Yes it’s true!! the legendary Rob Zombie is coming to Dublin and Belfast in 2011!! This morning the band have confirmed they will play The Olympia Theatre in Dublin on June 28th and the Ulster Hall in Belfast on June 29th. .
Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, December 22nd priced €39.20 and £30 respectively.
This is a show Tickets There has begged for and at long last it’s happening. Do us a favour and head on over to MCD(Rob Zombie Page) and thank them for us 😉
Anyone looking for a little quirky dance floor number to warm up this exceptionally cold winters day? we’ll check out HeimlicK My Heart by The Indecent Cigar Emporium (these names just keep getting better don’t they :)).
We gave this a few spins yesterday and have to say it’s not a bad wee tune at all from the new group. More to come in 2011 so consider this a Christmas taster.
Tickets There would like to send our congrats to Mr. Alice Cooper for his induction into the Rock n Roll hall of fame. He joins the ranks of Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones and many more that have been added to the Halls list of inductees over the past 24 years.
Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax have announced they will play this years British Sonisphere festival being held in Knebworth between July 8th and 10th.
The four legendary bands will be playing Friday the 8th joining already confirmed head-liners Slipknot and Biffy Clyro. The event is under the same banner the four (fucking thrash legends!!) groups played under last year and with several other Sonispheres taking place around Europe, hopes are high this will not be their only European pit stop. We’ll bring you more as soon as we hear it.
In the mean time, tickets are on sale now @ www.aloud.com
The Bellies are coming back folks. With a lengthy acoustic tour already completed and a headlining appearance at this years Live At The Marquee in Cork confirmed, they’re cementing the Irish comeback trail with today’s announcement that their fifth studio album, Bloodless Coup will be released April 1st and to celebrate, they’ll be playing Vicar Street on April 6th and 7th.
Tickets for the shows are priced €33.60 and go on sale December 13th @ 09:00am.
Read more @ Hotpress
Dublin Industrial rockers Lluther have announced they will play a special New Years Eve show in the Gypsy Rose hard rock bar on Aston Quay (the old Viper Rooms venue). While the price and details are still TBC, we at Tickets There are delighted to announce that after hours of feverish research, dangerous complex equations and extreme calculation techniques, the date will be in or around December 31st. Obviously this is a calculated guess rather than a certainty using the basis that New Years Eve by tradition has equalled December 31st in previous years. It sounds so simple when you spell it out like that but the complexity of the task has taken it’s toll on all of us here. Things may never be the same again.
Not too worry, we should be back on our feet when full details have been announced.
After the success of their first single Bring the Light, all eyes are now focused on the release of Liam Gallagher’s post-Oasis band Beady Eye’s debut Long player. Titled Different Gear, Still Speeding the album is set to hit shelves on February 28th next year and will feature 13 songs from the band. Full track listening can be viewed below. Take that Noel (only jostling ya)
1.”Four Letter Word”
2.”Millionaire”
3.”The Roller”
4.”Beatles and Stones”
5.”Wind Up Dream”
6.”Bring the Light”
7.”For Anyone”
8.”Kill for a Dream”
9.”Standing on the Edge of the Noise”
10.”Wigwam”
11.”Three Ring Circus”
12.”The Beat Goes On”
13.”The Morning Son”
The special edition will feature the following bonus material on a separate disc,
1.”RAK Them Out – Documentary”
2.”Bring The Light – Video”
3.”Four Letter Word – Video”
4.”Sons Of The Stage – Video”
Michael Jackson, the legendary King of Pop is back with a new album! Anyone who ever doubted the man’s claim to the royal throne surely can’t begrudge Michael now that he’s managed to release his first full length album in nine years despite the small matter of his death just 18 months ago. Tongue in cheek anyone? It’s no secret that the release of Michael has been a controversial choice for Sony with almost everyone in the Jackson camp coming out to bash the idea with some even speculating to the authenticity of the vocals on some of the tracks and artists such as Will.I.Am denouncing the record company’s choice to release a highly respected musician’s unfinished art without his consent. Despite all this, the album is just two days from an official release so it’s time to forget the controversy and find out exactly what the King was up to behind the scenes for his final years.
Things take off slowly with the R&B styled Hold My Hand which features Akon. Not a bad song by any means but given that this is the opening to a deceased legends posthumous album, you’d expect a little bit more of a show. Hollywood Tonight provides the template for a classic slice of Michael pop but doesn’t really deliver the balls to make it a stand out classic and just seems to go with the flow. Maybe it could have worked with more work from the artist but unfortunately he was unavailable to provide his feedback. Keep Your Head Up is another Soulful R&B number in the style of tracks from 2001’s Invincible album. It isn’t until (I Like) The Way You Love Me kicks in that you get a real taste of Michael’s legendary smooth as silk talent.
