Mötley Crüe are excited to announce that Tommy Lee will be bringing his mind blowing 360 degree drum roller-coaster to the UK for their December co-headline tour with Def Leppard! The wonders of the wheel will be spectacularly unveiled during Tommy Lee’s thrilling drum solo where he is launched into multiple loops and pyrotechnics while continuing to perform. Not one to keep the fun to himself, the drummer also hand picks a fan from the audience to join him for his crazy ride at every show. Check out just a tease of what to expect this winter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO7k1eMuTxo

Daredevil, Tommy Lee says “This idea came about from when I was a kid going to concerts. Whenever the drummer started his drum solo, I wondered why people would leave to go get a beer, buy a t-shirt, restroom, whatever!! I wanted to show people what happens behind the drum set, so I decided to expose it all by flipping the drums vertical, upside-down making them disappear and fly over the audiences heads! Mötley Crüe brings you on a thrill ride, jump on the 360! Let’s do this! By the way, it’s really f*****g difficult playing while on this ride!”

The band’s highly anticipated tour kicks off next month in Birmingham. Witness the insanity for yourself at the following dates:

Tickets are on sale now priced at £47.50 London / £45.00 regionally (subject to booking fee) via www.livenation.co.uk.

Mötley Crüe are also about to re-issue their core catalogue on CD and vinyl after a long absence in the market place. The following albums will be re-released as limited edition Vinyl replica CDs with a 16 page booklet, regular CD’s with a 5 page booklet and on 180g vinyl in a 4 colour Gatefold sleeve: ‘Too Fast For Love’, ‘Shout At The Devil’, ‘Theatre of Pain’, ‘Girls Girls Girls’ and ‘Dr Feelgood’. They will be available November 14, 2011 on Eleven Seven Music. This will be followed by ‘Motley Crue’s Greatest Hits’ package in CD, Deluxe (CD with DVD) and 180g Vinyl formats on December 5, 2011.

ANNOUNCE UK TOUR THIS NOVEMBER With support from Anti Nowhere League and UK Subs

Tuesday 9th May 2011 – Hard Rock legends Motorhead have today announced that they will be returning to the UK for their annual tour this November. This year the band will be supported on their 11 date run by British Punk bands Anti Nowhere League and UK Subs.

In keeping with what has now become tradition for any self respecting rock fan, Motorhead lead by rock icon Lemmy return for their annual, country-wide November tour. Starting on 2nd November in Wolverhampton, the tour will stop at 11 cities across the UK, winding up on 18th November in Manchester. The huge success of their 35th Anniversary tour in 2010 and the release of critically acclaimed rockumentary ‘Lemmy’, proved that Motorhead are very much keeping everything louder than everything else. This year, as well as the Motorhead tour, Lemmy’s side project ‘HeadCat’ will be releasing brand new album ‘Walk The Walk, Talk The Talk’ in July this and a Live DVD will be released later in the year as well.

Supports this year come from two of Britain’s most respected and long standing Punk bands Anti Nowhere League and UK Subs. Speaking on touring with Motorhead, Animal from Anti Nowhere League had the following to say …

‘For years we have been asked by our fans ‘When are you going to play with Motorhead?’. So this is it, it will be a great ending to a fantastic year. Motorhead have always been a big influence on the ANWL and for me it is a personal honour to take to the same stage as these men. We are committed to making this tour something everyone will be talking about forever, the coming together of different styles of hard, in-your-face rock..’

The UK Subs added …

“The UK Subs have been huge fans of Motorhead for years, so to be invited to be part of this exciting tour in November is a massive honour !”

Don’t miss your chance to see this stellar line up when it comes your way in November.

