The Slade Rooms are an appropriate home for Hardcore Superstar. After all — they are part Sweet, part MUD and part Aerosmith… so they should consider Noddy and his crew as part of their shared family tree. The Swedes are smart dogs too! So they started with ‘Fox on the Run’ as an intro.
The show began with the effervescencing ‘We Don’t Celebrate Sundays’ and that thumpin’ good time rhythm and those oh-so-long fiery vocals from Joakim “Jocke” Berg that shot out like skewers. This was as starry and as groovy as a firefly on acid. What a start to the show!
The subject of ‘dirty girlfriends’ seem to be a recurring theme for Hardcore Superstar so “My Good Reputation” with its rocking-head beat and squeezed riff got us all banging away happily. And that insistent chorus was always meant to keep us up all night.
Heavier and growlier ‘Dreamin’ In a Casket’ came half-way through. Vic Zino’s pedal board holds at least eighteen different effects — and he employs each one with consummate effect! This song is racier than a formula one tyre-stripper on a first lap. And edgier and quicker than a sharp knife with three blades.
The show’s penultimate song was the clever ‘Moonshine’ with that addictive pace and those grunting and innervating guitars. The guitar licks were squirted out abundantly — like cremes discharged from an irresponsibly long tube. And the voice was painfully tense… stretched tighter than an an ill-fitting stocking mask.
Applause was also abundant, on this one, for drummer Magnus “Adde” Andreasson whose constant precision gunfire percussion was incredible. His tribal thud was thumpier than a stomping herd of aggravated hippopotamuses.
Shiny glam-metal with saucy impertinent vocals, silvery guitars, and lashings of sequined exuberance. It may only be rock ‘n’ roll. But this is the way we like it!
Hardcore Superstar! \m/
Posted by RAMzine on Wednesday, 25 March 2015
