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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi (Post 1209592)

Definitely not. Not doing Prayer would have more to do with the state of his voice, that key change is murder. I give them major props for omitting those two on this run.

I wasn't clear before, I meant semi-acoustics versions. I think nobody is really dying to hear his rendition of electric Prayer now

I was thinking about what crashed said and I tried to come up with any other song that could be interchangeable with Bad Medicine or Who Says and I came up empty. I know it could be worse but they are really limiting their choices if the requisites are easy to sing and a top charting single (or in Who Says case, an award winning song).

I wish they would've believed more in other songs from the last 15 years but once you take the high vocals out of the equation, we are really left with little choice.

Are they going to survive live if THINFS is not a success (both album and tour)? Considering they drop songs the minute Jon feels they don't work, we could go back to square one, which is LH because Jon won't look back any further than that.

I really hope they give this album the chance it deserves. Jon seems so proud but could he fight for the album if the fans don't care? He sure preaches about the no ****s/nothing to prove attitude but who knows what kind of deal the band has now and how much they can get away with...

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10th October London Palladium Thread

Great gig. Band was on top form and Phil was brilliant but there's no way they can do a 2hr 30m set in a stadium anymore and every fan I spoke to said they'd like to see the shows in smaller venues. JBJ sounded great, Tico was immense as well

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jon gives a shit, more since lost highway so if the voice improves a bit in order to make listenable some classics this tour is gonna be strong

only jons vocal chords are the problem and he ll have some time to recover til tour, other than that an arena to a stadium is not a huge difference just some more thousands

All songs are great with the exception of Blind Love and Reunion.
The rest are amazing. Just hope Shanks hasn't ruined it with his production

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Originally Posted by steel_horse75 (Post 1209604)

All songs are great with the exception of Blind Love and Reunion.
The rest are amazing. Just hope Shanks hasn't ruined it with his production

Freudian slip lol

It sure looked and sounded more rock and roll than I expected.

Thanks for the review

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Originally Posted by steel_horse75 (Post 1209604)

All songs are great with the exception of Blind Love and Reunion.
The rest are amazing. Just hope Shanks hasn't ruined it with his production

Reaal Love even if they are very similar

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Originally Posted by steel_horse75 (Post 1209601)

I agree. I hope Jon plays the majority of THINFS, and some classics which depending on his voice he feels he could do a reasonable job. 1 and Half to 2 hours max I feel Jon and Tico can do now at a show(s)

I thought Jon's voice sounded better tonight than at Count Basie, but I'm not expecting his vocals to improve on the classics as Bad Medicine as his voice is gone, but we shall see what his voice is like at the middle and end of the tour in 2017.

This is probably going to be the best album in 10 years. Only a couple of fillers and even they aren't bad.

Band sounded fantastic, Jon's voice was fine on all the new songs plus who says. Bad medicine is just awful sadly. It just sounds so so bad, at least on the verses. I don't know if they can get round that, although the band are great on it. They will have to see what songs are possible with Jon's voice.

The band was superb all night, Phil was amazing on WDR and him & Hughie along with Everett were having a great time. Tico was amazing and Dave was a ledge as ever and backed Jon up admirably.

Devils in the Temple, if it translates to record as it does live, could end up being the best bon Jovi song in many years.

A fantastic night.

Thanks for the reviews all. :)

Great show. Enjoyed the new stuff. Too tired to type more. Got several hd videos and an audio recording.

The band seemed more of a band now. It needed Richie to leave to kick start a stale band. This new album is superb

From what I have been reading in these reviews, it looks like this Bon Jovi band is more happier and more together than before. It is obviously clear that Richie was becoming more of a distraction to the band, for whatever reason, I think he was going through some issues that he was not dealing with, especially when he was on the road with the band, he was not ready to go back on the road with Bon Jovi, but went anyway, and then just left because he was not happy. I think in the new Jon interview with The Guardian, it is becoming more clearer that there were issues even before Richie left, exactly what we don't know, but little by little were getting some clues. From judging all the reviews from both NJ and London shows, this band is more focused, happier, and it is showing in their performances, sounding more better than before. Who knows what Richie's reaction is now for the band and the success their having with these shows, its is now clear that both Jon and Richie are in different places now, and the idea of Richie coming back just like that it is hard to see happening anytime soon.

