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Monday 29 September 2025.
Monday 29 September 2025....7.15 pm to 8.45pm...
LATER WITH JOOLS HOLLAND live recording at Alexandra Palace Theatre, North London.
BIFFY CLYRO ( two tracks)
JACOB COLLIER ( two tracks and interview )
JAMES MORRISON ( one track and interview )
JUSTIN CURRIE ( interview about his book )
JUST MUSTARD ( one track )
KWN ( one track)
A lovely venue , which has stunning views of London. The audience of around 200 are seated in seats upstairs, and it looks exactly the same as Level 1 at Shepherds Bush Empire, as you look down on the floor where the acts are all set up.
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Sunday 28 September 2025.
As expected for the 50th anniversary of punk.
THE SEX PISTOLS featuring FRANK CARTER will be playing more shows in 2026.
The first show confirmed is at The Isle of Wight Festival.
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Sunday 28 September 2025.
W.A.S.P. live at Hammersmith Apollo .
W.A.S.P. are bringing the 2025 Album ONE Alive World Tour to Hammersmith. ...Armored Saint will also join as special guest.
W.A.S.P. will perform their entire debut album from start to finish plus classics from the bands catalogue.
I have seen W.A.S.P five times before, with the first time in 1986 , when they headlined Hammersmith Odeon...have also seen them headline Shepherds Bush Empire and The Astoria.
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There is space in the stalls and circle so I would reckon around 3000 tickets out the 5000 capacity are sold.
Lots of overseas accents heard here as the band are popular in mainland Europe.
Oddly W.A.S P. are not selling any merch tonight , even though many rock fans always buy a t - shirt...some good revenue lost.
ARMORED SAINT arrive on stage at 7.30pm for their 50 mins set.
The five piece Armored Saint were around in the 1980s.
John Bush (aged 62 ) is still on vocals. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the lead singer and lyricist of Armored Saint, a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. In 1992, he joined thrash metal band Anthrax, with whom he remained until 2005 and briefly rejoined in 2009–2010. Bush has also been active with the reformed Armored Saint intermittently from 1999 to the present.
They played a good set , and John Bush said was over the moon to be playing the famous venue , and called it Hammersmith Odeon.
W.A.S.P. arrived on stage at 8.55pm for their 85 mins set.
We have a very nice stage production as there are loads of lights , a dozen slogans on banners behind them and three big screens showing videos from their heyday .
Blackie Lawless still has that superb chopper bike handlebars type outrageous oversized microphone.
The show was a fantastic throwback to the glam metal hair days of the late 1980s.
Top notch uptempo rock n roll .
Full W.A.S.P. setlist played tonight....
Intro track over the pa - The Doors with sirens and full lights
I Wanna Be Somebody
L.O.V.E. Machine
The Flame
B.A.D.
School Daze
Hellion
Sleeping (In the Fire)
On Your Knees
The Torture Never Stops
Encore:
The Big Welcome
Inside the Electric Circus / I Don't Need No Doctor / Scream Until You Like It
The Real Me (The Who cover )
Forever Free
The Headless Children
Wild Child
Blind in Texas