It's an interesting reminder that Axl can stretch into the traditionally-female vocal range; many of the best performances of GN'R songs have been by singers like Fergie, Nicole Scherzinger, Carrie Underwood etc, because they can actually hit the notes, where performers like Scott Weiland had to stick to the baritone songs like Brownstone and It's So Easy (and fudge the outro to the latter with the megaphone).

Stefani Germanotta literally started her career as a songwriter for pop acts before she came up with the Lady Gaga persona. A casual glance at the ASCAP registry shows dozens of songwriting credits under her name.

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-n … ry-267810/

The whole "Metallica shouldn't play with Lady Gaga" nonsense is tiresome playground shit. Like 15-year-old metalhead kids lurking in the corner of the cafeteria sneering at the popular girls. Grow the fuck up.

She's a rock/metal fan, she's got a ridiculous set of pipes, why shouldn't she sing with them?

It's a show by another artist where he's turning up to perform a duet. That's an even more casual audience than the ones who come to a NITL show to hear SCOM and go "They're playing our song!"

He's not going to sing Breakdown or My World or Scraped or whatever.

Annoyingly they're playing at the same time as Lana Del Rey, who I've been wanting to see live for ages. Still though, I'm not a fan of festivals so I'll probably pass on this one, since I'm seeing GN'R like three days later in London.