We arrived at the Islington academy at about 19.45 and had missed the support acts getting in just in time to hear the singer say thank you and good night. Well what else would you expect on a Saturday night in Late Night London?
Still the Academy was fairly busy and most of the audience sang along to the bands intro song of Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back In Town during which the band came on stage and got ready to rumble into life. They pretty much crashed into Animal Attraction, the title song of their second album and the name of the tour that this was the first night of the UK leg of. Singer Ollie Herman (or Oliver H Twisted as he was when he was the second singer with Crashdiet) was in good form doing some high kicks and charming everyone.
The band all looked like they were enjoying themselves. Supercharged featured some very Van Halen style guitar soloing from Da Pepeda that led into the full on assault of Badass Baby a song Ollie made sure we knew was about sex, which as every song Reckless Love play is about sex isn't exactly a revelation. But then they don't deal in revelations, they deal in tighter than Ollie's trousers Sleaze rock and damn are they tight thoughout tonight's show.
Hotter Than Hell and Sex just up the sex factor somewhat and get everyone going. Sex has some great moves and playing from Jalle Verne on Bass who for me is the coolest member of the band. He has a cheeky grin that says he can't quite believe he is in a band that is this good. Ollie gives good intros to lots of the songs and Romance is no exception as he plays to the crowd and gets everyone going while of course making all the female hearts melt with his mix of Michael Monroe meets Dave Lee Roth front man skills and regular stripping off of his t-shirt. The T's are replaced between songs. The new ones always have cut off sleeves and are, of course, skin tight of course.
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Dirty Dreams is apparently about getting some sex lessons from an older woman and there are plenty that would like to give Ollie a few more lessons that's for sure. Back To Paradise had the biggest sing a long of the night as well as a great guitar solo from Da Pepeda. On The Radio is apparently about an incident in Finland where Ollie got caught out on the radio doing something sexual(inevitably). It also had some great harmony backing vocals that were a feature throughout the show and it was followed by the set closer of Wild Side that they fairly romped through, leaving the stage to huge and noisy applause.
To start the encore Heikki Ahonen came back on first and started with a drum solo which on his huge kit was always gonna happen. When Da Pepeda and Jalle Verne joined him, they slowly mutated his solo into Switchblade Babe just in time for Ollie to come back out and sing the hell out of it while doing more high kicks and plenty of dance moves. Beautiful Bomb was next and went down a storm as did the closing One More Time: a song that could almost have been designed by the band as their closing song. At its' end they thanked us all once more and took a bow or two before leaving the stage.
They are a very tight and slick sleazy metal band who are well worth catching live on the current tour that continues into next year.
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