Review - Andrew Wk - Manchester Academy 1 -
Friday 13th April 2012
Ten years on from its release, Andrew Wk makes his long awaiting return to our
shores for a run through of his seminal breakthrough album " I Get
Wet", in a show that has been upgraded twice to the largest Academy venue
in Manchester, in front of a crowd who could not be any more up for it if they
tried.
The crowd are pumped; one look at them as they furiously scream a Daniel
Bryan-esque chant of Yes!Yes!Yes! before his arrival (one for you wrestling
fans out their), Andrew WK simply cannot fail tonight.
As he takes to the stage to an enormous response, and kicks in to the aptly
titled It's Time To Party, and his biggest hit Party Hard, the place achieves
lift off, and goes every shade of fucking batshit craxy imaginable. Nobody
could have expected the response he gets, as the crowd respond in kind
the party being well and truly started. The place goes berserk, and continues
to do so for the duration of the show here tonight, as Andrew WK dips and
weaves through the entire of I Get Wet.
Sure, the majority of the album does sound indentical, but it't not as though
anybody cares. The energy and the passion from band and fans alike is utterly
ridiculous, and regardless of which track is being aired, the place Partys
hard; harder than they have probably ever done before.
Andrew WK is on fire, backed by his wife as his trusty right hand (wo) man, and
he fist pumps, thrashes at his keys, or strums his pizza shaped guitar like a
man possessed. Following the entire run through of IGet Wet, the band return
for a handful of additional numbers, including a magnificnet new track calldd
Headbang, which is quite simply a fucking juggernaut of heavy metal fury, and
which yet again sees the crowd lose their shit in every way possible
As We Want Fun inevitably ends what is a show of mammoth proportions, the full
on stage invasion from the fans show their appreciation for what is one of the
most electric shows anyone has ever seen. The PArty is in full flow and Andrew
Wk looks in his element, even looking humbled and truly touched by the level of
the reaction here tonight. The man is the epitome of, and wrote the handbook on
how to Party Hard; tonight, he was in another league altogether, as he leaves
the stage just as sweaty, spent and satiated as every one who joined in this most
unbelievable of experiences.
Fucking incredible.
Setlist - It's Time to Party / Party Hard / Girls Own Love / Ready to Die
/ Take It Off / I Love NYC / She Is Beautiful / Party Till You Puke / Fun Night
/ Got to Do It / I Get Wet / Don't Stop Living in the Red /
Victory Strikes Again / Never Let Down / You Will Remember Tonight
/ Head Bang / We Want Fun
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