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THE ROLLING STONES KICK OFF 2018 DATES TONIGHT
The Rolling Stones kick off their 2018 European “No Filter” stadium tour tonight (May 17th) at Dublin, Ireland’s Croke Park. The 11-date trek, which hits England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, France, Czech Republic, and Poland, runs through July 8th when the band plays in Warsaw, Poland’s National Stadium. The Stones last played on October 25th, in Nanterre, France at U Arena.
The Rolling Stones European tour dates (subject to change):
May 17 – Dublin, Ireland – Croke Park
May 22 – London, England – London Stadium
June 5 – Manchester, England – Old Trafford Football Stadium
June 9 – Edinburgh, Scotland – BT Murrayfield Stadium
June 15 – Cardiff, Wales – Principality Stadium
June 19 – London, England – Twickenham Stadium
June 22 – Berlin, Germany – Olympic Stadium
June 26 – Marseille, France – Orange Velodrome
June 30 – Stuttgart, Germany – Mercedes Benz Arena
July 4 – Prague, Czech Republic – Letnany Airport
July 8 – Warsaw, Poland – National Stadium
WIDOW SAYS INVESTIGATION INTO CHRIS CORNELL’S DEATH WAS ‘BOTCHED’
Vicky Cornell, the widow of late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, said that she and her family were still “looking for answers” about her husband’s death almost a year after he hung himself in a Detroit hotel room on May 18th, 2017. According to the Detroit News, Vicky continues to question the official ruling on Chris’ death, saying that the medical examiner conducted a “botched investigation.”
Vicky said that inconsistencies in the official narrative have led to false accusations and online attacks on her family. She explained, “This has left me and my family still looking for answers, but at the same time, set off this whirlwind of conspiracies. Some of the people are just fans looking for answers, but some of them are conspiracy theorists who have said the vilest things to my children and me.”
Story source: Detroit News
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JOURNEY’S JONATHAN CAIN REFUSED TO BASH NEAL SCHON IN NEW MEMOIR
Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain‘s new autobiography, Don’t Stop Beleivin’, takes the high road when discussing the band’s guitarist, Neal Schon. Although the band hits the road next week for a major summer tour with Def Leppard, last summer, fans were worried after Schon called Cain out on social media claiming the keyboardist’s devout born again Christianity was adversely affecting the band, citing Cain’s minister wife Paula White-Cain delivering the invocation at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, and Cain setting up a private tour of the White House with the band’s bassist Ross Valory and frontman Arnel Pineda.
Journey and Def Leppard tour dates (subject to change):
August 11- Boston, MA – Fenway Park
August 13 -Virginia Beach, VA – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
August 15 – Columbia, SC – Colonial Life Arena
August 17 – Ft Lauderdale, FL – BB&T Center
PAPA ROACH SINGER RECALLS ‘TERRIFYING’ VOCAL CORD SURGERY
Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix has spoken about his 2017 vocal cord surgery in a new interview with Philadelphia radio station, admitting that he was terrified that his voice would not recover from the procedure. Shaddix explained, “In the recovery process, you don’t speak. I didn’t speak for two weeks before the surgery, because I tried to get the swelling to go down. It didn’t go down, so I had to get surgery, so it was three more weeks of no speaking — that was intense.”
He added that while recovering, he cut out everything that could give him heartburn, such as coffee and tomatoes, but still did not know if he would come out of the process unscathed. He recalled, “You just don’t know if your voice is going to show up again. But luckily, I had one of the best surgeons in the business. She did Steven Tyler‘s, Adele‘s and Meghan Trainor‘s surgery.”
Story source: Blabbermouth