Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and Steel Panther to kick ass with a UK tour

Glam rockers Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard will join forces for the first time ever to tour the UK this December with very special guests, Steel Panther, as Live Nation announced today.

After headlining last June Download festival for the second time in three years and selling more than 65 million albums worldwide, Def Leppard return to the British Isles with 6 gigs, opening with their epic live show at Birmingham Arena on Tuesday December 6 and concluding at Wembley eight days later.

Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott said: “I can't tell you enough how thrilled I am to announce this tour!! We always strive to make our shows an event and to have Mötley Crue and Steel Panther along for the ride makes this an event that just can't be missed for rock fans across the UK!! Come join us on what will be the event of the year!!”

Mötley Crüe will hit the road with Elliott and co., following the band’s success in the States with their performances at Crüe Fest 2 in 2009, during which they played the whole of the “Dr Feelgood” (Elektra Records, 1989) album every night in celebration of their 20th anniversary.

Nikki Sixx and his troop will be also releasing a brand new expanded Greatest Hits package which will include the Crüe Fest DVD in November.

Sixx said: “Motley Crüe is excited to do some destruction with long time peers Def Leppard on tour this holiday season. We have never toured together so hopefully there will be some devirginizing of each-others fans and in the end one fucking wild party together.” 

Supporting Crüe and Leppard, the British audience will enjoy for the first time the songs from Steel Panther’s new album “Balls Out” which will be out on October 17 via Universal Records. The first single If You Really Really Love Me will impact on November 7.

Frontman Michael Starr said: “To rock with Lep and Crüe is a dream come true!! This will be the best tour package all year hands down. Now we got to learn our songs from the new CD.”

Guitarist Satchel added: “Getting the tour with Def Leppard and Motley Crüe is the best thing that’s happened to Steel Panther since we got the Viagra endorsement – we’re hard already!”

Tickets go on sale 9am on Friday September 2 priced at £47.50 LONDON / £45.00 and are available from Live Nation.

Tour dates are below:

December 2011
Tuesday 6 - Birmingham LG Arena
Thursday 8 - Nottingham Capital FM Arena
Friday 9 - Glasgow Secc Hall 4
Sunday 11 - Manchester Men Arena
Tuesday 13 - Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
Wednesday 14 - Wembley Arena

Kasabian announce "Monster" arena tour

Leicester based band Kasabian will take their “Velociraptor” LP on the road this winter for a  10-date tour, building up their colossal ‘empire’ in some of the country’s best arenas.  

The tour kicks off at Brighton Centre on November 28, before moving onto the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff two days later. 

The quartet are also due to perform shows at Nottingham’s Capital FM Arena, Birmingham’s NIA and at other venues during December.

The tour ends at O2 Arena London on December 14.

The LP is due to be released in September 19 through Columbia Records and includes the songs Switchblade Smiles and Days Are Forgotten, which has been chosen as the soundbed for the new Sky Sport football season TV ad.

Tickets go on sale Friday 2 September at 9am and are priced at £30.00 (£32.50 for London). Buy online at Live Nation’s website or call 0844 576 5483.

Kasabian Monster UK Tour 2011:

November

Monday 28 - Brighton, Centre

Wednesday 30 - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena

December

Friday 2 - Nottingham, Capital FM Arena

Sunday 4 - Liverpool, Echo Arena

Tuesday 6 - Birmingham, NIA

Wednesday 7 - Manchester, Evening News Arena

Thursday 8 - Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena

Saturday 10 - Sheffield, Motorpoint Arena

Sunday 11 - Glasgow, SECC Arena (08444 999 990/www.gigsinscotland.com)

Wednesday 14 - London, O2 Arena

Red Hot Chili Peppers to perform… in a cinema near you!!

Red Hot Chili Peppers forthcoming album “I’m With You” (Warner Bros.) will be out on August 30, but to celebrate their first album in five years, the Chilis will be captured live the same night in high-definition from Cologne, Germany, and the gig will be broadcast via satellite to select cinemas around the globe.

This is the first and only time Kiedis and co. will perform the entire album in sequence, followed by some of their greatest hits.

You can also take part in the global listening party for the new RHCP album as the official website will stream exclusively today the new album in full.

If you click here you will find a list of UK theatres were the film is going to be shown.

To watch the trailer just click here.

Noel Gallagher doesn’t look back in anger

It looks like Noel Gallagher has the ability to turn everything he touches into gold since he left Oasis and started his solo career.

Last month Mojo asked him to guest edit the mag’s September issue. The debut single The Death of You and Me from his new solo album reached a million plays after being posted in his official Youtube channel three days after its release on July 25 and the latest news we received in our press room is that the first gig with his new band Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds sold out within minutes of going on sale.

If anyone doubted about his implication with the audience, the rockstar’s record company Sour Mash Records posted the making of Death which was shot in LA while he was finishing the album, and its b-side The Good Rebel, available to stream. Noel also announced yesterday that next Monday he will be doing a live webchat with his friend Matt Morgan and through his Facebook page giving fans the opportunity to question him everything they always wanted to know about him and his role in the music industry and were afraid to ask.

Q&A will start broadcasting from 7pm and questions can be submitted live during the broadcast through Twitter as well using the hashtag #AskNoel.

The webchat will also be recorded and broadcast live on his FB page from 9pm EST (Eastern Standard Time USA) and will be posted on Noel’s Youtube channel shortly afterwards.

The confirmed gigs are:

Sunday 23 October - Dublin, Olympia Theatre 

Thursday 27 October -  Edinburgh, Usher Hall

Saturday 29 October - London, HMV Hammersmith Apollo

Official snippet from Red Hot Chili Peppers’s new video

Californian band Red Hot Chili Peppers will release tomorrow The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie videoclip, the first single from their new album and Hot BuZz (mag) brings you a snippet capturing the energy of both the band and their fans as Kiedis and Co. play on a rooftop.

