Hollywood '80s metal band
LONDON — best known for its hilarious appearance in the
Penelope Spheeris documentary film
"Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years" (and whose former members include
Nikki Sixx,
Slash,
Izzy Stradlin,
Steven Adler,
Blackie Lawless and
Fred Coury) — will reunite for its first live show in 21 years at Paladino's in Reseda, California on February 14, 2009.
Lead guitarist and band founder
Lizzie Grey, vocalist
Nadir D'Priest, co-lead guitarist
Sean Lewis and drummer
Tim Yasui will perform songs from the
LONDON albums
"Nonstop Rock" (1984),
"Don't Cry Wolf" (1986) as well as the songs
"Breakout" and
"Russian Winter" (see video below) from the 1988
"Metal Years" movie.
The inspiration for the reunion show comes fresh off the success of the
Cleopatra/
Deadline Records release of the 1989
LONDON studio demos, appropriately entitled
"The Metal Years" (now available on
iTunes,
Amazon.com and other fine retailers) last winter on both CD and limited-edition 12" vinyl , as well as the continued massive exposure of the band's '80s music videos on
YouTube and
MySpace.
Appearing with
LONDON will be '80s Sunset Strip veterans
WITCH, featuring the notorious
Betsy from
BITCH on lead vocals,
PERFECT STRANGER and several other local metal acts. Spinning metal all night long between sets will be
KNAC.COM's own
DJ Will.
Paladino's has been the main Los Angeles venue for all hard rock and metal acts for more than a decade and is located at 6101 Reseda Boulevard, Reseda, California.