DEF LEPPARD: Tonight's Raleigh Concert Cancelled

August 21, 2007

A power outage in the Raleigh, NC area has caused the cancellation of tonight's (August 21) DEF LEPPARD concert at the Walnut Creek Amphitheatre. Local TV station NBC 17 reports that over 14,000 customers in Raleigh, Cary and Garner are without power after a storm moved through the area knocking out power earlier this evening.

DEF LEPPARD performed the song "Armageddon It" on Wednesday's (August 15) episode of the syndicated morning show "Live with Regis and Kelly". Video footage of the performance can be viewed at this location.

DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott recently spoke to Christina Fuoco-Karasinski of LiveDaily about the group's upcoming album, entitled "Songs from the Sparkle Lounge". "It's named so because we wrote much of the songs in a little room backstage on the tour," Joe said. "We set it up every day. No matter where we were, we set this stuff up. Sometimes we didn't go in, sometimes we did. If anybody had any ideas for songs, we banged them down. It just made our life a lot easier. We don't normally write well on the road, but for some reason it worked this time. [I]t's a great little scenario, what we had going. The crew would put up the gear, but we would use the gig as the secondary studio situation. They just put all these sparkley lights up everywhere — hence the title 'Sparkle Lounge' — and give a bit of atmosphere, and off we went. The songs just kept coming and coming and coming. It was really cool, I have to say. It worked really well. Musically, ['Songs from the Sparkle Lounge' is] a big mish mash of various stages of LEPPARD through the ages, I think. Some of it sounds like 'Hysteria' songs recorded during the 'High and Dry' period. There's some songs that don't sound like anything we've ever done. I think that's important. We've gone a little left field on a couple of songs. Hopefully, we'll pull in audience interest. Who knows? We may bring in new people. That's the dream of every artist that makes records. We'll have to wait and see on that one. I think we may write more songs on this tour because we've set up the Sparkle Lounge yet again."

Read the entire interview at www.livedaily.com.

(Thanks: The Def Leppard Satellite Of Love)

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