rumours......

[luckysalt]

Less Than Jake are now playing the Friday in France and also GreenField either Sat or Sun

So that means one day left free for Download, come on guys play!!!!

[Lithium05]

Less Than Jake are now playing the Friday in France and also GreenField either Sat or Sun

So that means one day left free for Download, come on guys play!!!!

[savestheday]

Nevermind

Edited March 24, 2009 by savestheday

[deadrobot]

Katy Perry is in Blighty til the 12th June... Could she? Would she?

[Bad Girl]

Katy Perry is in Blighty til the 12th June... Could she? Would she?

[dan666]

LTJ would be an immense end to the fest. Love to see them again.

[Salt_On_Everything]

i've seen Less Than Jake a few times, i'd happily watch them again but i'd prefer early mainstage one day for some sunny afternoon fun to ease me into the drinking, wouldn't be arsed about them being a headliner, would probably see someone else if that was the case.

[luckysalt]

Katy Perry is in Blighty til the 12th June... Could she? Would she?

[Salt_On_Everything]

well we know she WON'T play Download, would've thought that seemed obvious to anyone with their mental faculties in vague working order.

[gard]

I don't think Megadeth will play. Not really much room on lineup now really. Would love to see them again tho.

[oscar]

Just looking at The Damned dates and there is a big gap Download time.Possible to have some old school punk? I would definatly be intrested in seeing them.

Tour Dates

2009

APRIL 2009

JAP Fri 3 Zepp Osaka

JAP Sat 4 Zepp Nagoya

JAP Sun 5 Punkspring, Makuhari Messe Tokyo

JAP Mon 6 Duo Music Exchange Tokyo

MAY 2009

ITA Fri 1 Piazza Primo Maggio Sestu, CA, Sardinia

US Fri 8 Paradise Rock Club* Boston, MA Live Nation

US Sat 9 The Chance* Poughkeepsie, NY Ticketweb

US Sun 10 Toad's* Newhaven, CT Etix.com

US Tue 12 The Black Cat* Washington, DC Live Nation

US Wed 13 TLA* Philadelphia, PA Live Nation

US Thu 14 Irving Plaza* New York City, NY Live Nation

US Fri 15 Stone Pony* Asbury Park, NY Live Nation

UK Sun 24 Strummercamp Manchester Venue Website

JUNE 2009

UK Thu 04 Academy* Newcastle Gigbox

UK Fri 05 ABC* Glasgow Gigbox

UK Sat 06 Picture House* Edinburgh Gigbox

UK Fri 19 Red List Live Festival Ashford, Kent Website

[Hazz]

bring on megadeth!

[deadrobot]

Sorry if this has already been posted ... from RR UK website. The gap makes me think they will play:

ROADRUNNER RECORDS WELCOMES HEAVEN & HELL

Roadrunner Records is honoured to announce the worldwide signing (ex-North America, Japan, & Asia) of the highly respected, legendary group Heaven & Hell. The label is proud to include Heaven & Hell in their celebrated roster of bands at the top of their game.

Heavy metal icons Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice are set to release a brand new album - their first under the moniker Heaven & Hell, with Black Sabbath's last studio album having been 17 YEARS AGO – on April 27. Titled The Devil You Know, this is an event for every classic rock and metal fan to get excited about!

After finishing several heralded world tours as Heaven & Hell last summer, the influential band were tighter than ever before, both musically and personally. Agreeing that it would be a shame to stop making music together at tour’s end, the quartet began writing, first in England at Iommi’s home studio and later in Los Angeles at Dio’s studio. “The band had gotten too good to just walk away,” Dio says. “We wanted to show people that we were still capable of giving them new music that measured up to what we’d done in the past.” With that goal in mind, the band once again converged on Rockfield Studios in Wales last winter, the same place they used 17 years earlier to record their last album, Dehumanizer. The result is the long awaited new album The Devil You Know, featuring 10 soon-to-be-classic tracks from the Dio-fronted version of Black Sabbath.

Bible Black, the epic first single, begins with Iommi on acoustic guitar behind Dio’s plaintive wail before the rhythm shifts to a menacing stomp for the rest of this dark tale about a book of sinister scriptures. One of the first songs written for the album, Dio says it established a tone for the rest of the album. “When you start off with a blockbuster like that, it makes the rest of the album so much easier because it gives you a benchmark to measure the other songs against.”

Iommi proves he hasn’t lost the ability to inspire six-string envy, unleashing riffs like a pack of rabid hellhounds on Atom And Evil, Fear, Neverwhere, and Eating The Cannibals, a tune about doing more than biting the hand that feeds. Butler and Appice slow the pace while ramping up the intensity on Follow The Tears and Double The Pain and Breaking Into Heaven, the latter diverging from its glacial procession for Dio’s majestic chorus about fallen angels planning an attack on paradise.



