LiveWire presents Wrathchild

LiveWire and The Giffard Arms presents Wrathchild on Saturday 18th April 2026Fronted by the charismatic and irrepressible Rocky Shades, Wrathchild crafted a comic book fantasy come to lifeeach show a kaleidoscope of colour, and riotous energy that stood out amid the chaos of NWOBHM
Wrathchild embraced the attitude of NWOBHM, earning themselves a place in the whos who NWOBHM Encyclopedia, and combined it with a brazen theatricality rarely seen on British shores. Their looktowering hair, sleazy makeup, and neon-stained spandexmay have shocked their early audiences, but it carved out a unique niche that predated and arguably paved the way for the American glam metal explosion.