Live Review, Testament, Megadeth and Judas Priest, The O2

Artist: Testament, Megadeth and Judas Priest
Source: Paddy Murphy

When the triple-hearder of Testament, Megadeth and Judas Priest was announced many many Irish rockers creamed their jeans at the prospect of seeing two of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time....and then Judas Priest too.

If ya ain't been to the New Point, (I refuse to call it by the sponsors name) and you probably haven't seeing as the selection of bands that have played there thus far have been fuckin piss-poor. But the place is just as good as they've been saying it is. There's a fair few bars around, a few merchandise tables, the food sucks though, only cinema food like popcorn, and ice-cream, who the fuck's gonna eat top-dollar Ben and Jerry's at a metal gig? Anyway none of that really matters, well, except for the bars, the most important is what the place sounds like. The sound in theOld Point was akin to being at a barn-dance in the arsehole of Leitrim, all great craic but you're too pissed to notice how shit the band are. But it's all changed now baby. The place has gone so up-market that, for a change, we were led to our seats by an angel sent from Heaven instead of being asked to leave by some beefcake Eastern European security guard with an attitude.

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