Metal Hammer Review.

Metal Hammer Germany posted a review of our show in Munich yesterday here MetalHammer.de

Sadly my German stretches to ordering up to 12 Bockwurst…So I asked around to see if anyone would translate the review for me and this is what came back…

(Thanks to the wonderful Eva-Maria Oelke for translating it for me)

It’s a thing like that with potty breaks.
For example, when it comes to Depeche Mode, one knows that on their concerts one can comfortably go for a wee between song 8 and 12. It’s their time for the B-Stock, literally.
This, however, doesn’t work for PRR, their spiritual foster childs. With “Fight Fire” they have only one bad song, and fortunately it is one of their shortest. So, when visiting Munich, you’d better jug not too much at the Hofbräuhaus and instead get high from the music of a band who, on their Munich gig, do more than justice to the advance praise they received.

Just like they did on their LPs the brits impress with their great facility, knocking out one divine melody after the other. PRR manage to make the most complex songs sound like fluffy pop music in the most positive way. Plus, with Chloe Alper, John Courtney and Jamie Willcox they’re equipped with three outstanding singers – every note fits, every sound merges to a sparkling Gesamtkunstwerk.
Consequently the band lets the music speak for itself, sparing the usual show effects. It doesn’t have much in to do with Rock or Metal in a strict sense – the four revolutioners seem more like quirky architecture students, designing big Prog-art instead of skyscrapers. But they never appear eggheaded or arrogant, which they prove with a casual chitchat at the merch table after their work is done.

If there’s anything to complain about, then it’s probably the way too short playing time of about 80 minutes. Whoever has such an enormous amount of gems in the chest after just three LPs should not scrimp with the stage time.
However, what’s left is the absolute recommendation to not miss the next PRR gig, no matter what. Not even the potty break.

Pictures of the gig can be found in the gallery.
Wolfgang Kuhn

Setlist:

1. Blitzkrieg/Disconnect
2. Les Malheurs
3. Black Mourning
4. Valour
5. Deus Ex Machina
6. Last Man Last Round
7. Patriarch
8. Fight Fire
9. The Twyncyn/Trembling Willows
10. AVO
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11. Bullitts Dominae
12. The Bright Ambassadors of Morning

Photo by Johanna Bocher

~ by jamiewillcox on February 24, 2011.