Track Listing:

Atom And Evil

Fear

Bible Black

Double The Pain

Rock And Roll Angel

The Turn Of The Screw

Eating The Cannibals

Follow The Tears

Neverwhere

Breaking Into Heaven

When the songs were finished, Dio says he, Iommi and Butler marveled at their own brutal efficiency. “We almost felt guilty to tell you the truth. We looked at each other at one point and said: ‘Is it really done? I can’t do it any better. Can you? No. Then I guess were done’,” he recalls laughing. “At the end of the day, I think what separates this band is that we know who we are. We want to do one thing well and not try to be something we’re not.”

Heaven & Hell appear at the following dates this summer:

MAY

30 – Moscow, Russia – B-1

31 – Moscow, Russia – B-1

JUNE

1 - St Petersburg, Russia - New Arena

2 – Helsinki, Finland - Icehall

4 - Oslo, Norway - Spektrum

6 – Solvesborg, Sweden - Sweden Rocks

8 – Giessen, Germany - Hessenhallen

9 – Berlin, Germany - Zitadelle

10 – Bamburg, Germany - Jakoarena

13 – Bergum, Holland - Waldrock

14 – Karlsruhe, Germany - Europahalle

16 – Bonn, Germany - Museumplatz

17 – Zurich, Switzerland - Volkshaus

19 – Clisson, France - Hellfest

21 – Zaragoza, Spain - Metalway Festival

26 – Dessel, Belgium - Graspop

27 – Milan, Italy - Gods of Metal

JULY

27 – Athens Festival, Greece

31 – Wacken Festival, Germany

[Axl]

The hole could just be where they would've played Download had it not all fallen through.

Struggling to see where they'd play to be honest. Bands who play arenas (even half empty ones) don't go lower than 3rd on the mainstage or headlining the second.

Edited March 27, 2009 by Axl

[bandmiguelin]

Struggling to see where they'd play to be honest. Bands who play arenas (even half empty ones) don't go lower than 3rd on the mainstage or headlining the second.

[oscar]

Slayer? Ususally play midway up the main stage, and bear n mind them playing just before Motley Crue might fit quite nicely.

Also they only have a limited base of material they can really play, is it 2 older albums and the new one they've recorded with Dio?

Maybe im just trying to make this fit, I'd bloody love to see em again!

[bandmiguelin]

Ah cheers man, missing Dehumanizer.

To Fopp!

[Salt_On_Everything]

i really should invest in some of the Dio Sabbath ones... I've got six of the Ozzy albums, but none of the Dio ones. which would be the one choice if i would only get one...?

[TheSeventhOne]

i really should invest in some of the Dio Sabbath ones... I've got six of the Ozzy albums, but none of the Dio ones. which would be the one choice if i would only get one...?

[voodooman]

i really should invest in some of the Dio Sabbath ones... I've got six of the Ozzy albums, but none of the Dio ones. which would be the one choice if i would only get one...?

[oscar]

LAUREN HARRIS

MOTLEY CRUE FEST on **

JUN 12th 2009 ENG, Download Festival Second Stage **

JUN 20th 2009 SPA, Bilbao Kobetasonik **

JUN 21th 2009 spaMetal Way fest with Heaven & Hell

JUN 25th 2009 SWE, Borlange Peace & Love Festival **

JUN 26th 2009 BEL, Graspop Metal Meeting **

JUN 27th 2009 ITA, Milan Gods of Metal **

JUN 29th 2009 GRE, Athens Rockwave Festival **

JUL 01st 2009 BUL, Kavarna Kaliakra Rock Festival **

From Lauren Harris Myspace.So the crue are playing 2nd stage (I know we pretty much new it but this more or less confirms it).

[LethalLegacy]

Finally, some rumour action! lol. Was getting a bit bored trawling the internet without finding anything. Shame I'm not a massive fan of Lauren Harris but I can see if any of my crew like her.

[oscar]

Finally, some rumour action! lol. Was getting a bit bored trawling the internet without finding anything. Shame I'm not a massive fan of Lauren Harris but I can see if any of my crew like her.

[Sparticus]

hopefully they'll stagger the stages as a crue faith no more clash is shit (and poor on the organiser's behalf, both bands were at the height of their popularity in roughly the same time).

[thegremlin_1999]

No nor me.One less clash to concern myself with (clicked on it by accident was looking for Maiden) more intrested in the Crue doing 2nd with the Cruefest trying to suss the bands for that now.