Rock'n'reel as Irish Zep fans make do with film show

About 200 Irish fans will be able to see Led Zeppelin on Monday night, as the legendary hard rock band performs together for …

About 200 Irish fans will be able to see Led Zeppelin on Monday night, as the legendary hard rock band performs together for the first time in almost two decades.

There's just one catch: the "live performance" at the Liffey Valley shopping centre in west Dublin was recorded in the 1970s. The screening of Zeppelin footage coincides with the band's charity concert at London's 02 Arena and similar screenings of old band footage across Britain.

The film will feature footage from the Royal Albert Hall in January 1970, Earl's Court in May 1975 and the Knebworth Festival in August 1979.

A Vue spokesman said that there were still plenty of €9.95 tickets available for the Dublin "gig", unlike in London, where tens of millions of fans entered a lottery to win one of the 20,000 tickets. One fan paid £83,000.

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The band (singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bass player John Paul Jones) have played only a handful of times together since drummer John Bonham died in 1980.

Performances since then have been only a few songs long, but Page has said that Monday's concert should last almost two hours. It was postponed from last month after Page (63) broke a finger. The performance is in aid of a charity founded by Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, who signed the band in 1968 and died last year. There are some suggestions the band could reunite for a tour, although singer Plant has been decidedly cool on the prospect. Guitarist Page hasn't ruled it out.