21-02-2008 Hanoi Rocks

Date: 21-02-2008; Venue: Nachtleben, Frankfurt (Germany)
By: Nina Mende

  After a change of venue at short notice (two days before the show) and the cancelling
  of the opening act, everything worked out perfectly well in the end. The venue
  was still more than just crowded. At 9 pm sharp Hanoi Rocks began their performance.

You don’t know Hanoi Rocks? Well, let me give you a short introduction:

Hanoi Rocks is a glam rock band since 1980, growing during the years and are now a legend and a gorgeous and big glam rock band. They influenced many newer bands and are idols of some of them as well. They released many albums and they have also gone through a lot… For more information check out their whole biography of some three pages.

Their latest album is called “Street Poetry” and that was also the reason for the tour. They came on stage in great glam clothes, some glitter, these typical scarves and accessories which are also typical for that genre.
  Michael Monroe (singer) is so active on stage, jumping around all the time,
  climbing around, doing splits and so on. I was so amazed by that, he’s
  a really agile man. Andy McCoy was playing his guitar with such a passion and
  so did the other three of the band. Watching them all together you could really
  tell that music is their life and devotion. And with all these deep emotions
  coming from the stage nobody could stand still and not move a muscle. Everybody
  in the entire venue was singing along, dancing along and having a blast for
  the entire one and a half hours show time during which Michael changed shirts
  twice, played saxophone and harmonica and just ran up and down the stage, climbing
  up at the sides to sit down there and jumping on and off the amps and drums.
  The drummer Lacu was entertaining behind his drums as well: he was always visualizing
  the lyrics by doing the fitting hand moves or motions, animating the audience
  to clap along, grinning at the audience and just having a blast. Hanoi Rocks
  definitely rocks. After the encore we all couldn’t believe that the show
  was already over because the time seemed to have flown by in such a rush…..

  It was an amazing Thursday evening and everybody went home with a smile and
  a satisfied feeling.

Thanks to Hanoi Rocks!