I forgot to mention that I saw Europe on Sunday night at the Relentless Garage in... where is it? Highbury? Somewhere on the Victoria line anyway.
The support act was New Device, an excellent band from London. Catchy hard rock stuff. This is them:
Europe came on around 9ish. It's the line-up that recorded The Final Countdown - Tempest-Norum-Leven-Michaeli-Haugland (that's three people who were in Glenn Hughes's band on his awesome Burning Japan live album, btw).
Unfortunately for myself and the two people I was with, they only played two songs from The Final Countdown and that was right at the end of the set. I've only heard that album and a greatest hits one - for some reason I haven't gotten around to hearing anything from the new album except for the title track, which is what they opened with. They played a lot of old stuff which I sort of recognised, a lot of new stuff which I didn't, and I was a little annoyed with that, but it was still a great show.
Joey Tempest hasn't aged a bit. Ian Haugland is all buffed up with a shaved head. Mic Michaeli just looks a bit more haggard than he used to.
Anyway, a great gig, even if I didn't know half the songs. The half I did know were excellent.
And I can now say I saw Europe. Excellent.
The support act was New Device, an excellent band from London. Catchy hard rock stuff. This is them:
Europe came on around 9ish. It's the line-up that recorded The Final Countdown - Tempest-Norum-Leven-Michaeli-Haugland (that's three people who were in Glenn Hughes's band on his awesome Burning Japan live album, btw).
Unfortunately for myself and the two people I was with, they only played two songs from The Final Countdown and that was right at the end of the set. I've only heard that album and a greatest hits one - for some reason I haven't gotten around to hearing anything from the new album except for the title track, which is what they opened with. They played a lot of old stuff which I sort of recognised, a lot of new stuff which I didn't, and I was a little annoyed with that, but it was still a great show.
Joey Tempest hasn't aged a bit. Ian Haugland is all buffed up with a shaved head. Mic Michaeli just looks a bit more haggard than he used to.
Anyway, a great gig, even if I didn't know half the songs. The half I did know were excellent.
And I can now say I saw Europe. Excellent.
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