May
16
Anvil at Foufounes
On Sunday night Anvil’s 16-date Canadian tour to support their latest Heavy Metal offering Juggernaut of Justice rolled into Montreal. The evening’s festivities began with the N.W.O.B.H.M-influenced Heavy Metal stylings of Montreal based band Metalian. I thoroughly enjoyed Metalian’s set from their vintage metal sound complete with the lead vocalist’s high-falsetto wails to their guitarist sporting a Hulk Hogan t-shirt onstage to their cover of Judas Priest’s Victim of Changes. I hope to see Metalian again I enjoy that old school N.W.O.B.H.M sounding metal ever so much!
The mighty and powerful Anvil took the stage next they were welcomed to Montreal by an enthusiastic crowd. Their loving and adoring female fans tossed flowers and a big purple bra onstage to appease their Heavy Metal heroes! Lips Kudlow proudly wore this purple bra on his head like a crown and he decorated his microphone stand with the flowers that were thrown his way. Anvil has a fondness for Quebec in the liner notes of their 1981 debut album Hard ‘N’ Heavy they thanked Quebec groupies for all their wonderful service. Than on their second album Metal on Metal the song Jackhammer was written about one of those hard-workin’ Quebec groupies.
The crowd was a pleasant mix of older, dedicated Anvil fans and newer young fans most likely won over by the superb rock-documentary The Story of Anvil. Anvil’s set was comprised of 4 new songs from Juggernaut of Justice album and the rest of their set was classic Anvil songs from their 14-album career. Their performance could have been featured on VH1’s Storytellers series because pretty much every single song Anvil played on Sunday evening had an enjoyable story to go along with the song. My favorite story was when they dedicated Thumb Hang to the late, great Ronnie James Dio. 25 years after Anvil toured with Ronnie James Dio, Lips met up with Dio in a diner he remembered Lips from that tour all those years ago and they had breakfast together. It was a fantastic story to hear on the night before the 1-year anniversary of Ronnie James Dio’s untimely death. Songs of note from Anvil’s set include Mothra complete with Lip’s infamous vibrator-guitar solo, School Love, White Rhino with Rob Reiner’s drum solo and they ended their set with Running a really kickass song from the new album.
“15-years in Anvil and people still call him the “new†guy†– Steve “Lips†Kudlow
![Anvil 3]()
Anvil’s complete set-list
March of the Crabs
666
School Love
Juggernaut of Justice
Winged Assassin
On Fire
This is Thirteen
Mothra (w/vibrator-guitar solo)
Thumb Hang (dedicated to Ronnie James Dio)
White Rhino (w/Rob Reiner drum solo)
Fuken Eh!
Forged in Fire
Mad Dog
Metal on Metal
Jackhammer
Running
The mighty and powerful Anvil took the stage next they were welcomed to Montreal by an enthusiastic crowd. Their loving and adoring female fans tossed flowers and a big purple bra onstage to appease their Heavy Metal heroes! Lips Kudlow proudly wore this purple bra on his head like a crown and he decorated his microphone stand with the flowers that were thrown his way. Anvil has a fondness for Quebec in the liner notes of their 1981 debut album Hard ‘N’ Heavy they thanked Quebec groupies for all their wonderful service. Than on their second album Metal on Metal the song Jackhammer was written about one of those hard-workin’ Quebec groupies.
The crowd was a pleasant mix of older, dedicated Anvil fans and newer young fans most likely won over by the superb rock-documentary The Story of Anvil. Anvil’s set was comprised of 4 new songs from Juggernaut of Justice album and the rest of their set was classic Anvil songs from their 14-album career. Their performance could have been featured on VH1’s Storytellers series because pretty much every single song Anvil played on Sunday evening had an enjoyable story to go along with the song. My favorite story was when they dedicated Thumb Hang to the late, great Ronnie James Dio. 25 years after Anvil toured with Ronnie James Dio, Lips met up with Dio in a diner he remembered Lips from that tour all those years ago and they had breakfast together. It was a fantastic story to hear on the night before the 1-year anniversary of Ronnie James Dio’s untimely death. Songs of note from Anvil’s set include Mothra complete with Lip’s infamous vibrator-guitar solo, School Love, White Rhino with Rob Reiner’s drum solo and they ended their set with Running a really kickass song from the new album.
“15-years in Anvil and people still call him the “new†guy†– Steve “Lips†Kudlow