Turbonegro

Now when I was a lad we had rock. It was hot and heavy and we loved it. We wore patches on our leathers and studs, had long hair, ripped jeans and we saw bands like Judas Priest, Saxon and Iron Maiden. Then came Guns 'n' Roses and after that nothing.

Until now! Now there is TurboNegro and so I took myself along to see the Scandinavian walrus of rock and his cohorts at the Concrete Jungle and boy was it a treat.

They looked superb. Classic rock, leather, furs, sword, chains, err… dungarees!, face make up, sailors and beards! It was pure '80s hard rock and metal delivered with punk rock attitude layered on thick with homosexual obsessions. Alice Cooper eat your heart out. This lot out Spinal Tap Spinal Tap. Even taking a pop at my fave band Rush with their Age of Pamparius. In fact I think one by one they roughed up every band I've got on vinyl.



Their lead singer proudly told us he wanted to become a prostitute for the royal family, he wasn't fussy which ones, preferably all of them even Prince Philip and that we should all sell our bodies to the night. They roused us all to devil sign fist punching fury with the hilarious Rock against Ass. Okay you say well as a joke they must have sounded bad. But no these guys show the Darkness what they should be. TurboNegro are convinced they're the genuine articles and they play great rock guitar. The drums pound and the energy of the bass is there, there a great rock band made better by the fact their tongues are so far into their cheeks!

My only misgiving is that I couldn't work out whether their lead guitarist was a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man or a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man. I laughed all the way through and laughed even more at those who didn't see the huge hairy growling Norwegian joke. Scandinavian leather, give me excess of it!

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