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RELEASE         : Piledriver.Live.In.Europe.The.Rockwall.Tour.The.Netherlands.2020.720p.MBluRay.x264-TREBLE

DATE            : 2023/07/12

RUNTIME         : 0h54m

AUDIO           : [FLAC | 2.0] [1.038Kbps]
VIDEO           : [1280 x 538]
SUBS            : [n/a]

CRF             : 18
BITRATE         :  5.393 Kb/s
SOURCE          : 25.010 Kb/s

GENRE           : Rock
IMDB            : n/a
RATING          : n/a

COMMENT         : Shortly after the release of their fourth studio album  Rockwall  at the end
of 2018, Piledriver started their European tour of the same name in January 2019,
which ended about 12 months later with the show at the Arrow Rock Festival in the
IJsselhallen in Zwolle (NL), because a few days later, Covid reached Europe. As a
result, all planned concerts had to be postponed indefinitely, and the increasingly
dramatic course of the pandemic, with no realistic prospect of being able to play live
again in the foreseeable future, suggested that Piledriver had already played their last
gig after more than 25 years of band history and would probably never set foot on the
stage again. This fear became bitter reality in August 2020: keyboarder Rudi Peeters
died tragically and far too early at the age of 42. Due to this stroke of fate and the
travel restrictions caused by the pandemic, the show on January 25th, 2020 in Zwolle was
not only the final concert they played together, but also the last personal meeting with
Rudi before his death. The end of Piledriver seemed to be sealed.

During the Rockwall tour between March 2019 and January 2020, three concerts in three
European countries were filmed for a possible later release: a show in Herne (Germany)
supporting Ian Paice featuring Purpendicular, a concert in Minehead (UK) at the Status Quo
Fan Convention and finally the concert at the Arrow Rock Festival in Zwolle (Netherlands).
Over two years since the last show, the band reunited to sift through more than three hours
of footage   and were keenly aware of the fact that these recordings were the last of the
band s longtime line-up. They quickly realized that these three shows represent a contemporary
document that could not have better captured the band and all its facets. Hence it was decided
to not only finalize the concerts for a release, but to bring Piledriver back on stage, too.

Demonstrating their musical and playing skills, Piledriver impressively illustrate why the
band has become a fixture in the European classic rock festival scene. Enthusiastically and
to the point, the band presents their own extensive repertoire of the previous four studio
albums as well as numerous Status Quo classics with their rousing stage show.

01. Caroline
02. Roll Over Lay Down
03. Hold You Back
04. Backwater
05. Hold You Back
06. Rain
07. Don t Waste My Time
08. Whatever You Want
09. Rockin  All Over The World
10. Down Down
11. Bye-Bye, Johnny