• NOVEMBER 2011
• WEDNESDAY 2 WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC HALL
• THURSDAY 3 NEWCASTLE CITY HALL
• SATURDAY 5 O2 ACADEMY GLASGOW
• SUNDAY 6 LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY – MOUNTFORD HALL
• TUESDAY 8 BRISTOL COLSTON HALL
• FRIDAY 11 NORWICH UEA
• SATURDAY 12 LONDON HMV HAMMERSMITH APOLLO
• MONDAY 14 PLYMOUTH PAVILIONS
• TUESDAY 15 SOUTHAMPTON GUILDHALL
• THURSDAY 17 NOTTINGHAM ROYAL CENTRE
• FRIDAY 18 O2 APOLLO MANCHESTER

Tickets go onsale 9am on Friday 13th May priced £32.50 London / £26.00 regionally (subject to booking fee) and are available from www.livenation.co.uk

ROGER DALTREY TO PERFORM THE WHO’S LEGENDARY “TOMMY” ALBUM FROM START TO FINISH

THE SET WILL ALSO INCLUDE A VARIETY OF THE WHO’S CLASSICS AND MORE

ROGER DALTREY, the iconic lead singer of The Who, will perform The Who’s legendary rock opera TOMMY from start to finish at selected shows throughout the UK this summer. Daltrey recently premiered Tommy from start to finish at The Royal Albert Hall in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust on March 25th. Roger is now taking it on the road, beyond the majesty of TOMMY, each night music fans will also be treated to a variety of Who Classics and more.

Employing the use of striking visuals to accompany the music, every show will be an unforgettable concert experience for lifelong fans and newcomers alike. The much-anticipated tour will hit the road in July (dates below) Tickets for the tour go on sale May 6th at 9am from www.livenation.co.uk

TOMMY is not only one of the most acclaimed and defining works of the rock era, it is also an enduring album that resonates on radio to this day where it has found multi-generational appeal. Inducted into The Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, the 20 million-selling double album also spawned a successful 1975 film of the same name–with DALTREY playing the title role–which re-underlined its place in the cultural firmament. Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductee DALTREY is pulling out all the stops with a full backing band that will bring the rock opera’s wide-ranging sounds and textures to life vibrantly on stage every evening. Joining DALTREY will be Frank Simes (guitar), Scott Deavours (drums), Jon Button(Bass), Loren Gold (Keyboards) and also on guitar will be SIMON TOWNSHEND,younger brother of The Who’s guitarist PETE TOWNSHEND

Pete Townshend, commenting on the tour says ”Great to see Roger performing TOMMY with his band in 2011. I will be there in spirit, and Roger has my complete and most loving support. Roger is touring his unique concert version of TOMMY using his faithful presentation of the original work as the backbone for a set of wider material …it is wonderful to hear the way Roger and his new band re-interpret the old Who songs.”

Throughout this tour, songs such as “Pinball Wizard,” “The Acid Queen,” “I’m Free,” “See Me, Feel Me” and “We’re Not Gonna Take It” promise to transport attendees into the world of this classic album with shuddering intensity and poetic power. A 1989 tour by The Who saw them reprise TOMMY live; the upcoming DALTREY tour will differ in that all of the album’s songs will be played. When DALTREY and his band performed TOMMY in March 2011 at a sell out concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall, The Independent called the show “a faithful reading…The stand-outs, ‘I’m Free,’ and ‘See Me, Feel Me’ and the anthemic climax of ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ are rousing. ”Afterwards the Who blogosphere was alight with comments from long standing fans lucky enough to see the show such as ”Roger nailed Tommy” and ”last nights concert was the best I’ve ever seen-what a great band”

Roger describes the show and visuals as ”A Tommy Show for today’s audience from a different perspective” TOMMY an album that tells a story about a “deaf, dumb, and blind boy” who becomes the leader of a messianic movement–will always be a turning point for the band, according to DALTREY. He recalls, ‘Within Tommy, I found the new voice of The Who and the band found its stride in making that music, adjusting it, using all that knowledge that we had from jazz and the blues into making it work in a rock way.” The tour dates are as follows: JULY 2011

THURSDAY 7 JULY – MANCHESTER BRIDGEWATER HALL

SATURDAY 9 JULY – NOTTINGHAM ROYAL CENTRE

TUESDAY 12 JULY – BRISTOL COLSTON HALL

TUESDAY 19 JULY – HULL CITY HALL

Tickets: £45.00 / £40.00 adv (all subject to booking fee) On sale: Friday 6TH May 2011 – 9am from:

www.livenation.co.uk

Photo by Steve Brinkman

To read the interview with co-author of the book, Jus Forrest, go to: ULTRAVOX Remembering Eden – 30th Anniversary Tour Book

Confirmed dates as follows:

• Thursday, May 12th Dublin O2
• Saturday, May 14th Glasgow SECC
• Monday, May 16th Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
• Thursday, May 19th Manchester MEN Arena
• Saturday, May 21st Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
• Sunday, May 22nd Birmingham LG Arena
• Wednesday, May 25th London O2

Tickets for the Time Machine Tour in Ireland & UK general on sale will commence at 9AM GMT on Friday, November 26th, 2010. Ticket links and details will be posted shortly. Additional European dates to be announced shortly!

