More Vampires Dates

More Vampires Dates

The Hollywood Vampires have announced three more shows for next year. They are:

June 17th – Pinkpop, Landgraaf, NL
June 18th – Graspop, Dessel, BE
July 16th – Slavkov Open 2023, Slavkov, CZ

Catfight Coffee have released a special edition Alice Cooper ‘Burundi AA Coffee’ in special packaging with exclusive T-Shirt. Says Catfight: “When we heard ‘Caffeine’ from Alice on the ‘Welcome 2 my Nightmare’ we knew we had to do a coffee that would live up to the song. This coffee is certified by the Specialty Coffee Association and ranks in the top 20% traded on the market. It’s a single-origin Burundi AA roasted to a Medium/Dark profile. The champagne of coffees!” You can order now here.

The Arizona Department of Transport ran a “name-a-snowplow” competition to name some of their 200 snowplows and after 4,700 names and 7,000 votes one of the names selected is ‘Alice Scooper.’ The Alice Scooper snowplow will be stationed in Flagstaff, AZ and can be seen around the local area over the winter. Alice posted a short video on Twitter.

Crossbone Skully Launched

Crossbone Skully Launch

Today was the official launch of Tommy Henriksen’s ‘Crossbone Skully‘ project and this evening Tommy was ‘In The Trenches‘ with Ryan Roxie spilling the beans on the concept behind the record/film/comic and it’s special guests which include fellow Vampires Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry, along with appearances by Sheryl Cooper, Nikki Sixx, Chris Wyse and many more! The first single ‘Evil World Machine‘ is available now on all good streaming service so go check it out!

The Arizona Desert Sun has a report from last weekends ‘Rock The Plaza’ event which featured Alice along with Orianthi, Teddy Zig Zag, Eric Singer, Paul Rodgers, and Josh Homme amongst others. The event raised $200,00 for ‘Save The Plaza’.

Neal Smith is reissuing the first two Killsmith albums ‘Sexual Savior’ and ‘Killsmith Two’ and will be appearing on Talk Shop Live on November 23rd during which signed copies of both CDs will be available.

The current issue of UK horror magazine ‘The Darkside’ has a Alice on the cover and a feature inside. You can order a copy here.

If you are into baseball cards there’s a new one to search out. You can find it in random packs of ‘Topps 2022 Allen & Ginter‘ cards in the US and features art of Alice about the throw a baseball.

Youtube houses a wealth of rare material but one new video worth highlighting is 13 minutes of silent super8 footage filmed at the Toronto show on December 14th 1973, What makes this footage so special is this was the show the band were forced to play without the legendary ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ stage show, which didn’t arrive at the venue on time due to adverse weather conditions. As mentioned in Bob Greene’s ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ book, the band had to scramble around to decorated the stage with Xmas decorations and change the show at the last minute, which makes this footage truly unique, especially as it includes Greene himself, as Santa, being beaten up at the end of the show! Definitely worth a look.

Dave Libbert, Alice Cooper tour manager in the 70s is featured in two new interviews promoting his recent book ‘Rock And Roll Warrior’. The first is live tonight at 10PM PST on KFI-AM. This is apparently NOT archived so you can only hear it live. The second is an interview with All Music Live which you can check out on YouTube.

Vampires In Italy and Poland

Hollywood Vampires confirmed for the Marostica Summer Festival

The Hollywood Vampires have been announced as playing the Marostica Summer Festival in Marostica, IT on July 2nd. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.
They have also been confirmed as playing the Rock Legends Festival at Dolina Charlotty, Słupsk, Poland on July 22nd.

Alice turned up at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame awards at the weekend to finally induct British legends Judas Priest into the hall. You can see fan footage now on YouTube. An edited version of the show will be televised at a later date.

Tommy Henriksen is following Beasto Blanco in publishing his own comic book. ‘Crossbone Skully: Thing #1’ will be available exclusively st the San Francisco Fan Expo 2022 which takes place between November 25th and 27th, and Tommy will be there to sign copies. Attendees will also be able to enter a competition to win one of Tommy’s guitars. The comic is based on Tommy’s forthcoming concept album of the same name and the first single from the album will be launched to coincide with the comics release. Chuck Garric and Calico Cooper will also be at the Fan Expo signing copies of their ‘Beasto Blanco: Spacewave Conquest’ comic. For Tommy’s full Expo schedule see here.
Crossbone Skully also have a track entitled ‘Evil World Machine‘ included on the soundtrack to new horror movie ‘The Retaliators’. The film is available in the US now via Amazon Prime. Presumably a European release will follow shortly.

More Vampires Dates

The Hollywood Vampires have added five more European shows for next year. HollywoodVampires.com pre-sales begin Wednesday 2nd November at 10am GMT (Use code: HV2023) with general sale the following day. The dates are:

June 8th – Romexpo, Bucharest, Romania
June 10th – Life Park, Istanbul, Turkey
July 15th – Hanns-Martin Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany
July 18th – Papp Laszlo Sports Arena, Budapest, Hungary
July 20th – Olympic Fields, Zvolenska Slatina, Slovakia

Nita Strauss has released a new track from her forthcoming second solo album. It’s called ‘The Wolf You Feed‘ and feature’s Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz. You can check out the amazing video below!