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October 23, 2001 in Casbah, Sheffield (England)...review by UKbase
First off all, The Hives are one of my favorite bands so you've got to understand that i'm biased from the start, but these guys are great live, great stage presence, great music, great band and seeing as tonight was a free entry night then that makes it all the better. For anybody who is not aware of The Hives (where have you been??) then they're a five piece Swedish band on Burning Heart Records (big surprise) that create a garage, 60 style punk for the 2000's infact their probably the Beatles of the 2000's but with loads more balls and attitude. The Hives played songs from both their CD's 'Barely Legal' & 'Veni Vidi Vicous' which are more than highly recommended, and these songs came over really well live and very loud. The vocalist Howlin' Pelle is a great frontman who has great rappour with the crowd though it times you did feel like you were part of a mass advert for the band, and were being force fed with 'The Hives' with comments constantly along the lines of 'Who do you love', 'The Hives' 'Do you love The Hives', 'The Hives are going to rock your world' etc etc. As you would expect they all hit the stage in the 60's black suites and white ties and straight away look the part, especially as they've got a light bulb back drop of their logo behind them as well. You all should get a chance to see The hives pretty soon as Alan Mcgee founder of Creation records has signed therm for the UK on his new label Poptones, this is a direct quote from him - "Hate to say I told you so" came on. I thought great! Who the fuck are this band? I got back to England to find that they had played my club RADIO 4 and the whole office was going mental about them. I then got the album and my thoughts were confirmed THE HIVES are the greatest garage punk band on the planet. Meanwhile England is going through a "New acoustic movement" - Fuck that shit - Salute THE HIVES!!!" well for a person who signed Oasis your got to be surprised that he actually has some taste. Look out for a compilation CD being released by him with tracks from both CD's called "Your New Favorite Band" if you've already got the original Cd's it's probably not worth it , but it does have 4 mpeg of videos on it for your viewing pleasure. If you get a chance to see The Hives then go, they do hype themselves up a bit, but it's good to see they live up to it and they didn't disappoint this long time fan.
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