Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, and Aerosmith's Joe Perry are one of the more curious musical combos. Since 2012 the unlikely trio have been touring as the Hollywood Vampires, based on the 1970s LA drinking club formed by Cooper that occasionally included the likes of John Lennon and Ringo Starr.
Legend has it that that group would meet in an upstairs bar in LA’s Sunset Strip and drink until nobody could stand up. Years later Cooper, Depp, and Perry crank out trademark rock classics and original tunes on stages across the world. It’s a bizarre toast to “dead, drunk friends” but in spirit rather than actuality, at least in Cooper’s case – he reportedly swapped vodka shots for golf years ago.
If it sounds like something dreamed up it still feels a little like that when the band take the stage at the Swansea Arena on Friday for the second night of a UK tour that was scrapped back in 2020 due to the pandemic.
