MINISTRY Europe tour dates - schedule

Jul. 31 - Paris (FRA) - La Locomotive

Aug. 02 - London (UK) - Forum

Aug. 04 - Wacken, (GER) - Wacken Open Air

Aug. 05 - Hultsfred (SWE) - Gates of Metal

Aug. 09 - Vienna (AUT) - Planet Music

Aug. 10 - Budapest (HUN) - Sziget Festival

Aug. 11 - (CZR) - Love Planet Festival

Aug. 12 - Dresden (GER) - Alte Reithalle

Aug. 13 - Hildesheim (GER) - M'era Luna Festival

Aug. 15 - Rimini (ITA) - Velvet

Aug. 16 - Munich (GER) - Backstagewerk

Aug. 17 - Offenbach (GER) - Capitol

Def Leppard and Jorney tour dates

Def Leppard and Jorney are on tour.
Concerts schedule:

7/24 - DTE Music Theater, Detroit, MI

7/25 - Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH

7/28 - Verizon Amphitheatre, San Antonio, TX

7/29 - Smirnoff Music Centre, Dallas, TX

7/30 - C.W. Mitchell Pavilion, Houston, TX

8/15 - Red Rocks, Denver, CO

8/18 - Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV

8/19 - Verizon Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA

8/22 - Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ

8/23 - Coors Amphitheatre, San Diego, CA

8/25 - Chronicle Pavilion, Concord, CA

8/26 - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA

8/27 - Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA

8/30 - Clark County Amphitheatre, Portland, OR

8/31 - White River Amphitheatre, Seattle, WA

Grand Funk Railroad dates

GRAND FUNK Railroad tour schedule:

Aug. 10 - Wisconsin State Fair-Grandstand - West Allis, Wisconsin

Aug. 11 - Rib Off Festival - Toledo, Ohio

Aug. 12 - Rockin' The Rivers Festival - Three Forks, Montana

Sep. 03 - Heinz Field - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sep. 23 - Cliff Castle Casino - Camp Verde, Arizona

Sep. 29 - Los Angeles County Fair - Pomona, California

Oct. 01 - Davis & Elkins College - Elkins, Wisconsin

Oct. 07 - Gretna Heritage Festival - Gretna, Louisiana

Oct. 20 - 2006 Dragway - N. Rockingham, North Carolina

So, If you like GRAND FUNK music, go on concert.

Janet Jackson new CD cover - designed by fan

Janet Jackson new CD "20 years old" will be desined by fan. Competition started, actualy it's open till 26th July.
From contest site:

What's this all about?
Janet was really inspired by fan-created art that was being posted to her bulletin board, and thought it would be fun to give fans a chance at designing the cover of her new album "20 Years Old".

and this about prizes:

In the event any winning design is not used, the applicable winner(s) will receive an autographed copy of the winner's winning design plus Janet Jackson's entire album catalog on CD which represents the Sponsor's entire liability in such event (ARV $130.00 each). Sixteen (16) Runner-Up Prizes: Janet Jackson's entire album catalog on CD (ARV: $130.00 each). Total ARV of all prizes: $2,600.00.

So, what do you think? Seams Janet will go very cheap this time.

Broken Teeth tour dates

Broken Teeth band tour Schedule:


July:
24 - Sudsy Malone's, Cincinnatti, OH

25 - Double Door, Chicago, IL

28 - The Aquarium, Fargo, ND

29 - Characters Bar And Grill, Canton, SD

August:
3 - Funhouse, Seattle, WA

11 - York's, Amarillo, TX

19 - Rudyard's, Houston, TX

"The Black Crowes" and "Drive by truckers" tour dates

"The Black Crowes" and "Drive by truckers" are on tour. Next concerts schnedule are:

