GRILSCHOOL, THE AGONY, K2 6. 5. 2022, Prague, Futurum Music Bar
Women’s rock party The British rock band Girlschool is a notion among fans of harder music. Not only has it existed since 1978, but many will remember its participation in the Motörhead Group’s Overkill Tour a year later, where, as a girl band, it was a major attraction. Over time, the girls’ band has probably become the longest-running women’s hard & heavy group. A visitor to her concert in Prague was able to see that she definitely did not lose her rock energy. TEXT: MILAN SLEZÁK PHOTO: JAN ŠÍDA It was conceived as a purely women’s rock party. It is currently launched by the rarely performing K2 in Hradec Králové. Their roughly three-quarters of an hour on stage was marked by the sometimes harder, sometimes more melodic guitar pop rock, and according to the response of the audience, it could be said that it was a suitably chosen start to the evening. The audience met in a relatively decent number. The club was so full of three quarters. Both witnesses and younger students were represented in it. And judging by the tattooed K2 on the shoulder, even some of the rock fans of the trio came to support the group. Opinions could be gathered among the visitors. From the statement “I’ll tell you, after three beers, the music is different, harder” the moment the girls played more sharpened I want to sleep, through the traditional shouts “Plan!” To the chanting “One more”, which the audience asked for a bonus. The second of the women’s formations, the four Agony, came to present the new line-up and at the same time announce to the fans that the Scorpions had chosen it as the frontman for the Prague concert. For the new members of the ensemble, bassist Dominika Mrázková and guitarist Petra Pohanková, this was actually the first major concert with The Agony. But they managed it with an overview and the group around frontwoman Nikola Kandoussi played an energetic hour in Futura, when in addition to pieces from the latest EP Eclectic (Merry Goes Around or Annie) and older things, the news was also missing some news. At the end of the set, they also included (perhaps as a harbinger of Girlschool’s arrival) an excerpt from Motörhead’s Ace of Spades. Girlschool appeared on the scene shortly after ten o’clock. Sure, you won’t stop time, so in fact, from the “girls’ schoolgirls” from the turn of the seventies and eighties, a more deserving part of the choir’s staff now appears on the scene under this name. But the ladies still enjoy their metal and punk hard rock ride and they still play it. Visually, they have been known on the scene for more than forty years, but the energy of their performance is definitely not lacking. In the end, they managed to do so with the opening three-block songs Demolition Boys, C’mon Let’s Go and The Hunter. As the right main stars of the evening, they had the most emphatic sound, and their songs still retain their punch and drive. The whole concert was in the spirit of a big rock party. The ladies enjoyed their ensemble, cheered or cheered on the satisfied audience several times, and already put their own songs (for example with the taste of Guilty As Sin) or some necessary covers (Race With the Devil from The Gun or Motörhead’s Bomber) in the playlist. with feedback from the hall. So they quite succeeded in returning to the Prague soil.