Steel Panther
London Camden Electric Ballroom
8th November, 2011

With their new album, the Californian hair-metallers are getting their Balls Out, and despite being barely a week old, the words have been learned already by most inside the Ballroom. Steel Panther relive the glory days of late- 80s heavy metal as if Crue, Def Leppard and Whitesnake never went out of fashion, though the spandex-clad Panther take lyrical parody into smutty, humorous titles such as Supersonic Sex Machine, 17 Girls In A Row and Just Like Tiger Woods: “three holes are better than a hole in one”. Vocalist Michael Starr banters amiably, while the band are tight and professional. For the time being, we’re happy to listen to unashamedly un-PC winners such as Turn Out The Lights and the anthemic Death To All But Metal, and Steel Panther certainly know how to attract the feline kind to their side-splitting shows.