Cheap Trick At Budokan – Encore Performance Presented by The Riff Raiders

On 9 April 2016 Cheap Trick were inducted in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. To celebrate this achievement the Flying Saucer Club is paying homage to this ground breaking rock n roll band with a special live performance of the album that started it all for them – AT BUDOKAN. Following their recent sell-out show at the Cherry Bar in April, Melbourne rock powerhouse The Riff Raiders have agreed to a special encore performance of the AT BUDOKAN album. The Raiders smash out this set with the fun, passion, skill and respect those songs deserve plus some extra Cheap Trick songs from that era (California Man, Southern Girls).

This will be followed by a second set where Riff Raiders will take on other hall of famers, including Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Queen in the Raiders style, choosing not the bleeding obvious songs, but the other killer songs from these seminal hard rock acts.
Recorded live in Tokyo in April 1978, originally only for Japanese audiences, AT BUDOKAN launched Cheap Trick to the world, going triple platinum in the US alone, and giving us roaring guitar versions of ‘I Want You to Want Me’ and ‘Surrender’.