JULY

• Wed 20 Scotland, Glasgow SECC
• Thu 21 Scotland, Aberdeen AECC P&J Arena
• Sat 23 England, Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
• Sun 24 England, Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
• Wed 27 England, Nottingham Trent FM Arena
• Thu 28 England, Manchester MEN Arena
• Sun 31 England, Birmingham NIA

AUGUST

• Mon 1 Wales, Cardiff CIA Arena
• Wed 3 Northern Ireland, Belfast Odyssey
• Fri 5 England, London 02 Arena

Maiden founder member Steve Harris comments; “Everything in the Maiden camp has been so full on these last five years or so that we haven’t travelled around the UK to play for our home fans for almost that long.  These fans  supported us by coming to Twickenham Stadium, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Download and more recently Sonisphere so we thought we should get off our backsides and do the travelling this time and get round the country to see them all. We very much look forward to playing all four home countries and a couple of places we haven’t been for a very long time, Aberdeen and Belfast! And playing the O2 gets us as close to the East End of London where Maiden started off than we have been for many a year, probably since the Ruskin Arms! All in all l think this is going to be a very special series of shows and a wonderful way to end this whole world tour.”

“We intend to take the full stadium show into the UK arenas and fit everything we possibly can into each venue. The set list will be different to this year’s tour. Of course we will play more songs from the new album and some other recent material, but we intend to include a healthy dose of older fan favourites too for those who haven’t seen us before , plus a spectacular light show and stage set, not forgetting, of course, ….Eddie!”

The UK shows will be the culmination of The Final Frontier World Tour, which began in June 2010 with a hugely successful 25 date tour throughout North America, followed by selected European stadium and festival shows, including Knebworth, Sonisphere in the UK.

The band recently announced the first leg of the 2011 tour which starts in February and will be ‘Around The World In 66 Days’ – a fifty thousand mile odyssey aboard a specially customized Boeing 757 – Ed Force One, piloted by airline captain and lead singer Bruce Dickinson. This will carry band, crew and many tons of equipment across 5 continents to thirteen countries, visiting 26 cities for 29 shows

The first show will be on Feb 11^th in Moscow’s Olympic Stadium, after which the Boeing 757, which will have new designs to tie in with the new album and tour, will fly the band to Singapore and Indonesia for Maiden’s first ever shows there, before arriving in Australia to headline two arena dates and five Soundwave Festivals. EF1 then turns its attention briefly to the Northern Hemisphere with a first show ever in South Korea and two shows in Tokyo, before heading all the way across the Pacific, a journey which (believe it or not!) is 6660 miles, for two shows in Mexico. An extensive series of stadium shows through five South American countries follows, and, via Puerto Rico, the band will play the final show on this leg of the tour in Tampa, Florida, USA on April 17^th, exactly 66 days after Moscow! (full dates below)

Says Bruce, “We were taken aback by the fantastic reaction from everyone to EF1 during the 2008/09 World Tour. As our fans all know from the “Flight 666” film, which documented the trials and tribulations we underwent in order to get the whole project literally off the ground, the end result was well worth all the effort and complex logistics we had to deal with! The band and crew enjoyed themselves so much travelling that way, it seemed only logical to set up this part of The Final Frontier tour in the same way so we could get to see as many fans as possible all over the World, only this time we’re pushing the boundaries even further and going to more places Maiden has never been before… in true Frontier style!! We very much look forward to playing in Singapore, Indonesia and South Korea for the first time, as well as revisiting our fans elsewhere.”

This Around The World tour will be followed by an extensive series of European dates starting late Spring. Nordic and Russian shows have already been announced (as below) and there are many more dates to follow, before Maiden comes home to the UK in July. It will be an historic return for a number of reasons, not least as it will be the first time the band has played in Aberdeen since their first UK headline tour back in 1980! And although the band played earlier this year in the Republic Of Ireland at Dublin’s O2 Arena, it was 1993 when they last performed in Belfast, so shows in these cities are well overdue! The last show of the tour will see Maiden’s first ever performance at London’s O2 Arena.

