Live reviews from Skogsröjet 2015

Thomas Silver

First live act for me at Skogsröjet was Thomas Silver. He is the former guitar player off Hardcore Superstar (HCSS) 1997-2008. It was after he had left the band that HCSS took in guitarist Vic Zino (former Crazy Lixx) who later decided to stay with the band. 

With that said, I had been looking forward to this gig since I found out that he was going to play at Skogsröjet.

He played songs from his solo-album that is coming out very soon and will have 11 tracks on it, including the last song that he played at Skogsröjet, which will be the first single and is called “Bury the past”  and it will also be a video to that song. Not much info available about this album yet.

He played with the guys from a band called the Terrorhawks from      
New Zealand / Gothenburg. 

The Terrorhawks played at Skogsröjet the day after Silvers gig, Saturday, August 1. 

The music sounded well live and so did his singing. It’s a heavier and a bit more serious rock sound in his music than say, HCSS. Though there was a few moments when the guys on stage didn’t seem to quite know what or how they should play, but there are also moments when they get it right. That’s when it sounds so good.

Silver also played Hardcore Superstars song “Liberation” with a little bit of “Wild Boys” also an HCSS song, and had the crowd sing along. 

Silver needs to play a bit more live to get the habit of being in the front of the stage, singing and talking to the audience. He was sort of excusing his own presences as a soloartist. Something he really shouldn’t be doing. Give it maybe a year of gigs and this will be really good and for being one of the first gigs that he plays solo, it’s not bad at all. 

Best moment of the show: “Bury the past”, the last song and his versions of HCSS songs.

Highly notable: Thomas Silver is serious about his music and he is a talented guitar player. This gig got me curious about his solo album and I'm looking forward to the video to "Bury the past". 

If this got you curious about Thomas Silver check out his Facebook page.

☠☠☠/ 5

Electric boys

Is a Swedish band from Stockholm that was formed in the late 80’s by the singer Conny Bloom with the bass player Andy Christell. They played late 80’s – early 90’s.

Their song “All Lips n’ Hips” became a huge hit and after it’s release the band completed the line-up with Franco Santunione on guitar and Niclas Sigevall on the drums (Niclas did not play at Skogsröjet, Jolle Atlagic replaced him on drums. Jolle is from The Quill and ex-Hanoi Rocks) and they started to work on their first album “Funk o Metal Carpet Ride” 1989. 

The band made big success and toured in both Europe and America.

They released their second album “Groovus Maximus” in 1992 followed by more touring which led to 50% of the band members leaving the band. The guitarist “Slim” Martin Thomander and drummer Thomas Broman entered Electric boys and they started working on some heavier music. 

In 1994 they released their third album “Free wheelin?” but their following tour in Europe got cancelled and Conny and Andy decided to end the band Electric Boys after a final gig in Stockholm.

Conny Bloom went solo and later joined Ginger (former Wildheart) in Silver Ginger 5. 

Conny and Andy later joined the Finnish rockers, Hanoi Rocks in 2005 and toured with them in Japan and Europe for 4 ½ years. Hanoi Rocks did their last gigs in April 2009. It was after this that Conny and Andy rejoined with Niclas Sigevall and Franco Santunione and Electric Boys played at Sweden Rock Festival 2014. Their new album “And them boys done swang” was recorded and released after some touring in April 2011.

Electric Boys are currently touring with their latest album “Starflight united”, in April 2014. The song "Desire" is great!

Their gig at Skogsröjet was a nice surprise. 

They are experienced and know their crowd, have humor when they play and their music is great live and they like to play. 

It shows that they enjoy what they are doing, and could take the misfortune when the power went out as they played and Conny continued to sing the whole song without power. Although some people in the crowd got annoyed, apparently Skogsröjet had the same problem last year. Electric Boys where appreciated by the audience; everybody sang along and danced to their music the whole gig thru. 

Highly notable: That the guys in the band played evenly thru the whole gig, no one in the band got annoyed when the power went out. They really delivered.

Check out their website http://www.electricboys.com or follow them on twitter @TheElectricBoys or follow Conny Bloom on twitter @ConnyBloom2015. 

☠☠☠☠/ 5 

Electric Boys at signing. 

H.E.A.T

H.E.A.T is a band from Upplands Väsby, Sweden that where formed in 2007 when the two bands "Dream" and "Trading Fate" got together.

