Dan emailed me today that he read in a recent copy of the New Zealand music Magazine Rip It Up:

I was reading in the latest Rip It Up (NZ music mag) that reporter David Farrier happened to be on the same flight as Tool when he went to one of their shows in the States towards the end of the touring. He asked them the obvious question: “When will you come back to NZ?” The answer (from Adam) was “Spring, but don’t quote me on that.” So he quoted him and put it in a magazine. I imagine if they will play NZ again then they will play Oz too.

I guess the reporter didn’t pay too much attention to the “don’t quote me on that” part!

Obviously this is far from any kind of confirmation, but certainly gives some hope to seeing them again.  I presume Spring means our Autumn, so I guess we can expect to see dates for sometime in April or May, if at all.  As a general rule of thumb, concert dates for big bands have at least to months notice, so I’d rule out any chance of them being here in March or early April.  I’d say if anything, a May tour is most likely.

Anyone else catch this article, or hear anything else?

I was basking in the Sydney sun at the Big Day Out preparing for the second of two Tool shows. It seems so long ago…

There’s been much discussion of Tool‘s recently announced US West Coast tour on Fourtheye, and in particular what this means for the promised Australian and New Zealand tour.  According to Cognizant:

I was logging in today to see what had been heard about the place as my mate who does some work for the Events Centre here in Wellington (and has been keeping me in the loop) sent me an email yesterday and this is what she had to say :

“So we were skimming through all of the upcoming events and noticed that the November Tool concert date has miraculously shifted into March next year. What the?!
That said; they have (again) only put it in as a first pencil so there’s no guarantee that they’ll actually go ahead with it but hey…
The cool thing is that they’re trying to book the 19th until the 21st, which tells me that if they did go ahead with it, there’s the possibility of two concerts…”

So – everybody keep their fingers crossed I guess

And

Although having said that I can’t see Wellys getting 2 concerts so maybe they’re just pencilling a ‘window’

This sounds reasonably legit to me, and works well with another comment that I read which suggested that due to Danny’s injury earlier this year, all tours except the European one have been delayed, which would explain the sudden US tour announcement, and the movement of the Aust/NZ tour to 2008.

We’ll just have to wait and see I guess.

Auroboros from Toolarmy emailed me today, to tell me that his Mum tells him that Tool have been booked by Frontier Touring and will be playing in Melbourne on the 9th or 10th of December.  The dates sound about right based on Maynard‘s comments earlier this year, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see as to how accurate this rumour is…..