The Final Frontier World Tour is in conjunction with the band’s 15^th studio album released in August through EMI Music and their most successful chart album to date, registering the #1 sales chart slot in 28 countries around the globe; from Lebanon, Arabia and India in the East, to Canada in the West, New Zealand down South, throughout UK and Europe and across Latin America, as well as reaching No.1 in Billboard’s European, Tastemaker and Rock Charts, and No.4 in the USA, which is the band’s highest position ever there.

Wherever possible, members of the Iron Maiden Fan Club will get the opportunity to win The First To The Barrier competition where 60 lucky members (plus a guest each) get the chance to enter the venue before the general public and grab themselves a prime viewing position right by the front of the stage barrier.

As well as competition entry to ‘First to The Barrier’  access on show day, there will be an exclusive first ticket pre-sale for Iron Maiden Fan club members,  before tickets go on sale to the general public on Saturday November 20^th. Information on this special pre-sale will be posted on www.ironmaiden.com

FEBRUARY

• Fri 11 Moscow, RUSSIA Olympiski
• Tue 15 Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium
• Thu 17 Jakarta, INDONESIA Stadium Utama Gelaro Bung Karno Senayan
• Sun 20 Bali, INDONESIA Garuda Wisnu Kencana
• Wed 23 Melbourne, AUS TRALIA Hisense Arena
• Thu 24 Sydney, AUSTRALIA Entertainment Centre
• Sat 26 Brisbane, AUSTRALIA Showgrounds (SOUNDWAVE FEST)
• Sun 27 Sydney, AUSTRALIA Eastern Creek Raceway (SOUNDWAVE FEST)

MARCH

• Fri 4 Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Showgrounds (SOUNDWAVE FEST)
• Sat 5 Adelaide, AUSTRALIA Bonython Park (SOUNDWAVE FEST)
• Mon 7 Perth, AUSTRALIA Steel Blue Oval (SOUNDWAVE FEST)
• Thu 10 Seoul, KOREA Gymnastic Gymnasium
• Sat 12 Tokyo, JAPAN Super Arena
• Sun 13 Tokyo, JAPAN Super Arena
• Thu 17 Monterrey, MEXICO Banamex Theatre
• Fri 18 Mexico City, MEXICO Foro Sol
• Sun 20 Bogota, COLOMBIA CEC Aposentos Club Sopo
• Wed 23 Lima, PERU Estadio San Marcos
• Sat 26 Sao Paulo, BRAZIL Morumbi Stadium
• Sun 27 Rio De Janeiro, BRAZIL HSBC Arena
• Wed 30 Brasilia, BRAZIL Nilson Nelson Parking

APRIL

• Fri 1 Belem, BRAZIL Parque De Exposicoes
• Sun 3 Recife, BRAZIL Parque De Exposicoes
• Tue 5 Curitiba, BRAZIL Expotrade
• Fri 8 Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Velez Sarsfield
• Sun 10 Santiago, CHILE Estadio Nacional
• Wed 14 San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA Coliseo De Puerto Rico
• Sat 16 Sunrise, Florida, USA Bank Atlantic Center
• Sun 17 Tampa, Florida USA St Pete Times Forum

JULY

• June 30- July 3 Roskilde, DENMARK Roskilde Festival
• Fri 1 Gothenburg, SWEDEN Ullevi Stadium
• Wed 6 Oslo, NORWAY Telenor
• Fri 8 Helsinki, FINLAND Olympic Stadium
• Sun 10 St Petersburg, RUSSIA SKK Peterburgskiy
• Wed 20 Scotland, Glasgow UK SECC
• Thu 21 Scotland, Aberdeen UK AECC P&J Arena
• Sat 23 England, Newcastle UK Metro Radio Arena
• Sun 24 England, Sheffield UK Motorpoint Arena
• Wed 27 England, Nottingham UK Trent FM Arena
• Thu 28 England, Manchester UK MEN Arena
• Sun 31 England, Birmingham UK NIA

