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With less than a
week to go it was announced that the planned Thunderground Festival was
cancelled. Shortly followed by all hell breaking loose regarding the
loss of monies on hotels for some and flights and hotels for others, who
were flying in as far afield as Norway, Spain, Italy to name but a few.
It
was left down to Rock City to bring at least the headliner Wig Wam across
to save the blushes, and maybe the neck, of the previous promoter who
bailed on everyone when the going got tough.
Well the Rescue Rooms isn’t the biggest
of venues at about 450 capacity, but it was most definitely bursting at it
seams tonight, with the WigWamamania express coming to town just ten
months from their triumphant showing at last years Firefest, a performance
which alone made that day for me.
With the formality of support act Dante
Fox leading the way for Norway’s biggest export Wig Wam to strut their
stuff in front of an excited audience, who were singing their heads off
and their little hearts out in the rain long before the doors were even
opened. The room soon filled up and heated up to a phenomenal temperature
given the miserable weather outside.
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As the band came on stage, firstly Sporty
then Flash and Teeny, the deafening cheers went up with the biggest cheer
going out to frontman Glam, as they got their rock n' roll show underway
with ‘Rock My Ride’, which won instant applause from the very excited
crowd with them, singing out every line in unison with Glam which seemed
to fuel the band even more into giving one hell of a performance here
tonight.
They continued to rock our socks off with
‘Dare Devil Heat’, tonight we were all rock n' roll cowboys as the band
give it their all.
The audience participation was instant as
one great song after another was performed by these masters
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of Glitz and Glam, you just became part
of the rock n' roll party and threw away you inhibitions and soon
found yourself singing out loud to the likes of ‘Bless The Night’,
‘Kill My Rock N' Roll’ (was this a little stab at the cancellation of Thunderground) and ‘Mine All Mine’, which Glam dedicated
to all the beautiful horny young ladies in the crowd. |
It was time for Glam to get close up and
personal with a few members of the crowd on ‘A Rock N' Roll Girl Like You’
and by the looks of it also making a few of the boys days too!
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Then it was time for Teeny to show his
stuff with his own salute to one of his hero’s Eddie Van Halen’s
‘Eruption’ with his very own version ‘Erection’, then it was time to slow
things down just a touch with ‘Bygone Zone’, before the surprise package
of the set ‘Car-Lyle’, a track which the band haven’t played for live for
a year although I don’t know why because it sounded wicked tonight.
The heat in the venue rose a few degrees
after each song as the mass of sweaty bodies showed their undying
appreciation, not just for the bands performance, but also for the very
fact that they were eventually getting to see them after all the doubts
about a show even taking place.
The set continued with Crazy Things’, which once again received rapturous
applause, as did every song |
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played, although the
band definitely saved the best for last. Finishing off the main set
with ‘Breaking All The Rules’ and the showstopper ‘Hard To Be A Rock
N' Roller’, the band left the stage for a short while the over the PA
we heard Glam shout "THANK YOU NOTTINGWOOD!" |
He then returned to the stage wearing a Robin Hood style hat complete with
feather before the band launched into the encore starting off with ‘Gonna Get
You Someday’ and finishing off with the one that got it all started ‘In My
Dreams’, both of which rounded off another great night of rock n' roll by a band who
have put the fun back into Rock, something that had been missing for quite sometime now.
Let's hope that the band will bring their full rock n' roll
show over some day because these guys deserve a bigger stage. |
