Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry

I haven't been at a proper "rock" gig in absolutely years, and I was hugely looking forward to seeing the Legendary D live in concert at last, in person, and not on a TV screen.

The dudes started out as I've seen them before, on the aforementioned TV, by themselves, with their acoustic guitars, playing their "old" stuff off the first album, like FHG, Karate and the like. So far, so familiar, so expected. Then, after an unfortunate electrocution by their good "friend" Lee, a projection screen appeared and we saw the dudes descending into hell, and meeting the Anti-Christ Jnr, Charlie Chaplin and Colonel Sanders, and forming the Greatest Band On Earth™.

Then came the big surprise. The lights come up on an incredible stage, with scenery depicting the fires of hell, with huge smoking volcanoes, mountains, and a dark orange sky, and the band launch into a full, electric version of the amazing Explosive, and the entire audience went completely insane. I was genuinely blown away at the brilliance of what followed, really awesomely good live rock, the rhythm section of Chaplin and Sanders (in reality Brooks Wackerman from Suicidal Tendencies and John Spiker, who has played bass with Beck, amongst others) were just awesomely tight, and the Anti-Christ Jnr (John Konesky, who plays guitar on all the tracks on the "Pick Of Destiny" album and movie) was amazing, proper dirty gritty lead guitar, the kind I last heard at a Gunz N' Roses gig about fifteen years ago.

They played almost every track from both albums, which was pretty amazing seeing as there were so many comedy interludes between songs. Standout numbers were Master Exploder, The Metal, Beelzeboss (the Final Showdown), Double Team and Tribute, but there were many more that were great too. They also played their version of Queen's "Flash!" (from the Flash Gordon soundtrack, obviously), which segued into Wonderboy and finished the night with The Who's medley from the movie "Tommy" ("that deaf dumb and blind kid, sure plays mean-muthe'fuckin' pinbaaaall", brilliant).

All in all, totally mutherfuckin' awesome. 9.9/10 (1/10 of a point deducted as we were down the back and missed some of the good bits as a result!)