“Manchester, England come on let’s see you dance,” growls Billy Idol across the sea of arms waving up at him at the AO Arena. The 80s icon is here to rock and he ain’t messing - blasting open his set with Generation X smasher Dancing With Myself to ensure the crowd are as fired up as he is.
Billy, with his trademark white blonde spikes, punk snarl and leather-clad form, is about as iconically 80s as you get, sitting alongside the likes of Madonna, Michael Jackson and Prince as trailblazers of the decade.
Now he's back, somewhat bruised and battered by the events of the past three years of pandemic like the rest of us, but back he is. Here with his Roadside tour which kicks off in Manchester ahead of a string of dates across the UK.