AUGUST

• Mon 1 Wales, Cardiff UK CIA Arena
• Wed 3 Northern Ireland, Belfast UK Odyssey
• Fri 5 England, London UK 02 Arena

Tickets for the UK shows go on sale 10am on Saturday 20^th November 2010 and are available from www.livenation.co.uk

Tickets for the Belfast show available from www.ticketmaster.ie

JOURNEY FOREIGNER & STYX Announce First Ever UK Tour Together in 2011

Wednesday 10^th November 2010 – Journey, Foreigner and Styx, three of the biggest names in Classic Rock, have today announced that they will be heading to the UK in June 2011 to play 5 cities together for the very first time in the UK.

Journey – Neal Schon (guitars, backing vocals), Jonathan Cain (keyboards, backing vocals), Ross Valory (bass, backing vocals), Deen Castronovo (drums, percussion, backing vocals) and Arnel Pineda (lead vocals) – have performed around the world for nearly two years in support of the group’s latest recording project, Revelation.  A three-disc CD/DVD package, Revelation sold more than 104,000 copies its first week, marking the band’s biggest first week’s sales in over a decade.  Produced by Kevin Shirley, the album marks a new chapter in the band’s legendary career.  The New York Times hailed: “…the band seems to have taken rock vitamins: it feels alive.” Revelation earned Platinum honors, marking their 11^th Platinum album certification to date. There will be a brand new studio album from Journey out in the UK in Spring next year.

Journey plays with a passion and commitment that wows both longtime fans and new generations of listeners alike.  ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’, arguably their biggest hit, made it back into the Top Ten last year as part of a Facebook campaign to get the track to the Christmas #1 spot. It is the most downloaded catalogue track in the history of iTunes and has featured heavily in some of the biggest TV shows across the board in the last 12 months, having been sung by winner Joe McElderry on The X-Factor as well as the contestants on 2010’s final Big Brother recording it as part of a task and the cast of the hit US show ‘Glee’ making it a huge anthem for a whole new generation.

More than a million fans attended their shows since 2008 to hear new hit singles “Never Walk Away” and “After All These Years” as well as the staggering catalogue of hits such as “Don’t Stop Believin’” “Any Way You Want It,” “Open Arms,” and “Separate Ways.”

On their return to the UK, Neal Schon said

“We’re so excited to be coming back to the UK to play arenas with our friends Foreigner and Styx. Be prepared to hear a lot of hit songs”

More than 30 years after releasing their first multi-platinum album, Foreigner’s music resonates globally across generations, thanks to an impressive run of 14 Top 20 hits, including worldwide number one hit ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’, ‘Waiting For A Girl Like You’ and video game staples such as ‘Hot Blooded’ and ‘Juke Box Hero’, together with album sales exceeding 70 million. Foreigner’s 2010 United In Rock tour electrified audiences and established the group in its rightful place as one of the top touring attractions of the year in the US. Their latest release, ‘Can’t Slow Down’, broke many Classic Rock sales records and spawned two Top 20 singles on US radio. ‘Can’t Slow Down’ was the band’s first album of new music in more than 15 years. Mick Jones, the band’s founder and legendary songwriter/guitarist, produced the new album with Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith and Buckcherry). It entered the Billboard Top 200 in the Top 30 on its first week of release and it is the first full length album to feature Foreigner’s revamped lineup: Jones, singer Kelly Hansen, bassist Jeff Pilson, guitarist Tom Gimbel and keyboardist Michael Bluestein.

Foreigner’s new live album ‘Can’t Slow Down – When It’s Live’ is released on earMUSIC (distributed in the UK by Absolute via Universal) November 15^th 2010. Jones adds

“This will be one of the main events of the summer. Bands who represent the magic era in Classic Rock together for the first time in my home country. Get ready to rock!”

Spawned from a suburban Chicago basement in the early ‘70s, STYX would eventually transform into the virtual arena rock prototype by the late ’70s and early ’80s, due to a fondness for big rockers and soaring power ballads. Over the course of their 38-year career they’ve released 15 studio albums, 6 best-of compilations and 4 live albums, garnering 8 Top Ten singles. STYX has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. On the touring front, STYX has performed more shows since ’99 than all of the previous years of its career combined.  Two Super-Bowl appearances, Pollstar box office chart-topping tours with Def Leppard, Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Bad Company, Foreigner (to name a few), two more studio albums and no end in sight, STYX continues to conquer the planet, one venue at a time.

