Wake Up, Time To Rock 02.25.06
Posted by Tollah on 02.25.2006
Guns N' Roses tour dates, European festival lineups, Trivium to tour with Iron Maiden, Opeth setlist and more.
Hey T-Fanz. It's been a busy week for the T-Maestro, what with Forum Drafts and a whole bunch of 411 music features going on. I've also been working a lot and had a job interview today. Fingers crossed!!
Enough of this tomfoolery. Onto the news.
GnR News
411's Most Important Band, Guns N' Roses, have been all over the news recently, announcing tour dates (omg!). The band will be playing at the RDS Arena in Dublin on june 9th. Tickets will cosr a mere 54 quid and 50 pence. Are you ready for this.. the support band is MOTLEY CRUE!! Well, at least according to Aiken Promotions and RTE. The Crue's representatives claim to know nothing about any festival appearance. Mysterious.
Guns have also been confirmed to be headlining this year's Download Festival in Donnington, UK, along with Metallica. In more mysteriosity (which is a real word), GnR's photographer, Ross Halfin, posted a message on his website saying the original lineup would be playing at the event. The message was later removed. Axl Rose had this to say: "The UK and Europe have always been special for me. After our last great shows there, we are all very excited and looking forward to getting back over there and in front of such great audiences. Donington has always meant a lot to me personally, way before I ever played there. To be asked to headline is for me an honour and a privilege that none of us take for granted. We look forward to seeing all of you at Download!" Festival Director Stuart Galbraith has this to say: "For Guns N' Roses to play at Download, 18 years after their last performance at Donington will be amazing. Adding this to Metallica's confirmation is a dream. Originally we would have been happy to have one of these great bands to headline Download 2006, but to be able to secure both is just awesome." The T-Bomber has this to say: "I want to go. Kthx."
GnR's tour of Europe is now shaping up to look a little like this:
May 27 - Lisbon, POR @ Rock In Rio (Lisbon)
Jun. 3-4 - ITA @ Gods of Metal
Jun. 3-6 - Nurburgring, GER @ Rock am Ring
Jun. 09 – Dublin, IRE @ RDS Arena
Jun. 9-11 - Donington, UK @ Download
Jun. 15-17 - Pannonia Fields, AUT @ Nova Rock
On February 10th, Axl and a few friends went to New York nightclub Stereo to celebrate Axl's birthday (which was on February 6th). The club's owner, Barry Mullineaux, had some interesting things to say. Among them:
- Axl was waffling on about how he's been holding back for 10 years, whereas Slash and co have gone off and done Velvet Revolver. He says he'll show everyone who the 'main ingredient' in the band was.
- Axl brought down 2 CDs, each with 10 tracks of new material, and was rocking out to them in the club. Apparently the stuff sounds alot like classic GnR but surprisingly heavy from time to time. Axl kept putting it on track #3, he played it like 6 times.
Europe Has All The Best Festivals
Seriously. Look at these lineups:
Download Festival, Donnington, UK
Confirmed Good Bands:
Guns N' Roses (!)
Metallica
Lacuna Coil
Within Temptation
Deftones
Trivium
Confirmed Crap Bands:
Hatebreed
Bullet For My Valentine
Comfirmed Bands I Haven't Heard:
InMe
The Prodigy
Clutch
KoRn
Rumoured Bands:
The Darkness
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Placebo
Gods of Metal Festival, Italy
Good Bands:
Guns N' Roses (!)
Whitesnake (!)
Deftones
Angra
Crucified Barbara
Motorhead (!)
Opeth
Crap Bands:
Korn
Dimmu Borgir
Testament
Rock Hard Festival, Germany
Good Bands:
Dio
Celtic Frost
Crucified Barbara
Fates Warning
Bang Your Head!!! Festival, Germany
Good Bands:
Quiet Riot
Flotsam and Jetsam
Foreigner
Helloween
L.A. Guns
Y&T
K you get the picture now. That Gods of Metal festival looks fucking sweet. Someone buy T-Bomber tickets.. pls. Also check out the cool names. Bang Your Head Festival? Gods of Metal? Much better than "Ozzfest" or "Lollapalooza". Taco, por favor.
Why doesn't Australia have an awesome hard rock/heavy metal festival? Omg.. maybe it's my calling to start one. Kinda like Wayne's World 2.
Other News
Up-and-coming thrash metal band Trivium are super pumped to be touring with metal legends Iron Maiden across Europe this year.Their frontman, Matt Heafy, issued a statement saying "Trivium is extremely honored to be given the opportunity to tour with the legendary Iron Maiden — arguably the greatest metal band of all time. Maiden has influenced many bands, including Trivium, with their music — a mix of sheer power and melody, and also with their amazing stage productions. A few words to express our band's mutual reaction... Holy fuck, we're touring with Iron Maiden!!!!"
Dates include:
Nov. 12 - Tampere, FIN @ Icehall
Nov. 14 - Helsinki, FIN @ Hartwall arena
Nov. 15 - Helsinki, FIN @ Hartwall arena
Nov. 17 - Stockholm, SWE @ Globen
Nov. 18 - Stockholm, SWE @ Globen
Nov. 20 - Gothenburg, SWE @ Scandinavium
Nov. 21 - Oslo, NOR @ Valhalla
Nov. 23 - Bergen, NOR @ Vestlandshallen
Yeah, I'm sure loads of T-Fanz live in those countries.
Opeth have proven that they can geek it up with the best of the prog metal contingent with their new stage show, "Chronology MCMXCIV-MMV - A Live Observation By Opeth". Wtf. The series of gigs features Opeth playing songs in chronological order, from their debut album "Orchid" to their latest masterpiece "Ghost Reveries". The first show was in New York on 23rd of February and the T-Maestro has an EXCLUSIVE setlist for you guys!!
01. Under The Weeping Moon
02. The Night And The Silent Water
03. The Amen Corner
04. White Cluster
05. The Leper Affinity
06. A Fair Judgement
07. Deliverance
08. Windowpane
09. Closure
10. Ghost Of Perdition
11. The Baying Of The Hounds
12. The Grand Conjuration
Encore:
13. Demon Of The Fall
Rumours about the feature band for the next series of the "Rock Star". Among the bands speculated are Queen and Van Halen, but both are unlikely. Producers of the show have said that it will be an "all-star rock 'n' roll supergroup", although whether it's actually a supergroup in the Audioslave, Velvet Revolver sense of the word or the producers just meant to say "famous band" is up in the air. My guess is the second one.
Barry Burns, guitarist of Mogwai, has had a hissy fit about the recent Brit Awards and their winners. He called James Blunt a twat and Chris Martin of Coldgay a fuckface. Fair's fair. He goes onto rant about Kaiser Chiefs, who walked away with a few awards, saying "And the Kaiser Chiefs won best 'rock act', which is just mental. They're not a rock band. I met one of them in Japan and he was lovely, if a little scared by my over-affable drunkenness, but they're no rock band."
