[Susan Foreman]

A couple of reviews of the first Pandemonium date:

From The Music. com...

"Alice Cooper wraps up the day with a deliciously over the top set, full of all of the evil and bombast one would expect. Cooper stalks across the stage, menacing and divine all at once. After the insane lead up to Pandemonium, seeing Cooper in the flesh serving up Schools Out, Poison, and No More Mr Nice Guy makes it all worth it. The crowd throws themselves into the set and Cooper delivers in spades, with a cheeky brush with a guillotine to boot. It is rock n roll theatre of the highest calibre and wickedly enjoyable from start to finish."

...and The Sydney Morning Herald

"Finally, Alice Cooper asserts his dominance by turning the show into a full-on pantomime. In his make-up, frilly shirt and a top hat, and carrying a cutlass, he looks like a swashbuckling Beetlejuice, and his band of hard rockers look like they?re about to be beaten up in a bar by the Terminator.

The set comprises of theatrics befitting truly insane songs including Feed My Frankenstein (?Hungry for love / And it?s lunchtime?) and I Love the Dead. Cooper waves his sword around, then a cane, then a live boa constrictor.

He?s straitjacketed, then he dances with a woman dressed as Marie Antoinette (it?s Alice?s wife Sheryl), who promptly guillotines him before parading his decapitated head around, kissing it.

?School?s out forever!? Yeah! It?s hard to believe this caused a moral panic in the 1970s. It?s about as transgressive as The Munsters. But it?s very, very fun."