“Styx has always enjoyed sharing the stage with Journey, going back to the Santa Monica Civic Center in 1976. The tour we did with them in 2003 across the United States was an amazing success of sold out arenas. Journey, Foreigner & Styx seems like a can’t miss “Guitars a-blazin’”  ”Vocals a-mazing” kind of a Classic Rock Evening!” - James “JY” Young

The tour will be sponsored by the brand new title from Future Publishing’s latest title Classic Rock Presents AOR, editor Geoff Barton had the following to say

“With melodic rock on the resurgence, this tour is going to be one of the must-sees of 2011. We’re happy to set the ball rolling by featuring Journey on the cover of our brand new magazine, Classic Rock Presents AOR, which goes on sale on November 17. And, of course, with Journey’s classic song Don’t Stop Believin’ enjoying a brand new lease of life, it was only right that the track, making it back into the Top Ten nearly 30 years after its release, would be in the running to receive ‘Event Of The Year’ at our prestigious Classic Rock Roll Of Honour Awards.’

JUNE 2011

• SATURDAY 04 – LONDON WEMBLEY ARENA
• SUNDAY 05 –  BIRMINGHAM LG ARENA
• TUESDAY 07 –  NEWCASTLE METRO ARENA
• WEDNESDAY 08 –  MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS ARENA
• THURSDAY 09 –  GLASGOW SECC

Tickets go onsale 9am on Friday 12^th November priced at £42.50 adv London / £40.00 regionally

(subject to booking fee) and are available from www.livenation.co.uk

Live Nation Entertainment and Download Festival swept the board at the 2010 Billboard Touring Awards, which took place last night in New York, Download Festival was crowned “Top Festival” beating off competition from Coachella and Oxegen Festivals. Also at the ceremony – which concluded the annual Billboard Touring Conference Live Nation Entertainment led the industry-related awards by being named the year’s Top Promoter and the Top Tour and Top Draw awards went to the Live Nation promoted U2 360 World Tour.

Headlined by AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine and Aerosmith, this year’s Download Festival was the biggest and best yet, with an extended capacity allowing over 100,000 fans on site for the weekend – making Download the second biggest festival in the UK after Glastonbury. This is the second time that Download has won Top Festival, after also scooping the award in 2007.

Andy Copping Promoter of Download Festival said; “ This is fantastic news and a real honor, we need to say a big thank you to all the fans who made the weekend the greatest Download ever”

With Support from Godsized

20 October 2010 – After teasing fans with their incredible set at this year’s High Voltage Festival and the release of blistering new album ‘Order Of The Black’ (in stores now), Zakk Wylde’s BLACK LABEL SOCIETY are pleased to announce a string of UK dates for February 2011.

In the two decades since Ozzy Osbourne hired him away from his job at a New Jersey gas station to become his new guitarist, Zakk Wylde has established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over. Writing and recording with Osbourne led to multi-platinum success, inspiring him to create the now legendary band Black Label Society in 1998. Over the last decade, diehard BLS fans – the Berserkers – along with Wylde have created a heavy metal institution true to his vision of uncompromising, unfiltered, and unrestrained rock ‘n’ roll. ‘Order of the Black’, the outfit’s eighth studio album, was released to critical acclaim in August of this year, and was preceded by Zakk picking up the prestigious Golden God award at the 2010 Kawasaki Metal Hammer Golden God Awards. Black Label Society are currently on the road in the USA on their home turf leg of the Black Label Berzerkus tour.

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY

February

• Mon 14^th O2 Academy, Birmingham
• Tue 15^th O2 Academy, Newcastle
• Wed 16^th O2 Academy, Glasgow
• Fri 18^th Corn Exchange, Cambridge
• Sat 19^th Guildhall, Southampton
• Mon 21^st Apollo, Hammersmith (London)
• Tue 22^nd Apollo, Manchester
• Wed 23^rd Colston Hall, Bristol

Tickets for the tour will go on sale at 9am on Friday 22^nd October and will be priced £22.00 LONDON / £18.50 REGIONALLY (subject to booking fee) and will be available from www.livenation.co.uk .

