On Monday, September 13th,
Evan and I went to Southpaw (http://www.spsounds.com/)
in Brooklyn to check out The Sahara Hotnights,
an all-female hard rock band from Sweden that
is touring the U.S. to promote their new album,
"Kiss and Tell." The Hot Nights
started in 1999.
These band mates (four
childhood friends from the same town in Sweden)
are a cross between The Go Gos and AC/DC.
They have a hard rock edge with hints of 80's
New Wave, forming a sound that is both catchy
and biting. The Hotnights started their set
with a bang and kept on running. They sang
highly-energized songs like "The Difference
Between Love and Hell," "Mind over
Matter," along with their single, "Hot
Night Crash."
Maria Andersson
Karin Ewa Josephine Forsman
Johanna
Asplund
Like the
live performances of The Ramones, the Sahara Hotnights
didn't stop their music to chat with the audience,
choosing to emphase the music instead. What impressed
me most about the band was how polished these ladies
were on their instruments and how solid and disciplined
they were as a unit. They never skipped a beat and
were dead-on, even when the lead guitarist broke
two strings. She simply ran backstage, grabbed another
guitar, returned and kept on playing like it never
happened.
