Thursday 10th June

Treat - Dio Stage (4/5)

In a day and age when every melodic hard rock band and their mother decides to reunite, some reunions are called for and some should just have been left alone. In fact, some bands should never have started to begin with. In the mid eighties, Treat were Sweden’s top act, besides Europe when it came to melodic rock. But when all attempts to break big outside Sweden failed and then grunge decided to almost kill every band with a melody, they split up.

But thankfully they decided to reunite. Because a quick listen back, their songs really stand the test of time and with a killer new album, Coup De Grace, proves that this band is too good to remain buried. And all of us who have seen them live knows that as a live act they’re even better. And this SRF gig is no exeption to that rule.

In Jamie Borger and Nalley Påhlson they have one of the tightest rhythm-sections I have ever heard and Anders Wikström must be one the most underrated guitar players ever. Why he never earned a guitar hero status is beyond me. But the biggest surprise is singer Robert Ernlund, at 52 he sings his ass off and is far better than he was in his heyday. The fact is, the Treat of 2010 is a much heavier unit than in the 80’s.



Kicking off with “The War Is Over” followed by “All In” from their latest CD they set the standards for the day. Hard, rocking and kicking ass but with crowd pleasing melodies, this just couldn’t go wrong!

And they weren’t short of old classics either. “Ready For The Taking”, “Get You On The Run”, “World Of Promises” and “Rev It Up” shows that those songs are just as strong as back in the day. If not stronger. And “Papertiger”, “Roar” and the fantastic encore of “Skies Of Mongolia” tells me that the boys has a bunch of classics to be.

A great gig by a great band. Not to be missed in the future by any rock fan.


Check Treat out:
http://www.myspace.com/thebandtreat


Review : Jon Wilmenius

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