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Crüe And The

Crowes Are Back!
Joey Tempest wants
And Kiss extend their farewell. the Conservative Party

to cease using The
Mötley Crüe and The Black Crowes Final Countdown for
have both confirmed rumours of respective political gain. The
reunions. Despite famously signing 1986 smash has
a cessation of touring contract in 2014, the reportedly been
Crüe had been linked with a US stadium played at the Tory HQ
trek alongside Def Leppard and Poison – to motivate staff
something that singer Vince Neil emphatically during the current
denied, Tweeting: “People, these rumours general election
are false. I haven’t spoken to any band campaign, but Europe
members since the premiere of The Dirt.” wants them to “cease
And yet, on November 18 the band and desist”. “This was
revealed they had “blown up” the legal written as a good-time
document, effectively allowing them to tour hard rock song and
once again. A YouTube clip narrated by [should not be] used
Machine Gun Kelly, who played Tommy Lee in a political context,”
in the movie, commented: “I never thought says a statement.
I would see the day when this would
become a reality. But the fans spoke and Francis Rossi Twin Atlantic
Mötley Crüe listened.” (pictured) is to
It’s tough to quantify the scale of this auction the famous
U-turn. During Mötley’s farewell tour, bass green Fender Frontman Sam McTrusty on Glasgow's "sarcasm and
player Nikki Sixx boasted: “There is no Telecaster used on
amount of money that would ever make me many of Status Quo’s shite weather", and taking the power back…
[override the contract] because I have such most famous
pride in how we’re ending [things],” adding: recordings. Purchased
“And if we did agree [to do so], the way second-hand in The vocals still have that unmistakable I guess that’s why bands like Depeche
Glasgow in 1968 for Glaswegian twang – but on every other Mode always resonated with me: they had
£75, the instrument front, Twin Atlantic are a band fucking life-affirming choruses, but it’s
was also played at Live transformed since we first met them on sad subject matter. I don’t know if that’s
Aid. It’s expected to 2009’s alt.rock debut, Vivarium. Parting because I’m from Glasgow and it’s a hard-
fetch up to £150,000 ways with their label, building a studio on edged place. We’re world-famous for our
from bidders at home turf and embracing an electro-rock sarcasm and shite weather, but also for
Bonhams in sound for fifth album POWER, frontman our amazing parties and sense of humour.
Knightsbridge on Sam McTrusty is defiant when it comes to
December 17. the new era: “I don’t particularly care What was the appeal of putting down
what people’s opinion is, because rock roots in Glasgow?
music takes no prisoners.” If you’re from Glasgow, you’re kinda
Brothers in arms: injected with this insane loyalty, where you
Robinsons return. You’ve said you had know that a lot of it is
a “car crash moment” kind of a fucking
we’ve set it up we’d have so much egg on our before this album… shithole, but you grow
face.” You really couldn’t make it up… Yeah, we did. But it was “Nowhere else to love it and nowhere
Meanwhile, after weeks of speculation, only once we were else feels like home. But
the Robinson brothers buried the hatchet three weeks beyond it feels like home… the main reason is,
for long enough to go public with the that we were like, we've got creative we’ve got creative
news that the Crowes will celebrate next “Fucking hell, that was freedom here. We don’t
year’s 30th anniversary of their debut Bryan Ferry unveils mental”. Nothing freedom here.” have someone looking
album, Shake Your Money Maker, with a a recording from his soured or anything, over our shoulder, don’t
46-date run North American tour – the first ever solo tour on but our relationship have to schmooze with
group’s first concerts since 2013, save for February 7. Live At The with our label, we’d just reached the end. agents. Whenever it gets too businessy, we
appearances in New York and LA that tied Royal Albert Hall 1974 We went from having all these think the fun gets sucked out.
in with the announcement. will be available via connections to being on our own and
Vocalist Chris and guitar-playing sibling BMG. Ferry also plays self-funded. You don’t realise how much You sing in your native accent – why?
Rich insist that despite their legendary the following live something means to you until it’s teetering I grew up right in the sweet-spot of Blink-
feuding, genuine peace now exists. “No one dates: Glasgow on the edge of a cliff. 182, Green Day, Sum 41 – all these really
is here to be a dick,” Rich claims. “We love Armadillo March 3, Floridian or Californian pop-punk bands.
this music. We’re musicians. We’re brothers. Newcastle City Hall 5, What was your vision for this album? So I’d sing in that accent. Then I watched
We love each other. We love this opportunity.” Manchester Palace We wanted to reflect a part of our musical a video back of myself, and I was like,
The Robinsons have hired an all-new Theatre 7, Leicester taste that we’d never known how to “Who the fuck is that?” I was doing the
touring line-up featuring guitarist Isaiah De Montfort Hall 9 integrate. We started the band when we proper Tom DeLonge thing. I was like,
Mitchell of psych-rock band Earthless and and London Royal were eighteen, quickly got a deal, and “Fuck that, man, I’m just gonna sing in my
session bassist Tim Lefebvre of David Bowie Albert Hall Mar 11, 13. were given all these big supports with own voice ’cos that sounds really alien.”
fame, plus keyboardist Joel Robinow and American-influenced rock bands. We
drummer Raj Ojha. Dan Baird has kinda stuck to our lane. But with POWER, Is the Glasgow kiss a myth – or does
In related news, Kiss have extended their performed his final it was like, “I want to make an album that that actually happen?
farewell tour for another two years. The global British concerts. The gives me that weird, dark, euphoric No, it does happen. There’s guys in this band
trek, which includes a spot at Download on former Georgia feeling of a club night in Glasgow”. that I’ve seen give some excellent examples,
June 12, now wraps at an unspecified New Satellites frontman in our younger, more aggressive days. I’ve
York City venue on July 17, 2021. Band and founder, who has Do darkness and euphoria sit seen our bass player, Ross, land a couple. In
manager Doc McGhee recently revealed that said he wants to together well? self-defence, I need to add. So it happens,
discussions have taken place with the group’s spend more time at Yeah. Even when I started writing songs, yeah. You’re talking about the city that had
former members about potentially appearing home with his wife, I was trying to use the cinematic elements a terrorist attack at the airport and the baggage
at this hometown swansong. “They’ve all signed off his band that Springsteen would bring into his handler kicked the guy in the balls! HY THE BLACK CROWES: GETTY
been talked to about it,” stated McGhee. “It’s Homemade Sin at songs, and fuse that with the darkest,
just a matter of the balance.” DL Bannerman’s Bar in angsty, fuzzy Kurt Cobain punk-rock. POWER is out on Jan 24 on Virgin EMI
Edinburgh on
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