That was f***ing awesome.

Ashamed to say I sold my soul to a scalper but I work nearby and couldn't cope with being so close and not there! Was worthy every penny though!

I love the new album which I really wasn't expecting. Still not a fan of THINFS the song but everything else sounded really good. Loved hearing Knockout live and loved the Scars on this Guitar and New Years Day.Was so nice to see Jon really passionate about the music and having fun (even when it came to mistakes!), he got pretty emotional telling some of the stories.

There was a really great atmosphere and the venue was perfect for this type of show. Vocally I thought Jon seemed better than in recent years but I'm no expert on these things.

Hope everyone else who got to go enjoyed it! If the shows next year are as good I think we're in for a treat :)

Love the extended solo play out on THINFS

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Originally Posted by Thierry (Post 1209611)

Great show. Enjoyed the new stuff. Too tired to type more. Got several hd videos and an audio recording.

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Originally Posted by steel_horse75 (Post 1209612)

The band seemed more of a band now. It needed Richie to leave to kick start a stale band. This new album is superb

Sounds like you guys had a great time. I'm glad it worked out for you to get to go. Looking forward to the videos, Thierry!

I don't suppose he said anything like see you in the summer.. [emoji3]

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Originally Posted by Chris_Newton (Post 1209622)

I don't suppose he said anything like see you in the summer.. [emoji3]

Nope nothing about future dates at all.

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Originally Posted by Thierry (Post 1209623)

Nope nothing about future dates at all.

Thanks!.. Well just have to wait and see I guess!

I've downloaded that live stream, looked an amazing night. I agree, the band seem so good together and Jon is so passionate, it finally feels like he's putting himself 'out there', emotionally. It feels like this album has been therapy.

I haven't felt so excited for a new album in a very very long time, I genuinely cannot wait.

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Setlist and some YT links added to OP

Was 8 rows back and I must admit admit it was ****ing awesome!!

The extended guitar solo on THINFS awesome. They seem to be a real band now. Jon seemed very passionate about all the songs on the album and all of them seem fantastic. Jons voice overall was good.

Idiot "journalist" alert:

http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-10-...-comeback-show

Last night in London, Bon Jovi played their new album for a crowd of fan club members and Tidal customers. Here's what it taught us...
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Introducing himself as Bruce Forsythe, Jon Bon Jovi takes to the stage at London's historic Palladium for a two-hour "listening party" to celebrate release of the band's new album, This House Is Not For Sale. With a seven-member line-up and a lot of talking, there's much to take in...

1. This is less a listening party, more a lecture
Jon Bon Jovi explains the origins of all of the songs in depth, in a way songwriters rarely do for their audiences. He reads lyrics out, he explains how he wrote them, and he does so in a way that shows precisely how much these new new songs mean to him. It's heartfelt, and believable, and when he stops All Hail The King because he's choking up thinking about what it all means, you know you're in the midst of something special. A run-of-the-mill show this is not.

2. On the downside, lectures are much less fun than parties
If you sell somewhere north of 100 million albums and fill stadiums all over the world, it's likely you've learned a thing or two about stagecraft, and about pacing, and about choosing the right setlist. So when you play a set that doggedly follows the tracklisting of an album no-one's heard, and fill the gaps between songs with tales of their origin, don't expect the momentum to last, because it doesn't. It sags. And what could be a night of unrestrained celebration turns into a constant search for defibrillators.

3. This House Is Not For Sale has a great chorus
A giant chorus. A massive chorus. A wave-your-hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-don't-think-choruses-get-get-any-bigger-than-this chorus. It's vast. Canyon shaped. Ocean sized. And glorious.

