Tygers Of Pan Tang play The Live Rooms in Chester, with 7pm and 7:30pm shows.
Tygers Of Pan Tang play The Live Rooms in Chester on Friday 27 November, in Room L1. It's a night of NWOBHM — New Wave of British Heavy Metal — from a band that goes back to the very start of that scene.
They hail from Whitley Bay in the northeast and were one of the original bands signed to Neat Records. The first line-up put out four albums for MCA and produced songs that have outlived the band itself. From there, the members went their separate ways: Jess Cox left to run Neat Records, and John Sykes moved on to Thin Lizzy and later became a multi-million seller with Whitesnake. The group didn't survive the commercial peak of The Cage, and for a while, that was that.
Robb Weir, who led the band from the first album, eventually put together a new version to play the old material and write new songs. That core, with Craig Ellis on drums and Jack Meille on vocals, has now been together longer than the original line-up. More recently they've added bassist Huw Holding, a veteran of NWOBHM bands like Blitzkrieg, Avenger and Holosade, and guitarist John Foottit. Now on their own Mighty Music label, they've released three studio albums and one live record and continue to tour internationally.
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Doors open at 19:00 with a curfew of 23:00. Tickets are £18.50 for the 7:00pm show and £18.15 for the 7:30pm show, both including the booking fee. The night is for ages 14 and over.