I really like Heats music and some of my favorite songs are “It’s all about tonight”, “Breaking the Silence” and “Living on the run”all from the album "Address the Nation". If you listen to their records “Address the nation” and “Tearing down the walls” you can find more good songs. I had really been looking forward to see them perform these songs live and to see them live. 

All of the live reviews about Heat that I’ve read say that they are great live and that Erik Grönwall, the singer has a great voice and lots of energy on stage. They have toured for years and played a lot of shows. I did not think I’d get disappointed.

So why did I get so disappointed with this gig? Maybe it’s because Erik seems to think it’s more fun to spit on the stage as well as himself and to rub it in his own face and hair, than focus on singing? (Disgusting!) Or is it because he thinks it’s more fun to yell out that he’s drunk? Or hand out whisky to the audience and create chaos among alcohol thirsty idiots? 

Maybe he caught the highly contagious L.S.D, “Lead singer disease” because he doesn’t seems to be aware that he sings in a band, he never “leads” the band, he never really talks to the crowd or involves the crowd or take control over the gig and never shares the spotlight with any of the other guys on stage apart from when everyone leaves the stage for a drum solo. But that’s about it. Maybe they enjoy what they are doing, but I don’t enjoy watching this gig.

Erik just jumps around in weird moves, shakes his head constantly and makes (scary) weird faces to the crowd. One minute his off the stage and in the crowd and everything he does it’s a bad version of all the rock clichés ever been done. 

I really hope that this was just a one-time bad event and that next time I see Heat they will be much better live, because I still like their music. 

Best moment of the show: “Tearing down the walls” it’s the only time Erik focus on singing and stands still with a guitar and for a moment they are actually a band. This is the Heat I came to see and the Heat they should be. It's wonderful and Erik proves that he actually can sing. 

“Living on the run” could have been nicely done live, but Erik jumps down into the crowd and takes the focus off the song, again, even if he sings the words, it doesn’t quite cut it for me.

Highly notable: Bands should not hand out alcohol to the crowd. At festivals many people are already drunk and do not need more alcohol and some people can be underage. People in the front of the stage gets squeezed when people in the back rushes to get a free drink. Do these guys think about this? No, but they should! This goes for all the bands that ever handed out alcohol to the crowd. It’s not Rock n’ Roll, it’s only stupid!

You can go their website www.heatsweden.com for more info.

☠/ 5 

Hardcore Superstar

Hardcore Superstar did as usual a great gig. They have a great connection with their fans, though some people in the crowd got a bit out of hand, especially when they picked out people to get up on the stage and have a drink with them in the song "Last call for Alcohol". I still don’t think bands should hand out drinks at gigs. But I can understand how it fits into their song and at least the people that drink here are on the stage. (Still not okay.)

They are still one of Sweden’s best live bands and are a bit everywhere on stage without having it be too much; the band shares the stage well. They also played “Liberation” like Thomas Silver did and said that a guy played the same song a bit earlier on the same stage, referring to him. I think both versions of the song sounded good at both times. 

I think they could have played more songs from their latest album “HCSS” but maybe they’ll play the new songs when they go on tour, whit start from October this year with Michael Monroe and his band. Stay tuned for more info about their tour! 

Best moment of the show: “Touch the Sky” and “Don’t mean shit” both from their latest album “HCSS” performed with lots of energy and singing from the crowd. 

Check out their website www.hardcoresuperstar.com or follow them on twitter @HCSSOfficial for more HCSS news!   

☠☠☠☠ / 5

Skid Row 

I think most people know who Skid Row is. But for those who don’t know, Skid Row is a band from New Jersey, USA that where formed in the late 80’s by Rachel Bolan, bass player and the guitarist Dave Sabo. Among their hits are songs like “Youth Gone Wild”, “I Remember You” and two of my personal favorite Skid Row songs “18 and Life” and “Wasted Time”.

Since the band started they have had a few ups and downs and changed a lot of their members. In 1991 they toured with Guns n’ Roses in Europe and USA on their “Use Your Illusion tour” at the same time Skid Row released their second album “Slave to the Grind”. This was after they had toured with the first album “Skid Row” in USA, Japan and Canada 1989. It’s also from the same album that the hits “Youth Gone Wild,” “I Remember You” and “18 and Life” are from. After massive touring the guys in Skid Row needed a break and it took three years until a new album was released, in 1995 “Subhuman Race” came out. 

In 1997 Skid Row and Sebastian Bach, the lead singer, went on separate paths, the band had tired of his somewhat “negative” ways and Skid Row got quiet for two more years. 

