Following delicious food, drinking and chat we headed off to The Railway, a pub that looked "rough as a badger's arse". Tonights shenanigans were in aid of Help For Heroes so we didn't mind paying £5 to get in. Lots of people there when we arrived and it all felt "very metal" LOL.
Jo, Armitage, Mark and Toni:
Toni and I:
ADAM BOMB
The delightful Adam Bomb has been around forever and somehow has always managed to evade real fame and fortune but it certainly wasn't for lack of talent on his part. the show tonight was exactly that, a show! Adam Bomb might have been the "support" act but he came across like the headliner. We had great songs (plus some Kiss tracks and an awesome version of New York York), great musicians, some awesome solos and flames and fireworks galore (much to the distress of The Railway management).
See all the ADAM BOMB pics here: 230410AdamBombTheRailway#
After Adam Bomb's set we could quite happily all have left and felt that we got fantastic value for money. There was, however, more to come..........
I had heard great things about Guns 2 Roses. They are deemed "The Official Guns N Roses Tribute" and claim to have approval from original members of Guns N Roses. They boldly state, "... totally focused on not only cloning the sound of GNR better than the rest.... Simply put you want Guns N Roses go see Guns 2 Roses. Guranteed you will see a different show everytime."
If you are totally focused on cloning the sound then you had better damn well do that. The intro to Welcome sounded similar but certainly NOT a clone. Toni was gagging to leave before the end of the first song. I said I wanted to stay for another. Next up was It's So Easy, the crazy thing is that this song IS easy to play but sadly we didn't get a real clone of that either. Note to Axl copy, don't worry so much about the look, concentrate on actually trying to properly sing the songs you are paying tribute to. Oh and if you want to learn to move like Axl, go and watch some Shark Island footage and watch Richard Black (then you can rip off his moves like Axl did) rather than coming across like a Kid Rock/Fred Durst wannabe.
In short, I didn't like Guns 2 Roses, they were woefully disappointing and certainly didn't do what it said on the tin. Toni and I left after two numbers and Mark and Jodie had retreated to the rear of the venue when we went.
They didn't spoil the night but they should not have been headlining this, Adam Bomb completely blew them away and then some!
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