28.06.2019 The Station, Cannock: Motoerheadache, support: Buzzard


Two great bands in a top venue, that’s what great night outs are made of. The Station has recently and rightly so been voted top UK live music venue in the public gig forum poll and the number of acts and the variety of acts performing here is truly amazing.

Buzzard, founded in 2012, have two albums under their belt and their third one titled: ‘Feed me to the wolves’ is scheduled for release in August this year. This hard-hitting, dynamic and fun to watch trio uses the slogan ‘Motoerhead meets Nirvana’ and that hits the nail on the head.




Not surprising then to find two Nirvana covers on the set list. Apart from their own material and the aforementioned Nirvana covers they also rendered a high energy cover of Billy Idol’s ‘White wedding’. A great band worth following and supporting.


Minutes later a very familiar ‘We are Motoerhead and we play rock and roll’ introduced Motoerheadache and from the first note onward they blew me away as they really sounded like the mighty Motoerhead with all the humour and superfast metal associated with it.

The set was very classic Motoerhead with songs from the early days of the band, even including the Kingsmen cover that got Lemmy and the boys onto Top of the Pops™ ‘Louie Louie’. The show had everything from ‘Going to Brazil’ to ‘No class’ to ‘Killed by death’.






With all the original line up of Motoerhead all now performing in metal nirvana I had hoped and expected a higher turnout but it is what it is and Motoerheadache wasn’t faced by it. They were simply awesome.

Another excellent night out at my all time favourite venue The Station.

photo credit Penny Wootton and Thomas Janak


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