1999 Skid Row had found a new singer named Johnny Solinger. The band had also been forced to find a new drummer after Rob Affuso left the band do to other projects and Charlie Mills took over the drums. He was soon replaced by Phil Varone. 

Skid Row continued touring and “Thickskin” was released in 2003 followed by yet another drummer, named Dave Gara and in 2006 the album “Revolutions per Minute” came out. Dave Gara was later replaced by Rob Hammersmith, 2010. 

In 2015 Skid Row and Johnny Solinger, the singer went separate ways after 14 years together. Tony Harnell took his place as the new Skid Row singer, he is known from the band TNT from Norway. Skid Row will soon hit the studio again to record the last album of the “United World Rebellion” trilogy, followed by another world tour .Their latest album “Rise of the Damnation army- United World Rebellion Chapter Two” was released in 2014.

After all this background I was a bit hesitant for what I was about to see when Skid Row entered the Tube Stage at Skogsröjet. From the very first moment they came out on the stage they had a grip around the crowd that didn’t when loose until the guys had left the stage. Tony Harnell has a great voice and it doesn’t feel like he’s new in the band at all, he more is Skid Row. All the guys in the band work well together and have a nice chemistry between them. Tony is calm and sings Skid Rows songs secure and with confidence. Their music doesn’t feel old though their music is well-known to a lot of people and most of their songs have been played since the late 80’s. The crowd still loves it and sings along from the first to the last note. It’s a nice concert with a great band that is perfect for Skogsröjets crowd.  

Best moment of the show: Tony starts to speak to the crowd and asks if we remember when we were young and bought our first records then he brings us down the memory lane of those special moments, and then they started to play “Youth gone Wild”. It seems that this was the first record to a lot of people in the crowd. Great moment! 

Highly notable: At the gig Skid Row thanked the crowd and the people that made it possible for them to still have their music as a living. 

☠☠☠☠/ 5 

Something to check out: Skid Row has re-recorded “18 and Life” with Tony Harnell and you can download it for free at www.skidrow.com. Don’t wait, you won’t get disappointed! They also got twitter, so go and check that out @OfficialSkidRow!

Europe 

It was a nice surprise that one of Skogsröjets biggest acts started of with “War of Kings” which is a great song from their latest album, with the same title, instead of an oldie. 

This pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the concert being a perfect mix of old and new from Europe. 

Europe puts on a really great show and the whole band works as a unit and they are performing their songs with a great amount off joy. It’s the same amount of energy on stage when they play their old hits like “Rock the night” and “Carrie” as when they play more modern stuff like “Last look at Eden”. 

Joey Tempest joke around with the crowd and the whole band are alive. Joey is calm, knows what he is doing, has a great stage experience and clearly the band loves the music that they are playing. Together with the band he owned the stage. This is midnight
in the middle of the forest with only ten degrees (Yea, this is how cold it can be in Sweden at the end of July…) and John Norum is slightly bothered by a bat during the show but still they perform as if nothing had happened.  

Europe has mastered the three C’s, cool, calm and collected.  

This was a great show and  if you get the chance, go and see them! Among other gigs they will play at Gröna Lund in Stockholm September 25. 

Best moment of the show: “Last look at Eden” and “The final Countdown” because it’s such a familiar song for so many.  

Highly notable: voices around in the crowd seemed to be a bit surprised by how great show this was and how good Joeys voice still is. The only down side is that it is a bit too late because it´s so cold.

Check out Europe’s latest album “War of Kings” 2015 or “Bag of Bones” 2012 or “Last look at Eden” 2009. 

“Last look at Eden” is one of my favorite Europe songs along with “Rock the night”. You can follow them on twitter @europetheband or go to their website www.europetheband.com

☠☠☠☠☠ / 5 

Setlist:

War of kings

Hole in my pocket

Superstitious

Scream of anger

Last look at Eden 

Carrie

Firebox

Sign of the times

Nothin’ to Ya 

Ready or not

Guitar solo

Girl from Lebanon 

Let the good times Rock

Rock the night

Days of Rock n’ Roll

The Final Countdown

Extra pictures from Sweden Rock Festival

Some random pictures from Sweden Rock

Here is one more picture from Michael Monroe and his band.

Airbourne, a rockband from Australia, did a great and wild gig!

   For all the Slash fans out there!

    

    A gigantic rockfest! The crowd that saw Slash & Co.

Former Kiss guitarist, Ace Frehley!

