Motorhead and Anthrax October 13 2002 Manchester Apollo

Saw these in Manchester roughly early noughties.
Loud which is to be expected and they played Ace of spades and Overkill and a bomber was made out of a lighting rig when Bomber was played.
Great to tick off a legend.
Lemmy passed away in 2016 r.i.p.
I saw these with Snell R.I.P., Lee and Gaynor, John George and Lizzie.

Motorhead

We Are Motörhead
No Class
Bomber
Civil War
Damage Case
Love for Sale
God Save the Queen
(Sex Pistols cover)
Brave New World
Metropolis
Nothing Up My Sleeve
Doctor Rock
R.A.M.O.N.E.S.
Shoot You in the Back
Sacrifice
Just ‘Cos You Got the Power
Going to Brazil
Killed by Death
Iron Fist

Encore:
Ace of Spades
Overkill

Anthrax

Among the Living
Got the Time
(Joe Jackson cover)
Caught in a Mosh
Inside Out
Room for One More
Superhero
Antisocial
(Trust cover)
I Am the Law
Bring the Noise
(Public Enemy cover)
Only

Motorhead have too much of a history for me to delve into and I was a cursory fan at best (in fact I was more stoked to see Anthrax) so here is a link to their site https://imotorhead.com/
Motorhead were on their sixteenth full length album when we saw them on their bomber tour.
The album Hammered had been released that year. Ace of spades is their signature tune. One of Motorhead’s most popular tunes, “Ace of Spades” is an ode to gambling and risking everything for the thrill of the game.

It’s still very popular. When we do it onstage, everyone loves it. But when we wrote it, we were just doing an album. It’s just fucking another song. I thought it was pretty good, but I didn’t think it was that good. So I have no special memory of writing it. It’s got a “tap-dancing part,” you know, Phil [Taylor’s] solo. When he called it that, there was a big debate: “Are we going to take it out or leave it in?” And then we left it in. I was surprised when the song took off. It’s no better than all the others.

I did a bit of gambling back then, but I don’t have any good gambling stories; I have lots of bad ones. I’ve lost a lot of money. I used to live on the seaside in Wales, and that’s all there was: There was a gambling machine in the local caf’. And they had a jukebox at the same time, so I was all set up. I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines. I’ve been playing them since I was about 18, when you were getting into bars. I don’t trust any form of gambling with people involved in it; I like the machines better.
Lemmy told Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/motorheads-lemmy-my-life-in-15-snarls-64130/over-the-top-159661/

Anthrax I was more into as I loved the John Bush-era Sound of white noise and Stomp 442.
They were on their eighth album and third singer.

“I Am the Law” is a single by thrash metal band Anthrax, from the album, Among the Living.
Anthrax, in true nerdy fashion, pay tribute to the iconic 2000AD supercop Judge Dredd.
I was massively into 2000 A.D.
so it is great when a band crossovers into that territory.