4. The other songs don't
Apart from the one that sounds a lot like This House Is Not For Sale. It's called God Bless This Mess.

5. Richie Sambora doesn't get a mention
But he's a ghostly presence throughout. There's lots of talk about the "four walls" that built "this house", and Bon Jovi talks about the pride he has in the original line-up remaining together for so long. Later, he calls excellent new guitarist Phil X his brother and hugs him onstage, and you wonder whose benefit this show of affection is for. Is it a middle finger to Richie? Or is he merely reassuring Phil that the job is his for the foreseeable future? Given that he's already done over 100 shows with the band, we're probably reading too much into this either way. Although judging by the show-stopping bum notes on Come On Up To Our House, it's possible he won't last the week.

6. Bon Jovi are still a force to be reckoned with
Despite Bon Jovi's obvious pride in his new songs, and the audience's apparent willingness to come along for the ride, the final one-two punch of Who Says You Can't Go Home and Bad Medicine suggests that it's those big hits that'll keep the crowds coming back for more. And as the set climaxes and Bon Jovi grins and spins, and the audience throw their arms towards the heavens and sing lustily along, you imagine that deep down Jon Bon Jovi probably realises this too.

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Originally Posted by Bleeding Purist (Post 1209651)

Idiot "journalist" alert: http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-10-...-comeback-show

Well at least he/she seemed to enjoy some of it lol.

Did Phil X's playing during Come on up to our house stop the show? Was there any mistakes?

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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi (Post 1209653)

Did Phil X's playing during Come on up to our house stop the show? Was there any mistakes?

Yeah, not sure if it was a broken string but it was screechy and off key so they stopped and started again.

Edit: Video here https://www.facebook.com/cjperkin/vi...4020040316270/

Scars On This Guitar is so freaking great even without Phil's guitar :D.

Hugh appears to be moving more frequently.

http://www.gigwise.com/news/108323/b...comeback-show?

Gigwise Review:

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"Tickets, Tickets, anybody want tickets!?". shouts a tout outside the stunning white tall London Palladium theatre walls as people gather around for the first Bon Jovi gig in London for three years. "How much!?" I ask. "200 quid mate" he mumbles with a shifty glare in his eye.

There aren't many shows that would get this price, even on the black market and it's testament to the legacy the band have built since the early '80s that people are willing to [pay that much to get in. It's one of the biggest, highest selling bands in the world ever in a venue small enough for a new band to fill out. It's not a normal night in central London.

The excitement within the venue is equally thrilling as the hustle and bustle out on the venue steps, which are short stroll form Oxford Circus station. It's a seated affair but as soon as the band which include two drummers, two guitarist, a bassist, and the one and only Jon Bon Jovias a singer take to the stage hardly anyone returns to their seat. Women are swooning, with hearts in their eyes the women, who are mostly middlt aged, look onto their former teenage heartthrob as religious groups would look unto their lord. Rarely will you see such devotion at a rock group in a gig and it's thrilling to witness.

The show tonight, apart from those who got stung by the touts, was free as it was done by competition. It's different to the usual stadium show you'd get. The band are hear for a live playing of their new album . This House Is Not For Sale from start to finish and Bon Jovi is introducing every song with a story about the experiences in his life that led to each song. "WThis is like a family and friends gathering" he says at the start, explaining how he's about to lead the set. And he's as comfortably speaking to this theatre audience as he would be with close friends and as such it doesn't make it jarring in the slightest. The evening is more informative and it's great to get broader context of what the songs about leading to more of a connection and understanding between the audience and bands.

The tracks from the album are stunning in their diversity. The likes of 'Knockout' are arena rock bangers, whilst the quieter more introspective songs 'River of Love' are powerful in a more emotional way. Jon Bon Jovi is singing with so much sincerity. The heart of som songs have a ye olde folk mysteriousness to the melody and strucytre and if you stripped away the huge sounding band behind, you'd be left with something very tender.