The song is included in the 10th studio album from the band, “I’m With You” (Warner Bros Music), which will be out next August 30.

The record contains Rick Rubin’s signature, producer from five of the group’s previous albums. 

The punk funk quartet returns to the UK and Ireland with 10 arena shows in November, but this time the Chilis debut on these shores with new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who replaced John Frusciante in 2009.

To watch The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie music video preview just click here.

Vetusta Morla to rock London

Spanish band Vetusta Morla has been selected to offer a performance in the British capital on March 2012.

After thrilling the crowd at Burrian’s Arenal Sound Festival, Castellón, the Madrilenian group will play at The Coronet, located in the Elephant & Castle district as part of “Rock Sin Subtítulos” program. 

The project is based on the idea of taking Spanish music acts to London’s scene. 

To buy tickets for Vetusta Morla’s gig you can visit “Rock Sin Subtítulos”’s official website.

Statham, Owen and De Niro become lethal murderers in “Killer Elite”

Action flick “Killer Elite” which unites Clive Owen, Jason Statham and Robert De Niro in front of the camera is set to hit cinemas this fall.

The film, which is based on a true story, races across the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East and tells the adventures of a retired member of Britain’s Elite Special Air Service who returns to action when his mentor, Hunter (De Niro), is taken captive by a pack of deadly assassins. To make the rescue, he must complete a near-impossible mission of killing three tough-as-nails assassins with a cunning leader (Owen). 

“Killer Elite” (Ambience Entertainment) co-stars Prison Break’s Dominic Purcell, Chuck’s starlet Yvonne Strahovski and Ben Mendelsohn (“Animal Kingdom”, Screen Australia, 2010).

Irish director Gary McKendry makes his big budget debut as a director with that movie, which will be out on September 23. 

Below is the movie theatrical trailer.

Locarno Film Festival pays tribute to Harrison Ford

Hollywood star and former carpenter Harrison Ford received a Lifetime Achievement Award at 64th Locarno Film Festival, on Saturday.

The actor premiered his latest movie “Cowboys & Aliens” (Universal Pictures & DreamWorks) accompanied by his director Jon Favreau and co-stars Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde.

Ford holding his Golden Leopard told the crowd of 7,000: “I'm very grateful for this. It reminds me of my enormous luck in my career to work with so many talented directors, actors, crew, writers, producers. And I appreciate the fact that I still have the opportunity from time to time to make movies.”

For the occasion of the Vincente Minnelli Retrospective, the Festival is honoured to welcome the French actress Leslie Caron, one of the stars of “An American in Paris” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951) and “Gigi” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1958).

On Thursday the actress appeared on the Piazza Grande stage for the introduction to the Retrospective and next day at 14.00 at the Magnolia – Spazio RSI, participated in an open discussion about her autobiography with the public.

Other numerous international guests for this edition include: Kabir Bedi, Guy Bedos, Daniel Brühl, Claudia Cardinale, Ingrid Caven, Gérard Depardieu, Abel Ferrara, Bruno Ganz, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Claude Goretta, Aleksei Guskov, Hannah Herzsprung, Isabelle Huppert, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mike Medavoy, Kati Outinen, Pierre Richard, Anri Sala, Maribel Verdú, and many more.

The festival kicked off on Wednesday 3 on the Piazza Grande with the presentation of the official competition juries and the screening of J. J. Abrams latest movie “Super 8”, produced by Steven Spielberg.

This edition will conclude with the official awards ceremony on Saturday August 13.

“The Three Musketeers” to open Tokyo International Film Festival

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Paul W. S. Anderson’s epic adventure “The Three Musketeers” has been selected as the official opening film for the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 22, the organisation announced Thursday.

The movie, which is based on the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, is a powerful action adventure shot in 3D and stars Logan Lerman, Milla Jovovich, Orlando Bloom and Christoph Waltz. 

Summit Entertainment will release the motion picture in the U.S. a day before, while Gaga corporation will release it in Japan on October 28.

The eight-day festival will be held until Sunday 30 at Roppongi Hills and other venues in Tokyo.

The programme also includes a major retrospective dedicated to Kyōko Kagawa, an inspiration to such Japanese Golden Age auteurs as Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa and Mikio Naruse.

Evanescence to tour the UK in November

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Multi-platinum goth metal band Evanescence have announced their first UK tour with support from Taylor Momsen’s grunge tinged rock outfit The Pretty Reckless and progressive art-rockers Fair To Midland following a three-year sabbatical.

Kicking off at London’s Hammersmith Apollo on 4 November, they finish up in Birmingham on the 13, before heading over to mainland Europe. 

Singer Amy Lee said: “We're dying to come back to the UK and play the new music for our fans. Can't wait!”

Following the worldwide success of their album “The Open Door” (Wind-Up Records & Sony BMG, 2006) the band went into the studio on April 11 this year to begin recording their third studio album with producer Nick Raskulinecz, whose recent producing credits include Foo Fighters, RUSH, Stone Sour, Deftones and Alice in Chains. 

Evanescence new record is due to be released in the fall on Wind Up/EMI.

Tickets go on sale Friday 29 July priced at £28.50 regionally and £29.50 London.

Evanescence UK Tour dates are:

November 2011

Friday 4 - London HMV Hammersmith Apollo
Monday 7 - 02 Apollo Manchester
Tuesday 8 - Glasgow Academy
Thursday 10 - Plymouth Pavilions
Saturday 12 - 02 Academy Leeds
Sunday 13 - 02 Academy Birmingham