Face Of Cheam

Saw this on Thunder drummers Harry James website and decided to go. A couple of weeks prior, the whole band drops out due to issues over their contract. The promotor does not cancel the show and replaces the band with three singers and Dave Sharp from the Alarm, who unfortuanately had disappeared by the time the tour reached Epsom. As the name suggested we had two 45 minutes worth of set of 80s classics from Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Bryan Adams, Kiss, Journey etc. In fact we even had 70s classics We Will Rock You and Highway To Hell which ended the show. Good entertainment but sometimes for the wrong reasons mainly due to the singers not knowing the words. Owen Paul was one of them (remember My Favourite Waste Of Time?) and he got lost several times with the back out plan of 'you sing it!' to the crowd. There was one fellow from the Blues Brothers stage show, who had the best stage presence within the smallish theatre, but again he struggled with the words. The most metal was 'Wardie' who had been is Shy and a version of Saxon (not the sucessful one), but he was disturbing due to his lack of clothes, (think a metal Iggy). Still despite the lyrical hiccups (worst was Hammer To Fall or You Give Love A Bad Name) the rest of the band played well and a good time was had. I just feel this sort of thing would be better in the local pub instead of a theatre.