The reason Bon Jovi's set has strong contrast is because it reflects the turmoil his life has gone through in nearly losing his record deal. "I couldn't look at the guitar for months" he said. The band were going to be dropped after being their most successful acts and Bon Jovi, said "I take great pride in having the same wife, same band, and same label for over thirty years." So he fought to keep it and they reached an agreement and are back putting out records on Universal "for the rest of their life."

Despite causing a lot of hardship it's doubtful the songs tonight would be as interesting or as poignant and Bon Jovi would sing with as much conviction than had everything been plain sailing while he was off tour over the past few years. "Out of great hardship comes great songs" , he said in a press conference with Jo Wiley last month.

The attention from the audience for a set built form an album they've never heard before - it's out 4 November - is impressive. It is a big ask from the band but with it being a strong album they've gotten away with it. Token couple of oldies come in the encore with 'Who Says You Can't go Home', and 'Bad Medicine'. The latter especially gets the room shaking and reminds why Bon Jovi are considered one of the greatest live bands the world has ever known.

Telegraph Review: 3 out of 5 stars

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/wha...n-than-conce/?

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We all like a challenge, so here’s a new one: listen to Bon Jovi play 15 as-yet-unreleased songs back-to-back. Granted, it’s not quite like tackling the Northest Ridge of Everest, but this intimate London show by the New Jersey rockers was nevertheless something of an uphill climb.

Bon Jovi are about to release their 14th album, This House Is Not For Sale. The “Live Listening Party” at the Palladium – the band’s first UK show for more than three years – gave fans the chance to hear it played live in its entirety. It also provided a fascinating but self-indulgent snapshot of a band emerging from a midlife crisis and grappling with the technological changes ripping their industry apart.

Two big things have happened to Bon Jovi in recent years: guitarist Richie Sambora quit after 30-plus years and they got into an almighty spat with their record company, Mercury (since resolved). This House Is Not For Sale is singer Jon Bon Jovi’s confessional take on these. And, boy, does he ram his grievances home.

Svelte and grey-haired, his black shirt agape over toned torso, Bon Jovi took to the stage and joked that he was Bruce Forsyth on Sunday Night at the Palladium. It hinted at an irony that was sadly in short supply over the next 100 minutes. At times, this felt less like a concert and more like a therapy session for the 54-year-old.

The new songs came thick with symbolism. The “house” in the album’s title track represents the band. It can’t be knocked down. Or sold. And the temple in The Devil’s in the Temple is a record company. The devil presumably represents record execs or technology, ironic given that the show was put on in conjunction with streaming service Tidal X.

Musically, the songs were vintage Bon Jovi, meaty slabs of radio-friendly rock with huge choruses: you don’t sell 130 million albums without knowing how to knock out a tune. With their use of noodly, almost bagpipey guitar riffs, many tracks sounded like latter-day Coldplay or, depending on how far you follow the musical chain back, early Eighties Scottish rockers Big Country. They were enjoyable and tightly played: Tico Torres, on drums, snarled away like an amused Robert De Niro, while Phil ‘X’ Xenidis was a fine replacement for Sambora.

But it was the subject matter and 35-odd minutes of lengthy monologues that grated. I’m afraid I had trouble caring about this millionaire rock star and his tricky few years. We all have our ups and downs, mate – now pipe down and play Livin’ on a Prayer.

Relief came in the form of 1988’s Bad Medicine during the encore. And Bon Jovi thanked the crowd for sticking with him. Interspersed with hits during the forthcoming tour, these songs will be fine. Taken as one, they required stamina.

Evening Standard Review:

http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/m...-a3365966.html

Bon Jovi, review: Never mind the new album, what about the greatest hits? (Missing the point there spectacularly, Evening Standard!)

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Much has happened in the three years since Bon Jovi’s last London concert. Jon Bon Jovi’s troubled sidekick Richie Sambora fled, Jovi suffered a debilitating bout of self-doubt and, despite the group still being a stadium act, their record label lost interest.

