Blair on Toolband/army has confirmed that Tool will be the headline act for the Coachella Festival.  Apparently there will be more info in this in the next few days.  Not sure what other info they plan to supply, but if you want info regarding ticket sales etc. then I’d suggest you head over to the Coachella Website.

Blair also mentioned that Selma has stopped dancing, and that the record was mastered on the 31st of January.  All that’s left now is the artwork, promotion and the release, presumably either the 11th, 18th or 25th of April.

Ok, this is just some more speculation, based on a post by nocode4444 on Toolarmy, but he’s suggested a rumour that the first single will be called Visceral and that a possible picture from the video was posted on Camella’s Myspace site by Adam.  The picture has since been recognised as from else where, but considering the first single may be “P or V” as Obelisong hinted in the January Newsletter, not to mention Maynard saying this several times in the Crowleymas chat, it seems like there’s some potential in this rumour….

I think it’s going to be a busy few weeks, since European Festival dates keep coming in almost daily.  The Swiss are the next to benefit with Tool being announced as playing at the Greenfield Festival.

Hope you’re German/Swiss is better than mine, because there doesn’t seem to be a English translation yet (the English page only seemed to have last years line-up).  Placebo are playing as well apparently, and they’ve always put on a good show each time I’ve seen them.

http://www.greenfieldfestival.ch/intro/index.php 

According to this website, Tool are headlining the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in California, apparently playing on the 30th of April. Too bad about the rest of the line-up…..
Looks like those fans who were expecting the Smashing Pumpkins to reform for the festival will be bitterly dissappointed.

Thanks to arium on Toolarmy for the tip.

A new member on Toolarmy posted on the 29th of January:

86 days

The funny thing is, his name is psuedo-xydenature, the same as on Adam’s Myspace page, and this is their one and only message.  Read into this what you will, but that would put the new Tool CD release on the 25th of April, or ANZAC Day for you non-Australians (and Kiwi’s).

Here’s some other rampant speculation, could psuedo-xydenature be the name of the album?  Feel free to comment and add your own speculation on the name….

Looks like the vinyl has been and gone, some 10 hours+ after the time it was supposed too.  Needless to say many people are unhappy with that.  The reality is, that given a limited amount of vinyl (presumably 100 or so) and potentially 1000 people wanting it, there’s going to be a lot of dissappointment.

People also complain of the slowness when such a sale is put on the site.  This is our course caused by the above mentioned 1000 people after the vinyl, not to mention the other ’spectators’ on the site at the time.  Realistically though, it’s probably not really fair to expect the TA admins to be able to cope with this extra load for a couple of one off events.  Being from a develoment and technical background I can say it’s not the simple thing people imagine to create the extra bandwidth/processing power required, not to mention bear the expense.

Hopefully some of you Fourth Eye readers mananged to get a copy, but I’m sure there’s some who didn’t.  Congratulations to those who did, and commiserations to those that missed out.  Maybe there will be another opportunity, though I expect this was probably the last chance.  Keep you’re eye’s on Ebay, and don’t forget to send me pictures to include on the Signed Vinyl Gallery.

Just a quick update, as of 10:38am my time, it doesn’t appear that the signed vinyl was actually released.  No updates have been made on the site, and obviously lots of people are frustracted.

Just a fewl last minute tips though :

1. They will appear in TA Specialty
2. A couple of people have recommended you use Internet Explorer rather than Firefox.  Apparently it seems to deal with the longer loading times better, though personally, I wouldn’t have a clue.

Good luck everyone!

Toolarmy mentions that the next batch of Lateralus Signed Vinyl will be available at 1pm January 28th PST.  For all you Australians this translates to 8am on Sunday the 29th, Eastern Standard Daylight Savings time.  To work out when it will be available in your part of the world, use this site:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html 

For those who care, the Ouija Board in the January newsletter has changed. Thanks to HJK on Toolnavy for that tip.

http://www.toolband.com/news/letter/2006_01.php 

Found alt.music.tool this quote from Henry Rollins regarding the line up for the Big Day Out, currently heading around Australia:

I found out something interesting tonight. Apparently, this tour was to have a bit of a different line-up. Tool was supposed to headline the thing with The Pixies going on before them. The White Stripes were third on the bill. The Stooges were a last minute add.

I wonder what happened to Tool and The Pixies.  Tool I’d guess were booked, but then didn’t get around to recording in time.

Too bad the Big Day Out Organisers missed out and that line up, would have made the current shitty bill be quite good…..