Jul. 21 - Camden, NJ @ Tweeter Center

Jul. 22 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center

Jul. 23 - Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center

Jul. 25 - Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lakes Amphitheatre

Jul. 26 - Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre

Jul. 28 - Cleveland, OH @ Tower City Amphitheatre

Jul. 29 - Scranton, PA @ Toyota Pavilion

Jul. 30 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ SPAC

Aug. 01 - Columbus, OH @ TBA

Aug. 03 - Milwaukee, WI @ Marcus Amphitheatre

Aug. 04 - Noblesville, IN @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

Aug. 08 - Sturgis, SD @ Rockin' the Rally

Aug. 11 - Billings, MT @ Magic City Blues Festival

Aug. 12 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks

Jimmy Barnes tour dates

At the and of July and in August, Jimmy Barnes is on UK tour. Here is schedule:


July 28th - Belfast Limelight

30th July - Glasgow Garage

31st July - Newcastle Academy

2nd August - Leeds Cockpit

3rd August - Liverpool Academy 2

6th August - Bristol Academy 2

7th August - Lndon Islington Academy

10th August - Oxford Zodiac

12th August - Birmingham Academy 2

13th August - Manchester Academy 2

"American Dog" UK Tour 2006 dates

16 days "American Dog" UK Tour 2006 schedule:

July 28 - The Rock and Blues Festival, Appearing with UFO and Vixen

July 29 - Marrs Bar - Worcester UK

July 30 - The Horseshoe Inn - Wellingborough UK

July 31 - The Limelight - Crewe UK

August 2 - M.F.N. Club - Nottingham UK

August 3 - The Sawyers - Kettering UK

August 4 - The Queens Hall - Nuneaton UK, Appearing with Beholder

August 5 - The Roadhouse -Birmingham UK

August 6 - Cert 18 - York, UK

August 7 - Trillians Rock Club - Newcastle, UK

August 8 - The Diamond - Mansfield, UK

August 9 - Rockers Live - Tauton, UK

August 10 - Mr. Kyps - Poole,Dorset UK

August 11 - The Cartoon - Croydon, London UK

August 12 - The Loaded Dog - Leytonstone, London UK

The Almighty - tour dates - schedule

THE ALMIGHTY band UK tour dates for december:

26th December - Nottingham Rock City

27th December - London Shepherd's Bush Empire

28th December - Sheffield Corporation

29th December - Newcastle Academy

30th December - Glasgow Garage

BRYAN ADAMS tour dates - schedule

Bryan Adams July concerts dates:

July 20th - Norwich Blickling Hall

July 21st - Derby Kedleston Hall

July 22nd - Northampton Althorp Park

CROPERDY festival dates/schedule

CROPERDY festival starts 10th – ends on 12th August

10th perfoming - STEELEYE SPAN, Chris Newman & Máire Ní Chathasaigh, FEAST OF FIDDLES, PJ WRIGHT, RANTS

11th - 10 CC, JOHH MARTYN, FLOOK, THE DEBORAH BONHAM BAND, SHAMELESS QUO

12th - FAIRPORT CONVENTION, GLEN TILBROOK, SWARB’S LAZARUS, RICHARD DIGANCE

GUILFEST - dates (Billy Idol, Embrance, Morning Runner, ...)

GUILFEST, Guildford, Surrey
14th -16th JULY

schedule:

14th July EMBRACE + THE LIGHTNING SEEDS + THE WONDERSTUFF + MORNING RUNNER + more TBA

15th July A-HA + GARY NUMAN + more TBA

16th July BILLY IDOL+ SPARKS + THE STRANGLERS + STEREO MC’s + more TBA

DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER - RIDERS ON THE STORM TOUR 2006

DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER - Tour dates and places:

06.09. Berlin - Kesselhaus
07.09. Rostock - Mauclub
08.09. Erfurt - Club Centrum
09.09. Andernach - JUZ Live Club
10.09. Hannover - Faust
12.09. Bochum - Matrix
13.09. Köln - Underground
14.09. Karlsruhe - Substage
15.09. Kaiserslautern - Kammgarn
16.09. Hamburg - Grünspan
17.09. Frankfurt - Batschkapp
19.09. Bielefeld - Forum
20.09. Nürnberg - Hirsch
21.09. München - Backstage
22.09. A-Wörgl - Komma
23.09. A-Traun - Spinnerei
24.09. A-Wien - Arena
26.09. Stuttgart - die Röhre
27.09. Heidelberg - Schwimmbad Music Club
28.09. Freiburg - Jazzhaus
29.09. CH-Winterthur - Salzhaus
30.09. CH-Bern - Gaskessel
09.12. Glauchau - Alte Spinnerei

Song with the power to change lives

Last month Radio 2 dipped a toe into list-show programming by asking listeners to vote for the song with the power to change lives. Presented with a shortlist of 10, including Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run, Aretha Franklin's I Say a Little Prayer and Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, voters opted for Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (which was an album, not a song, but no matter).

