Opening up for a genuine rock legend must be daunting, being personally invited by said legend must be doubly so, but Sophie Lloyd (8) has shown in the last couple of years that she is well equipped to deal with this high pressure environment.
She came to a lot of people's attention only recently when she performed at Wembley for the Womens Rugby World Cup final, but she’s been wowing rock fans long before that with her impressive guitar skills.
Tonight she made a powerful impression on the large crowd here at KK’s with a mix of instrumental covers of rock anthems including You Give Love A Bad Name, Thunderstruck and Enter Sandman.
Tonight she made a powerful impression on the large crowd here at KK’s with a mix of instrumental covers of rock anthems including You Give Love A Bad Name, Thunderstruck and Enter Sandman.
But she is an accomplished writer as well and with the aid of Marissa Rodriguez (vocalist for Marissa and the Moths) she performed tracks of her new album Imposter Syndrome.
She reminds us a lot of Lita Ford with her style and crowd engagement and her band members are equally animated, providing a good all round sound.
A title you often see given to Glenn Hughes (9) is The Voice Of Rock and and tonight the local lad takes us on a journey through the years, a retrospective look at his long and illustrious career. If you came tonight to see loads of Deep Purple songs then you would have been disappointed.
Hughes has called this tour The Chosen Years and he looks back at every era that he’s performed in. So we have tracks such as Medusa from the early days with local band Trapeze right through to his latest solo album Chosen.
This wasn’t a chronological set list though as we bounced around the years, first up was Soul Mover the title track off his early 2000’s album, then back to the early 80’s for the often forgotten project Hughes/Thrall and the track Muscle And Blood.
We had songs from Black Country Communion, more solo stuff, before we even had a glimpse of those early years with the Trapeze songs Way Back To The Bone and Medusa. We even had one from the Iommi link up Grace, but nothing from the Seventh Star album.
It was here where he showed his fragility, he seemed to stumble and had to take a moment to gather himself, a stark reminder that our heroes are all too human and grow old just as we do, remember Hughes is now 74!
Throughout the set he liked to remind us he was a local lad, from just up the road in Cannock, this was his “hometown” gig and it was an evening full of nostalgia and memories. He still has a powerful voice, hitting those high notes, especially in the BCC songs.
The obligatory encore was bookends for his career, Coast To Coast (Trapeze) and a rousing rendition of Black Country (BCC). He then sang the praises of Sophie Lloyd and said how he had personally phoned her up to invite her onto this tour.
He called her out onto stage and together they performed Burn a superb and apt way to end a brilliant night in honour of a true rock legend.
This wasn’t a chronological set list though as we bounced around the years, first up was Soul Mover the title track off his early 2000’s album, then back to the early 80’s for the often forgotten project Hughes/Thrall and the track Muscle And Blood.
We had songs from Black Country Communion, more solo stuff, before we even had a glimpse of those early years with the Trapeze songs Way Back To The Bone and Medusa. We even had one from the Iommi link up Grace, but nothing from the Seventh Star album.
It was here where he showed his fragility, he seemed to stumble and had to take a moment to gather himself, a stark reminder that our heroes are all too human and grow old just as we do, remember Hughes is now 74!
Throughout the set he liked to remind us he was a local lad, from just up the road in Cannock, this was his “hometown” gig and it was an evening full of nostalgia and memories. He still has a powerful voice, hitting those high notes, especially in the BCC songs.
The obligatory encore was bookends for his career, Coast To Coast (Trapeze) and a rousing rendition of Black Country (BCC). He then sang the praises of Sophie Lloyd and said how he had personally phoned her up to invite her onto this tour.
He called her out onto stage and together they performed Burn a superb and apt way to end a brilliant night in honour of a true rock legend.
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