LA Guns - Saturday 25 March 2017 - O2 Academy Islington, London

Who would've thought it then, but Phil Lewis & Tracii Guns are back together again in LA Guns for the Reloaded 2017 UK Tour.However sadly no Steve Riley on drums for this tour (Shane Fitzgibbon replacing him). The last time LA Guns played in London was in 2011 when the 2 versions were doing the rounds; Phil Lewis & Steve Riley and Tracii Guns (with Jizzy Pearl on vocals).Both played the Camden Underworld. However this time they are at the slightly larger Academy which had nicely filled up by the time they came on. An odd choice to kick off their set was "Hollywood Tease", a song from Phil Lewis's first band Girl. This proved to be a good choice which fitted well in their set. What followed was the classic LA Guns songs; "Electric Gypsy", "Sex Action", "Ballad of Jayne" and finally finishing off the set with "Rip and Tear" (with support band Stone Trigger joining them on stage). It was a shame that the set was only 75 minutes long but they played the songs that we wanted to hear. It was good to see both Phil & Tracii enjoying each others company. Ably assisted by Michael Grant on guitar and Johnny Martin on bass this was good dose of LA Guns nostalgia. They are currently making a new album so we await later in the year for some new music from the classic (reunited) LA Guns.

Rating: 8/10

Setlist: Hollywood Tease, Electric Gypsy, Killing Machine, Over the Edge, Bitch is Back, Sex Action, One more Reason, Kiss my Love Goodbye, Don't look at me that Way, Malaria, No Mercy, Ballad of Jayne, Never Enough, Rip and Tear.