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Well if you’re in Las Vegas in late January 2020 or April 2020 you should go see Foreigner.  They are having a residency at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas beginning January 24th for Five performances.  Then another run of Five performances in April 2020.

Lead singer Kelly Hansen had this to day (from AnitMusic.com):

“If you take a look at Foreigner’s catalog, there are 16 top 30 hits, and [in planning a show like this] the problem becomes what songs do you leave out.  Do you do some songs acoustically or do you give them all the classic presentation? These are all discussions that we have in creating a set list, but you’re definitely going to hear all of the big ones for sure.”

I thought this was interesting.  Hannah Rebecca Valentine, 19, recently scammed 100 people out of fake concert tickets, gone to prison and now she’s escaped.  She was found guilty of 53 fraudulent offenses by forging tickets to various shows such as Post Malone and several festivals.

I would stick to StubHub for tickets even though they charge an arm and a leg.

Here she is

Every now and then I like to post information about the business side of music.  This is an interesting story by Pollstar on the Concert Industry Stats comparison for the period of 11/23/17 – 5/23/18 versus 11/22/18 – 5/22/19.

“The data shows that the concert industry is relatively stable. Though down single digits in overall gross and ticket sales, the concert business saw an impressive increase in average tour gross. While the Top 100 Worldwide tours declined 3.79% in total gross from $2.14 billion in 2018 to $2.06 billion in 2019 and total ticket sales dropped 6.14% from 22.27 million to 23.73 million, the Top 100 Worldwide Tours average gross per show increased significantly from $836,984 in 2018 to $915,095 – a 9.3% jump. That rise was in part fueled by more tickets per show: 9,901 in 2019 versus 9,282 in 2018 – up 6.67%.”

Beginning today, June 14, 2019, Phish is launching their own station on SiriusXM called Phish Radio on Channel 29.  The first broadcast is their live performance from Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.  Page McConnell had this to say:

“My bandmates and I are thrilled to have a home at SiriusXM where Phish fans can hear music from over three decades of us making music together.  We’re excited to make Phish Radio an extension of who we are as a band and a welcome home for fans old and new.”

I wish I could head over to New York for these shows. Beginning August 2, 2019 Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) is beginning an 11 show residency at Manhattan club Le Poisson Rouge. There is a schedule of the music he’ll play at each show. The first eight shows he’ll play renditions of eight of his nine studio albums. Then the next show will be his greatest solo hits, then a show of Bauhaus music then ending with a Tribute to David Bowie. Should be a pretty amazing show. Here’s the schedule:

Aug 2: Should The World Fail To Fall Apart
Aug 3: Love Hysteria
Aug 5: Deep
Aug 8: Holy Smoke
Aug 9: Cascade
Aug 10: Dust
Aug 12: Ninth
Aug 13: Lion
Aug 15: Greatest Hits
Aug 16: Bauhaus’ Mr Moonlight
Aug 18: Tribute to David Bowie

Soundgarden’s upcoming release, “Live From The Artists Den”, will premiere exclusively in IMAX for a one-night global event on July 1, 2019.  The project shows the appearance at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on the final night of their US tour for 2012’s “King Animal.”

Guitarist Kim Thayil explains:  “We were very proud and excited to document the performance of our new material from King Animal and to celebrate with each other and our fans.”

The official release is July 26 and can be purchased in multiple formats.

If you’re a Slipknot fan, you’ll be excited for this Sunday, June 9th at 4:45 ET. Slipknot will be performing in Germany at the Rock am Ring Festival and will live stream it on YouTube live.

Here’s the link to it: https://youtu.be/VKU9mIDnviM

Wilcos last tour was back in 2017 but Jeff Tweedy has been busy on some solo tours and various projects.  The tour will begin later this year beginning on October 8th in Toronto, ON and the following is the remainder of the tour dates:

Tue. Oct. 8 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage (w/ special guest Lord Huron)

Thu. Oct. 10 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center Wang Theatre

Fri. Oct. 11 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center Wang Theatre

Sat. Oct. 12 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall

Tue. Oct. 15 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem

Wed. Oct. 16 – Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre

Fri. Oct. 18 – Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park

Sat. Oct. 19 – Birmingham, AL @ Alabama Theatre

Sun. Oct. 20 – Nashville, TN @ Grand Ole Opry House

Tue. Oct. 22 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom

Wed. Oct. 23 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at the Toyota Music Factory

Fri. Oct. 25 – Houston, TX @ Revention Music Center

Sat. Oct. 26 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater

Sun. Oct. 27 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater

Sat. Jan. 18 – Tue. Jan. 21 – Riviera Maya, MX @ Hard Rock Hotel

The Governors Ball happened this past weekend (May 31-June 2) and they had to shut down on the third day due to weather.  They checked the weather service and they said storms were being held off by a cold front.  Sure enough the weather came in and a lot of the third days entertainment had to to be canceled.   

Here’s the statement by Governors Ball:

https://www.governorsballmusicfestival.com/message/

During the May 25, 2019 Judas Priest concert, Rob Halford got a little angry about the Cell Phone lights coming from cell phones. One phone he was really annoyed with and kicked the phone out of the fans hands. It went flying back into the crowd. Rob said the lights were annoying him. Here’s the short clip:

I really, really love Killing Joke. They are amazing live and watching Jaz scream and be as evil as possible is beautiful. They recently played at Saint Vitus in New York and Revolver Magazine posted the following video and pictures from Nathaniel Shannon .

Whitney Houstons sister-in-law, who handles Whitneys estate, is finally allowing a great deal that could put out an album of unreleased music, a Broadway Musical and a Hologram. The upcoming show is titled ‘An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour.

Rolling Stone spoke with BASE Hologram CEO Brian Becker who is creating the hologram said:

The concert will feature “a complete band onstage, backup singers, dancers etcetera. We will substantially increase our use of the creative elements that are available to us with this technology because it is cinematic, which means we can do animation and special effects to really enhance the show.”

Morrissey had a week long Broadway residency from May 2-11 at Lunt-Fontanne Theater.  For the first time ever, he sang ‘I Won’t Share You’ and it sounded great.  Listen for yourself!


 

There is a small rumor that Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake wil be performing during the 2018 Super Bowl half time in February.  Don’t get your panties in a wad just yet.  It’s only a small rumor but I think it would be a great show.  As long as we don’t have to see that horrible old man show that is..The Who.

It’s been out of print since 1991 but you can watch it soon!  Prince’s rare 1987 concert film, Sign O’ the Times’ is coming to Showtime in September.  It has footage of Paisley Park Studios and from a few shows he did around the same time.

Should be good!