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By Aug Stone

They launch into 'Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)'. And as 'Stagefright' flows into 'Foolin'' and on through 'Too Late For Love', for a few minutes there hangs in the air the glorious possibility that they might play the whole of Pyromania as well.

What happens next is just as surprising. 'Wasted' and "staying on the first record" for 'Rock Brigade'.

A catwalk has been blocked off by a velvet cord and early on Elliot announces that they'll be thrown off the tour if they use it. But before the fourth song, the obstacle is taken away and Elliott strolls out down the middle of the auditorium.

It soon becomes apparent what he means by being "thrown off the tour" as he announces the five-piece as 'Ded Flatbird, the world's premier Def Leppard cover band'.

Elliott introducing himself as 'Booty Reuben' and the rest of the band with aliases such as Sav's 'Fleetwood Beck' and 'Lincoln Twain' for Vivian Campbell.

By The Quietus 2013.

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