What they didn't tell us was exactly how Dark Side had affected them. As the granddaddy of concept albums, it probably inspired the cannabis-addled ravings of more 1970s teenagers than any other record. But what life changes did it bring about? The inference is that the album was uplifting and positive - perhaps, after listening to the Dark Side track Money (one of only two Floyd singles to become a hit in America, by the way), numerous people heeded Dave Gilmour's warning that "money is the root of all evil today" and decided to stop chasing a buck in order to do something they'd always wanted to do. That would be quite a feather in Dark Side's cap.

But suppose Dark Side - or any of the songs in that Top 10 - actually had a resoundingly negative effect? Born to Run might have prompted a mass purchase of motorbikes, followed by a mass appearance in casualty with broken femurs. Or just profound depression caused by the unavoidable juxtaposition of motorbike/midlife crisis.

Other lives must have been similarly ruined by heeding too closely the words of a pop song. Whether it was a decision to take class-A drugs after hearing the Velvet Underground's I'm Waiting for My Man (which would have been a pretty perverse decision, considering the bleakness of Lou Reed's lyric) or being unduly influenced by some gangsta tune, or just deciding that James Blunt's You're Beautiful was written for you and you alone and you won't rest till you've made him yours, music can have a pernicious effect.

My own ruin was caused by hearing Bye Bye Baby by the Bay City Rollers in 1975 on Saturday Night Live. Stunned as I was by their Caledonian gorgeousness, I sadly felt compelled to waste my formative years plodding after the Scottish boy band in the desperate hope of making them notice me. If I hadn't been slumped on the sofa that night, I would no doubt have had a much more productive youth.

So, what song ruined YOUR life?

"Cataract" seeking for new bassplayer

After several discussions, Cataract and bass player Michael decided to part ways. We thank him for everything in the past 8 years and wish him all the best for his future!!!

We are now looking for an immediate replacement. We need a dedicated person that is willing to play a lot, take part in regular rehearsals, spend your holidays touring with the coolest bands, take some crazy rides and spend weekends in vans, on stages and in foreign beds.



You should bring talent and experience in bands if possible, and it would be ace if you listen to lots of metal and hardcore. You should be loving this as we do, willing to share a future vision in the band and not being afraid of changes and discussions. Creativity is a must.

We offer all of the above and some nice extras such as an endorsement deal, a record contract, forthcoming touring all over Europe and more. There is a bright future ahead for Cataract. We want you to be part of it.

Just send your application to info@cataract.cc. Write everything we would need to know about you. Don´t forget to write down your phone number too! You will get an answer within a few days.

Cataract official site

Iron Maiden new album - "A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH"

Iron Maiden plan to release their new studio album entitled A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, in early September.

The band started writing songs at the end of 2005 after a short break from their hugely successful festival appearances in Europe and the USA. After Christmas the songs were completed and rehearsed when the band then got together with producer Kevin 'Caveman' Shirley at Sarm West Studios in London to start work on recording the backing tracks.

Kevin Shirley has now co-produced three of the band's studio albums alongside Steve Harris, as well as two of their recent live DVDs and albums. From this the working relationship between Kevin and the band seems to get stronger and stronger.

Says Kevin: "The Beast is back! I feel from the outset we all clicked on this one. We spent two months in the studio, from Go to Whoa - from Nicko's "tubs up" to final mixes and sequenced master! That's a tiny gestation period for an album. Producing Iron Maiden is like sitting in the head and driving one of those mammoth automatons from Star Wars or Saturday morning cartoons! And there's nothing that can stop it!

"I feel incredibly privileged to have been around to see this album born and breathe life. There have been only a couple of occasions in my career when the ENTIRE process of recording felt so complete - and it is on display here."