For all the Crueheads out there!

Nikki Sixx, last Mötley Crüe gig ever at Sweden Rock Festival!

Respect to Mick Mars, the coolest guitar player ever!

    

Rock ON guys!

Dokken

The 80 rockers Dokken did a nice gig in the afternoon sunshine.

Def Leppard

 Def Leppard's guitar players Vivian Campbell and Phil Collen in action at Sweden Rock.

Hardcore Superstar one of the best Swedish live bands!

Martin Sandvik the bass player, always smiling.

Vic Zino the guitarist playing some HCSS riffs. 

Jocke Berg lead singer, didn't want to get of the stage.

 Inside the festival area overlooking the (Festival Stage) main stage.

Well, that was a few random pictures from Sweden Rock Festival 2015, hope you enjoyed it!

A hint from my iPod!

Right now I can’t stop listening to Gerard Ways solo album “Hesitant Alien”

He was the lead singer in the New Jersey based, modern punk band My Chemical Romance who sold gold and platina with albums like ”The Black Parade” and ”Danger Days”. They reached a massive crowd with their music, that still believes that My Chemical Romance lives on even after the band ended in 2013. When the band had ended Gerard started to work on his soloalbum and it was released in september 2014, followed by a tour that reached Stockholm, Sweden in February of 2015. 

A few of my favorite songs from his album right now is “No Shows”, “Millions” and “Brother”. But you can just play the whole album from the beginning to the end and just listen. Again and again!

It’s great to have it playing in the background.

The sound on “Hesitant Alien” is compared to the band My Chemical Romance records, much more mature. Gerard's voice sounds different, but not in a bad way.

It has gotten many fine reviews over the world and the fans seems to love and support Gerard whether he’s in My Chemical Romance or solo. If you are into the modern kind of punk tones like Green Days latest trilogy, “Uno!”, “Dos!”, “Trees!” or if you like All Time Low, The Used etc. you will enjoy this album.

This album has a sort of brit-punk vibes with a hint from My Chemical Romance last album “Danger Days”. You can check out the videos to the songs “No Shows” and “Millions” on YouTube.

Check out this Fresh Noize!

Adastra from Finland

Adastra is a heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland. Influenced by Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio and many others. I’d say their music sounds a bit like Iron Maiden but with faster and lighter riffs and it has touch of Dio, that was what I heard when I first listen to them. 

The name Ad astra is a latin phrase meaning ”to the stars” and thats what these guys are aiming for. 

They have released four albums, the latest of them ”Deadlock” came out in 2015. Prior to that is ”The Last Sunset” out in 2007, ”Death or Domination” out 2008 and ”Corroder of Minds”  that came out in 2012.

My favorite Adastra songs to check out would be: ”Corroder of minds” from the album with the same title, ”Only live at night” and ”Bring me back on track” both from their latest album ”Deadlock”.

By the way, if you get this album as a cd you’ll also get the bonus track ”Nuns have no fun” and also because cd’s are more fun than just download. 

Get more information about the band on their own page: www.adastracave.net, where you also can buy their music and read their Studio blog and get to know these guys. 

You can also follow them on twitter  @adastra_finland or head over to their Facebook page!

Band members:

Ville Siikamäki - Vocals

Olli Anttila - Guitar

Teemu Kurki - Guitar

Santeri Vauramo - Bass

Jussi Ruokolainen - Drums

Alice Cooper at Gröna Lund Stockholm, July 3

Alice Cooper

This live review might be a little bit different from my other reviews since I don’t want to spoil the show for someone that are going to see him for the first time. There for I won’t be going into exact detail about this show, you need to see it in order to believe it…

Alice Cooper doesn’t need a presentation, first time he stood at Gröna Lunds stage was 1975 and he’s in my meaning one of all modern rock music grandfathers. 

After three hours of waiting in front of the stage to get a good spot, Alice Cooper suddenly sneaks out quietly on to the stage without making a “grand entrance” and sang “Hello, Hooray” completed with some special effects and the show was on. 

He had a commanding presence and he really took control of the audience thru out the entire show. He made sure that everyone looked at him and he looked at everyone in the crowd and made us feel that he could see everything that we did and if you did anything stupid he would come down and bite your face off… 

Anything could happen at any time and I overheard somebody in the audience say:” I’ am scared to look away because I might miss something!” That was true, no matter where you looked on stage something was happening and it was sorted out evenly so everyone could see and take nice pictures.  

