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It was a packed house at the Manchester Academy for the visit of Megadeth....
Megadeth : Live

Megadeth : Live

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It was a packed house at the Manchester Academy for the visit of Megadeth on Wednesday, June 5th – the queue stretched half a mile along the Oxford Road long before the doors opened.  With co founder Dave Ellefson back in position on bass and Chris Broderick on guitar and drummer Shawn Drover having clocked fifteen years service between them, the present line-up is the most stable and long serving the band has ever had, but despite it being a Megadeth show according to the tickets there was no doubt about who was the star of the show.

While his two wingmen, kitted out in regulation metal black leather did their stuff to his left and right, singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine struck poses at stage center in a white shirt, shook his mass of blonde curls that rendered his face all but invisible for most of the time and ran rapid complex licks from his black and white striped Dean v shape guitar – ensuring that, even when the band members swapped on stage positions, he was always the focal point of the band and the centre of attention.

Dave EllefsonPerforming in front of a video wall displaying a montage of newsreel, movie footage and abstract graphics, all tied accurately to the lyrical content of the songs, they opened their set with “Trust” from the 1997 Cryptic Writings album and “Hangar 18” from Countdown To Extinction (1992), setting the scene for a greatest hits orientated show – in fact only two tracks, “Kingmaker” and the title track “Super Collider” came from their current album.

Dave MustaineAfter a bad tempered opening section during which the band left the stage without warning due to an artistic disagreement with the man operating the spotlight and Mustaine marked his return to the stage by launching the first of several expletive packed barrages of invective towards a member of the audience who had caused some nameless offense (video), the show gathered steam and the band delivered some brutal, high energy versions of classics such as “Peace Sells”, “Sweating Bullets”, “A Tout Le Monde” and “Ashes In Your Mouth” and a cover of Thin Lizzy’s “Cold Sweat” before finishing on a high note with “Holy Wars”.

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