As on previous projects all of the tracks were performed live and together in one room. No click tracks or computer tightening or manipulation has happened at any stage of the recording.

Says Steve Harris: "I think in many ways this has been the easiest album in terms of recording that we've ever done. The whole process of writing through to recording was very natural. I think in terms of the material we've also pushed our boundaries yet again and I think it will please our fans but also really surprise a lot of people as well. The sound we've managed to get is very powerful for a Maiden record and all of us have pushed ourselves in our own ways to create something that we're all immensely proud of and I think working as quickly as we did with Kevin really was part of that process.

'We simply can't wait to take this out on the road. We've played some great shows and had a lot fun recently introducing some of our older songs to a new generation of fans. However for us personally we're incredibly excited about getting out and performing these new tracks."

Says Bruce Dickinson: "This album has to be our best since working with Kevin. There is such a wide scope of musicianship on this album and in parts this album is truly epic. I thought with the likes of 'Paschendale' from the last studio album that we could only hope to surpass that but having now heard the album back as well as sitting with a few select people and hearing their reactions too I truly believe we have managed it. Every one of us has put everything into this record and it's really paid off. However we've had such fun making it that it's almost difficult to believe what we've managed to achieve in the time it took."

Panic at the disco - concerts

JUL 05 Niagara Falls, NY Dome Theatre SOLD OUT
JUL 06 Columbus, OH The LC Pavilion PURCHASE TICKETS
JUL 07 Chicago, IL House Of Blues SOLD OUT
JUL 09 St. Paul, MN Myth SOLD OUT
JUL 11 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's SOLD OUT
JUL 12 Cleveland, OH Plain Dealer Pavilion PURCHASE TICKETS
JUL 13 Grand Rapids, MI Deltaplex PURCHASE TICKETS
JUL 14 Detroit, MI State Theater SOLD OUT
JUL 15 Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheatre PURCHASE TICKETS
JUL 16 Montreal, QC Metropolis SOLD OUT
JUL 18 Pittsburgh, PA Chevy Amphitheatre PURCHASE TICKETS
JUL 19 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Ballroom SOLD OUT
JUL 20 St. Louis, MO The Pageant SOLD OUT
JUL 21 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater SOLD OUT
JUL 22 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium SOLD OUT
JUL 24 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue SOLD OUT
JUL 25 Boise, ID Big Easy SOLD OUT
JUL 26 Portland, OR Expo Center PURCHASE TICKETS
JUL 27 Vancouver, BC Croatian Cultural Center SOLD OUT
JUL 28 Seattle, WA The Premier SOLD OUT
JUL 30 San Francisco, CA Warfield SOLD OUT
JUL 31 Anaheim, CA The Grove SOLD OUT
AUG 01 San Diego, CA Soma PURCHASE TICKETS
AUG 02 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern SOLD OUT

ROCKSTAR: SUPERNOVA shedule

REALITY SERIES PREMIERE
Monday July 3 on-demand at rockstar.msn.com

SPECIAL 90 MINUTE CBS PREMIERE
Wednesday July 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS

FIRST CBS ELIMINATION SHOW
Thursday July 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS

Avril Lavigne has slammed Hollywood stars

Avril Lavigne has slammed Hollywood stars who take drugs.

The Canadian star - who used to be a regular on the Los Angeles party scene - insists she hates illegal substances and has never experimented with any drugs herself.

She said: "I'm proud to say that I do not do drugs.

"I'm against them 100 per cent - and I don't hang out with people who do drugs."

The singer-turned-actress - who voces a possum in new animated movie 'Over The Hedge' - has also revealed she is determined to make her fledgling acting career a success.

She said: "That's how I go about things. I do what I do and take the steps I'm going to take and I don't worry about other people. I don't think anyone should go through life that way."

Red Hot Chili Peppers to play Milan

Red Hot Chili Peppers have confirmed a show in Milan at the Filaforum on NOvember 29th!

Fan Club PRESALES for this show will start on July 3rd at 9:00am CET.

Public onsale on July 5th!