Whitesnake, Def Leppard and Thunder
Def Leppard and Whitesnake stepped out of a musical timewarp to rock 'n' roll back the years.
The two thoroughbred icons of 1980s stadium bombast provided an unashamed gallop down Memory Lane at a bouncing Echo Arena Liverpool last night.
And indeed the memories did come flooding back; a flurry of dry ice, razor-like guitar riffing, fist- clenching, pompous posturing - and just like way back then, it was a big barrel of fun.
The former monsters of rock would perhaps struggle to fill the bigger venues by themselves these days, but together they fuse into a potent retro double-act which has gone down a storm across the country.
Liverpool has never really been metal territory but on this occasion the arena almost rocked itself off its foundations and into the Mersey.