Blair has recently made a post on Toolband to confirm what we already know – that Tool are playing a couple of festivals this year:
These two shows have been confirmed, with more to follow. I’ve been told that there will be ToolArmy pre-sales, but haven’t received the details yet. As soon as more dates are confirmed, they will be posted, along with the pre-sale information.
- Jul 18 2009 – Mile High Music Festival – Commerce City, CO, USA
- Aug 01 2009 – Liberty State Park – Jersey City, NJ (Ed: All Points West Festival)
Tickets on sale: April 6
The opportunity for Toolarmy Pre-Sales is interesting. Hopefully they can devise a pre-sale method that works better than the last tours. No word on Lollapalooza yet it seems, but given that the lineup hasn’t been officially announced I guess it’s no surprise.
I’ve said this before in various comments, and I’ll say it again for those that don’t read them – I expect the summer “tour” may not amount to more than a handful of festival gigs. Those hoping for a full US tour I imagine will be disappointed. I’ll gladly be proven wrong though!
I hope the theory about ” we have to go on a tour to edit a live DVD” come true… i’m sure they r not coming to mexico…¬¬ bad bad bad…malo!!…muy malo!!… I hope they to play new songs or b-sides whatever …but new stuff!!!…..
[quote comment=””]I hope the theory about ” we have to go on a tour to edit a live DVD” come true… i’m sure they r not coming to mexico…¬¬ bad bad bad…malo!!…muy malo!!… I hope they to play new songs or b-sides whatever …but new stuff!!!…..[/quote] According to Junior the lights guy for Tool and Puscifer said the reason the news did not come out because the band has hit another hitch. Whether it is the pot or a live cd or dvd it appears the news that was hinted about jan 17 last year and was supposed to be disclosed… Read more »
A couple of US only festivals doesn’t count as a ‘summer tour’; If it was only festival dates, they wouldn’t have announced it as a tour, they would just have said ‘Tool will be making a few live appearances this summer’ or something.
There will be a lot more Tool tour dates added over the next few weeks I think.
If not, they really are starting to turn into a bunch of wankers
[quote comment=””]A couple of US only festivals doesn’t count as a ‘summer tour’; If it was only festival dates, they wouldn’t have announced it as a tour, they would just have said ‘Tool will be making a few live appearances this summer’ or something. There will be a lot more Tool tour dates added over the next few weeks I think. If not, they really are starting to turn into a bunch of wankers[/quote] Someone posted on the ToolArmy site (2ND PUSCIFER SHOW is the title I believe) that Justin had told them there were more shows coming than those… Read more »
Just wait and see. Lots of bands schedule seasonal tours around festival dates.
i really think that it will be a full tour. Do TA members get pre-sales for festivals? If not i don’t see why they would say anything about TA pre-sales if they weren’t going to do a full tour.Â
And by ‘tour;’ I’d like for them to mean international (even one date here and there.) If not, at least have something to promote and maintain interest. It gets annoying being patient without rewards – pot dvd, live dvd (would be amazing, but too unlikely)….or (impossible) a pre-album EP/single/soundtrack…. Alas.