The metal icons played Glasgow’s Hampden Park on Thursday (June 25) as part of their ongoing ‘M72 World Tour’, where guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo used their mid-set ‘Kirk and Rob Doodle’ section to pay tribute to two Scottish acts.
The pair first played Nazareth’s ‘Hair Of The Dog’, before leading the crowd through a rendition of The Proclaimers’ ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’.
Four days earlier, Hammett and Trujillo played Ewan MacColl’s ‘Dirty Old Town’ during the second of Metallica’s two shows at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on Sunday (June 21). Although the song was written by MacColl about Salford, it has long been associated with Irish music through versions by The Dubliners and The Pogues.