Every song that they played sounded good and the crowd knew each and every one of them. However, I wondered a bit why he had to mix up his songs with a few covers?

The covers sounded well, but it had been more interesting if he’d played some more of his own songs that so many people love. The band works well together and is making a nice job to back up Alice and the whole show. 

*****/ 5

Best moment of the show:

Some of his immortal hits like “He’s back”, “Poison” and “Schools Out”. 

Highly notable:

When the show had ended several people stayed around and a few more people made their way up to the stage for a chance to get a souvenir. The stage worker made sure that 2 picks and 2 set lists, one that he ripped into half, was given out evenly and pointed out who was getting what. This is often missed at shows and the same person can get several things and many goes home without anything. Come on people be fair to one and other!

Hollywood Undead

Hollywood Undead 

Hollywood Undead at Gröna Lund in Stockholm. 

The song “Usual suspects” from their latest album “Day of the Dead” opened their gig and out came six masked guys who rocked the crowd. It was from there on an intense music party. It’s quite impressing that six guys can share the smallest stage at Gröna Lund and still puts on a badass performance. 

Hollywood Undead are loved by their fans, they didn’t play one bad song. Whether you’re a fan or not, this is a band that must be seen live or at least get some of their records. 

*****/ 5

Best moment of the show:

The drum-intro to “Everywhere I go” started to play and everyone in the crowd sang the song without any one on stage saying anything. Magical!

Sweden Rock Festival 2015

Live reviews and highlights from Sweden Rock festival 2015 (not in the order of appearance).

Def Leppard

Def Leppard made a fairly good “greatest hits – show” to an excited, nostalgic crowd. Their opening song; ”Rock! Rock! til’ you drop” helped to set a nice tone to the rest of their show that continued with hits like ”Love Bites”, ”Let’s get rocked”, ”Armageddon it” and the singalong friendly ”Pour some sugar on me”. 

Def Leppard never really connects with the crowd. But it’s still a great show with a great band that still loves what they’re doing and they are appreciated by their crowd no matter what. Most of them that has been with them since they started in the early 80’s.

****/ 5  

Best moment: Joe Elliot singing ”Two steps behind” all alone on stage, acoustic with the audience.

 

Slash feat Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators

Slash feat Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators took on the Festival stage at Sweden Rock Festival Thursday afternoon. The sun was brutal and the crowd ironically very inpatient… and called him out twice to come on stage before the show had started. By the way “Slash” is very funny to say many times over, while clapping your hands, just you try it. 

The music where great, the songs where great and Myles voice surprisingly good live. 

The show started with ”You're a lie” and where from there a non-stop rockshow, with songs like ”Set the world on fire”, ”Anastasia” and some G n´ R of course. ”Nightrain” and ”You could be mine” helped to get the crowd going even more,  but the show also allowed room for the more settled, radio friendly song ”Bent to fly”, completed with Slash on a twin guitar. The best moments of the show was without a doubt ”Sweet child O´ mine” (when Slash actually moved to the center of the stage) and played his immortal riff, and the last song ”Paradise City” when the crowd went wild and did their best Axl Rose imitations…it was a perfect way to end. 

Slash jumping sideways with his guitar, combined with him hardly ever engaging with the people standing and watching him makes it look more like he’s practicing some new, sort of dance moves in his own hallway rather than debuting at Sweden Rock Festivals largest stage. One could think that it’s Myles and Co that are headlining this particular show, because they are doing a heck of a good job with Slash in the back. Hats off to Myles & the Conspirators, Slash! You need to rethink your stage-presence.

****/ 5

Setlist:

You´re a lie

Nightrain (Guns n’ Roses cover)

AvalonBack from Cali (Slash cover)

Wicked Stone

You could be mine (Guns n’ Roses cover)

Bent to fly

World on Fire

Anastasia

Sweet Child O’ mine (Guns n’ Roses cover)

Slither (Velvet Revolver cover)

Paradise City (Guns n’ roses cover)

Michael Monroe Band

The Finnish rock singer Michael Monroe took on the Sweden Rock crowd right after Def Leppard´s show. 

It was high volume, high speed, nothing out of their ordinary gigs. Michael Monroe is everywhere on the stage, one moment he is climbing up on something and next he´s standing on the rail to the crowd, does the split (without any effort) playing the saxophone, plays the harmonica, puts on a hat just too loose in a matter of minutes, running down to the crowd then up to the stage again. He is singing and talking to the crowd and to his band and swinging around his microphone so much that the wire gets tangled in almost everything on the stage. 

