Ugly Kid Joe played their very first Wacken Open Air festival gig in the summer of 2013, and now you can watch the full performance above. Ugly Kid Joe was fittingly placed on the Party Stage, and they were ready to make the most of it. After a short intro, which surprisingly didn’t seem to rub the über-metal crowd the wrong way, the band came on to much cheering and went straight at it with V.I.P. from their sophomore album, Menace To Sobriety. Surely Wacken is a festival with a lot of V.I.P.’s, so it’d be interesting to know how many were offended by this, but on the other hand, it was just a good way to start the festivities off.
The setlist was overall concentrated on America’s Least Wanted, intertwined with songs from the above mentioned Menace To Sobriety and their 2012 comeback EP Stairway To Hell. This meant that there a few patches where I didn’t know the music, but the new material seemed to rock as well and as the band was on top of things in the delivery of it all there was no reason for discouragement. Crane did a great frontman job, engaging the crowd as well and often as he could – he was often out on the speakers in front of the crowd to get close to the fans, and in Panhandlin’ Prince Crane even got down to sing on the security fence.
There hadn’t been too many people prior to the show, but metalheads were quickly filing in when the music began and even though V.I.P. seemed to come and pass with people settling in, the party was quickly gaining momentum in the second song of the day, the classic Neighbor, a great song to warm up our vocal chords. We got to take the long “won’t you be my neighbour” part by ourselves and the smiles from the band told us they were immensely satisfied with the result.
SETLIST:
00:21 V.I.P.
05:49 Neighbor
11:16 C.U.S.T.
14:46 Panhandlin' Prince
21:36 No One Survives
25:25 Devil's Paradise
29:56 Cats in the Cradle
34:38 I'm Alright
38:29 Milkman's Son
42:28 Goddamn Evil
47:38 Ace of Spades
51:18 Everything About You
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