VIDEO: Steel Panther on Australian girls, sharks and playing Wembley

While at Soundwave Sydney the other week we sat down with Michael Starr and Satchel from Steel Panther ahead of their imminent UK headline run.

Having just finished playing a game of vodka pong (a harder version of beer pong), a slightly drunk Steel Panther regale us with tales of Australia having the hottest girls in the world, what it’s like to feed a great white shark and the relationship between Satchel and Michael’s mum. You can guess how that goes…

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