Author: SickthingsUK

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!

Hollywood Vampires UK Dates

The Hollywood Vampires UK shows have been announced. There are six shows which will feature support sets from Seather and The Tubes (except Scarborough). Pre-sale tickets go on sale tomorrow with general on sale Friday. The dates are as follows:

July 5th Scarborough Open Air Theater
July 7th Swansea Arena
July 8th Manchester AO Arena
July 9th London 02
July 11th Birmingham Utilita Arena
July 12th Glasgow OVO Hydro

Solid Rock will be hosting the ‘First Annual Alice Cooper’s Christmas Putting’ on December 4th at the Mountain Shadows Resort in Paradise Valley, AZ. You can find all the info here.

Astroturf Charts

With the tour on a short break it’s been rather quiet the last week or so, but to keep up to date here’s a few things that have happened.

‘Live From The Astroturf’ is out, although there seem to have been a few delays on the CD pack from some sources. It’s doing pretty well as well with chart positions around the world including being the #1 in the UK Music Video chart for two weeks, #5 in the US Classic Rock Radio chart, and appearing at the #1 spot in both the US Billboard chart and the German Album Chart shortly after release.

On October 3rd Alice, Sheryl and the band took advantage of their day off and went to check out Nita Strauss with Demi Lovato in Denver. then the following night Nita made an appearance during ‘School’s Out’ at the Cooper show in Loveland, CO.

Speaking of Nita there’s a new interview with her from Rock 92.9 which you can check out here.

This years Christmas Pudding Show has been announced. It will take place on December 3rd at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix with Sammy Hagar, Rob Zombie and the Gin Blossoms among the guests.

Alice is set to briefly show up during a new documentary movie about country legend Johnny Cash. Entitled ‘Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon,’ the film will be in US theaters between December 5th and 7th.

Today is Astroturf Day

‘Alice Cooper, Live From The Astroturf’ Released

Today sees the official EarMusic release of the ‘Alice Cooper, Live From The Astroturf’ movie and associated vinyl/CD. To mark the event there is a new official video for ‘Under My wheels’ which you can see below.
The Dallas Morning News has a new article telling the story of the album

Blue Coupe’s postponed show in Hamilton, Canada has now been rescheduled for October 28th and tickets are available now.

Vampires In Paris

The Hollywood Vampires have added a Paris show to their June 2023 tour at The Zénith Paris – La Villette on June 25th. Tickets go on sale on October 6th at 10AM local time.

Just when you thought you had enough vinyl versions of ‘Detroit Stories’ EarMusic are releasing a double album picture disc version on October 21st, as well as a six LP box set on November 25th, which adds picture disc double vinyl versions of ‘Paranormal’ and the ‘A Paranormal Evening In Paris’ live album.

Alice Plays Palm Springs Benefit

Alice Cooper to play Palm Springs benefit

Alice Cooper will be taking part in ‘Rock The Plaza‘, a benefit show to save the historic Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs which will take place on November 11th. The show will also feature ex-Alice guitarist Orianthi, Paul Rodgers (Free, Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age), Matt Sorum (Hollywood Vampires) and others. As a benefit show the tickets for this aren’t cheap, starting from $175, but are available now.

WIVB4 have a report and quotes from the recent Buffalo University appearance by Alice and Shep Gordon. Unfortunately they don’t want anyone outside the US to see it so you’ll need a VPN or proxy to check it out.

Metal Rules review the first night of the current tour with some cool photos.

Louder Sound have a new article exploring the period around ‘From The Inside’ and Alice’s alcohol problems in the late 70s.

You can now see the second SiriusXM advert, ‘Scoop’, via YouTube, and if you missed it the first ad can be seen here.

