Reply to "RIP Meatloaf"

KinseyTougher Than The Rest

Not sure how well known this story is outside of Ireland, but Meatloaf toured some of the smallest venues in the country in 1989. The night he played in Moate is brilliantly told below. And I can't emphasis how small Moate is, how shit a town it would have been in 1980s Ireland, and how incongruous a rock superstar - however faded - playing there would be):

https://www.loudersound.com/fe...test-story-ever-told

1/31/223:25 PM

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