Since embarking on ‘The Stadium Tour’, their high-profile trek around North American arenas with Motley Crue, Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Def Leppard have been sharing their ‘Behind The Stadium Tour’ video diary via their official YouTube channel.
Now, the band have shared the fourth episode of ‘Behind The Stadium Tour”, which kicked off on June 16 in Atlanta, Georgia. Episode 4 takes you along to concerts in Charlotte, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and Jacksonville, Florida. The clip features singer Joe Elliott’s pre-show ritual, an audience of 43,000 people, and, of course, more rain. You can watch the footage in full below.
The veteran British rockers are co-headlining “The Stadium Tour” with Mötley Crüe, with support from Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.
Def Leppard’s set on the tour includes some of the band’s biggest hits, such as “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, “Photograph” and “Rock Of Ages” — as well as songs from the group’s latest album, Diamond Star Halos, among them “Kick” and “Fire It Up”.
The band’s long-delayed North American trek was originally planned for 2020 and later moved to 2021 and then to 2022. “The Stadium Tour” will conclude on September 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“The Stadium Tour” marks the Crüe’s first live dates since wrapping its 2014/2015 farewell tour. The band toured with Poison back in 2011 and Def Leppard teamed up with Poison for a string of road dates in 2017, but this jaunt marks the first time all four acts have hit the road together for an extended tour.
In May 2021, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen told “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” that promoters “made the right decision” by postponing “The Stadium Tour” for a second time. “I think the primary focus has gotta be people’s health and well-being,” he said. “So I understand why they made that decision. I think if we had gone out [in 2021], it may have been a bit more of a patchwork of a tour as opposed to being able to play the whole thing from start to finish. So, it’s a bummer, but here we are.”
In July 2021, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx told the 95.5 KLOS radio station that his band and Def Leppard “might even drag” the same tour “to Europe, South America, Japan,” but he cautioned, “We don’t know yet. Right now it’s a little far off. But us and Def Leppard are super close; that’s great. And we’ll just see what version of ‘The Stadium Tour’ might fit for other countries, if we decide to go. Maybe it’ll be the same line-up. I know people are super stoked for the line-up. It’s a good outdoor fun party evening.”
Watch every episode of ‘Behind The Stadium Tour’ on Def Leppard’s official YouTube channel.