YUNGBLUD - Live Review Glasgow Hydro 20.4.2026

Well someone needs to send a private jet, limo, taxi, rickshaw or a pushbike to Mr Simmons door and whisk him to a Yungblud gig because right here right now we have a young man who has grabbed rock music by the short and curlies and catapulted it right back to the top of the tree. 

His latest album Idols and Idols 2 are the complete works, superb from start to finish pushing him even further that he had probably dared to dream, A sublime performance of Ozzy's changes at the farewell gig last year too him into homes and ears of many people who had maybe not come cross his talents and from there its been stratospheric. 

This tour could probably have sold out twice over such was the demand and I was unable to get any tickets on initial release but as luck would have it a random check revealed the Hydro had released their new Terrace Premium seating and two tickets were swiftly snapped up. 

Opening the show were UK punk band The Molotovs and they blitzed through a high energy set as the main hall filled up, Coming from the underground punk scene the band are not in the mainstream yet, their debut album Wasted On Youth was released early this year and the band is made up of brother and sister duo Matthew and Issey Cartlidge. They blast their way through a seven song set drawn from the album and an added cover of Bowie's Suffragette city to get the increasing audience warmed up. 

Next up we have Mexican sisters The Warning, a more rock/metal sounding power trio. The girls went viral when very young with a cover of the Metallica classic Enter Sandman. They are a polished and tight act having played together their entire lives. There is more than a hint of Halestorm to the sound and they are huge in their homeland. The band had played in Glasgow at the Garage back in 2024 and now take the Hydro stage and certainly do not look out of place and indeed there are good number of fans wearing band merch. The set is largely drawn from the 2024 album Keep Me Fed and also the latest single Kerosene and a new track called Ego. The will certainly be one to watch going forward. 

And so to the main event. The stage is a gigantic triumphal arch with massive video screens behind the stage and flanking either side. Its fair to say the audience is probably 70/30 female to male and there is no shortage of New Rock boots, fishnets and there is enough black eyeliner on show to make JD Vance insanely jealous indeed as a 57 year old rocker I was a little anxious I would look like a fish out of water but not at all, rock fans of all ages were here such is the appeal of the Doncaster born rocker. 

Opening with the iconic Hello Heaven the man himself appears on the giant video screen from backstage complete with a bottle of the infamous Buckfast tonic wine and a Scottish Saltire. “Are your F@cking ready Glasgow” he quips as the band burst onstage amid a massive explosion of confetti. 

The screams almost drown out the music and that never lets up, The opening track, All 9 minutes of it is a musical journey that shifts tempo and moods throughout its a mini musical in one song. The insanely catchy The Funeral follows and has the Glasgow audience in full on backing vocals mode. 

The title track from Idols follows, this is all killer definitely no filler material, Lovesick Lullaby, My Only Angel and the almost rap/metal like Superdeadfriends follow.  

Giant flame throwers line the stage and even in the seating you can feel the heat, move over Rammstein.

Next up is Fleabag a total ear worm tune that as has become the norm an audience member is given the opportunity to get on stage and play guitar on the track, surely a nerve wracking moment but Glasgow's young rocker pulled it off without missing a note, balls of steel young man. 

Lowlife follows before a rendition of that Sabbath/Ozzy number that took young Dom into the homes of millions. Indeed winning a Grammy for best rock performance. 13,000 people inside the sold out Hydro a word perfect and Ozzy would surely be beaming down (or Up ) from his resting place. 

The success of Yungblud can not be praised without mentioning his Scottish guitarist and producer and co writer Adam Warrington as he has helped shape the phenomenon we are witnessing 

The show concludes with Ghosts from Idols and of course Zombie, a rock anthem for the new age. 

This is the Sweet Child, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Back In Black of a new generation. Grown men (OK me included) belting out this classic at the top of our lungs !! 

In short this is a clear vision of the future of rock music, an insane performance, its hard to see what can stop young Dominic Harrison from not only conquering the world but the universe !!