Red Hot Chili Peppers
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RHCP to perform in Ireland as well
(many thanks to Lynn for this news!) Red Hot Chili Peppers will perform at the Oxegen festival in Ireland on its second day, 9th July. For details on how to get the tickets (presale starts on March 3rd)…and here’s how the festival website describes the band: Red Hot Chili Peppers have been voted one of the worlds best live acts and won countless awards with MTV and Ireland’s own Meteor Awards amongst others. Now the band are set to play their ONLY Irish date on their forthcoming tour at OXEGEN. As music fans worldwide wait in anticipation for the release of ‘Stadium Arcadium’, the bands 9th studio album, and first…
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RHCP have announced tour dates for Germany
The dates for the RHCP concerts in Germany have been announced on the official site. The band will play in Dortmund’s Westfalenhalle on 11th and 12th June and in Wuhlheide in Berlin on June 15th. Fanclub presale starts on 21st February and regular tickets will be available from February 25th on. Czech shows will be announced on 1st March and, there might not be any more European shows and most likely NO shows anywhere in south Europe, including Italy, one of band’s usual stops, unless something changes in the last possible moment. Don’t blame your promoters and the band, guys…it’s all the company’s decision, apparently.
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RHCP’s concerts in Spain announced…
…yes, as seen on the official site. The Barcelona concert will be held on 30th May at Palau san Jordi, presale starts on 2nd March and the Madrid concert will be held on 2nd June at Palacio de Los Deportes, presale starts on 23rd February. In both of the cases, presales start at 9:00 central European time and presale tickets are available to RHCP fanclub members only. Have fun, Spaniards and Catalans!
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Belgium, Scotland and The Netherlands: RHCP festival appearances confirmed
More dates have been announced for the European leg of the Stadium Arcadium tour, this time for three festivals: 6th June 2006, Pink Pop Festival, the Netherlands (tickets) 29th June 2006, Rock Werchster, Belgium (festival’s website, tickets will be sold from 18th March on) 8th July 2006, T In The Park, Scottland (festival’s website) And, after a couple of questions have been asked from fellow people who live in southeastern Europe like me, I have contacted the people who organise EXIT, the best festival in Europe, according to British newspaper The Observer and one of the best festivals according to MTV; but so far they didn’t even bother to respond…
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Even more RHCP tour dates confirmed: UK and Portugal…and rumours
Twelve (!) more dates have been confirmed for the RHCP European tour, in addition to those three already confirmed. The band will play the Portugese festival Rock In Rio, tickets are going on sale on 21st February and there won’t be presales. Unbelievable 11 concerts have been confirmed for the UK (or let’s better say England, because there are no dates in the rest of that country…): June 30 – Ipswich, Portman Road July 2 – Coventry, Ricoh Arena July 3 – Reading, Madjeski Stadium July 5 – Derby, Pride Park July 6 – Sheffield, Don Valley July 11 and 12 – Manchester, Evening News Arena July 14, 15, 17…
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French tour dates have been announced
(As per RHCP official site) The first three shows for the European tour have been confirmed for France and they will be held on: June 6th at Halle Tony Garnier in Lyon June 8th and 9th at Bercy in Paris Exclusive fan club presale will start on February 13 at 9:00am local time and tickets will be available to the general public on February 17th. There’s also this: February 13th – UK shows will be announced February 16th – Spain shows will be announced February 18th – German shows will be announced March 1st – Czech shows will be announced And, according to them, more shows in more countries will…
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European tour dates to be announced on Tuesday
According to the RHCP official site, the European tour dates for May-July 2006 will be posted there on Tuesday, 7th February. So…if you live on the Old Continent (like me), if you’re dying to see John and the guys in action (like me), especially if you haven’t had a chance before (like me), keep your eye on the redhotchilipeppers dot com (like me). Some sources say that the shows will be indoors, while a couple of other sites claim that events in UK will be held on football stadiums.
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Anthony is praising John’s guitar skills again
This is an excerpt from an article published on Billboard.com…Anthony had some really nice words to say regarding John’s playing on Stadium Arcadium: Kiedis cites “Snow” as one of his favorite tunes from the new album, due to its “really crazy sounding guitar part. It’s very busy but rhythmically desirable at the same time. That has grown into one of the epic, kind of great-feeling jams on this record.” Another tune, “Wet Sand,” goes in a new structural direction. “It isn’t so much verse/chorus/verse/chorus with a bridge,” Kiedis says. “It has a beginning, a middle and an end, which I like as a change of pace.” Fans are sure to…
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Stadium Arcadium tour-related news bits
People who live in UK or who have their ways of getting there might be interested in this newsbit from efestivals.co.uk: The Red Hot Chili Peppers – top of many people’s lists for a festival headliner – look likely to play a series of stadium shows around the UK this summer. According to a report in the East Anglian Times, “talks have taken place to get the Red Hot Chili Peppers to play at Ipswich Town’s Portman Road stadium”. With lots of new and revamped football stadiums around the country, the football clubs are looking for ways to get extra use (and money) from them. One-off shows in stadia are…
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Band’s new site/more news on Stadium Arcadium
As you might have or might not have noticed since it just happened, an interim version of the RHCP’s official site was launched a couple of hours ago. It also means that the fanclub is back and that the old message board, which so many people loved, is going to be closed. Now…yes, there is a new message board but it does not have a forum dedicated to John and his solo work like the old one, and half of the board is restricted to the members who did not pay circa 30 dollars for the silver or circa 40 dollars for the gold membership. So, yes, people have to…
