Few shots of UFO at Warsaw Stodoła from last night. The 90-100 minute set was a nice balance of old tunes ('Lights Out', 'Only You Can Rock Me'; 'Rock Bottom'; 'Doctor, Doctor', 'Shoot, Shoot' etc.); tunes from the last couple of albums ('Wonderland', 'Burn Your House Down', 'Fight Night'; 'Run Boy Run'; 'The Killing Kind'); with the occasional more 'obscure' tune thrown in (e.g. 'Making Moves').
Of course, vocalist Phil Mogg (above) is a great frontman so there were a few wonderful wisecracks e.g. he informed everybody that he'd had some kind of accident (and from the way he was speaking in some pain, it sounded like he may have lost a couple of teeth) then introduced 'Fight Night'; he observed that not many people were drinking beer so it kind of reminded him of an AA meeting etc.
And, of course, joint spotlight fell on guitarist, Vinnie Moore:
While bassist Rob De Luca and rhythm guitarist/keyboard player Paul Raymond stayed more in the background:
And, for me, the best tunes of the night were 'Venus' and 'Cherry', as the band just seemed to nail them. But there was no 'Love To Love', possibly because of Phil Mogg's accident, who knows?
Anyway, this was the seventh time I'd seen UFO over the years, and the band will always be more than a bit special for me, as they were the first band I ever saw live back in January 1980 at Manchester Apollo.
And the Polish support band? Well, the bassist seemed to have quite a few technical problems, and they weren't really my cup of tea, but some of the crowd seemed to like them:
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