For further information on Black Label Society check out:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/artist/Black+Label+Society

http://www.blacklabelsociety.net/

ROGER WATERS MARKS 30th ANNIVERSARY OF ‘’THE WALL’’ ALBUM WITH HISTORIC 30-CITY EUROPEAN TOUR IN 2011

Roger Waters, the creative genius behind musical pioneers Pink Floyd, is set to bring his groundbreaking masterpiece, The Wall, to Europe in 2011.This is the first time The Wall has been performed in over 20 years. Roger Waters’ The Wall will trek through over 25 European cities to mark the 30th anniversary of the album’s release and with Roger hinting that this could mark his final big tour, it is already promising to be one of the hottest tickets of the decade.

Beginning in March 2011, Roger Waters’ The Wall Tour will visit the following destinations:  Lisbon (Portugal), Madrid (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Milan (Italy), Arnhem (The Netherlands), Budapest (Hungary), Prague (Czech Republic), Lodz (Poland), Moscow (Russia), St Petersburg (Russia), Helsinki (Finland), Oslo (Norway), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), London (UK), Manchester (UK), Dublin (Ireland), Antwerp (Belgium), Paris (France), Mannheim (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), Hamburg (Germany), Berlin (Germany) and Dusseldorf (Germany).

Previously the show was simply too large to contemplate a tour, but new arenas and advances in touring technology have solved that dilemma. Now, after months of meticulous planning, Waters has updated the look and feel of the show to ensure it matches the astonishing theatrical extravaganza that The Wall’s live incarnation became so legendary for – thus allowing yet another generation to be inspired by the grandeur of the breathtaking visual and aural spectacle. The show starts with the wall broken down and throughout the first half bricks are built.  The second half is played with the wall completely built. Roger Waters is developing dynamic new video graphics and visual images to illustrate the story and the songs, using an 8,000 sq ft wall as a huge screen.

The show features all the Roger Waters scale grandeur and special effects such as original Gerald Scarfe imagery, crashing aeroplane, quadraphonic sound, pyrotechnics, spot pods, gigantic inflatable puppets, projection, video mapping and many elaborate effects.  Rogers band on this world tour is: Dave Kilminster (Guitar), Snowy White (Guitar), G. E. Smith (Guitar), Jon Carin (Keyboards), Harry Waters (Keyboards), Graham Broad (Drums), Robbie Wyckoff, Jon Joyce (Backing Vocals), Michael Lennon (Backing Vocals), Mark Lennon (Backing Vocals), Kipp Lennon (Backing Vocals).

“Thirty years ago when I wrote The Wall, I was a frightened young man,” he recalls. “In the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with its concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, whatever! All these issues and ‘isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life.”

Boasting Pink Floyd classics including Comfortably Numb, Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2, Mother, Run Like Hell and Young Lust, The Wall resonated with millions of fans around the world to become one of the biggest albums ever recorded. Hugely successful upon its release, The Wall was the best-selling album of 1980 in the United States, where it remains in the top five best-selling albums of all time.

The forthcoming tour will offer European fans of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness a full band performing The Wall in its entirety, with a specially designed, state-of-the-art stage show to enhance Waters’ epochal masterpiece of alienation and transformation. Album illustrator Gerald Scarfe, who worked on the initial Pink Floyd first tour and the subsequent 1982 film, has this year been once again collaborating with Waters to provide new art, puppetry and inflatable objects for the tour.

To date The Wall has been performed by its creator just 31 times live, including Pink Floyd’s 1980-81 tour in support of the album. Roger Waters resurrected the phenomena in July 1990 with one of the largest concerts ever held to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. That awe-inspiring event attracted nearly half a million fans to the Potsdamer Platz and while countless millions more around the world watched the extravaganza on television, critics hailed Waters’ creation as the best concert ever, setting the standard for every act since to try to achieve. And Waters reveals that to make sure The Wall is as relevant in 2011 as it was 30 years ago, he has revisited every song and embraced the latest technology and special effects to energise his masterpiece.

