Perfect
London Hammersmith Palais
16th March, 2007

With over half a million Poles now in London, it was time to check out ‘Poland’s Rolling Stones’, Perfect, who gave people hope via rock’n’roll through the 80s and beyond. The quartet, led by singer Grzegorz Markowski, hit the stage just after 9pm and produced nearly 100 minutes of great melodic hard rock, interspersed with traditional touches (all in Polish). Thumping opener Stay Alive recalled Saxon, with guitarist Dariusz Kozakiewicz on fire. Adrenalin borrowed the riff from Smoke On The Water for a clapalong, while the boogie-rock of Go Away could be Whitesnake. Lighters were lifted for the ballad Autobiography, before the unaptly named Calm Down rocked with Nazareth-like bite. It’s So Much Fun Around jarred with its Devo-esque feel, but other standouts included the arms-aloft, folky Can’t Give You Much, the Men At Work-style Daydreaming and a raging encore of Undefeated.