, Pyro- mania and Hysteria,. These two albums alone contain 10 hit singles in- cluding the classic Leppard


tracks Rock of Ages, Ani- mal, Pour Some Sugar On Me and Foolin’. Def Leppard – Joe Elliott (vocals), Vivian Campbell (guitar), Phil Col- len (guitar), Rick “Sav” Sav- age (bass) and Rick Allen (drums) – continue to be one of the most important forces in rock music. The group’s spectacular


live shows, filled with pow- erful melodic rock anthems, continue to sell out venues worldwide. Def Leppard’s epic live shows and arsenal of hits have become synony- mous with their name, lead- ing the Rock Legends to be heralded as an institution in both the music and touring


industry. “Ohh, have you got trouble…Brother Joe & The Lepps?…DC & The Snakes?... Them Black Star Riders?… Onthe same night???…I can’t wait!!...See you there!!!” said Whitesnake’s David Cover- dale about the forthcoming tour. Yes,


co-headlining the


tour are the legendary Whitesnake, one of the world’s leading rock’n’roll bands. Founded by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, the band have earned multi-platinum al- bums and multiple top 10 hits worldwide, including two number 1 singles with Here I Go Again and Is This Love as


well as the unforgettable Still Of The Night. Bombast, bravado, talent


and passion have helped es- tablish Whitesnake as a per- ennial favourite. The group featuring Cover-


dale, Reb Beach (guitar), Joel Hoekstra (guitar), Michael Devin (bass) and Tommy Aldridge (drums), will re- lease their 12th studio record The Purple Album, a tribute to the band and to the music Coverdale wrote and record- ed with Deep Purple Mark 3 & 4, followed by a world tour, culminating with the co- headline UK dates. Tickets from.livenation.


co.uk Moving from austerity


“WHEN our first album came out,” Tobin Prinz (gui- tar, voice) remembers, “we were awkward, miserable...” “Nervous, uncooperative” chips in Suzi Horn (bass, voice, drums), pausing just long enough for Tobin to sup- ply the punchline – “and now look at us!” Prinzhorn Dance School are


CARDIFF SHOW: Prinzhorn Dance School


still the same spiky Brighton- based duo whose ultra-rig- orous debut cut through the excess of 2008 like a scimitar through bacon fat. But with their trademark stripped-down intensity now winningly off-set by moments of unabashed tenderness, their third album Home Eco- nomics continues and even accelerates the move away from austerity and into hu- man warmth begun by its


2011 predecessor Clay Class. “We’ve really enjoyed letting a bit more colour into the mu- sic,” Tobin enthuses. “We’re not even 100 per cent dressed in black any more; I’ve got some chocolate- brown shoes on...” “and I’m dressed all in white” Suzi adds. The starting point for the


new record was the band’s “amazing” first US shows – two of their own and a trium- phant showing at DFA’s 12th anniversary – in May 2013. Crossing the Atlantic to be


welcomed by euphoric re- sponses from sell-out crowds gave Prinzhorn Dance School the momentum to find a new way of making music. The rigour which so marks this band out from less commit- ted peers has always come at


a price, and by this time the claustrophobic fervour of their working methods was really starting to take its toll. Home Economics doesn’t


have an inch of spare meat on it – from Reign’s snatched mo- ment of optimism, through Battlefield’s restorative meet- ing of minds with an urban fox on a drunken walk home in the early hours, to Let Me Go’s concluding tribute to “a love that won’t rewind and will not be deleted”. Spindly yet sensuous, to- gether and alone, exquisitely sad but somehowfull of hope, Prinzhorn Dance School knit together disparate and even opposite fragments into an utterly satisfying whole. Catch Prinzhorn dance School at Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach on June 26.


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