Saw Metallica at the 02 last night, had big smoke & a few drinks, and went off to the dome.
First off I have to say, seeing Metallica at the Milennium dome is a bit of an experience in itself & i'd recommend it highly.
Basically the actual arena (which is HUGE) is about a 3rd of the overall size of the thing. There was about a dozen huge bars, all blasting metallica (one had the s&m dvd playing on about 20 flatscreens, one had a metallica guitar hero competition onstage, etc), and everyone there was mad for it, the atmosphere was palpable.
The stage was in the centre of the crowd, like the black album tour, and lar's kit would rotate throughout the show. They had a HUGE lighting rig suspended above them like a giant industrial looking chandelier, with these 4 massive black coffins that rotated and fired lasers and stuff (I dropped some mdma during machinehead's support slot, so suffice to say I was pleased with all that)
So yeah, they hit the stage, and this isn't the right order, but they played
harvester of sorrow
one
and justice for all (whole thing, epic)
master of puppets
hit the lights
seek and destroy
that was just your life
end of the line
day that never comes
the outlaw torn (I know right?)
fight fire with fire (epic pyro, i was down the front, heat made me wince)
enter sandman
sad but true
nothing else matters
my apocalypse
broken, beat & scarred
The Judas Kiss
Overkill (motorhead cover)
Kirk riffed on Sails of Charon for a bit, which was cool.
Sound was superb, Hetfield's voice was actually excellent! he's dropped that yodelling danzig thing largely, and has his old growl back, which was excellent.
but possibly the highlight of the evening occurred thusly ;
So I was standing with my mate monkey by one of the exits, and we were talking to these kids who'd never seen Metallica before, when suddenly their faces drop & they point behind us...
It was bloody James Hetfield, just walking by with his personal ninja, loads of people ran up and were like "james sign this sign that, james lemme take a picture james james james", and he was like "havent got time to do everyone guys, sorry" and kept on walking, the mob dispersed.
Undeterred, me and monkey ran up to him at a speed that got his bodyguard pulling some sort of defence stance  James keeps walking, Monkey says "hey Jim, no cameras no bullshit, we just wanna shake your hand mate"
He stops dead, walks over to us, I was really fucked to be honest so I just remember us being like safe mate safe cheers for the music, come back anytime etc, shook his hand (really leathery), he said "cheers guys, thanks for comin out, see you again"
and he walked off into the sunset (or whatever) 
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But... *meh*tallica
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