Maynard has done a quick interview with Ed Masley from AZ Central in which he talks about the coming A Perfect Circle shows: Q: I love the three-night stand idea. What inspired that approach? A: Well, we’ve never actually played the "Emotive" album live, so we wanted to do all those songs and really dial them in so we could have a little pool of songs to draw from when… Read More »Maynard talks APC with AZ Central
Blair has confirmed the two Tool solo shows in Australia next year on Toolband: CONFIRMED: JANUARY 24 – BRISBANE at ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE FEBRUARY 2 – MELBOURNE at MYER BOWL TICKETS GO ON SALE NOVEMBER 4TH. I believe the on-sale date is not the 4th of November, but will actually be the 8th as advertised on the Big Day Out site. However neither of the dates appear on Ticketmaster or Ticketek,… Read More »Tool confirm solo shows
Stumbled across a tweet today from the Big Day Out feed, which mentioned the following: VIDEO HITS are doing a 1/2 hour TOOL special this Sat night at 1.20am (technically 1.20am Sunday 31st Oct) – tune in!! #VideoHitsTV #Tool Video Hits is an Australian music show, which mainly features Top 40 type music, so will be interesting to see what actually appears. I guess it’ll just be their videos, but… Read More »Tool on Video Hits, A Perfect Circle on Kimmel
There’s an excellent interview with Danny on Aussie site Faster Louder this morning. He talks about preparations for the tour and touches on the new album as well: What can we expect from this Tool show that differs from the band’s previous Big Day Out appearance in 2007? Definitely different lighting features, props and visual delights I guess! Not a lot of new music but we’ll try to mix it… Read More »Danny speaks with Faster Louder
According to reports from Cubanpete, Danny has been on Triple J this morning and mentioned that there will Tool sideshows in Brisbane and Melbourne. According to the release on the Triple J site: Mon 24 Jan – Entertainment Centre BRISBANE Wed 2 Feb – Sidney Myer Music Bowl, MELBOURNE Tickets for both shows go on sale Monday November 8. Get more info at bigdayout.com Big Day Out promoters have said… Read More »Danny announced Tool sideshows in Melbourne and Brisbane
Terry, not content with letting me know about the Alex Grey show, also pointed out this snippet from a recent Big Day Out press release: SYDNEY BIG DAY OUT TICKETS, AUSTRALIA DAY – 26th JANUARY, 2011 EXPRESS BALLOT ANNOUNCED! 25 October, 2010 We have held back 3,000 tickets for the first Sydney BDO event on Wednesday, 26 January 2011 to be sold via the official BDO website ballot. This ballot… Read More »No Tool Sydney Sideshow?
According to the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors site Alex and Allyson Grey will also be touring Australia at the same time Tool do: For the first time in history, visionary artists Alex and Allyson Grey will step foot upon Australian soil to present their radiant portfolio of visionary paintings, drawings, and multimedia to art, science and music lovers across the nation.The main event in Melbourne will take place at the… Read More »Alex Grey Australian Tour
Maynard has posted a short video on Youtube of a very recent A Perfect Circle practise session. The band appear to be playing Magdalena, and unless I’m mistake there sounds like a short snippet of violins being played. I wonder if that’s a sample or not… APC rehearsing Magdalena Thanks to BurlyIves for the link!
Just announced on Fasterlouder is the following cool show on the 3rd of March at The Palais in Melbourne: Primus fans the world over were thrown into fits of sporadic air-bass when the influential US rockers announced in April that after a five year hiatus they were back in business. It seemed only logical that the band would eventually be nabbed by one of our summer festivals, and Soundwave ended… Read More »Primus & The Melvins Melbourne show