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Norma Jean Announce US Headlining Tour
Norma Jean have announced a full headlining US tour throughout starting at the end of February and running through March in support of their latest release, ‘Meridional’ (review here). Direct support will come from Of Legends and Impending Doom. Century Media punk/hardcore band Stick To Your Guns will join the tour a week in. Check out the tour dates after the jump.
“We will be playing a lot of songs that we haven’t played in a long time and some that have never been played at all, old and new. It will be one of the most eclectic sets we’ve ever played for sure,” said vocalist Cory Brandan. “I think of any headlining tour we’ve done to this point, this is the show to come to if you are a true Norma Jean fan. Doesn’t matter what record is your favorite, we’ll be playing something from it. We’re very excited and are working really hard to make sure it’s going to be excellent.”
But all that doesn’t matter when compared to this tour poster:
Look at that thing! Let’s run down the list: there’s a T-Rex, an AT-AT, a tank, helicopters, a race car ON FIRE, scores of bombs raining down and, lastly, a city that has just been hit by a nuke. Yup, quite possibly the most epic poster ever. Feb 24 – Dallas, TX – The Loft
Feb 25 – San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit
Feb 26 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
Feb 28 – Lubbock, TX – Tequila Nights
Mar 1 – Albuquerque, NM – Launch Pad
Mar 2 – Phoenix, AZ – Nile Theater
Mar 3 – Ponoma, CA – Glasshouse
Mar 4 – San Francisco, CA – Slims
Mar 5 – Sacramento, CA – Boardwalk
Mar 6 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
Mar 7 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
Mar 9 – Boise, ID – The Venue
Mar 10 – Salt Lake City, UT – Club Sound
Mar 11 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theater
Mar 12 – Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck
Mar 13 – Minneapolis, MN – Station Four
Mar 15 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
Mar 16 – Cleveland, OH – Peabodys
Mar 17 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls
Mar 18 – New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre
Mar 19 – Worcester, PA – Palladium Upstairs
Mar 20 – Lancaster, PA – Chameleon Club
Mar 22 – Richmond, VA – Canal Club
Mar 23 – Charlotte, NC – Tremont Music Hall
Mar 24 – Tampa, FL – State Theatre
Mar 25 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
2/24 -> 3/2 – Norma Jean with Of Legends and Impending Doom
3/3 -> 3/25 – Norma Jean with Of Legends, Impending Doom and Stick To Your Guns
AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.