![]() On the down side, Mick Mars struggled with a ropey guitar sound, especially on the ballad 'Home Sweet Home', leaving only Tommy Lee's charisma to hold things together during a couple of breaks in the set. It lets out (hopefully) controlled bursts of flame, and during 'Shout at the Devil' carefully choreographed blasts of fireworks. Crue's stage set is dominated by a large circular lighting rig that looks like something out of Stargate SG1. Tonight's show is the classic line up of Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mars and Sixx. Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx have been the band's mainstay with a revolving door of singers and drummers since 1981. Motley Crue look surprisingly well given the drink, drugs and death stories that have regularly circulated about them since the release of Too Fast for Love 30 years ago. I missed Steel Panther but the conversations either side of me in the loo during the interval made them sound pretty good. The audience at the Capital FM Arena tonight is a lot older and significantly less hirsute than in either bands heyday. There was a time that if Motley Crue and Def Leppard had shared the same bill the hair spray used by their collective fan base would have added a couple of feet to the hole in the ozone layer. Def Leppard + Motley Crue Capital FM Arena, Notts - 8th December 2011 By Ali Lewsley ![]()
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