Thin Lizzy Rock Cambridge!

Guest Contributor 'Fishboy' excites over Thin Lizzy at The Cambridge Corn Exchange, Nov 23rd 2007:

What a night – the sound techs usually get the sound so wrong here (e.g. Bullet For My Valentine and Def Leppard in recent years) – but when they get it right, like tonight, The Cambridge Corn Exchange Rocks!

If you loved Live and Dangerous, you need to see this tour. They rip into most of the album with rockin ferocity, the twin guitars riffing in perfect harmony just as Phil Lynott wrote it. John Sykes tearing away at the fret board, clearly loving every minute of it, drawing the crowd along and infecting us with his passion. The Cambridge crowd – from teenagers to the guys who were there in the 70s – are up for it at the start, but by the end Lizzy have whipped them to ecstasy such is the harmony of sound and the sense of pure rocking fun on a Friday night.

The quality of the songs endures – surely you can’t mess these classics up – Boys Are Back In Town, Jail Break, Don’t Believe A Word, Dancing In The Moonlight, Are You Ready?, Waiting For An Alibi, Still In Love With You, Bad Reputation …how much time have you got? Scott Gorham has the wasted elegance of a man who’s seen it all, but is still in love with the music. The connection and respect between these guitarists is evident, and their pleasure in the songs spills over the crowd.

Two encores – I get my wish – 'Cold Stone Sober And Cold Stone Sweat Running Down The Back Of My Neck', Black Rose, The Rocker… there is actually a mosh pit on my right! The kids are that into it (I didn’t see that at Bullet For My Valentine here, and the kids went nuts over them!) - don’t let this end! (OK so I’m a big fan!)

To criticise this band as just a covers band is to miss the point, and a great night out. These guys played with the legend, John Sykes is pure Rock God and, with Scott as his foil they look the part (hell, are the part!) and have the crowd eating out of their hands. Sykes is note perfect, and ok he’s not Phil Lynott, but he dedicates the tour and the night, to the man, night, after night, after night. He is John Sykes, he’s the man.

Absolutely, fully, 100% recommended.

Fishboy.