HELLOWEEN / HAMMERFALL - UNITED FORCES IN BIG APPLE

Have seen both, numerous times, on some of the biggest festival stages (as well as headlining solo artists) but there's something special about the current touring package. In large part, that's down to the way Helloween have sown seven divergent cloth samples into a stunningly coherent piece of high fashion. Both acts joke around and have fun with one another onstage, which (sadly) is a bit of a forgotten art.