1987.08.14 - Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax, Canada

by **Soulmonster** Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:40 pm

Date:
August 14, 1987.

Venue:
Halifax Metro Centre.

Location:
Halifax, Canada.

Setlist:
XX. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
(Unknown setlist)

Line-up:
Axl Rose (vocals), Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitarist), Slash (lead guitarist), Duff McKagan (bass) and Steven Adler (drums).

Notes:
The first show of the tour with GN'R opening for The Cult.

Quotes from the band members:

I like touring with [the current] guys a lot more than the old band. The beginning was fun but it started going bad our first gig opening for the Cult in Halifax between Slash and I. That’s when the ok I put up with all Axl’s and Izzy’s crap now I’m gonna be the man trip started with him runnin’ right out front on the ego ramp for the whole show. It was pretty funny. :rolleyes:

Axl's chat with the fans, mygnrforum, December 14, 2008

Guns N' Roses started the Cult tour in Halifax on August 14, with shows almost every night for a little over a month. Halifax is in Nova Scotia, in the easternmost corner of Canada. Despite everything else, it was an exciting prospect [...]. Hitting the stage that night was extra special. It did not matter in the slightest that there were maybe fifty people in the audience when we took the stage. One thing I hadn't reckoned on were the barricades between the stage and the audience, leaving a ton of space where the building's security personnel could gather and show their force. Because of that gap, the stage lights did not illuminate the few people in attendance. And all of those lights were blinding. The overall effect was to make us feel like we were playing to this big yawning void

Duff's autobiography, "It's So Easy", 2011, p. 126-127

It depended [on the state it the album was banned], but you could definitely tell where [it was banned]. Like Nova Scotia.

Music Connection, November 30-December 13, 1987

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by Shackler Mon Jul 12, 2021 2:18 pm

According to this Cult fansite, they played the Halifax Metro Centre.

by **Soulmonster** Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:57 am

Duff would mention that their tour bus driver got robbed by prostitutes in Halifax:

[...] the first night we were in Halifax our bus driver got rolled for his float by a hooker.

Talk Is Jericho, September 6, 2017

by **Soulmonster** Thu Oct 03, 2024 6:46 am

Appetite for Destruction was banned in parts of Canada, and Duff would later claim this had been the case in Nova Scotia:

It depended [on the state it the album was banned], but you could definitely tell where [it was banned]. Like Nova Scotia.

Music Connection, November 30-December 13, 1987

This indicates that the audience in Halifax did not know their music or that few showed up.

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