After seeing Adler’s Appetite last year at the same venue I was pleased when I heard that they were returning this year.

There were a number of press statements concerning the band prior to the tour.  Some saying that Steven Adler had sacked all the other band members, Jizzy Pearl included.  This made me wonder firstly would the tour go ahead and secondly who would be in the band.

After phoning the venue the morning of the gig to enquire whether it was still going ahead, they said yes so I though everything was tickedy boo.

As time grew on I saw Steven Adler and Adam Bomb arrive together, but I couldn’t recognize anyone else who could possibly be in Adler’s Appetite.  Indeed both Steven and Adam seemed more pre-occupied to wandering about in the crowd signing autographs and having their photo's taken than actually getting down to the task of putting on a show.

Adam Bomb finally hit the stage at 8.30pm and as I have seen him a total of about ten times now, I’m afraid its all getting a bit tedious as far as his shows go.  The man is indeed a very talented guitarist and tours relentlessly (as one fellow punter exclaimed ... if sooty was looking for a support act Adam would do it!).  But he’s rapidly loosing my respect and is becoming somewhat of a one trick pony.

His set has not changed much since I first saw him perform almost five years ago, so if you’ve read any of my reviews of his shows then the set list is almost identical.  Such a shame he dumped the one good line-up he's had in years and brought along the two dis-interested parties he had with him tonight.  Oh please, you're being paid to put on a show, at least look like your interested in what you're doing guys!

Now on to the main event.  Now this was going to have to be something special to make my 300-mile round trip and £14.00 entrance fee worthwhile.  I can see Adam Bomb and his band of 'merry' men most months for free down at my local pub, I don't need to come here to pay to see them.

Sadly this was not the case.  Not only did I not recognize any member of the band apart from Mr. Adler, but they seemed to be the remains of a Guns N Roses tribute act with a Duff McKagen look alike and Slash wannabe. The only redeeming feature of the band now standing before me on stage was the vocals of David Riley, (the band were introduced at the end of the set), who did a sterling job and really put his heart and soul into being Axel Rose, even if he did look a little disjointed trying to copy some of his moves.

One thing that annoyed the life out of our party was the way in which mid way through a song Mr Adler would get up off the drums and wander off for a smoke or a drink.  This wasn't just once or twice, this was more frequent than King Cross tube station has tubes passing through.  That and the fact he felt the need after night on every single song to get up and wander to the front of the stage and shake hands with the 30 or so punters who were standing there.  That's fine to do at the end of the gig, but not at the end of every song. 

I also have to ask, just how many drumsticks does one drummer feel the need to hand out at a gig?  You didn't even use a good 50% of the ones you handed out.  You didn't play the drums long enough to go through that many for goodness sake!  You gave out so many drumsticks in between songs that well before the end of the set the vast majority of the room had not one, not two, but multiple drum sticks in their hands!  I half expect to see market stalls popping up the following weekend throughout Bradford with people selling drumsticks just to get rid of them all. 

The only interlude being when Adam Bomb joined Steven Adler on stage to perform Rod Stewarts 'Maggie May', and what a good job they did.  But this still didn’t make my £14.00 worthwhile, to be honest I wouldn't have even paid £5.00 for what I'd seen here tonight.

A friend informed me later the next day that the Limelight were offering refunds to people because they weren’t the band that they had promised.  Sadly that was all too late for those of us who had travelled down to see them at Rios the night before. 

Put it this way, after the performance, if you can call such a joke a performance, that we witnessed at Rios, regardless of who's in the band in future, or any other bands Mr Adler may join in future, he most certainly will not be seeing one more penny of my hard earned money ever again. 

Mr Adler, you should be well and truly ashamed of yourself and the dire performance you and 'your band' gave.  Most highway robbers wear masks before they take your hard earned cash without doing anything for it, which is something even you failed to do.  I actually feel sorry for those poor young men you persuaded to join you on this tour because it certainly won't have done them any favours.