After having interviewed Phil Campell, I had to go from Vega to Copenhagen Main Station to pick up some friends who don't know the way to the venue. Coming back at around 8, I'm hit with the surprise of having a Motorhead gig show me something about being a woman. If this is an effect of the vast majority of tonights crowd being men, or the fact that the crowd just likes to drink much, I dare not guess.
Nevertheless, I drain the tanks and find my way to the stage. I simply don't know the songs. I'm here to see the beast of legend and from the looks of it, the ready-for-retirement rock'n'rollers seem like they're out to prove the statements that addorn the tshirts they sell; "Everything louder than everything else". The first half of the show passes by like a derailed freight train, at relentless speed and relentless volume, and while Mikkey Dee bombards the crowd with high speed drumming not missing a beat, Phil squeezes screeching solo upon screeching solo out of his guitar, leaving no heavy metallers dreams unfulfilled.
Needless to say the crowd is licking it all up, and the sold out Vega is flooded wall to wall, front to back, by banging heads and raised horns and fists. What doesn't serve them so well is the fact that a band as old and established and known for a "don't give a fuck attitude" has apparently jumped the bandwagon and decided to include one of the ever so trendy "Fuck George Bush" comments.
Now I don't think anyone here at the editorial is any fan of Mr. Bush's but somehow it just feels like a guy like Lemmy Kilmister should be way above pulling an entertainers trick that's almost become more common than the encore. After an hour of playing, Lemmy announces that "We're going to play two more songs Or we're going to play to more songs, then leave and then come back.
You know how it goes. For what seems like several minutes, the guy pounds his drums at speeds that make me wonder if he has extra arms attached somewhere. Then during the ending of both songs he follows each drumbeat by throwing one of his drumstick high up in the air, keeping a crewmember busy picking them up behind him - and did I mention there were two large steamcannons going off around him as well?
