Friday 11th June

Steel Panther - Sweden Stage (4/5)

Humour..... If you don’t have any of that, then there’s no point giving these guys a shot, and you need that humour to be very below the belt.

According to the huge crowd that visited Sweden Stage there were a whole lot of people with that kind of humour. It was easily the most mixed crowd I had ever seen at a concert in my life. Everything from glam rockers with spikey hair, make up and spandex, through usual hardrockers to goth rockers and black metal people dressed in black with spikes and chains. And they were all laughing. Steel Panther was the perfect thing to liven up a grey and somewhat rainy day.

With their braindead sense of humour, catchy 80’s style popmetal and loving every minute of it – stage act, they gave the crowd 90 minutes of pure fun.

For Steel Panther is more than just a rock concert. It’s equal stand up comedy. Their in between songs rap are just as important as the songs itself. Because these guys, even though loving it to the core, they are taking the piss out of a the whole hair metal thing, all the way through the makeup, wigs, spandex and shitloads of backingtracks. Musically, the guys have a whole bunch of really good songs, that they had ripped off from bands such as Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen, they are great performers and fantastic musicians and despite the backingtracks, this is very much live. Not playback, as some people will suggest.

And the word after the fest was over, a lot of people rated Steel Panther as one of the best gigs att the whole festival. And I really can’t disagree. This was fun, as in F-U-N. And I would love to see them again. Weak hearted and frigid people should not bother, though. Because the jokes are all about sex, drugs, alchohol, weird sex and more sex.

Did I say we had fun?


Check them out :
www.steelpantherrocks.com

Review : Jon Wilmenius

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