VAIN invade Europe for March tour with Fins STALO & SO!

Davy Vain the voice of VAIN heads to Europe for March tour (Dates below)

 

VAIN “Enough Rope” Review

By Scott Smith

In 25 words or less:  Just like the 1989 release No Respect, Enough Rope is an essential hard rock classic.

With it being over 20 years now since the glory days of 80’s hard rock, it’s certainly been intriguing to say the least to observe the bands, albums and songs that have “survived” so to speak in 2011.  There is no better example for mine than Vain and their classic 1989 debut album No Respect, led by the singles Beat The Bullet and Who’s Watching You.  Listening to that album now in 2011, I know I am certainly not alone in stating that it has truly stood the test of time, when many others released in that era have long, long, long faded from memory.  The album is practically void of all the 80’s hard rock musical clichés’ which dominated the scene and it was then, and still is now, simply an album of awesome rock songs.

In Davy Vain, we have without doubt one of the most unique and captivating singers, songwriters and performers in rock n roll over the last 25 years and now in 2011, we have the new Vain release Enough Rope.  There have indeed been a bunch of other releases under both the Vain and Davy Vain banner over the years, but none have quite captured the energy and spirit of No Respect in the way that Enough Rope has.  Working with bay area thrashers Death Angel back in the 80′s as a producer through to in recent years engineering Christina Aguilera’s Grammy nominated vocal performance on I Am Beautiful, its no surprise the album was produced, recorded and engineered by Davy himself.  With Vain alumni Jamie Scott & Shawn Rorie on guitars, Tommy Rickard & Louie Senor on drums and Ashley Mitchell on bass dominating the playing throughout this album, the musicianship is flawless.  Steven Adler of Guns n Roses fame plays drums on the menacing Cindy and closing track Worship You, both tracks notably featuring the old Roadcrew lineup of Adler, Vain, Scott, Mitchell and Rorie.

A classic Vain song could never usually be described as “immediate” or “instant” and as an opener, Greener with it’s incessant, driving guitar riff, fits that mould perfectly.  Triple X see’s Vain at their heaviest and most raucous, while if you want to know why girls regard Davy Vain as having one of the most sleaziest and alluring voices in rock….well just take a listen to Hot Stage Lights.  With little twists and turns and unexpected musical pleasures throughout, Stray Kitten Burns is one of the real album highlights and really showcases the abilities of Davy Vain as a songwriter, as does the ballad Treasure Girl.  The straight ahead hard rock of Enough Rope, Solid Goldand Vainplay off as a nice contrast to The Distance Of Love,the most unique track on the album having an almost psychedelic tinge to it with a vocal delivery that at times is a cross between the likes of Jim Morrison (The Doors), Jeff Martin (The Tea Party) and Ian Astbury (The Cult).

As is No Respect, Enough Rope is an essential hard rock classic, simply as good as you are likely to find in 2011. 

Article/Review from MayRockBeWithYou

 

VAIN European tour dates with STALO & SO from Helsinki Finland.

Saturday	10. March	Germany	Mülheim a/d Ruhr	Shout it out loud Festival
Wednesday	14. March	UK	Newcastle	Academy 2
Thursday	15. March	UK	Cardiff	Bogiez
Friday	16. March	UK	Sheffield	Corporation
Saturday	17. March	UK	Birmingham	HMV Library
Sunday	18. March	UK	London	The Underworld
Tuesday	20. March	UK	Edinburgh	Bannermans
Wednesday	21. March	UK	Belfast	The Limelight
Friday	23. March	BE	Roeselare	Diezie
Saturday	24. March	GER	Lichtenfels	Paunchy Cats
Sunday	25. March	CH	Uster	Rock City
Wednesday	28. March	SWE	Stockholm	Harry B. James
Thursday	29. March	SWE	Trollhättan	Backstage Rockbar
Friday	30. March	SWE	Växjö	Dirty Harry
Saturday	31. March	NOR	Oslo	Gamla

 

More on Helsinki Finlands STALO & SO .

Stala & So. special guest on Vain’s European tour

From the streets of Helsinki, Stala & So are ready to kick some serious ass as special guest of Vain on their upcoming European tour.

They are about to release their new album “Gimme Five” in Europe Early March 2012. In Finland the album was originally released on September 2011 as an EP, containing five songs. To celebrate the European release, the band decided to record five more songs and release it as a full 10-track CD. These new songs are acoustic cover versions of some of the bands own favourite tunes. One of the songs, titled “Sad Song”, is Stala & So. -original. The album is distributed in Europe and South America via Music Buy Mail.

Stala & So. will kick off the tour at the Shout It Out Loud -festival, held in Mulheim, Germany on March 10th.

Follow Stala & So. on Facebook at www.facebook.com/StalaSo

Check the tour dates and other info on www.stalaso.com

You Tube Clips at http://youtu.be/0lbok_zf0CM  and http://youtu.be/Wlt8tcXundg

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