“Projection systems now are completely different from what they were then, which means that I would be able to project over the entire 240-foot expanse of the wall … which we couldn’t do in those days,” says Roger. More important to Waters than the theatrics is The Wall’s political and social commentary and he is planning to use the construction of the wall to honour soldiers who have lost their lives in battle. The rogerwaters.com website is running an appeal to relatives of those lost in war to submit photographs which Waters will project on The Wall during the show so that each victim becomes, in effect, another brick.

“When we first did it, we were after the end of the Vietnam War, and we’re right now in the middle of wars in Iraq andAfghanistan, so there’s a very powerful anti-war message in The Wall. There was then and there still is now,” he notes. ”This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years,” he adds.

Having only been performed live in the United States, Germany and the UK previously, the tour will allow fans aroundEurope their first (and possibly the last) chance to see The Wall for themselves in their own country’s. Prior to the European dates, Roger Waters’ The Wall Tour will hit the road in North America for a 50-date North American tour starting in September 2010.  The latest details on Roger Waters’ The Wall Tour, and more, can be found via the artist’s newly re-launched website, www.rogerwaters.com.  Waters is personally involved with the site and is using it to communicate with his fans across the globe.

And he has used the forum to confirm that these concerts will likely mark the end of his performing days. “However, I still have the fire in my belly, and I have something to say”.

• 11/05/11 The O2 London
• 12/05/11 The O2 London
• 14/05/11 The O2 London
• 15/15/11 The O2 London
• 17/05/11 The O2 London
• 18/05/11 The O2 London
• 20/05/11 MEN Arena
• 21/05/11 MEN Arena
• 23/05/11 The O2 Dublin
• 24/05/11 The O2 Dublin
• 28/06/11 MEN Arena
• 29/06/11 MEN Arena

Get Roger Waters Tickets

• 08/11/10 Aberdeen AECC
• 09/11/10 Glasgow Academy
• 10/11/10 Newcastle City Hall
• 12/11/10 Blackburn King Georges Hall
• 13/11/10 Llandudno Arena
• 15/11/10 Derby Assembly Rooms
• 16/11/10 Manchester Apollo
• 18/11/10 Leicester De Montfort Hall
• 19/11/10 Bristol Colston Hall
• 21/11/10 Southampton Guildhall
• 22/11/10 Cambridge Corn Exchange
• 24/11/10 Wolverhampton Civic Centre
• 25/11/10 Leeds Academy
• 27/11/10 London Brixton Academy
• 28/11/10 Brighton Centre

Get Motorhead Tickets

Stray Gigs …

• 30/10/10 Walthamstow – The Standard
• 07/11/10 Northampton – The Malt Shovel Tavern
• 13/11/10 Birmingham – Route 44
• 20/11/10 Westcliff on Sea – Club Riga
• 11/12/10 Leighton Buzzard – The Wheatsheaf

Review to follow soon.

Click here for Fury UK Promo Video “A Way of Life”!

Click here for Fury UK gallery

Fury UK Tour Dates 2010:

03/09/10, Macclesfield Nag’s Head

04/09/10, Nuneaton (guests with Beholder) Queen’s Hall

02/10/10 Manchester (special guests of Y&T) Academy

03/10/10 Bradford (special guests of Y&T) Rio’s

07/10/10 Glasgow (special guests of Y&T) O2 ABC

08/10/10 Newcastle (special guests of Y&T) O2 Academy

09/10/10 Nottingham (special guests of Y&T) Rock City

14/10/10 Southampton (special guests of Y&T) The Brook

15/10/10 Birmingham (special guests of Y&T) O2 Academy

16/10/10 London (special guests of Y&T) Islington O2 Academy

21/10/10 Leeds The Well

22/10/10 Newcastle Trillians

23/10/10 Carlisle The Brickyard

24/10/10 Grimsby Yardbirds

28/10/10 Birmingham The Flapper

29/10/10 Derby The Old Bell

30/10/10 Manchester Radcliffe Civic Hall

31/10/10 Stoke Victoria Hall

04/11/10 Swindon The 12 Bar

05/11/10 Milton Keynes SnoBar

12/11/10 Bathgate Dreadnought Club

13/11/10 Aberdeen The Moorings

14/11/10 Glasgow Ivory Blacks

11/12/10 Pratteln, Switzerland (special guests of Blaze Bayley) Z7

18/12/10 Dudley (special guests of Blaze Bayley) JB’s

Link to Fury UK website