Oh well...cant please em all. I saw em at Glastonbury this year...first band of the day as well...and I've never been inclined to having a rocking moment at 10.00am until then. Just thought they were great fun and also really good at what they were doing.
Like I say, I think they are more loving homage than piss take. You couldn't be that dedicated to getting that sound right if all you were doing was being 'ironic'.
What's quite interesting that lyrically, amidst all the Queenisms & Thin Lizzy twin guitar lines, there's a lot of very English profanity and observations of mundane Britishness. Never thought I'd see the word cunt used in an FM Radio heavy rock context.
Dunno why that appeals to me but it does :^)
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