Monster (featuring 50 Cent) continues the albums ascent towards acceptable with it’s beefed up, glass smashing, ‘Shamone’ style pounding. Amazingly enough 50 Cent’s contribution works well next to Sir Michael with the King’s vocals holding up their share. Maybe a little too broad to become a classic but nice to hear Michael was still prepared to strain the cords when called for. Best of Joy is another bog standard light number with it’s cryptic ‘I Am Forever’ chorus and then we come to the albums most controversial number, Breaking News.
Breaking News is the song several family members have claimed contains vocals from some MJ impersonator and Sony are going well out of their way with experts, analysts and collaborators being brought in to confirm the vocals are those of the King. Personally, Tickets There thinks they sound more like Britney Spears, just like the song itself. As a Michael Jackson song, it sounds a little too obvious in it’s subject matter and far too similar to every other pop act from the mid-2005 era with it’s electro drums, banging noises and layer upon layer of effects to flesh out the sound and convince you that underneath all this hoopla there’s something actually happening. Not a terrible song but only made interesting by the fact that Michael Jackson sings it. If it was anyone else, we wouldn’t care.
(I Can’t Make It) Another Day on the other hand is an excellent Michael Jackson song. Back to guitars, drums and Michael’s powerful voice throwing shapes against some great wind we always in vision him working against. A guest appearance by Lenny Kravitz is very welcome while Dave Grohl’s drumming seems a little understated. Much Too Soon closes things of with a very gentle, no frills ‘Ben’ styled niceness.
It’s not a bad album. In fact it’s a lot better than Invincible but like Invincible, there’s not a lot here to tack onto Michael’s legacy. Some nice moments, a handful of pretty great moments and a lot of rehash Michael styles that were never amazing to begin with (I’m looking at you Heal the World….and most of Dangerous really). The King is gone and this is by no means a slur on his career or an aborted attempt to salvage what ever last shreds of a record he had prepared. It’s solid, it’s finished and it’s 100% Michael. It’s just not the greatest Michael Jackson album of all time and that’s exactly what it needed to be for people to embrace it fully. Saying that, it’s nice hearing him sing again.
A sad day for metal but a great day for metal fans world wide as the mighty Judas Priest have announced their 2011 world tour will be their last (the good part being the fact that we all get to see Judas Priest next year on a massive tour which is guaranteed to be chock full of the bands greatest hits).
(Message posted on the Official Judas Priest Website): After storming the world for nearly 40 years and taking their very special brand of heavy metal to all four corners of the planet, JUDAS PRIEST – one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, have announced this will be their final world tour!!
However, the mighty PRIEST will certainly be going out strong as they rock the planet starting in 2011 on the massive EPITAPH tour – hitting all the major cities throughout the world they will be playing the songs that helped make the name JUDAS PRIEST synonymous with heavy metal!
The tour is set to kick off in Europe with 8 dates announced so far (see below). No massive streach of the imagination to figure the blank spaces in July and August will be flushed out with some American dates…but we’ll wait and see.
Jun. 09 – Sweden Rock Festival, Sölvesborg, Sweden
Jun. 11 – Sauna Open Air, Finland
Jun. 17 – Copenhell Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jun. 19 – Hellfest, Nantes, France
Jun. 22 – Gods of Metal Festival, Milan, Italy
Jun. 25 – Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium
Jul. 23 – High Voltage Festival, London, UK
Aug. 05 – Wacken Open Air, Wacken, Germany
Will the Priest return to Ireland? Who cares, this will be a tour worth travelling to see. Stay tuned for more dates as they’re announced.
With the announcement that The Foo Fighters are headlining Scotland’s T In The Park festival, things seem pretty likely that Oxegen will soon announce the same.
The two festivals have always shared their acts so expect official word soon that the mighty Grohl driven machine will be returning to Irish sores in 2011. Pity it has to be Oxegen but you never known they might decide to play an ‘Intimate show for fans‘ in the O2 as well.
***UPDATED – 13th Dec 2010 – Foo Fighters Confirmed for Oxegen 2011***
Well, Tickets There was right (not that a whole pile of logic was needed, eh TT? – Ed). Foo Fighters have been confirmed for Oxegen 2011. Also, Oxegen will be a four day festival this year (although first day looks set to be a ‘welcome’ kind of night thing. There’s also some special offers for Early Bird tickets! Detials below,
EARLY BIRD SAVER VS FULL PRICE TICKETS
Ticket Type Early Bird Ticket Price General Ticket Price (on sale March 2011)
3 Day No Camping €179.50 €199.50
3 Day with Camping €199.50 €224.50
4 Day Camping €219.50 €244.50
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