Thursday 10th June
Pretty Maids - Festival Stage (4/5)
This review should have been about RATT if they hadn’t cancelled in the eleventh hour due to Stephen Pearcy’s illness that required immediate surgery. A shame really, because Ratt has a new, great album out, Infestation and I had looked forward to see them....
Instead, Pretty Maids was called in in a hurry. Which made up for the loss of Ratt big time for me. The Maids is one of my favourite bands and the last time I saw them was on a extremely sunny day at SRF back in 2008 where they did a great gig. So my expectations were pretty high, especially since their new album, Pandemoniums their best since Spooked in 1997. Not that they have made a bad album ever.
This time the sun were nowhere to be seen, but with new bass player Hal Patino, the guys are now a tighter unit than before so the clouds and rain, that ironically started during their new single “Little Drops Of Heaven”, didn’t bother much, much to the fact that it didn’t rain that hard anyway.
Pretty Maids have since they started back in 1983 made no less than 12 albums, so they have a lot of great songs to choose from. Their old classics like “Future World”, “Back To Back” and “Love Games” drew the biggest applaudes, but newer stuff like opener “Pandemonium”, sing alongs “Walk Away” and “Please Don’t Leave Me” and “Wake Up To The Real World” went down surprisingly well and that shows that the Danish guys have a pretty big following here in Sweden.
Well, after all, we are neighbours…
Check out Pretty Maids :
www.prettymaids.dk
Review : Jon Wilmenius
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