NEWS: HRH Sleaze 2018 announces first acts - including LA Guns and Backyard Babies

L.A. Guns -The legendary veterans of the sunset strip glam and sleaze metal scene are announced headline the Saturday stage at HRH Sleaze next September at 02 Academy Sheffield.

The band are true warriors of the 80’s genre and are geared up to tear it up at HRH Sleaze, promising to deliver the high octane Rock-n Roll that they are famed for.

Backyard Babies, one of Sweden’s most successful and bestselling rock bands are also confirmed to headline the Sunday main stage. They have several Grammy awards, gold selling albums and world tours to their name and HRH can’t wait to see their sleaze rock swagger at the O2 Academy next year. The band officially reunited in 2014, five years after they announced that they were going on an indefinite hiatus.

HRH have also confirmed  the following bands.
L.A. GUNS – BACKYARD BABIES
TIGERTAILZ – JETBOY
SANTA CRUZ – TOXICROSE
WILDHEART – THE EROTICS
SNAKEBITE WHISKY - SHIRAZ LANE
THE MAIN GRAINS – MIDNITE CITY
THE SENTON BOMBS– FALLING RED
BLACK BULLETS – THE IDOL DEAD
BLACK BULL – SPYDER BYTE
PSYCHOBABYLON – LAST GREAT DREAMERS
Plus more bands to be announced.

HRH Sleaze is already 58 % sold from this year’s event. To make it cool, we have a killer deal which is giving you more than 50% off, but only for 6 days and all subject to availability.

For 6 days only, the full weekend will be 25 GBP and no booking fee, What's more we will be giving you the Friday night pre party, which is the 9th Cycle of Highway to Hell, Free of Charge
Accommodation packages, which some include the Royalty passes for the upstairs balcony have a 35% discount for the 6 days.

It all finishes Monday 16th at Midnight where they go back up to the normal price of 60GBP and no 35% off hotel packages…BUT, that’s if there is availability
Sites have reduced rates on them, meaning you don't need a promo code, but its only for 6 days
if you know your Sleaze then this is a weekend not to be missed.

HRH Sleaze 2 will take place at the O2 Academy in Sheffield between 1st -2nd  September, 2018.
HRH Sells Out super-fast, so if you’re clever, book soon to avoid disappointment, online at www.hrhsleaze.com, or ring Sam on 0207 193 1307.

ALBUM REVIEW: Pop punk swerve mars Backyard Babies sound return on ‘Four By Four’

 THEY’VE had a break for just five years, and now Backyard Babies are back with the proverbial curate’s egg of a release on ‘Four By Four’ on Gain Music – good in parts and mystifying in others.

Releasing any album after a lengthy break is always a risk, especially with a fan base that looks back to previous songs. And, the Backyard Babies have six albums worth of material to live up to.

Not that those albums were consistently good, but the Swedish four-piece had enough of a back catalogue of excellent hard rock tunes to have a fist pumping crowd gather when they played.

On Four By Four they strive to rekindle those fires and mostly achieve that, but the curious duo of songs, ‘Piracy’ and ‘Never Finish Anything’ sound like out-takes from some middle-America pop punk wannabes.

Thankfully the rest of the album is more palatable for those who like their hard rock on the raucous side. Opener, a lead single ‘Th1rt3en or Nothing’ kicks things into high gear, followed by the not-so-modest ‘I’m On My To Save Your Rock ‘n’Roll’.

The promise of a return to the halcyon says of Peder Carlsson, Johan Blomquist, Dregen and Nicke Borg seems fulfilled, until the saccharine schamltz of ‘Bloody Tears’ serves as a warning before the pop punk flavoured duo mentioned above.

Where that incorporation of pop punk elements does work is on ‘Wasted Years’ which has the hooks of the better bands of that justly maligned genre.

But album closer is the validation for all that has gone before. ‘Walls’ has the slowed down swagger of Duff McKagan’s Loaded at its best; driven along by a bass line, and a well balanced arrangement and a storming mid-section.

The band certainly sound confident about this release

"We really feel that our time out will end up being a win-win situation for both the band and our fans," said Nicke Borg. "The break has developed us individually as songwriters and musicians, and we’ve come up with what we feel is our strongest material to date.
"For the first time, we’ve had the chance to look back on our catalogue and get a firm grip on why our audience – and ourselves, for that matter – loves Backyard Babies so fucking much! So it's been a mixture of personal development and finding our way back to the band’s essence, its energies..."


Reading quotations like this on the PR blurb that accompanies releases always gives one time to pause and reflect on a release. Despite the reservations there is sufficient weight on display to suggest that Backyard Babies can further develop. The closing riffs on ‘Walls’ suggest they can find their way back to the armies wanting to save rock 'n' roll.

Review by Jonny