Rather than being a conventional show, last night was billed as a “live listening party” for their 13th studio outing, This House Is Not For Sale. The album won’t be released until next month and, in what Jovi himself admitted was “a big ask”, they played it all, in order. Plus bonus tracks.

The 54-year-old singer had a point. A band with a great, 100 million-selling back catalogue playing 15 tracks unfamiliar to an audience including Matt Cardle and Blur’s Alex James made the event more an endurance test than joyful return. Even so, This House Is Not For Sale may well prove to be the finest Bon Jovi album this century. There were galloping verses and stadium-filling choruses to spare; a clone of Wanted Dead Or Alive in Scars On This Guitar and even a slinky new direction on the Red Hot Chili Peppers-esque Roller Coaster.

As rejuvenated as his suspiciously white teeth, Jovi would not mention Sambora by name and patiently explained the meaning of each song, even if his philosophy may have been purloined from a greetings card: “Life isn’t a merry-go-round, it’s a rollercoaster… you’re as much a part of this as we are.”

To reward the audience’s admirable patience, hits were unfurled in the encore, albeit only two of them.

Rousing assaults on Who Says You Can’t Go Home and Bad Medicine were greeted like manna from a more recognisable heaven and the sense of relief and release was an adrenaline shot. That, though, was that.

A big ask indeed.

UDiscoverMusic:

http://www.udiscovermusic.com/a-pack...-bon-jovi-show

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Let’s face it, not many artists can get away with playing their new album in full for a whole two-hour gig – particularly when it hasn’t even been released yet. But Bon Jovi are the exception.

At the London Palladium, on 10 October, they played one of only four shows of a worldwide tour before a packed audience of just over 2,000 – the group’s smallest headlining London show since 1985.

Anthemic is what Bon Jovi do best, and it was certainly on the menu. Opening with the lead single and title track off the new album, ‘This House Is Not for Sale’, the group kicked the crowd into a frenzy and had them singing along with big smiles on their faces.

Each new song had a story and Jon gave the audience insights into their genesis, even reciting the choruses like poetry before kicking into the track. He was clearly proud of the new material, and excited to play it live – and rightly so, as they feature some of his best lyrics in years. It’s as if the “worst three-and-a-half years of my life”, as he put it, as reawakened his love for music. (Indeed, there was a hint that these new songs provided some therapy, particularly ‘Come Over To Our House’, which is essentially an ode to the group’s fans.)

The whole evening had an air of intimacy about it – right down to the mistakes made at the start of some of the new songs – as though the audience had been invited back to the group’s rehearsal garage in the 80s. Suitably for the venue, there were no gimmicks, just Jon Bon Jovi assuming his classic stance and holding on to the mic. It felt as though the band were going back to the beginning, reconnecting not only with their hardcore fans, but the rock audience who had long but forgotten them.

The encore brought two of the band’s well-known tracks, ‘Who Says You Can’t Go Home’ and ‘Bad Medicine’, the latter of which elicited a sea of fist pumps from the audience. However, Jon seemed less engaged with the crowd-pleasers, perhaps underscoring his belief in the new songs, which, in his words, have “got something to say and nothing to prove”.

But the evening did prove something: that Bon Jovi have the fire in their bellies and are back doing what they should be. It’s a welcome return.

Blouinartinfo:

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/st...for-sale-album

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Jon Bon Jovi pauses, close to the end of his concert to unveil his new album. He tells us that he still has “something to say.” Pause. “And nothing to prove.”

His band’s 14th studio album, out on November 4, is called “This House Is Not for Sale.” It rocks as hard as its predecessors, even with a change of personnel, and has at last three tracks with huge hooks: the title track, “God Bless This Mess” and a sweet ballad called “Scars on This Guitar.” Like him or not, this is classic Bon Jovi – big choruses, heavy but melodic guitars.

The gig, at London’s Palladium, is one of four, called “intimate shows” or “listening parties,” to introduce the album to fans, Tidal customers, journalists and guests (such as Alex James of Blur).

