Gig Review

Steel Panther
London, Hammersmith Apollo

15th November 2012


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Photo Of Steel Panther © Copyright TriggerWe headed to the Hammersmith Apollo in London for comical rockers Steel Panthers biggest ever headline show in the UK and what a blast it was.

When we first got to the venue it was rammed and there was a wide mixture of people there, many dressed up with rock star wigs with various different patterned skin tight lycra rock star leggings on and also many people looking like your average gig goer with their band t-shirts and jeans on, we headed into the main room and within moments the lights went down and screen at the back of the stage turned on and featured a short introduction of steel Panther backstage, as soon as the video faded out Steel Panther took to the stage opening up with ‘Supersonic Sex Machine’ which was then followed up by the ever so catchy ‘Tomorrow Night’.

Photo Of Steel Panther © Copyright TriggerAfter the second song Steel Panther spent a solid 10 minutes talking to the crowd and generally throwing banter around, Lexxi Foxxx spent most of this time looking into his compact mirror checking himself and redoing his makeup whilst pouting to the photographers at every opportunity, whilst front man Michael Starr and guitarist Satchel spent the time throwing banter around at each other and the crowd and in that time they went from talking their well known dirty ways of general sexual jokes, to encouraging girls in the crowd to get their boobs out whilst Michael Starr captured it on his booby cam to throwing drum sticks to Stix Zadinia only for him to break it which caused Michael Starr Photo Of Steel Panther © Copyright Triggerto lay into the X Factor and One Direction claiming that they have never broke a drum stick and that they should be locked up in Nottingham castle which was met with a loud roar of cheers from the crowd, Michael Starr then went on to say that they have been talking to Andy Copping backstage and he has booked them to headline Download Festival, this was also met with loud cheers until Michael Starr added “in the year 2024 as Metallica would of retired and be too old to play then” which caused the crowed to erupt in laughter.

Photo Of Steel Panther © Copyright TriggerAfter a lot of talking the music soon progressed with Steel Panther playing classic songs from both albums such as ‘Fat Girl’ ‘Just Like Tiger Woods’, ‘Girl From Oklahoma’ and ‘Asian Hooker’ with the later of the songs featuring censored hardcore porn images on the screen behind the band whilst ‘Girl From Oklahoma’ featured a different set of male balls on the screen every time Michael Starr sang “come on pretty baby suck my balls all night”, the comedy factor ran for the majority of the night but things got slightly serious when Satchel treated us to a guitar solo which featured a bit of pretty much every classic rock band/song you could ever think of and as the show progressed Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell made a guest appearance to help out with the classic Dio song ‘Rainbow In The Dark’ and ‘Death To All But Metal’.

Photo Of Steel Panther © Copyright TriggerThe show came to an end with a 3 song encore which featured ‘Community Property’, ‘Eyes Of A Panther’ and ‘17 Girls In A Row’ with confetti being fired out of cannons to mark the end of the show.

Steel Panther were on top form tonight they were as rude and crude as ever and managed to shock, please and entertain the whole crowd with their unpredictable nature whilst knocking out some of the best old skool rock influenced songs that have been released over the last 5 years, the only thing I felt was missing from tonights show was 'The Shocker' and 'Weenie Ride' but after entertaining for nearly 2 hours there was no time to fit these songs in.

5/5

Review By Trigger

 Billy Talent


Michael Starr
Satchel
Lexxi Foxxx
Stix Zadinia

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 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?