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WHEREVER he may roam, someone will snap a shot of Metallica’s 62-year-old frontman James Hetfield.
And when ‘Jamez” boarded the Rottnest Island Ferry for a spot of quokka-watching ahead of the Bay Area legends’ opening Australian show this weekend, it was a case of “enter sandgroper” with a phone camera.
A fellow passenger snapped Hetfield, resplendent in a Back To The Beginning concert hoody, aviators and baseball cap finding a seat with partner Adriana Gillett just out of shot.
Gone are the days when the Bay Area champions would pack into a van and play a different city every night so it makes sense that Hetfield, guitarist Kirk Hammett, drummer Lars Ulrich and bassist Robert Trujillo would fly into the western world’s most isolated city a few days in advance to shrug off the jetlag.
The entire country is excited about the run, although parody news sites are having a field day suggesting the thrash pioneers are only here to conduct citizens arrests on people who downloaded their music on Napster in the eighties.
A pop-up store for tour merch has just opened in the Perth CBD. Supports for the tour, which moves to Adelaide on Wednesday, comes from Evanescence and Suicidal Tendancies.
A new addition to their setlist is understood to be a song called “Of Wolf And Quokka”.
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