Back on the Road again

Alice Cooper returns to the road with Kane Roberts

The show is back on the road with Kane Roberts replacing Nita Strauss at the first show in Bethlehem, PA a couple of nights ago. The setlist remains basically the same with Kane slotting into Nita’s role, including his own solo spot before ‘Roses On White Lace’. He’s maybe a little rusty after so many years away from the stage but with a few more shows under his belt I’m sure it will all come back. There’s plenty of clips up on YouTube for you to check it out yourself.

The Hollywood Vampires have added another show to their European tour in 2023, They will be playing at the Summerside Festival in Grenchen, Switzerland on June 23rd. Tickets are on sale now.

Alice and Shep Gordon will be appearing at the University of Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY on September 13th prior to the show at Shea’s Performing Arts Center. Shep is a UB alumnus. The interview will take place at the north campus Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts at 1PM under the title “Alice and Shep: A Friendship Forged in Rock ‘n Roll.”

Ryan Roxie’s ‘In The Trenches’ podcast last night was hosted by Roxie and guest host Kane Roberts as they chatted to the amazing Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy, during which they chatted about playing live again, staying healthy on the road and lots of other stuff. Well worth checking out.

In a new interview Nita Strauss chats about stepping back from the Alice Cooper band and the possibilities of her return over at Metal Injection.

Alice Cooper in Sirius Adverts

Alice Cooper in Sirius Adverts

Alice Cooper is featured in two new advertisements for Sirius-XM radio in the US. The first features Alice, Alanis Morissette and others having dinner while talking about the stations channels (watch here), while the second, which doesn’t seem to have been posted yet, features Alice raving about Sirius podcasts.

Nita Strauss has released a new single from her forthcoming second solo album.
It’s called ‘Summer Storm’ and you can check it out on YouTube now. There’s also a new interview with Nita on LouderSounds where she talks about leaving Alice Cooper’s band (and potentially returning), and what it’s like playing for Demi Lovato.

Just when you thought there were enough Alice Cooper books on the way (there’s at least three others on the way) another one is announced! ‘Alice Cooper Confidential’ is a "new book chronicling the misadventures of America’s sweet heart, Alice Cooper" and is written by Jeffrey Morgan who did the biography for the ‘Life and Crimes’ box set. It’s a ‘hard cover coffee table size book’ with an introduction by Dennis Dunaway and is due to be released on September 15th. You can pre-order it now on AmazonUK with AmazonUS presumably adding pre-sale links soon.

New Shows

New Shows For Alice Cooper and Hollywood Vampires

Two new shows have been announced this week. The first is a additional Hollywood Vampires show on June 10th 2023 at Life Park in Istanbul, Turkey, while the second is an additional Alice Cooper show on October 28th in Tulsa, OK. Tickets for the Tulsa show go on sale Friday. There are still gaps in the schedules for both bands so expect more shows to be announced.

LouderSounds have a new article with Alice talking about his famous friends. I think most of it could be taken from old articles and simply put together to make a new article but still work a look.

Alice and The Misfits

Somewhat bizarrely Alice Cooper has been announced as "special guest" to punk/metal band The Misfits for a show at the Dos Equis Pavillion in Dallas TX on October 29th. The Distillers will open the show, Tickets go on sale next Friday August 12th at 10AM local time.

Since it was announced he was returning to the band Kane Roberts been doing various interviews talking about how it all came about and his previous tours of duty with Alice. He was talking to Eddie Trunk, VWMusic, and earlier today he made a return appearance on new bandmate Ryan Roxie’s ‘In The Trenches‘ podcast.

Dennis Dunaway is featured in a new book entitled "Titans of Bass: The Tactics, Habits and Routines from over 130 of the World’s Best" by KJ Jenson. The book is available from AmazonUK and AmazonUS now despite a reported publishing date of October 1st.

Dennis was also on the ‘Bob Cowan Morning Show’ last week from Ontario, Canada which you can check out here.

Bob Gruen, famous for his classic photos of the original Alice Cooper band, has an exhibition of his work called ‘Legendary Moments’ taking place at the D’Stassi Art Gallery in London between now and August 19th. You can get more info here.