Mick arrives NYC airport

Mick arrives in JFK, NYC, June 16, 2019

June 16 – Mick arrives NYC airport

The Daily Mail has pictures and a story to tell about Mick arriving at JFK airport in NYC,
“ahead of Rolling Stones tour… just weeks after undergoing heart surgery”, laughing and looking happy and healthy …

Quote:

The Rolling Stones icon, 75, threw his head back while he laughed and joked around in the airport terminals.”

thx for the info, moy [ro] – See this and some more pics at The Daily Mail

Mick arrives in JFK, NYC, June 16, 2019

Rehearsals in London have finished

The next tour coming up: The Rolling Stones 2019

June 14 – Rehearsals in London have finished

=> All we heared from rehearsals before this tour leg was, that they were happening in London and now they’re finished. So by now, the band will be moving on to Chicago to check the stage build up process and surroundings there for the tour start on June 21. This time, we sadly almost got no news from rehearsals as they were going on. Which is understandable in one way: the band is getting into shape and crowds of fans and signature hunters are not really that inspiring to the band. On the other hand – I’ld love to get news from the place where they rehearse about WHAT they rehearse. I wouldn’t care WHERE that is, but only *WHAT* they rehearse would be meaningful to me. Before former tours, we got lots of infos about the songs they rehearsed, day by day. This time – no. But well, there are 2 sides to this… That being said, we should look forward to Chicago, the stage, the hotels and the news coming up from here.

One last thing from the rehearsals: I got across a report from the RocksOff board, where “glen 795” wrote about his trip to London and his luck to be invited into the rehearsals place to get 4 songs played live by the band before they left for Chicago. Whether that’s a true, trustworthy account (like this, it has happend before!) or not, I can’t tell. But nevertheless, even if it’s a dream and not true, it could well be a true story, … so here it is:

So yesterday Thursday June 13 I decided to go to London and find the Stones Rehearsal site and see what was going on. I figured that yesterday was most likely to be the final day so if I was going to be lucky in any way I had to go.
I arrived at about 3.30pm to find Bjornulf and Linda in situ at my 1st choice of likely sites so to say I was delighted in my success would be an understatement!
After some reassurance to Bjornulf that I was genuine I established that all the band bar Mick were already in the building and within 20 minutes of my arrival Mick was driven past to complete the band.
By this time 2 more fans had arrived to try to hear what was being rehearsed (which was proving to be extremely difficult in the windy conditions).
We could make out certain songs like TD, HTW & SFTD.

Before I had realised it the time had got round to 6pm when the band had decided to take a break, it was during this break that the band’s security came out to speak to Bjornulf which caused a ripple of excitement amongst the rest of us fans (now numbering 6) all secretly hoping that we were going to be invited in to listen to the band rehearsing.
Then we were invited in, all 7 of us were ushered inside the entrance of the building and told that we would be allowed in to the rehearsal space after MR & PIB and would be allowed to hear SMU, JJF, GS & S.

This was more than I or any of us could have dreamt of our favourite band allowing us to see and hear them rehearse and I can confirm they sounded and looked good and tour ready. And then it was over 4 songs and I was pinching myself to check am I dreaming?

It was surreal but to be invited by the band and then acknowledged after the 4 songs was humbling and I know I was fortunate and privileged to witness them in such a “raw” environment.
Or as Gazza put it “You lucky bastard”

… some of the things we can expect:

Mick in RS, Q107 interview

Mick in Düsseldorf, June 19 2014

June 11 – Mick in RS, Q107 interview

=> Mick gave Rolling Stone an interview – the first since his OP. He told Rolling Stone:

I’m feeling pretty good, … been rehearsing a lot lately in the last few weeks – This morning [I did] a bit of gym. Nothing crazy. Then I go into rehearsal with the rest of the band. … I don’t do it [i.e. tours] all the time, [like] 12 months a year. When you’re young, that’s what you do. [Today I] spend three or four months on the road in a year and that seems to be quite a good balance.

Go and get the whole thing at Rolling Stone: Mick Jagger Talks Stones Tour in First Post-Surgery Interview and at Radio Q107, The Daily Derringer Podcast – get [the real] Mick from 2:45 onwards until 10:48 …

Bill: The quiet one

Bill Wyman: The Quiet One

June 10 – Bill is the Quiet One

THE QUIET ONE offers a unique, never before revealed and behind the- scenes look at the highs and lows of the life and career of Bill Wyman, former founding member of the Rolling Stones and renaissance man of rock and roll.

Director: Oliver Murray
Writer: Oliver Murray
Stars: Bill Wyman, Suzanne Accosta, Tony Chapman

IN THEATERS JUNE 21 AND VOD JUNE 28
PRESENTED BY SUNDANCE SELECTS | UNITED KINGDOM | JUN 21ST, 2019 | 105 MINS | NR

Bill Wyman: The Quiet One

Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.” Opening up his vast personal archive—a lifetime’s worth of previously unseen home movies, photographs, and memorabilia—Wyman reflects on his early years with The Stones, the band’s meteoric rise to fame, and his search for a sense of “normalcy” amidst the whirlwind of sex, drugs, and rebellion. Endearingly humble and down-to-earth, Wyman pulls back the curtain to offer a one-of-a-kind perspective on life as a reluctant rock star.

More infos here:
https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-quiet-one
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5032364/

Support acts announced!

Support acts announced

June 5 – Support acts announced

=> Today, the Rolling Stones have published the list of support acts for the No Filter Tour 2019! I like support acts – they have the balls to payin front of us fans, waiting for *THE* band … I don’t like people boooing at support acts – they play their asses off and dare to play the stadium… so I always applaude them. Just imagine, you stood up there, playing … wheeuwww…

Support acts announced

  1. Jun 21 Chicago – St. Paul & The Broken Bones
  2. Jun 25 Chicago – Whiskey Myers
  3. Jun 29 Canada – The Glorious Sons + The Beaches
  4. Jul 03 Washington – Ghost Hounds
  5. Jul 07 Foxboro – Gary Clark Jr.
  6. Jul 14 New Orleans – Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk with special guest The Soul Rebels
  7. Jul 19 Jacksonville – The Revivalists
  8. Jul 23 Philadelphia – Des Rocs
  9. Jul 27 Houston – Bishop Gunn
  10. Aug 01 East Rutherford – The Wombats
  11. Aug 05 East Rutherford – Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
  12. Aug 10 Denver – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
  13. Aug 14 Seattle – Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
  14. Aug 18 Santa Clara – Vista Kicks
  15. Aug 22 Pasadena – KALEO
  16. Aug 26 Glendale – KALEO
  17. Aug 31 Miami – Juanes

Picture exhibition

Keith cooking in the kitchen of Andy Warhol's Montauk home where the Rolling Stones were rehearsing for their 1975 Tour of the Americas. © Ken Regan, 1975

June 1 – Picture exhibition

=> In a Billboard article from May 28, it’s said that Keith Richards ‘Unfiltered’ Photo Exhibit Draws Starry Crowd to Hollywood’s Sunset Marquis Hotel. Yup, rightly so, because you’ll see some of the very best shots we have from Keith.

The exhibition runs until June 22, so if you got time, go to the morrisonhotelgallery.com. For instance, you can see Keith backstage at Madison Square Garden, Tour of the Americas-1975, wearing infamous “Who the Fuck is Mick Jagger” T-Shirt or cooking in the kitchen of Andy Warhol’s Montauk home where the Rolling Stones were rehearsing for their 1975 Tour of the Americas. Nice!

Thanks for the tip, JZ from [UC]