Pretty Maids / Animalyze - Gimle, Roskilde, Denmark 7th March 2025

Support tonight comes from Animalyze. They had first come to my attention in December at the Maids Amager Bio shows as the band members eagerly handed out leaflets advertising their forthcoming single Kings of The Night. The band have recently joined with legendary Danish manager Ken Anthony and have been on a large PR push ahead of their forthcoming debut album Powerhouse scheduled for a late May 2025 release.  

How to best describe the band, imagine an illegitimate love child of early 1980's Motley Crue and Kiss and you are pretty much bang on. Sleazy, Melodic, Hard rockin metal. They add to this with the looks, leather and chains are prominent as as huge riffs and choruses, The aforementioned single Kings of the Night is a superb fist pumping straight from that 80's heyday tune. Other numbers out like Hot but Dangerous and Hunter of the Night. The crowd are fully invested into the performance, the future looks very good for these lads under the esteemed steering of Anthony and the deal with Stealheart Records. Do yourself a favour and check out their socials and You-Tube and give them a follow.  

Following last years reunion the Maids rock and roll train is firmly back on the tracks and almost every week brings a new show announcement going forward. Tonight is billed as a pre MORC warm up show, and in that we get a longer than average set that lasts a couple of minutes under 2 hours. 

The venue is a full 1000 capacity sell out by the time the lights go down and the intro to Mother Of All Lies kicks in, a song very poignant of today's world and events in a certain large white house across the Atlantic. The set list for a Maids show almost writes itself these days with so many hugely popular tunes, we always get a extra blast from the past and this time its Hell on High Heels from the 1999 album Anything Worth Doing. Its been 40 years since Red Hot and Heavy was released and that album still features heavily in the set along with a fan favourite in Shelly The Maid from the debut EP way back in 1983. 

The amount of smoke and lighting make for a challenging photo night, but the atmosphere is for want of a better description very Red Hot and Heavy.....

With two sets to play on the cruise we get 19 songs tonight. All the big hits are there, Please Don't Leave Me, Little Drops of Heaven, I.N.V.U, and the usual encores of Future world and Love Games. 

Following the cruise the band are off to Brazil in May and then another 11 gigs are lined up over the year with mostly festival headline slots and an appearance at Sweden Rock at the start of June. 

There are plenty nights of Pandemonium ahead.