DEF LEPPARD Bassist Talks About Band's 'Intimate' Concert In London

May 16, 2008

Andy Coleman of the Birmingham Mail spoke to DEF LEPPARD bassist Rick "Sav" Savage the morning after the band's intimate performance at London's Carling Academy Islington.

There were just a few hundred invited guests and competition winners in attendance and Sav said: "It was like the club gigs we did before the debut album came out in 1980."

"I've been a little under the weather with a kidney infection which leaves me weak. 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!"

"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," said 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."

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