I was a great fan back in the seventies and I've been to 3 concerts in Copenhagen at that time. But that's 20 years ago and I haven't heard much since then. In the end of the seventies I went over to Purple and Zeppelin and I been to concerts with both. As for Zeppelin it was their last concert in Copenhagen before Bonham died.

Well, for the past 3½ years I have been living in Nuuk, Greenland. Though Greenland is the biggest island on the earth the total amount of inhabitants is approx. 55.000, and in Nuuk the capitol it's approx. 15.000 people. So it's very seldom that we have concerts here. When I first heard that Sweet was coming here and I found out it was 'only' Andy Scott and some other guys, I didn't want to go, because I remembered the good old days with the original band and I didn't want to be disappointed. But then I checked the website - thesweet.com - and read the other reviews, and decided in the last minute to go to the concert.

Some Danish band - Metallica Jam - started up. They played Metallica songs, and though the Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is Danish, I don't know any Metallica songs and I never heard any. Maybe they did it well, but I didn't like the music. I do like heavy and loud music, but not this kind. My review of that gig was: have you heard one song then you've heard them all. So I waited patiently 'till the main-gig, and suddenly the never forgotten intro (kind of striptease tune, you know) started and I knew it used to be the intro to Hellraiser with a lot of smoke and explosions. Well, in our little concert-hall there was no smoke or explosions, but the band went on stage and played Hellraiser and real good too. Unfortunately there was something wrong with Andy's amplifiers and he looked very angry and dissatisfied during the song, and after the song he went off stage. The singer (I don't know the names of the other bandmembers) tried to cheer up the audience and he did it very well, but in the end he had to say, that they had go go off stage until the problems were fixed. I felt very sorry for them and especially Andy and it was a kind of anticlimax. I kept remembering the power-concerts in Copenhagen and felt even more sad for Andy. You know, like 'this is how it ended' way.

They came back on stage after 10-15 minutes and went on with the show, and that was just great. All the single hits were performed very well and all the band-members did a very good job. I had a very good time, but then again I'm an old man who grew up with the songs and concerts, and I can't tell what the majority of the young audience have felt, but they were never the less in a good mood. Of course Andy has changed in the past 20 years, but I think he did a good job. He wasn't the lead-guitarist though, anymore. The show was great indeed, and especially because I knew every song in details (I found out). The concert lasted an hour but from the website I knew that they would do Ballroom Blitz as encore (and I never been to a concert without encore), and so they did. The encores though started with some old Who-tracks as Tommy and My Generation (which Andy sung in the real m-m-my generation way) and then the last encore - 'you know this one' - Ballroom Blitz. And despite their real names, it was 'are you ready Steve...'. Once again great show and I didn't regret that I went to the show. Long live nostalga.

I brought along my 11 years old son who doesn't know a clue about the Sweet or their songs. Never the less he did meet them in the local restaurant and got their autographs, just like that. Back in the seventies I was an autograph-hunter, but I only got Steve Priest's autograph then. The sentence 'my generation' just got some meaning now. I'm 41. Don't anybody tell me that I'm old. I'm just no teenager anymore.

Anyway the gig meant a revival to me. I bought a greatest hits CD some days before. The Sweet collection is on LP's and it is years since I had a record-player, so you know, back to nostalga.

Well, like Edith Piaf sings: Je ne regret rien. It was a GREAT GIG.

Kind regards Gert