Concert Review D-A-D and Thundermother in Munich by Alex Bock

Munich, Backstage, Werk, April 30, 2016

D-A-D might be a band more known to the generation 40 plus, because their high time I’d say was around the late 80’s/early 90’s, where their more famous songs like ‘Sleeping My Day Away’ and ‘Girl Nation’ were aired. Nevertheless, there were also younger people in the audience that night.

The Danish band, who was named Disneyland After Dark in their early days, are around for over 30 years now. In 2014 they released a compilation that recollects their greatest songs over the period of 1984-2014.

That night was reserved for two of their greatest records ‘No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims’ (1989) and ‘Riskin’ It All’ (1991), which they played in full. It really was a hell of a show, which lasted about two hours. After the performance of ‘Riskin’ It All’ was a short break. ‘No Fuel For The Pilgrims’ was played back to front, which left ‘Sleeping My Head Away’ as the last song on the bill. But as if two hours of non-stop music weren’t enough, they even played an encore (It’s After Dark). Not to minimize the performance of younger bands, but every band of the same era as D-A-D, that I watched lately, always played at least a 90 minutes set, if not longer. But that seems to be rare with recent bands.

My highlights of that night, were the various basses of Stig Pedersen, only two strings and a one of a kind look. The pictures should give you an idea of what I’m talking about. Also the stellar performance of the bands’ drummer Laust Sonne. Laust started a solo project recently and released his first single ‘Sunday Morning’ earlier that year.

D-A-D brought ‘Thundermother’, an all female band from Sweden, along on tour. They are a classic Rock ‘n Roll band. Check out their latest music video for the song ‘Just A Tease’ here, to get an idea of their sound:

Check out the social media of both bands for more information on their music and tours

D-A-D

• https://www.facebook.com/d.landafterdark/
• http://www.d-a-d.dk/
• https://twitter.com/d_landafterdark
• https://www.instagram.com/d.landafterdark/

Thundermother

• https://www.facebook.com/thundermother/?fref=ts
• http://www.thundermother.com/
• https://twitter.com/thundermother
• https://www.instagram.com/thundermother/

~ Review and Photography by Alex Bock, https://twitter.com/abphotomjp