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Steel Panther

According to the English Telegraph – “Parody metal band Steel Panther resemble a rockier, much sleazier Darkness with the humour of Spinal Tap. The lyrics and between-song gags are as blue as they come and gleefully send up the fast-living lifestyles of bands such as… well… Mötley Crüe mostly. Every inch of them is daft (their song titles include 17 Girls in a Row and Eatin’ Ain’t Cheatin’ ) and the joke would soon wear thin but for the fact that the band are genuinely talented and here proved that they could play along with the big boys.”

LIKELY STEEL PANTHER SET LIST:
1.Supersonic Sex Machine
2.Tomorrow Night
3.Asian Hooker
4.Gold-Digging Whore
5.Community Property
6.It Won’t Suck Itself
7.Just Like Tiger Woods
8.Weenie Ride
9.17 Girls In A Row
10.Livin’ on a Prayer (Bon Jovi cover)
11.Guitar Solo
(20th February – House Of Blues, West Hollywood)

SET HIGHLIGHT:
When your girlfriend leaves you join the band in their dressing room. Well it’ll be a highlight for the band (and your girlfriend) anyway.

WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE:

The Pretty Reckless

WHAT TO EXPECT:
According to the BBC – “Citing influences such as The White Stripes and Led Zeppelin, Momsen and cohorts rewrite Celebrity Skin ten times and have a whale of a time. The music won’t alienate Paramore fans, and Momsen’s surprisingly low, growly, deadpan voice is very effective. This is at heart a fun, dirty, insincere, cheap-thrill-laden pop record, with the raunch-riffery of Band of Skulls and lyrics which could be drawled from the mouth of a Bret Easton Ellis character.”

LIKELY PRETTY RECKLESS SET LIST:
1.Since You’re Gone
2.Light Me Up
3.Miss Nothing
4.Zombie
5.Just Tonight
6.Goin’ Down
7.My Medicine
8.Like a Stone (Audioslave cover)
9.Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes cover)
10.Nothing Left to Lose
11.Make Me Wanna Die
12.Factory Girl
(28th November – Supporting Guns N’ Roses in Canada)

SET HIGHLIGHT:
The moment when the metal fans entranced by the sight of Taylor Momsen on the stage in lingerie make the decision to order the Gossip Girl box-set as soon as they get home.

WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE:

BUSH

WHAT TO EXPECT
According to Consequence Of Sound’s review of the recently reunited 90s rocker’s Chicago show last August we can expect: “a pocket of hits and a trio of new tracks.” While Bush 2.0 is missing original bass player Nigel Pulsford, COS reports: “Rossdale thrives on the shiny rhythms, which translates into an engaging stage show – especially with the oldies. During Little Things, the grungy poster boy stepped into the crowd, belting out the classic hit’s breakdown amongst diehard fanatics. To add some charm, he tossed in a few lines of Talking Heads’ Once In a Lifetime into the bridge of Everything Zen, which added a nice little spin. Very cool. Rossdale & New Co. still make post-grunge rock feel sexy and hip –That’s more than Billy Corgan can say these days.”

LIKELY BUSH SET LIST
1.Machinehead
1.The Chemicals Between Us
2.All My Life
3.Greedy Fly
4.The Sound of Winter
5.Everything Zen
6.The Heart of the Matter
7.The Afterlife
8.Little Things
9.Come Together
10.(The Beatles cover)
11.Glycerine
12.Comedown
(December 3rd 2011 – ‘Next Bog Thing’ concert, US)

SET HIGHLIGHT
It may not be as cool it was a decade on, but when Rossdale belts out Comedown as the set closer it will be like 1997 all over again.

WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE

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