Live Review Wednesday 13 & Michael Monroe, O2 Academy Leeds
A full on rock'n'roll double-header from former Murderdolls and Hanoi Rocks frontmen
Live Review: Wednesday 13 & Michael Monroe, O2 Academy Leeds
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The double headliner of Wednesday 13 and ex-Hanoi Rocks frontman, Michael Monroe, should have been a mouth-watering rock morsel. The collective appetite of Leeds gig-goers does not seem to have been whetted though. The O2 Academy is barely a third full, perhaps the smallest crowd of the year here. This may have prompted a venue move is some circumstances, but these two acts are not light packers. They have brought along a full rock and roll show and seem determined to deliver it for the small but perfectly formed gathering.
Michael Monroe is first up, and throws himself into a set as if he were playing to a packed Madison Square Gardens. He is living proof that old rockers never die, they just keep on rocking. In this case they also pick up a saxophone for dramatic solos, pump fists in the air and use long flowing bottle blonde locks to the maximum effect. The set showcases his Sensory Overdrive release, which won a classic rock award earlier in the month. The live delivery did not disappoint, with a suitably rock and roll stage trashing completing the set.
Wednesday 13 (pictured) is a quite different proposition. Schlock horror styling mixed with metal machinations make for an entertaining mix, as the former Murderdolls frontman delivers heavy slabs of metal from the dark side. The set here is reaped from Skeletons and Calling All Corpses. It is fascinatingly morbid entertainment with a hammer horror chic. The corpse laden backdrop seems understated compared to the skull staff wielding frontman, and accompanying ghoulish band members.
It is a shame that the audience isn’t bigger, but those who did make it were treated to nothing less then they would have been if the place was packed to the rafters. Both of the double headliners put on a full-on rock and roll show.
Wednesday 13 and Michael Monroe played the O2 Academy in Leeds on Tuesday 29th November
Posted on Wednesday 21st December 2011
Words & photo Neil Chapman
O2 Academy Leeds
55 Cookridge Street, Leeds, LS2 3AW
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Comment by Bilal Zafar
Posted on Fri 3rd Feb 12 10:49 pm
Epic and all but…. wednesday is STILL the frontman of murderdolls!
