We arrived fashionably late for this show getting into the sold out garage at 8.30 which meant we missed all 3 of the support bands listed catching only about 20 seconds of the last one. I still remember the days when the first band wouldn't have gone on till 9pm which is when Reckless Love hit the stage on one of the last shows on the current sold out Blasts From The Past UK tour.
Yes it's the Blasts From The Past tour so did they only play songs from the 1970's or 80's, well no they seem to think that all the bands material released since 2010 is now to be considered as blasts from the past as in the new year they will be going into the studio to record the next album, so once I've got my head round the fact that we have speeded up enough that 4 years ago is now the ancient past how was this nostalgic performance then?
Well they opened with Night On Fire as they attempted to set the place on fire with really tight riffs and even tighter trousers and of course Olli Hermans grin and the place went totally nuts for the opening track of the really ancient Spirit album from 2013 that this tour is still promoting.
Still Pepe's guitar blisters into So Happy I Could Die and almost everyone seems to be singing along as they do all night long. Old single On The Radio is met by huge cheers and it seems they can do no wrong. Badass seems to be for all the girls that were drooling at Jalle and Pepe, oh Okay they were all drooling over Olli I give in the upbeat happy love metal is getting to me.
Dance was introduced as being different but in effect it is just a slightly funkier good times metal song than normal and that's just fine. It's followed by the totally un-ironic I Love Heavy Metal that is just about as cheesy as you could ever wish a metal tune to be, no they don't love Goregrind or Bolthrower or even Dragonforce this is all about the cheesy end of metal the Bon Jovi, Poison Motley Crue end of things.
Still most of the audience are dancing and singing to Back To Paradise and Hessu's drumming is as solid on this as the rest of the show. Sex is certainly on the minds of a large part of the audience as Olli twists and turns while singing about well Sex. I'm sure for a lot of the girls in the crowd it is in the centre rather than on the Edge of Our Dreams, But Olli is humble enough to thank us all profusely for helping to make the bands dreams come true to sell out venues like this one that they used to be an opening act at.
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Wild Touch has one of Pepe's longer solo's and as ever there is something familiar and comforting in the very mainstream nature of his riffs and playing as Olli ramps up his smoldering to prove he was Born To Break Your Heart a song that was greeted with screams as well as cheers and the crowds cheers had been getting louder all night long. They then closed the set with Beautiful Bomb that went down a storm and the left the stage to deafening cheers and applause.
They were soon back for the encore that opened with a sing along to Animal Attraction and Olli doing his best to get us all cheering like crazy and well it was very loud and Romance was just a big love in before they thanked us all some more and gave in to give us what for me is the bands biggest tune Hot that made everyone Hot Hot hotter than Hell oh yes the crowd was almost as loud as the band by this point after loads more cheering and a couple of bows from the band they gave in and sang us one more song to make sure everyone left happy and they finished with One More Time that really went down very well and they took some more bows before leaving the stage certain that everyone had a good time and were happy to be partying with them even though it was a Thursday night and kind of late well it was 10.30 by now and no doubt they will be back late next year with a new album selling out bigger venues than this.
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