LORDI (Live)

at The NX, Newcastle, U.K., April 3, 2025

It’s not every day that a Eurovision Winner comes to Newcastle so when those Finnish monsters, Lordi stomped into town it was one not to be missed.

With a stunning visual show packed with comic book horror, wonderfully garish Lord of the Rings-esq costumes, a ton of props from confetti guns to flying dummies; insanely catchy songs and witty between song banter all with the tongue planted firmly in the cheek.

How could they fail with such ditties as “Girl In A Suitcase”, “Who’s Your Daddy”, “Syntax Terror” and “Girls Go Chopping” while “Retropolis” featured a chorus so infectious that one listen will burrow deep and stay there for a month of Sundays. With musical references nodding towards Trash era Alice Cooper and primetime KISS every song sucked you in within seconds. There was no escaping.

Big hitters “Blood Red Sandman” and “Would You Love A Monsterman” headed into the final strait closing with what else, but their Eurovision triumph, “Hard Rock Hallelujah” ending a night of pure, unadulterated fantasy fun.

Lordi

Author

Mick Burgess
Mick is a reviewer and photographer here at Metal Express Radio, based in the North-East of England. He first fell in love with music after hearing Jeff Wayne's spectacular The War of the Worlds in the cold winter of 1978. Then in the summer of '79 he discovered a copy of Kiss Alive II amongst his sister’s record collection, which literally blew him away! He then quickly found Van Halen I and Rainbow's Down To Earth, and he was well on the way to being rescued from Top 40 radio hell! Over the ensuing years, he's enjoyed the Classic Rock music of Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Deep Purple; the AOR of Journey and Foreigner; the Pomp of Styx and Kansas; the Progressive Metal of Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, and Symphony X; the Goth Metal of Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Epica, and a whole host of other great bands that are too numerous to mention. When he's not listening to music, he watches Sunderland lose more football (soccer) matches than they win, and occasionally, if he has to, he goes to work as a property lawyer.
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