The 2,000-seat venue is packed, but it is still “intimate” in that Jon Bon Jovi, now 54, opens up his heart to us in confessionals between the songs, comprehensively explaining how each came to be written. The lyrical lectures are serious, with just touches of humor and little irony, apart from a joke at the opening about him impersonating Bruce Forsyth at the London Palladium. So it is less of a party than therapy, a showcase of the band and new material which is never less than workmanlike and impressive.

The jumping off point to all of this is the crisis Bon Jovi went through a couple of years back: writer’s block, and after 30 years together, a near break with his record company and the departure of guitar ace Richie Sambora. As Bon Jovi points out, he’s had a three-decade career and 33 years with his wife - and he fully intends to be playing to us in 30 years’ time. The crisis was not exactly life or death but midlife crisis it was. Cynics may ask if we care about the mild tribulations of a wealthy rocker, but these inspired most of the new album which seems to be mad over pretty much everything you can throw at it.

The title track has a lot of a backstory which its writer sets out. He’d seen a striking black and white image, created by artist Jerry Uelsmann, of a stone house anchored by deep roots. He saw the four walls as being like many things, such as the band. The house cannot not be knocked down; cannot be bought or sold. People and nations such stick to integrity and they cannot be defeated. The song already seems like a natural for Bon Jovi’s next “Greatest Hits” album too, whenever that comes, one to sit alongside “Livin’ on a Prayer” or “You Give Love a Bad Name.”

Bon Jovi is proud of the songs and really cares about this stuff. “The Devil's in the Temple” is about the music business; “Knockout” about fighting to be hopeful; “New Year’s Day” is a carpe-diem call for action. “All Hail the King” has him so emotional during the set that he has to stop the song and take it again from the top.

It’s hard to argue with 130 million albums sold, and Bon Jovi has the last laugh on those critics who ridiculed the fashion-defying glam-rock poodle-cut years – laughing all the way to the bank in fact. Bon Jovi now looks better than ever: he could be a company vice-president, perhaps, with a penchant for working out his lithe frame, running a hand through distinguished hair in a speech. Then it transpires he happens to sing very well too, such as on the acoustic “Scars on This Guitar” – a nice change of pace.

Bon Jovi has decades of experience playing hits. For the encore, he thanks everyone for bearing with 15 new songs. He offers up a couple of more familiar tracks as compensation, with the venue rocking big time for the closing “Bad Medicine.”

He embraces “new” guitarist Phil ‘X’ Xenidis, who has been actually in place for a while, initially as a touring member. There are a few off-key notes, nothing much to worry about in new material offered to friends, but enough for an apology to be offered. Not that it matters with lyrics like “God bless this mess/ this mess is mine/ I won’t pound my chest/ or criticize/ I must confess/ I’ve lived I’ve died…” Expect a lot of stadium singalongs with phones and lighters held aloft.

Jon Bon Jovi may think he has nothing to prove. With this new album he proves he is still a force to be reckoned with, and capable of crafting entertaining hits to add to his canon. Going down in a new blaze of glory even.

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Anyone capture decent audio?

tidal really streamed the concert? if it did, somebody recorded it?

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Originally Posted by cqleonardo (Post 1209666)

tidal really streamed the concert? if it did, somebody recorded it?

TIDAL will only stream the last promo concert, in Broadway.

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Anyone capture decent audio?

Yes! Will be out for everybody to download soon. (Even for you)

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Originally Posted by Thierry (Post 1209668)

Yes! Will be out for everybody to download soon. (Even for you)

So Kind!!!

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Originally Posted by Thierry (Post 1209668)

Yes! Will be out for everybody to download soon. (Even for you)

Yay, thanks Thierry!

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10th October London Palladium Thread

Amazing how many journalists missed the point of the Gig. No research done at all

When was All Hail The King performed? I've watched all but the last 3 songs but don't think I saw that one. Maybe it was towards the end.

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