When
Steel Panther announced their 10 date March UK
headline tour back in October ticket flew out
the door with the Bristol show being the first
date of the tour selling out within hours of going
on sale so when I headed down to the Academy in
Bristol tonight I knew I was in for a big fun
hectic night.
The first thing I noticed when entering the venue
tonight was how many people had got in the Steel
Panther sprit wearing wigs, animal print leggings
and general outrageous clothing to imitate their
heroes, the venue was packed to the rafters and
it took a fair few minutes to
get into the main room due to people heading in
every direction so they could have a sneaky cigarette,
beer or toilet break before Steel Panther took
to the stage.
The lights dimmed around 9pm and Iron Maiden’s
'The number Of The Beast’ started blasting
out of the sound system and moments later Steel
Panther took to the stage which was welcomed by
massive screams from the crowd
Steel Panther took to the stage just after 9pm
and their entrance was welcomed by massive
screams from the crowd and the band hit straight
into a double whammy of ‘Eyes Of A Panther’
and ‘Tomorrow Night’, both songs were
played to perfection and the band were in the
full swing of energy with Stix Zadinia smacking
the hell of his drum kit whilst posing for the
photographers, Satchel was storming around the
stage laying down some mighty riffs, Lexxi Foxx
was spending the majority of the time looking
pretty and pouting whilst Michael Starr was pacing
all over the stage even joining Stix Zadinia on
his high rise stage.
After
the first two songs Steel Panther did what they
did best and spent the next 10 to 15 minutes introducing
themselves, telling jokes, being smutty and generally
being the outrageous comedians they are, with
talk about the crowd in Bristol always being the
best to jokes about shagging members of the crowds
girlfriends to below the belt jokes about Ian
Watkins and child minding, now not many people
can get away with talking for so long between
songs at a gig and despite one angry member of
the crowd shouting “play some fucking music”
which was widely ignored by the band as they continued
to talk for another 5 minutes the other 1700 fans
in attendance tonight were laughing their heads
off like they were at a Russell Howard comedy
night.
The
music finally continued and Steel Panther went
straight into ‘Asian Hooker’ where
Michael Starr brings an Asian girl dressed like
a school girl on stage the girl spends the majority
of the time looking very nervous and covering
her face, in fact she did such a good job that
it was hard to tell if she was just a random they
met on the day of the show or if this has been
a regular occurrence throughout the tour, either
way it went down well with the theme of the song
and kept everyone in attendance entertained.
As
the set progressed Steel Panther played the likes
of ‘Just Like Tiger Woods’, ‘Turn
Out The Lights’, ‘Gold Digging Whore’,
‘It Won’t Suck Itself’ as well
as new tracks ‘Gloryhole, ‘The Burden
Of Being Wonderful’ and ‘Party Like
Tomorrow Is the End Of The World’ which
are all from their forthcoming fourth studio album
‘All You Can Eat’ which is due for
release any day now.
Towards the end of the set Steel Panther bring
about 15 girls from the audience up on the stage
to dance and get there tits out whilst they continue
playing their music which soon stops again when
Satchel notices a Gilf
in the crowd and brings her up on stage as well
and for the next 3 songs the stage features a
massive Steel Panther party with the crowd watching
in anticipation not knowing where to look due
to the stage being rammed with people, a bit later
Satchel spots a 12 year old kid in the audience
and make comments on how he is going to get all
the pussy tomorrow and how he should bang his
science teacher .
The show comes to an end with ‘Death to
all But Metal’ the song which helped put
Steel Panther on the road to success and the next
5 minutes become a real sing-a-long as the whole
crowd get involved and on the big screen at the
back of the stage the likes of Justin
Bieber and Miley Cryus are plastered over the
screen with the word death pasted over them.
After a short breask steel Panther come back on
stage to play a three song encore which featured
‘Community Property’, ’17 Girls
In A Row’ and ‘Party All Day (Fuck
All Night) and it was the slow paced ‘Community
Property’ which really was the stand out
moment of the night as everyone sang word for
word with Michael Starr.
On the live circuit is always where you get the
true Steel Panther feel and tonight like always
the band were on top form, not only do they play
some amazing old skool sounding songs but they
also double up as a comedy act and the big screen
which showed many of their videos and various
different smutty clips along with the huge amount
of confetti at the end of the show really made
this one of the best Steel Panther live shows
I have ever experienced and I am now looking forward
to the Download Festival in June even more now.
Steel Panther 5/5
Review By Trigger
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