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Tool Announces First String of 2016 Winter Tour Dates
Progressive rock/metal band Tool have announced a short string of tour dates that will take place in January 2016 and possibly beyond. So far, only six dates have been released but their spread suggests that several more will be added to fill in not only the interesting date gaps but also the geographical spread.
According to an email that announced LA industrial metal group 3Teeth would act as the opening support, the direct support to Tool will be none other than Primus! Color me very, very intrigued!
Back in March, it was announced that the lawsuit that was holding up the band from recording and releasing new music had been settled. Since then, we’ve heard nothing really concrete but now that Maynard has released a new Puscifer album, hopefully he can find some time for a fifth full length album from this influential group.
The confirmed tour dates are below.
Confirmed tour dates:
Saturday, January 9 – San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
Wednesday, January 13 – San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center
Saturday, January 16 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center
Sunday, January 17 – Grand Prairie, TX (Dallas) @ Verizon Theatre
Monday, January 25 – Atlanta, GA @ Infinite Energy Center
Tuesday, January 26 – Charlotte, NC @ Bojangles Coliseum
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+.