to Episode 463 of The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show which pretty much is the

finale of Monday’s show. So on today’s episode it is the turn of The Michael

Monroe Band to *Rock Like Fuck out of The Electric Ballroom in Camden on the

last night of their UK co-headlining tour with Hardcore Superstar. The Monroes

latest album “Blackout States” was only released just under week before this

London date but by the amount of people who already new word perfect the new

songs and welcomed them into the band’s set like classic long lost songs.

Michael, Sami, Steve, Karl and Rich must surely soon be looking for wall space

for a Gold Record. The band’s set Anyway Thursday’s set was a broad

representation of Michael’s career to date, although I thought “Horns and

Halos” was under represented however he is here to promote “Blackout States”

and it would’ve been interesting to hear a Hanoi song from the rebirth days as

well or instead of “Oriental Beat”, “Tragedy” and “Malibu Beach” but I was glad

to hear “Up Around The Bend” a song I don’t think I’ve heard him played solo.

It’s funny but on Monday’s episode with regards to the Hardcore Superstar set I

said that I thought it was a tad too long and that I’m more of a “Wham, bam,

thank you Arm” merchant. Not when it comes to Michael Monroe. I could’ve quite

happily watched The Monroes play their entire back catalogue from start to

finish. It pretty much was the perfect ending to a Thursday evening of musical

entertainment. A shoe in for Download this year surely?!

Adam Bomb