Kiss UK tour 23, various dates

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Looks like its their last tour ... You never know of course with these claims LOL

I do love a good Rock Show with Pyro and also do like the odd Kiss song too, but for the various UK big city stadiums coming up its looking like £176 per ticket ... a bit greedy, No?

Have seen them Live before at Donnington MOR 1988 I think, totally out of touch with them now tho.

Also, trying to date this cool Lady again I took to see Ghost last year for first time she loved and have a feeling she might like Kiss too? No UK Ghost tour on the cards this year unfortunately.

But seriously, Kiss, would they still use that awful face glam makeup again, know its part of their history ETC

 

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Thanks Vincent, just watched one of their 2022 US shows whole concert things and it was pretty grim IMHO, a few pyro bangs and they lower themselvs on platforms to stage and play terribly, nope.

 

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i was only 13 then but dayum i would have killed to seen that line up live! i don't imagine that's a concert you'll forget.

Helloween were openers I think? Dave Lee Roth was also there as a solo act with Steve Vai on guitar, was right up near stage during his set and got some good pics ... it was scary though, the constant crush from behind, almost swept off my feet at times.
On paper it was a fantastic line up and Guns and Roses were just breaking massively at that time, everybody was excited to see them live ... the buzz was totally electric.

But going back to DLR's set and close to stage, when it started to get a bit nutz with the crowd surging and almost being swept off my feet once, ground was slippery from previous nights rain too, so slowly sidled out from the constant surging from behind to try find my mates again ... no mobile phones back then, but we had established a spot with a Scottish flag as a sort of landmark to get back together as it was inevitable the 12 of us might get split up ... and we did.

Made it there and made contact with a few of us ... we'd actually travelled down in a rented Transit van and just threw mattresses and even garden furniture in the back after a mini bus rental let us down at last minute ... the things you do when you are young n stupid The rest were MIA but we knew, they knew how to find us, around about this point I went to the side stalls for something to eat and Guns n Roses came on ... ... I'll always remember looking back at crowd and far off stage and the whole crowd near front was like watching the sea, ebbing and flowing, it looked un natural and I was glad to be out of it.

Axl Rose stopped the band twice mid songs pleading for calm, but even they were not sure what was really happening, read later they were only told back at their hotel.

Later on I distinctly remember during Iron Maidens set Bruce begging people to move back.

Then at the very end of the show the shocking announcement as everybody was leaving coming over the various PA towers that two people had died during Guns n Roses set in the crush and would any witnesses please speak to the Police at exit gates, our party were well split up by this time so it was with much relief we all finally met up at the van at the end.

A young Lad and Lass lost their lifers in a terrible way during that festival and GnR's set.

Not the first time for deaths in crowd crushes and again recently at Brixton ... very sad.

A brilliant line up, but I consider it a very bitter sweet compared to the tragedy that happened.

 

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Yes I agree with that ... barring the tragedy of course.

Never been to Download, getting to old for that stuff LOL, wish I'd made the first one with Rainbow.

Another good Donington MOR I was at and the weather was much better was 1984 ... prime of my life surely LOL, AC/DC (first band to headline twice) Van Halen (David Lee Roth's final appearance with Van Halen in the UK) Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore, Y&T, Accept and Motley Crue ... cracker of a festival atmosphere wise and band wise.
Never did Glasto, different style of event but wish I had now when I were younger.

SexyGreyFox, did you do Knebworth 1985? I was there for Deep Purple MKII reunion .. Mudworth might be a more appropriate name, another good line up of bands though, fairly got into Mountain and Blackfoot after this washout, LOL.

 

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I was there for all of the day only ones.
Van Halen was special when DLR stopped I'm On Fire and told a bloke who threw a bottle at him he was going to **** his girlfriend. He then counted and they were back into the song.

I remember that actually, haha