The Hollywood Vampires have just started their short UK tour, with a show last night (June 16th) at Brimingham's Genting Arena
In a mistake of planning, first band up were the elder statesmen of punk The Damned, who are a lot closer in attitude and legendary status to the headliners than The Darkness are. Anyway, their setlist consisted of
- Street of Dreams
- Neat Neat Neat
- Wait for the Blackout
- Standing on the Edge of Tomorrow
- Ignite
- Love Song
- Eloise
- New Rose
- Smash It Up
Next were The Darkness, who played
- Solid Gold
- Growing on Me
- Love Is Only a Feeling
- Japanese Prisoner of Love
- One Way Ticket
- Barbarian
- Buccaneers of Hispaniola
- Get Your Hands Off My Woman
- I Believe in a Thing Called Love
The Vampires were The Vampires - a gimmick bar band with two legends and an over-rated film star! Mind you, it was good to notice that Alice got a much bigger cheer than Johnny Depp did at the beginning of the show when coming on stage. Their setlist was pretty much unchanged from the beginning of the tour:
- I Want My Now
- Raise the Dead
- I Got a Line on You
- 7 and 7 Is
- My Dead Drunk Friends
- Five to One / Break On Through (to the Other Side)
- The Jack
- Ace of Spades
- Baba O'Riley
- As Bad As I Am
- The Boogieman Surprise
- I'm Eighteen
- Combination
- People Who Died
- Sweet Emotion
- Bushwackers
- "Heroes"
- All the Young Dudes
- Train Kept A-Rollin'
- School's Out/Another Brick In The Wall
The only real surprise was the inclusion of the Mott The Hoople song 'All The Young Dudes' featuring a guest appearance by the bands original singer and guitarist Ian 'Unter. I'm not sure if he will be appearing at the shows in Manchester, Glasgow and London, or whether they will get their own special guests