Gig Alert: Public Image Ltd
Public Image Ltd – featuring one Mr John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten …y’know, from the Sex Pistols – are heading to Australia in April 2013 in support of their latest album, This Is PiL. It’ll be their first time back in Oz in 20 years. This Is PiL was just named in Mojo Magazine’s Top 50 Albums of the Year roundup. PiL will be playing stuff from the new one as well as tracks from throughout their career. Guitar nerd fun fact: Steve Vai played on PiL’s hilariously-titled album Album (it was named Album on vinyl, Compact Disc on CD and Cassette on cassette. They should reissue it as Shitty Spotify Stream).
LA Guns: Stacey Out, Tracii In?
Huh. Here’s an interesting rumour that just drifted across my desk: is Stacey Blades out of LA Guns? Is Tracii Guns coming back after several years of (not very successfully, it must be said) running his own competing version of LA Guns? If you’re not familiar, Tracii was one of the founding members of Guns N’ Roses, and that’s where the ‘Guns’ of their name came from. I know that sounds like a lame reverse-engineered joke or something but it’s true. Blades has been with Phil Lewis‘s version of LA Guns for eight years, including the band’s planned Australian tour last year, which was supposed to feature Warrant and Quiet Riot as well but which fell apart in spectacular fashion.
Gig Alert: Lost Angels
Lost Angels, the supergrounp featuring John Corabi (Motley Crue, The Scream, Union, Ratt), guitarist Eric Dover (Jellyfish, Slash’s Snakepit, Alice Cooper, Sextus, and you can also see him playing guitar in the Brady Bunch movie), drummer Troy Patrick Farrell (White Lion, Pretty Boy Floyd, Gilby Clark) and bass player Eric Brittingham (Cinderella) are hitting Oz in December to play special intimate shows in selected cities. They’ll be at The Hi Fi on Friday December 21. The band was formed as a side project so the guys could continue their love of playing and touring.
Gay Paris Party With Ke$ha, Release Unrelated Video
Sydney’s salacious, stupidly hard rockin’ dudes Gay Paris have been smashin’ eardrums and upturned faces with steady riffin’ and cheeky banter on their Death to Spring tour recently. They’ve just released the video for The Demarcation of Joseph Hollybone, which they describe as “The age-old tale of a down-and-out cock doin’ it hard.” Check it out on the YouTubes. They also recently partied with Ke$ha (who has rock fred thanks to her duet with Alice Cooper, as far as I’m concerned) after their Sydney show. Lucky bastards.
Gig Alert: Deathstars
Sweden’s Deathstars are hailed by some as the death-glam kings of lust, glitter and sleaze. That’s a hell of a reputation to live up to in the world of metal, nay, in the world at large, and the band certainly seems intent on justice to this claim. Anyone who saw them on their first Australian tour back in 2009 will attest their live show has the polish of their recordings, delivered harder and sleazier. Well they’re coming back in 2013! They’ll be at The Corner on Saturday May 4. May the Fourth Be With You.
Sonic Forge Festival This Weekend
The Sonic Forge festival returns this week – Saturday December 15 – with a monster lineup including NE OBLIVISCARIS, BE’LAKOR, Death Audio (it’s their album launch), Dreadnaught, The Schoenberg Automaton (QLD), Eye Of The Enemy, Alarum, A Million Dead Birds Laughing, Myraeth (NSW), Subjektive, The Levitation Hex, Orpheus, Arbrynth, Gods Of Eden (NSW), Decimatus, Naberus, The Plague Black, Hours In Exile, Envenomed, Whoretopsy, Adamus Exul, Akaname, The Empire, Create|Destroy, Hybrid Nightmares, Myridian and Krematorium Defiled. Doors open at 3pm and tickets are $22 plus booking fee, available now from The Espy and all Oztix outlets.
