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Iron Maiden 2008 tour dates
Posten on: 2007-11-21 10:33:07
Rock group Iron Maiden have announced details of a world tour for 2008. They kick off at Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai in India on February 1, and includes a date at London's Twickenham Stadium on July 5.The 'Somewhere Back In Time- World Tour 08' will focus almost entirely on the 80s in terms of song choices. The stage set will also be based around the Egyptian-themed 'Powerslave' 1984-85 tour.Speaking about the tour, frontman Bruce Dickinson explained: "Looking at the list of places we would like to play we have always had problems joining up the dots. But without having sea containers all over the place slowing down the whole touring process and by having our own plane it has made it far easier to tour distant places like Australia for the first time in 15 years."Iron Maiden 2008 tour dates:Mumbai, India Bandra Kurla Complex (February 1)Perth, Australia Burswood Dome (4)Melbourne, Australia Rod Laver Arena (6, 7)Sydney, Australia Acer Arena (9,10)Brisbane, Australia Entertainment Centre (12)Yokohama, Japan Pacifico Yokohama (15)Tokyo, Japan Messe (16)Los Angeles, USA The Forum (19)Guadalajara, Mexico Auditoria Telmex (21)Monterrey, Mexico Arena Monterrey (22)Mexico City, Mexico Sports Palace (24)San Jose, Costa Rice Saprisa Stadium (26)Bogota, Columbia Simon Bolivar Park (28)Sao Paulo, Brazil Palmeiras Stadium (March 2)Porto Allegre, Brazil Gigantinho (5)Buenos Aires , Argentina Ferrofcarril Oeste Stadium (7)Santiago, Chile Pista Atletica (9)Puerto Rico San Juan Coliseo (12)New Jersey, USA IZOD ARENA (14)Toronto, Canada Air Canada Centre (16)Paris, France Omnisport De Bercy Arena (July 1)London, England Twickenham Stadium (5)Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Stadium (16)Helsinki, Finland Helsinki Olympic Stadium (18)Tampere, Finland Ratina Stadium (19)Trondheim, Norway Lerkendalstadium (22)Oslo, Norway Valle Hovin (24)Gothenburg, Sweden Ullevi Stadium (26)Horsens, Denmark Horsens Gods Bane Pladsen (27)Wacken, Germany Wacken Open Air Festival (August 1-3)
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My Bloody Valentine reunion to take place
Posten on: 2007-11-08 15:26:55
Kevin Shields of the My Bloody Valentine is to release album this year. He confirmed that their rumoured reunion is definitely on.Shields also added that a new studio album by the band would appear this year.He said: "We were making a record in the '90s around when the band broke up in 1995...and I continued with guitarist/vocalist Belinda Butcher. We kinda made most of an album... It's going to be this 96/97 record half-finished, and then a compilation of stuff we did before that in 1993-94, and a little bit of new stuff."He added: "I pretty much know what the one that's going to come out this year is going to sound like because its already pretty much three-quarters done already... it sounds like what we sounded like - different, but not radically different. People will go, "yeah, it sounds like My Bloody Valentine."Kevin Shields was talking on the TV show 'Soft Focus' on the IPTV channel VBS.TV, Vice Magazine's TV company, which is set to air on November the 12th.
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Mars Volta ready new album
Posten on: 2007-11-06 08:18:08
Mars Volta have given details about their interesting new album, the follow up to 2006's 'Amputechture'. The release date is due on January 28, and is entitled 'The Bedlam In Goliath'. Speaking about the lyrical tone of the album, frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala said he was influenced by a trip guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez took to Jerusalem.Bixler-Zavala said: "He brought me back... what you'd call a Ouija board in the States and we started playing with it... we used to get the band to play it a lot after we'd play shows in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do."The band called the gift 'The Soothsayer'. Bixler Zavala said: "It serves the same function as a Ouija board but it's just a little more archaic... This version of it had a sort of love triangle that was attached to it - the poems we found with it sort of described a mother-daughter-and-other-man love triangle, and what I came up with from it was we were being contacted by at least three people on the board that would come up as one person."We wrote down a lot of messages they gave us, and we used it in the lyrics and we also tried to fasten the lyrics into sort of like a good luck charm, by putting positive elements into it."The band eventually encountered a lot of "bad luck" and decided to throw the instrument away.Rodriguez Lopez buried the object and was sworn not to tell anyone in the band where he had hidden it.He said: "Because such a strange impact was left by using the board, we decided to make a record based on... the stories we were getting from the things or spirits we were contacting."The album is basically a sort of ... it's like the 'Ghostbusters' when they want to catch a ghost, they throw out this little trap on the floor, and they open it."(The) record serves as a bunch of little traps, so when the record comes out, people will have those traps, and they can play the game and try to reverse the bad luck we've had come from it. It's our way of creating a little infernal machine, but we've reversed it, for good luck."The album includes 'Aberinkula', 'Metatron' 'Ilyena' and 'Tourniquet Man', as well as the first single 'Wax Simulcra'.Of the sound he told MTV News: "It goes in different directions and has different moods, but for new people who know nothing about us, there are those shorter songs, and I think that might appeal to some people."It was never done in any sort of 'Let's get on the radio' intention, but it does help, I guess. The whole album is completely interactive for the listener, and there's something concrete to sink your teeth into. There is a story there, even if it is vague sometimes."
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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds announce new album
Posten on: 2007-11-05 06:30:18
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will release a new album, entitled 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!', on March 3, 2008.The album, the band's fourteenth, was produced by the band themselves and Nick Launey, who worked with them on their last double album 'Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus'.The album was recorded over the summer at State Of The Ark studios in Richmond, London.Artwork for the album will be produced by British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster.The band have announced that they will reveal details of a new tour soon.
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