Concert Reviews

The doors were only opened at 8.30pm instead of 8 pm, which meant that everything started late and due to time constrains we couldn’t stay for the entire KISS GB set. It was great to see so many KISS fans donning their T-Shirts and a dad brought his little daughter along, who wore a ‘Starchild’ star. The original unwanted were quite entertaining and their music was good albeit it a tad dated sounding at times. They played Kiss’s ‘Tomorrow and tonight’ which was a nice thing to do but the song bared little resemblance to the original track. Nonetheless, they were pretty good overall. KISS GB opened their set with ‘I was made for loving you’ and it made me cringe. At first I thought this must be a comedy night with ‘Gene Simmons’ big belly and ‘Paul’s’ inability to reach those higher notes. With a vast back catalogue to choose from this probably wasn’t a great choice. But from then on they were really good, each song and t...

Scottish opening act KING KING played good old rock and roll and their set was highly entertaining and uplifting. Not long after King King had left the stage, the main act EUROPE took us all by storm. Their album ‘Walk the earth’ is a rock triumph and the title track was the song the Swedish rock band started the evening with. Joey Tempest and the boys haven’t lost any of their charisma and showmanship as well as musicianship and Joey’s voice was as great as ever. Older gems like ‘Rock the night’ went down well and the newer material fitted in well with more seasoned songs. We had to leave roughly an hour into their set and will remember them fondly – absolutely brilliant. Also see: Europe 1987