Live Event Blog

The well-known Canadian musician Bryan Adams will start his co-headlining shows in U.S with Foreigner and Rod Stewart on July 15^th. Bryan will do joint performances with Foreigner at the East Coast in the first stretch of the tour and will cover cities from California to Ohio in the second stretch with Rod Stewart. Bryan has decided to give solo acoustic live performances at selected places like Wilmington, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and New Orleans.  Bryan is trying to support the sales of his new record “11” released last month. Fans are trying to get tickets for the acoustic shows of Adams as they are eager to know, what it is all about.

Motley Crue finally released their ninth studio album “Saints of Los Angeles” on June 23^rd after postponing the release a number of times as they wanted to include one more song “Goin’ Out Swinging” in the album. The specialty of this album is that it features the founder members. The group has planned a tour called Crue Fest which starts on July 1^st from West Palm Beach and they will perform at more than 40 venues. Motley Crue will perform along with Buckcherry, Sixx: A.M and Papa Roach and hence the tickets for the live events of Motley in U.S are in great demand.

The singer and songwriter Black Francis is starting his solo tour from Santa Cruz in California on June 23^rd. He will also be doing shows with Stone Temple Pilots starting from June 24^th.  His headlining shows are limited to Omaha, Oakland and Aspen. He will promote his recently released mini album “SVN FNGERS” containing only seven songs. Stone Temple Pilots, the American rock band, are on the reunion tour. The tickets for Black Francis featuring the special guests shows are of general admission type and costs only U.S $17.50. This live event is open only to people who are 21 years and over. Some tickets are still available for the combined live performance of Black Francis and STP.

Kiss Band has given their consent to perform at the Pearl Concert Theater on August 29 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas as part of their “KISS Alive 35” concert tour they are undertaking to make their 35th anniversary in the music world. The KISS band is currently on tour across Europe and the speed in which the tickets were sold out is testimony to the fact that this rock n roll band has roped in thousands of fans all across the globe in their 35 year stint in the music industry.  Tickets to the Pearl Concert will go on sale from June 21 through various online ticket counters and at the venue.

The UK yesteryear band group, The Zombies, is all set to grace the stages of US and Canada throughout the month of July. The series of live events is set to kick start on July 3 at Comerica City Fest in Detroit and will trek through important cities like New York, Milwaukee, Anaheim, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Portland, Alberta, Atlantic City and so on before concluding their return tour of North America with a live performance on July 31 at Club Regent Casino in Winnipeg. The tickets to these concerts are currently on sale and the Zombies fans will be delighted to see them perform in their soil.

The two rocking performers from Led Zeppelin’s band John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page joined the Foo Fighters during their Wembley Stadium live show last weekend. The rocker duo came up with two smashing performances with the Foo Fighters that was well appreciated by the fans who had bought tickets to watch the live event at London. Jimmy Page said that since all the members of Led Zeppelin have individual projects in the pipeline, fans will have to wait till 2009 for the Led Zeppelin re-union tour. The fans are hoping for more such performers to join the Foo Fighters gigs in the upcoming concert shows. 

The Raconteurs who are currently on a busy summer trek have announced their dates for the fall tour. It is slated to begin in the second week of September. The Raconteurs band will be promoting their second album during this fall tour that will kick start with a dual show at Portland on the 16^th and 17^th of September. The two week fall tour stretch of the band will traverse through cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Texas, Memphis, San Diego, and Vancouver in Canada and will finally end on the 1^st of October with a live performance in Atlanta. Tickets to most of these fall shows are currently on sale.

The LaBelle trio is planning for reunion after 33 years. The trio comprising Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Gash is trying to release their new album by this fall. They are trying to mix up the practices of old school and new school so are involving Philadelphia Soul Pioneers Gable and Huff and Lenny Kravitz in this project. But at present LaBelle is busy with her summer tour of North America which will get flagged off from Paramount Center at Peekskill in New York. Tickets for the live event by LaBelle is in great demand all over U.S. LaBelle will join her R&B group mates in December after the tour.

Anita Baker, a Grammy Award winner, has set sights on a long summer tour all over the U.S from June to September and will be entertaining her fans with soulful tunes in places like Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, Nevada, California, Colorado and Florida. Anita Baker will be kick starting her summer tour with a live show in Vienna at the Wolf Trap Filene Center and will then cross over to the U.S for a host of shows. She will be finishing her summer trek with a performance at Greek Theater in Los Angeles on September 26. Tickets to most of her concert in June, July and August are currently on sale.

The country singer and musician Trace Adkins has been on the road since January, but this has not stopped him from adding another 12 dates to his already existing line up of more than 30 shows this year. He will be touring throughout U.S till October and has fixed up a live show in Canada on August 1. He has added Nashville’s CMA Music Festival to his itinerary and will be performing at the gala event on June 7th. Despite undertaking this strenuous tour, Trace Atkins is also working on his eighth studio album that is expected to be released in fall. The tickets to his concerts are available at all the centers in which he will be performing.