Alice Cooper's Theatre of Death with Electric Mary

Band: Alice Cooper supported by Electric Mary
Venue: Palais Theatre
Date: 28th August 2009
Reviewed By: Espylyn

Electric Mary started the night with many needing ear plugs, the sound was incredibly loud. Not necessarily a bad thing for a band that strike a notch in many people's groove machines. With songs like Luv Me, One Foot In The Grave and Crash Down On Your Head -Rusty gave his usual frontman prowl and anger to release the songs in only a way that he could. The band had lengthy solo's as Irwin and Pete strutting their guitar action hero stances, Venom pounded the drums and Alex grooving the angry bass. A truly awesome band....

Now begins Alice Coopers theatre of death. A large sheet was on stage from the roof with his face and on the floor was a huge red oval reminiscent of a blood leak, the music started, the sheet dropped and there stood Alice on a round small platform and off into Schools Out he began. The crowd went nuts, the Alice Cooper look-a-likes went nuts and not long after he was guillotined - but naturally managed to come back! I don't know all Alice songs but he covered a range that spanned over his musical career including Poison, Welcome to My Nightmare and Only Woman Bleed. Many completists were in the audience having bought all tee-shirts, stickers and poster magazine and they certainly got their money's worth.

Alice and co tempted us into their lair with a fantastic theatrical show where highlights included Alice dying four times, the sexy nurse (his actual daughter) grinding her pelvis with an actual grinder and therefore sparks flying, a band looking like death themselves - but a very movable, active, rock your socks off death and the formidable costume changes and the fact for a older guy he could move better than some young bands I've seen. Hats off to the Theatre of Death and Alice Cooper for a great nights entertainment.