Whitesnake performed the primary date of David Coverdale’s farewell tour final evening with a efficiency on the 3 Area in Dublin.
The band’s present lineup options founder and singer Coverdale, drummer Tommy Aldridge, guitarists Reb Seashore and Joel Hoekstra, keyboardist Michele Luppi, multi-instrumentalist Dino Jelusick and bassist Tanya O’Callaghan. It was the primary Whitesnake present for O’Callaghan, who joined the band in 2021, turning into the primary feminine member within the group’s historical past.
The band opened its set with “Dangerous Boys/Kids of the Night time,” a observe combining two songs from 1987’s self-titled album. From there, Whitesnake rolled into the title observe from 1984’s Slide It In, adopted by the ability ballad “Love Ain’t No Stranger.”
Different set highlights included such hits as “Is This Love,” “Nonetheless of the Night time” and “Right here I Go Once more.”
“Thanks, Dublin! You introduced tears to an previous snake’s eyes,” Coverdale wrote on Twitter following the present. “Blessings on you and yours for an unforgettable night within the firm of mates. … The Irish Whitesnake choir was in distinctive kind.”
Movies from the efficiency, together with the total set listing, could be discovered under.
Coverdale introduced he’d be embarking on a ultimate Whitesnake trek in October.
“Make no mistake, that is the farewell tour,” the singer insisted. “I am 70. It is a very bodily difficult factor for me to do at the most effective of occasions. But it surely’s essential for me to attain completion and to specific my appreciation and gratitude to all of the individuals … who’ve supported me for 5 many years, 50 years. It blows my thoughts – it actually does.”
He was additionally clear to notice that Whitesnake would proceed.
“It is me, simply David Coverdale, who’s retiring from touring at that degree. Whitesnake will nonetheless make tasks,” he declared. “The music of Whitesnake will proceed.”
Watch Whitesnake Carry out ‘Idiot For Your Loving’
Watch Whitesnake Carry out ‘Take Me With You’
Watch Whitesnake Carry out ‘Crying within the Rain’
Watch Whitesnake Carry out ‘Is This Love’
Watch Whitesnake Carry out ‘Right here I Go Once more’
Whitesnake, 3 Area, Dublin, 5/10/22
1. “Dangerous Boys / Kids of the Night time”
2. “Slide It In”
3. “Love Ain’t No Stranger”
4. “Hey You (You Make Me Rock)”
5. “Gradual an’ Simple”
6. “Ain’t No Love within the Coronary heart of the Metropolis”
7. “Idiot for Your Loving”
8. “Bother Is Your Center Identify”
9. “Crying within the Rain”
10. “Is This Love”
11. “Give Me All Your Love”
12. “Right here I Go Once more”
13. “Nonetheless of the Night time”
14. “Take Me With You”
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