Classic Rock

Saxon / Uriah Heep / Girlschool / Diamond Head

‘Saxon offer just about everything you could have wished for.’

Saxon’s 40th-anniversary bash finally gets the go-ahead two years after it was planned, and it’s well worth the wait.

★ For a 40th-anniversary date announced three years and multiple postponements ago, Saxon took to the stage to headline Hammersmith again for the first time since 1990. How much had the capital missed its live rock on a scale so grand? Well, had you experienced the volume at which during the changeover between special guests Uriah Heep and the headliners, there would be your answer.

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