Promoters have confirmed what has been rumoured for a few weeks now – Tool will be visiting South America for the first time in 2025, which festival shows in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Columbia. Three of these shows are the local variant of Lollapalooza, while in Columbia it’s the Festival Estereo Picnic. The lineups are interesting to say the least – here’s one: I love Sepultura (who are doling their… Read More »Tool dates in South America confirmed
Giving more credence to the report that Tool were planning to visit Chile in 2025, a recent Tweet from respected Brazilian music journalist José Norberto Flesch suggests that an announcement is imminent: Word is that the South American variant of Lollapalooza – held in Chile, Brazil and Argentina will be announced on the 3rd of September, and that Tool will be the headline act. Could be a historic day for… Read More »South American Tool rumours intensify
Overnight Tool announced a series of live dates for locations right around Europe including the Download Festival in Donington, UK for June and July 2019. Dates are listed below: TOOL EUROPE TOUR 2019SUNDAY, JUNE 2 @ MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA – BERLIN, GERMANYON SALE FRIDAY, OCT. 26 (9 am local)https://www.livenation.de/arti… TUESDAY, JUNE 4 @ O2 ARENA – PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLICON SALE FRIDAY, OCT, 26 (9am local)https://www.livenation.cz/arti… WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 @ WIENER STADHALLE – VIENNA, AUSTRIAON… Read More »Tool announced European tour for 2019
Puscifer will be bringing their Money $hot tour Down Under in January, with dates all over Australia and New Zealand, including a headline slot on the Mofo Festival in Tasmania.  Here’s the press release: Returning to Australia in January 2017, the genre-defying Puscifer will unleash their legendary Money $hot – Round Under Tour on audiences around the country across four huge all-ages shows. The Money $hot tour will take in Melbourne’s Plenary… Read More »Puscifer announce Australian tour in January 2017
In our absence, Blair has posted the April 2016 Tool newsletter, which includes a censored section for you to decipher (if you are so inclined): During a recent phone conversation with a certain band member, he told me the following: “Goddamn, I just ******* the *** **** ***** and it was pretty damn amazing! Of course, ** still has to **** **** of * *** ****** before ** **** ********,… Read More »Tool April 2016 Newsletter
The Melvins will be hitting the road in March, April and May 2016 for the Savage Imperial Death March Tour. It has a massive lineup including grindcore legends Napalm Death and Japanese noise rock band Melt Banana. There are dates all across the US, with a few in Canada as well. It’s a fantastic lineup, and I recommend you check it out if it hits your town! March 26 Phoenix,… Read More »The Melvins hit the road with Napalm Death and Melt Banana
A mysterious post appeared on Toolband over the weekend with nothing other than “Wait for it…” and a small orange dot being posted. “Wait for what?” is the obvious question here, but it appears there are a couple of possibilities. Rumours (I have no insight into the source except it comes from a Tool Army fan page on Facebook) suggest that Tool might be headlining the Monster Mash Music Festival… Read More »Wait for it…
In a recent article on PLSN (Projection, Lights and Staging New) Tool crew members Breckinridge Haggerty (Video Designer & Director) and Mark “Junior†Jacobson (Lighting Designer & Director) discuss their jobs and the tweaks to the recent Tool tour set: The band members have been fairly good about giving us a potential pool of songs for each tour leg. The songs we know will be there almost every night get… Read More »Junior and Breck discuss Tour 2014 Lighting and Video production
Excellent news for Melvins fans this morning, with King Buzzo announcing he’s bringing his acoustic live show to Australia for a series of dates in August. From Frontier Touring: Frontier Touring is thrilled to announce that rock’n’roll royalty Buzz Osborne, King Buzzo is headed to Australia with a ten-date solo acoustic tour of Australia this August! With a career spanning 31 years, 30 albums, and over 2,000 live performances, this… Read More »King Buzzo solo acoustic tour hits Australia
It’s been a long time coming, but The Melvins have finally announced a headline tour around Australia, this time joined by 90s stalwarts Helmet. It’s a comprehensive tour as well, featuring shows all around the country, and most importantly, not skipping Adelaide! Here are the dates: Friday December 6 – Metropolis – Fremantle (Melvins only) Sunday December 8 – Hi Fi Brisbane Monday December 9 – Northern Hotel – Byron… Read More »Melvins & Helmet announce joint Australian tour