Tag: Thin Lizzy

I had started to get very excited when Tommy and Nikki started to talk about possible Australian tour dates with Kiss in early 2013 but put it down to wishful thinking….but thankfully I was wrong!

The Motley Crue / Kiss tour will be coming down under in 2013.

These two bands are the biggest and baddest when it comes to loudness, pyro, and propelling themselves over the stadium with cables.

Dublin cousins Mark and Shane have been playing together since they were nippers – all Fisher Price guitars and Chad Valley backlines.

The two of them only got serious with the addition of Tom sometime in the late noughties, consequently mapping out a star chart using Johnny Marr, Lenny Kaye’s ‘Nuggets’ album and Thin Lizzy as the principal sources of illumination and inspiration.

‘Black Keys’ will be the band’s debut British release and sees the trio taking on the UK in fine style, channeling the primal surge of rampant garage rock ‘n’ roll with their own take of the blues – think Jon Spencer Blues Explosion colliding head on with Dr Feelgood and you’re halfway there.

Thin Lizzy are back on this side of the world with a UK tour announcement for January/February 2012

The band consists of Scott Gorham, Brain Downey, Darren Wharton, Richard Fortus, Marco Mendoza and Ricky Warwick.

Hopefully we will see some Irish dates announced very soon for this tour.

JUDAS PRIEST will embark on a North American tour in the fall with support from THIN LIZZY and BLACK LABEL SOCIETY.

Singer Rob Halford said, “We’re pulling out all the stops. We’ve built a brand new stage set, we’ve got all the effects that people love us for — the lasers, the fire, the bombs, the smoke, new costumes, and the bike. It’s just a full-on metal extravaganza.”

The tour — which was announced last month during a press conference at the Renaissance Hotel at Highland and Hollywood in Los Angeles, California — will kick off on October 12 in San Antonio, Texas.

Well we made it back in one piece (or just about) from this years Download Festival at Donington Park.

As I had posted before the festival, Download is one of my top 3 festivals to attend every year and it never fails to kick start my summer with some amazing music and a chance to meet good music loving people.

We arrived on site at 10am on Friday and got set up straight away. I have to hand it to East Midlands airport for setting up a temporary off-license in the spar – it was really very handy!