The Eleventh Hour

December 2011… Feat: Tyketto/Wrathchild/Def Leppard/Motley Crue/Steel Panther/ Dr. & The Medics/Dawn Trader/Thunder/HELL…

December 31^st… HELL (MFN Shipley Gate)…

And now the end is near etc… yes folks it’s New Years Eve and as we say goodbye to 2011 and a big HELLo to 2012 there’s time for just one more gig and boy what a show it was. HELL round off their renascence with a New Years Eve show to remember and by doing so lay down their intensions for next year. The setting is MFN in Thunder Valley and the atmosphere is building to a crescendo, earlier in the year the reformed NWOBHM band made their comeback at MFN after a quarter of a century away from the scene and sold the place out. Tonight they play a phenomenal set of old songs from their debut album ‘Human Remains’ and some new songs from their forthcoming much anticipated second album. Although tonight is not sold out it is still packed with not only local people but many who have travelled long distances to be here. HELL have built up a fanatical following over the past year or so, way back in the early 1980’s this was not always the case, I was at their first show in 83’ I think it was and their was a fraction of the people at that one than is here tonight. The reason for this in my view is that HELL were way ahead of the time but now the world is ready for them it looks likely that a major tour is imminent so it’s time to ‘deliver us from evil’ as the dawn of a new year begins ‘let battle commence’… GD.