Def Leppard!
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:43 pm

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Andrew McManus Presents

DEF LEPPARD!

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

+ MORE GUESTS TBA
Live at Auckland's VECTOR ARENA - Friday 14 November 2008
Tickets on sale Wednesday 9th July @ Ticketmaster, 0800-111-999, www.ticketmaster.co.nz

They've sold more than 65 million albums, played to more than 50 million
fans and have produced a series of classic rock albums that helped define a
generation of music.

Just say the words Pyromania, Hysteria and Adrenalize and it can be no other
than DEF LEPPARD!

Andrew McManus Presents is thrilled to announce the British rock
heavyweights will include Auckland New Zealand in the world tour for their
new album Songs From The Sparkle Lounge in what will be their first visit
since 1992.

The DEF LEPPARD story is now down in rock history. From humble beginnings in Sheffield 30 years ago, the band became a world conquering musical force.

They have garnered almost every accolade and award available in the music
industry and are one of an elite few (along with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd,
U2 and the Eagles) to have received two Diamond awards for individual album sales in excess of a staggering 10 million units for the ground-breaking Pyromania (1983) and Hysteria (1987).

With singles like Pour Some Sugar On Me, Love Bites, Rocket, Rock Of Ages,
Armageddon It, Let's Get Rocked and Photograph, DEF LEPPARD became a staple at rock radio all over the world.

But it hasn't all been incredible highs. The band has weathered some
devastating tragedies including the death of original guitarist Steve Clarke
after a drug overdose, and drummer Rick Allen's car accident, which resulted
in him loosing an arm.

However the band - Joe Elliott (vocals), Phil Collen (guitar), Vivian
Campbell (guitar), Rick 'Sav' Savage (bass) and Rick Allen (drums) - have
stuck together and are now back in the spotlight with a new album Songs From The Sparkle Lounge - their first new material in six years.

The first single Nine Lives, a collaboration with country music superstar
Tim McGraw, hit #1 at US and UK rock radio, while the album debuted at #5 on the US Billboard chart, their 11th consecutive US Top 20 album.

Nine Lives, Photograph and Rock Of Ages are also featured on the
phenomenally popular Guitar Hero(r) III: Legends Of Rock game on XBox and Playstation, released in March 08.

Also on the bill is one of Melbourne's current buzz bands THE GALVATRONS.
This synth-rock four-piece have just released their debut EP When We Were
Kids, had rave reviews on their first trip to the UK and are due back there
soon for the European summer festival circuit. Their unique sound and
up-vibe live show will kick off the night perfectly.

DEF LEPPARD's spectacular live shows have made them a touring institution,
as they continue to sell out arenas around the world - get set for an
unforgettable, not to be missed, night of classic rock!

Live at Auckland's VECTOR ARENA - Friday 14 November 2008
Tickets on sale Wednesday 9th July @ Ticketmaster, 0800-111-999,
www.ticketmaster.co.nz

RE: Def Leppard!
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:37 pm

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Awesome! Hopefully they include a couple of tracks from High n dry!! Mirror,mirror! About time they came here again

RE: Def Leppard!
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:28 am

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cool anouncment but i still take priest over leppard.

RE: Def Leppard!
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:49 pm

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Totally dude.

Even when I was into all that 80's stuff, Def Leppard were the no-go band, along with Poison and Bon Jovi and other such heterosexually challenged bands.

RE: Def Leppard!
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:00 pm

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i like both the priest and leppard so if i have money ill go to both!
(altho if i had to choose, would be the priest)

RE: Def Leppard!
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:31 pm

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Shit, Im going too both, going to Aussie to watch Priest too!

RE: Def Leppard!
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:28 pm

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Hahahaha, awesome. Go hard!

RE: Def Leppard!
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:43 pm

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HEADLINING THE SUPPORT SPOT FOR DEF LEPPARD

WE PRESENT

The Galvatrons are:
Johnny Galvatron // Lead vocals, guitar
Manny // Drums
Condor // Bass
Gamma // Keys

THE GALVATRONS are here to put some fun back into rock, but there’s also a serious level of musical nous at work with their hook-laden productions. Now, THE GALVATRONS are ready to unleash their anthemic, Rock God selves to the unsuspecting New Zealand public at none other than THE rock show of the year!

THE GALVATRONS are Johnny, Manny, Condor and Gamma.

That’s Johnny upfront, with the beach blond hair. Johnny’s the singer, he writes the songs too. And he plays guitar like it’s 1999. When he was a kid, Johnny grew up in Geelong and played in a couple of rock bands in-and-out of high school, before he moved to Melbourne and fell in with a disco crowd. Johnny helped the crowd write songs, helped them produce, even played live guitar next to DJs but quickly realised that wasn’t a way forward. “I was killing people’s buzz on the dance floor by rocking out,” Johnny remembers.

Then one night, as legend has it, a friend put on a copy of the old 1986 animated classic, The Transformers. Set against this apocalyptic vision, a soundtrack of wailing guitar solos and ’80s synth noises, Johnny realised at that very moment that his purpose in life was to form a rock band. Johnny would call this band THE GALVATRONS, in honour of the character from The Transformers voiced by Leonard Niroy.

Johnny knew he needed to start with a great drummer, and he knew exactly who that drummer was. Johnny had first met Manny years earlier when both were in bands that made it through to the finals of a high school band competition. In subsequent years, they kept running into each other in the moshpit at the Melbourne Big Day Out. As soon as Johnny told Manny about his vision, Manny was in. And if the Melbourne-bred drummer was going to be in the greatest rock band of all time, then he knew there was only one bass player who could make up the other half of his rhythm - Condor.

Condor came from Benalla in country Victoria. He and his high school band moved into a shared house in Melbourne the week after school was out. Soon, Manny and Condor’s shared love of the local rock scene in Melbourne, led to them spending many a hyped-up night together at various rock shows around town.

With the core in place, Johnny took time out to write the first songs. As soon as Johnny had the first five, he roughly demoed them with the help of legendary Melbourne dance producer Josh Abrahams, and then the band came together for the first time as THE GALVATRONS.

The reaction was instantaneous. The band’s MySpace page alone led to approaches from local and international labels. But one piece of the big picture was still missing. As Johnny writes all his music on keyboards, he was covering the fact that before they could go out live, THE GALVATRONS needed a keyboard player. And Johnny says he doesn’t even want to know how it happened, but around this time Gamma suddenly appeared on his doorstep. The Canberra-bred Gamma learnt those first five songs in a little over a week, and THE GALVATRONS came alive, bursting onto the Melbourne live scene… and the rest, as they say – is history.

And now you, can see history in the making…

Next week, prepare to be amazed as we bring you the anthemic, instantly classic track called “When We Were Kids”. Recorded in Melbourne by Lindsay Gravina (The Living End, Shihad) and mixed in Hollywood by the legendary Tim Palmer (David Bowie, Pearl Jam, U2, The Cure). This track is sure to propel fists in the air and grown men crying for more!

It’s the start of the future – rock & roll as it was always meant to be.

Go see the show to believe the hype.

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