The chemistry between the guys in the band is great and their music and songs are good. But all the jumping, dancing and running from Michael Monroe’s part overshadows the music in a way that isn’t that great. I guess it’s a lot of adrenaline going on. But on the stage Michael Monroe needs to take a step back, breathe and realize that their songs and music are already great and that he doesn’t need to do everything at the same time and insanely fast. We are here for the music! 

With that said, it’s really nothing more to complain about except that Michael Monroe & his band deserved a bigger stage and a better show time at Sweden Rock. Michael Monroe did deliver (apart from a nice show) good news for his fans; a new record will come out this fall. Something to look forward to…

***/ 5

Best moment of the show:

"Stained glass heart" and "Man with no eyes".

Backyard Babies 

Backyard Babies is a Swedish rock band that started in 1987. They are inspired by glam rock and sleaze rock with a bit of punk. Among there hits is “Minus Celsius” something to check out from the album “Stockholm Syndrome” - 2003. 

First show in 5 years didn’t leave anyone disappointed! These guys really like what they´re doing and there new single “Thirteen or nothing” made a great opening song and made at least me curious about their new album that is coming out this fall. The guys are well coordinated with each other and it really shows that they enjoy what they’re doing and they have an urge to play there songs again.

It was a shame that Backyard Babies gig was right before Mötley Crüe, they lost a lot of the crowd because the crowd didn’t want to miss Mötley or risk not getting a good spot as close to the stage as possible. 

So it was an enthusiastic, let’s give 100% gig, nothing to complain about.

*****/ 5

Mötley Crüe

The LA- rockers last show at Sweden Rock Festival, ever. Some people think it’s sad and some people think that it’s about time. At 23:30 they went on stage to an excited crowd, highly notable; that the most of the people at the very front of the crowd/stage weren’t even born when they started their career… 

The gig made me wonder a bit what I was paying for. Vince Neil is somewhat left to drag the Mötley Crüe-final-tour-train by himself.  No one else in the band does anything apart from Tommy Lee that after he’s been asked by Vince, stands up and say some words to the crowd. Nikki Sixx are far more interested in changing his outfits (Why?) than making sure that it’s a successful gig and that everyone gets to see him & snap a picture of him. He never says a word to the crowd and it doesn’t seem like he sees the kids that have styled their hair & make up just like him. 

Summed up, Nikki Sixx has already left Mötley Crüe and now all he wants to do is a sleek exit.  They never work as a team, as a band. It`s four individuals on one stage, Vince is tired, as he should be after a massive tour and he gets no help by the other guys to drag this show towards the end.
They do not interact with their audience at all, which they really should have. The love that their fans are sending out to them is not returned by the band. 

So it’s not a bad show but it lacks all emotions and presence from the band and it actually seems that they lost all the joy for what they’re doing. They just went out on stage, played their songs then it was like “Can we go home now?” Cross our fingers that their show in Stockholm this November will be better than this and please, say something to your fans, at least a thank you.

Best moment of the show: 

Mick Mars walks out on the stage so everyone can see him, Vince singing “Home Sweet Home”. 

**/ 5 

Hardcore Superstar

It’s a bit tricky for me to write an objective live review about Hardcore Superstar because it’s been my favorite band for years. I‘ve looked forward to this gig since I bought their latest record “HCSS” the same day that it came out, in April 2015.

HCSS did a phenomenal gig at Sweden Rock that was filled with great songs and lots of energy. “Need no Company” made a great opening song and the gig continued with several hits. It’s clear that the guys are enjoying their gig at Sweden Rock and they interact with the crowd the whole time. It’s really not one dull moment. 

One doesn’t have to be a fan to enjoy them live and they’re definitely one of Sweden’s best live bands. If you get the chance go and see them!

*****/ 5

Best moment of the show:

“Run to your mama” with an empty stage and Jocke singing to and with the crowd. “Touch the sky” the song from their new album was even better live than on record.

Best moment of the show 2:

When the lead singer Jocke stayed on the stage after the last song and shouted out: “I don´t want to get off the stage!” They also took a picture of them and the crowd and although it was kind of early in the day, nearly everyone at the festival was there to see them. 

Setlist:

Need no company

Last forever

Touch the sky

Last call for alcohol 

Cry your eyes out

Wild boys

Liberation

Don’t mean shit

Run to your mama

Moonshine

We don’t celebrate Sundays

Above the Law