Alice Cooper ft Bobbie Dazzel at Utilita Arena Cardiff 22-07-2025

Before we head into tonight’s review, we are going to take a moment to pay our respects to the late Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away earlier on in the day on July 22nd 2025. Many fans in the audience of tonight’s show hadn’t seen the news, which was released 20 minutes before Bobbie Dazzle took to the stage. The news was heartbreaking to many of the fans who learned throughout the evening and during Bobbie Dazzle’s set. The shock of the evening altered the atmosphere, with Alice Cooper sharing this message after the show.

“Tonight, we found out that the world lost Ozzy just minutes before going on stage in Cardiff, Wales, which is about 2 hours from the place where Ozzy was born. Before going on stage, Alice recorded the following quote for his radio show Alice’s Attic:

“Well, we all know that time is going to take us rockers, but when the giants fall, it’s really hard to accept. Even though everybody saw it coming with Ozzy, it just took our breath away when it happened. So Ozzy and family – your records and your music and your legend and all that you brought – the humor to the rock business – will live on forever and we’re gonna miss you, man.”

Alice and his band then dedicated tonight’s show to Ozzy’s memory and they were able to celebrate along with the crowd who had also just learned of this great loss for rock n roll. 

Following the show, Alice summed up his thoughts by saying, “The whole world is mourning Ozzy tonight. Over his long career, he earned immense respect among his peers and from fans around the world as an unmatched showman and cultural icon.

I always saw Ozzy as a cross between the prince of darkness, which is the persona his fans saw, and the court jester. That was the side that his family and friends saw.

He was and will continue to be a rock n roll legend. Rock’n Roll is a family and a fraternity. When we lose one of our own, it bleeds. I wish I had gotten to know my brother Ozzy better.

Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and the rest of the Ozzy brood – our prayers are with you tonight. A titanic boulder has crashed, but rock will roll on.“
Rest easy, Ozzy, and we’ll see you on the other side!”

Tonight’s headline act of the legendary American theatrical heavy metal pioneer Alice Cooper! With support coming from Rock artist Bobbie Dazzle. With the heavy news came music to keep the memory of Ozzy alive with Bobbie Dazzle taking up place on stage.

Bobbie Dazzle

The 6-piece glam rock band fills the stage. Lead vocalist Bobbie Dazzle is a showwoman and knows how to fit perfectly into tonight’s crowd. Kicking off the set, the band’s light and tight-knit energy is just perfect for tonight’s sit-down arena show. They haven’t been a band for long, but they hold themselves to such high standards, yet are also very free and flowing to have fun. With songs like ‘Merry Go Round’ and “Flowers On Mars” being big hits within the crowd. Bobbie Dazzle knows how to tell us a story and takes us along on an adventure, explaining that she called her first album “Fandabozi”, announcing the passing of Ozzy Osbourne, which for most of Cardiff Arena last night came as a shock and changed the atmosphere of their set, with many of the audience taking in the news The band dedicated a song and swiftly moved on with there set. Performing their latest cover of ABBA’s ‘Watch Out’, which kept the evening moving along. Finishing up the set with a story of how the next song was co-written from the lyrics she found from her late father, called “Lighting Fantasy”.

Alice Cooper

Moving on to our main event for the evening, the one and only Mr Alice Cooper. He brought the audience into his world, and we were there for the ride! Starting the set with bell ringers to drop down the black curtain. The audience gets the first glimpse of the Alice Cooper wanted poster, with the band highlighting themselves and attracting the audience’s attention moments before Alice Cooper pleads guilty. Rips through his wanted poster to reveal his first costume of the evening: the top hat and sword combo. His voice sounds exactly as you have been listening to on record all these years. Alice’s stage show is just perfectly timed, not leaving a single section of the stage untouched with different props to go alongside his first three opening songs of “Lock Me Up/Welcome To The Show”, “No More Mr Nice Guy”, and “I’m 18”. He’s a true showman, with Ryan Roxi on Guitar, Chuck Garric on bass, Tommy Henriksen on Guitar, Glen Sobel on drums, and Nita Strauss on guitar, with all of them also contributing to backing vocals.

There’s only so much photographers are allowed to show you within the space of three songs, but the set was so perfect and lit so well, not only for the press but for the audience to see what was going on throughout the rest of the set. With that only being the taster, there was so much more to be given. With each song, the energy was building on stage from the small details like “Lost In America”, which had Alice Cooper out in an American-backed jacket. “Man Behind The Mask” had Friday 13th Freddy come on stage and murder a fan before the masked stagehands carried her off.

Have to give my favourite moment of “Hey Stoopid” with every member of the band playing along to Alice Cooper, staking a photographer who kept clicking his camera throughout the entire song while on stage with every member of the band having fun and getting involved. To the use of the stage stairs with all four guitarists serenading Alice during “Welcome To My Nightmare”, with even Alice’s wife joining in on stage to whip the band. With their sound on point throughout the entire night and with Alice Cooper’s new album due out later this week entitled “The Revenge Of Alice Cooper”, this evening’s show truly shows the showmanship and why he is one of the most well-known artists of his time.

Finishing off the evening and bowing to the crowd, Alice Cooper dedicates tonight’s show to Ozzy Osbourne with “God Bless Ozzy” Leading the arena into the chants of “Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy”, making it a beautiful send-off to tonight’s show.