That doesn’t mean it isn’t immense fun though. The world has moved on since Cooper’s heyday when men in makeup singing about the last day of school-induced pearl-clutching and Friday night is less shock rock and more macabre satire. "We play songs for our dead drunk friends," cries Cooper, wild-eyed and wielding his cane theatrically at the crowd before launching into the opening stomp of The Doors' Five to One.īand original Dead Drunk Friends sees the singer, whose voice still retains an impressive rasp, tottering around the stage and raising an imaginary glass to the heavens. Depp looks like a slightly toned-down version of his Captain Jack Sparrow alias sporting a crochet hat, layers of bracelets, and a medical boot on his left foot after an ankle fracture that forced the band to cancel some shows earlier this summer.Ĭracking through classics by AC/DC and The Who along with tracks from their new album Live in Rio the show frequently veers towards the cartoonish. Cooper, now 75, is almost entirely clad in leather and wears his trademark black eye makeup.
Looking someway between a geriatric magic show and the undead crew aboard a lost pirate ship (really, did you think there would be no Pirates of the Caribbean reference here?), the band are clearly all in on the affair. Read more: Hozier at Cardiff Castle review: Earnest, uplifting folk music If it sounds like something dreamed up it still feels a little like that when the band take the stage at the Swansea Arena on Friday for the second night of a UK tour that was scrapped back in 2020 due to the pandemic. It’s a bizarre toast to “dead, drunk friends” but in spirit rather than actuality, at least in Cooper’s case – he reportedly swapped vodka shots for golf years ago.
Years later Cooper, Depp, and Perry crank out trademark rock classics and original tunes on stages across the world.
Legend has it that that group would meet in an upstairs bar in LA’s Sunset Strip and drink until nobody could stand up. Since 2012 the unlikely trio have been touring as the Hollywood Vampires, based on the 1970s LA drinking club formed by Cooper that occasionally included the likes of John Lennon and Ringo Starr. Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, and Aerosmith's Joe Perry are one of the more curious musical combos.
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