KILBURNFLYER
One of the great weekends of the year is Hard Rock Hell so the 4 hour journey to Prestatyn positively flew by - we even had to stop in a pub down the road for an hour or so because we were too early to check-in. The format has changed with an extra night - Thursday as a bit of a warm up for the main event. Still Attica Rage and GMT were both every entertaining - the crowd was all a bit scary as so many people were in viking related fancy dress. All very funny. Highlights of the weekend - in no particular order - were:
WASP - Blackie Lawless still kicks ass and was clearly having a good time - great at taking the piss out of himself by doing his hair in some saw blades on his forearms .
New York Dolls - primarily for Trash and Jet Boy which had me bouncing around like a mad thing. Much near everything else was a bit forgettable.
Tigertailz - again thoroughly enjoyed their set and again did the best cover version of the whole weekend with Ace of Spades.
Girlschool - Great set and all in all a great show - loved it - they always give 100%
Terrorvision - enjoyed this lot a lot more than I expected having seen them previously where I though they were shite.
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts - Still a lot of fun even if I wouldn't bother seeing them outside a festival
Ratt - better than I remember them from back in the day
Monster Magnet - very professional and thoroughly enjoyable - again seen before but they were much better than I remember
Die Apokal... Reiter (sic) - Music was fine but the show was bizarre in the extreme with the keyboard player dressed as a gimp with his own swing at the back of the stage - German humour you gotta love it.
Spit Like This - very enjoyable and the bass player could make me leave home.
A group of Welsh lads/lasses we met who were a great laugh - can't recall all names and certainly not how they are spelt but Dollan (85), Dewi, Abi, James, John and Nikki.
Disappointing bits: Queensryche who should have done a lot more off Mindcrime, mates leaving early for avoidable reasons , a few twats moshing where there was no pit, no Guiness, running out of Murphy's on the Saturday and the weather - it basically pissed down for most of the weekend.
One of the great weekends of the year is Hard Rock Hell so the 4 hour journey to Prestatyn positively flew by - we even had to stop in a pub down the road for an hour or so because we were too early to check-in. The format has changed with an extra night - Thursday as a bit of a warm up for the main event. Still Attica Rage and GMT were both every entertaining - the crowd was all a bit scary as so many people were in viking related fancy dress. All very funny. Highlights of the weekend - in no particular order - were:
WASP - Blackie Lawless still kicks ass and was clearly having a good time - great at taking the piss out of himself by doing his hair in some saw blades on his forearms .
New York Dolls - primarily for Trash and Jet Boy which had me bouncing around like a mad thing. Much near everything else was a bit forgettable.
Tigertailz - again thoroughly enjoyed their set and again did the best cover version of the whole weekend with Ace of Spades.
Girlschool - Great set and all in all a great show - loved it - they always give 100%
Terrorvision - enjoyed this lot a lot more than I expected having seen them previously where I though they were shite.
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts - Still a lot of fun even if I wouldn't bother seeing them outside a festival
Ratt - better than I remember them from back in the day
Monster Magnet - very professional and thoroughly enjoyable - again seen before but they were much better than I remember
Die Apokal... Reiter (sic) - Music was fine but the show was bizarre in the extreme with the keyboard player dressed as a gimp with his own swing at the back of the stage - German humour you gotta love it.
Spit Like This - very enjoyable and the bass player could make me leave home.
A group of Welsh lads/lasses we met who were a great laugh - can't recall all names and certainly not how they are spelt but Dollan (85), Dewi, Abi, James, John and Nikki.
Disappointing bits: Queensryche who should have done a lot more off Mindcrime, mates leaving early for avoidable reasons , a few twats moshing where there was no pit, no Guiness, running out of Murphy's on the Saturday and the weather - it basically pissed down for most of the weekend.
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