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The crowd bask in the vast delight of ‘Painless’, which oozes emo- breaking up their own songs. When Chris calls the audience Manchester
tion, and they enthusiastically continue to chant ‘Fozzy’ whenever by mistake, he then invites the crowd to chant ‘You fucked up, you
there’s a break between songs. The 2019-released ‘Nowhere To Run’ fucked up’.
is another slab of powerful melodic rock/metal, while ‘Do You Wanna Announcing that the new album will be released in April 2022, the
Start A War’ sees Chris blast a fantastic smoke gun over the audience. band play an unreleased song, ‘Purifier’, which will appear on the up-
The sizzling song blisters with electricity. The band’s cover of Frankie coming album. It’s another heavyweight with a hooky chorus.
Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ makes an revitalising addition to the set,

When Chris asks who’s seen Fozzy before and who’s seeing them for the first
time, the bigger cheer is by fans seeing them for the first time, which is a nice surprise.
The well-known hit ‘Sandpaper’ winds up the main set before the band return for the
encore. The dedicated crowd know what’s coming as they all sing ‘Judas’ impressively
all the way through before the band return to the stage. The band then play the song
before a cover of AC/DC’s legendary ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ wraps up the
show.
With chants such as ‘Holy Shit, holy shit’ and also ‘Let’s Get Pissed, let’s get
pissed’, the latter which is the first of the tour according to Chris, we leave the show
with a chant of ‘Come back soon, come back soon’ in our head – not chanted by the
crowd, but obviously something that everyone hopes for and wants.
YYYYY
Shari Black Velvet

Fozzy, The Treatment & Stitched Up Heart Photos By Shari Black Velvet

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