Let's go on a nostalgia trip......It was the early nineties, Bryan Adams was topping the charts all over the world with Everything I Do and on a rainy day in Glasgow he brought his Waking Up The World tour to Celtic Park, with Extreme as support. I stood on the terraces (yes, it was that longLet's go on a nostalgia trip……It was the early nineties, Bryan Adams was topping the charts all over the world with Everything I Do and on a rainy day in Glasgow he brought his Waking Up The World tour to Celtic Park, with Extreme as support. I stood on the terraces (yes, it was that long ago!) and heard Extreme play the songs from Pornograffitti, which was only a couple of years old. Fast forward twenty two years and Extreme and I are back in Glasgow, and they're playing Pornograffitti in its entirety, because it's now old enough to be deemed a classic! Some things have changed in the intervening years. I'm older, greyer, not much wiser, but Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt must have some bloody ugly paintings in the attic because they don't seem to have changed a bit! Leogun First things first, and a short opening set from London three piece Leogun. They got right down to rock and roll business and spent half an hour going at it full tilt. They brought a lot of energy and got a really good reception from the crowd, many of whom waited to say hello and get merch signed by [...]
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