Month: February 2020

This Friday, there will be an event for Stones fans in London!

On February 28th photographer Denis O’Regan hosts an exhibition and Rolling Stones Q&A about his six week 1982 European tour with the band. Denis O’Regan, world renowned rock photographer, will host a Rolling Stones Q&A about his six-week 1982 European tour with the band at his Hammersmith gallery in February 2020.

Along with the Q&A there will be a selection of our signature gin cocktails, soft drinks, luxury canapés and of course great music.

Tickets are £50 – £65 and can be ordered HERE

Keith is rehearsing for the rehearsals for the tour, hehehe …  🙂

He also gives us some seconds and a nice message:

On February 17, Eric Clapton and friends came together to remember Ginger Baker – and what a night it was!

It was called the Ginger Baker Tribute – Eric Clapton had announced the benefit concert to celebrate the musical life of his “dear friend” who died at 80 on October 6, 2019. The charity event, billed as Eric Clapton & Friends: A Tribute to Ginger Baker, was held at the Eventim Apollo Hammersmith in London, U.K and joining Eric were Steve Winwood, our Ronnie, Roger Waters and Nile Rodgers, among others, as Kenney Jones, Paul Carrack and Chris Stainton on keys, Steve Gadd, Willie Weeks, Baker’s son Kofi Baker, singers Katie Kissoon and Sharon White, Sonny Emory, Henry Spinetti, and Clapton’s nephew, Will Johns.

There’s a nice docu about Ginger, too, have a look

They played 15 songs:

1. Sunshine of Your Love
2. Strange Brew
3. White Room
4. I Feel Free
5. Tales of Brave Ulysses
6. We’re Going Wrong
7. Badge
8. Blue Condition
9. Outside Woman Blues
10. Had to Cry Today
11. Presence of the Lord
12. Can’t Find My Way Home
13. Well All Right
14. Do What You Like
    Encore:
15. Cross Road Blues (Crossroads)

Please also see UIMUC’s beautiful FLICKR picture collection from that evening!

Links: whereseric.com // ultimateclassicrock.com // musicmayhemmagazine.com // rollingstone.com // YouTube

This is a 57 minutes collection of news reports and interviews from the STP coming to Australia in 1973. Nice!! 🙂

Mick tweeted “Time to get back to it!” yesterday – nice pic! 🙂

And our Ronnie took the tube to get to the Brit Awards, where he joins Kenny Jones and Rod!

See also at billboard.com: Rod Stewart Closes 2020 Brit Awards With Faces Reunion

The fan presale for the Rolling Stones NO FILTER 2020 USA/CA tour commences tomorrow, Wednesday February 12, at 10am (local time of the venue), through to Thursday February 13, at 10pm (local time).

Be sure to ignore VIAGOGO and other scalper sites! Stick to the official rollingstones.com/tour or register for the presales or check out ticketmaster.com

I got a presale code, but as I’m (very sadly) not going for a show of this tour, here it is: RAINBOW

Ticket prices will range form 49,50 up to the sky like 450 etc…

Amex  presales: you’ll get an email in the morning at the day the tickets will be available. You should get some code which you can use for ticketmaster.

1 day after the anouncement, it’s all checking hotels and flights for the fans and waiting for the pre-sales!

NEWS: Ticketmaster has updated the presale dates: those seen yesterday, pointing to February 11 have been deleted. It’s only February 12 and 14 now!

Ahead of us is another 15 cities tour of the best band in the world you could possibly be a fan of. Seriously!
As before, they will (hopefully) keep their sound mixed with the guitars way up front. And as soon as Keith comes out of the backstage shadow, with his green Tele ready, and as soon as he hits the first chord and your ears ring, then you know what time it is! I speak from experience.

So go and get your ticktes!

The OFFICIAL DATES:

Ok, so far, so good!

When do rehearsals start?? :-)))))

Cheers! Hooray!! Today we get the details for the No Filter Tour 2020!

That’s just wonderful and a true little wonder, very lucky fans we are, indeed!

“IT’S A NEW YEAR, A NEW DECADE
AND WE’RE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE
A BRAND NEW ROLLING STONES NO FILTER 2020 USA/CA TOUR!

MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS, CHARLIE WATTS AND RONNIE WOOD
WILL BRING THE NO FILTER TOUR TO THE FOLLOWING STADIUMS THIS YEAR:”

Go to rollingstones.com/tour/ for registering for the PRESALE!
There will be a special fan presale starting on Wednesday February 12 at 10am (local time) through to Thursday February 13 at 10pm (local time) via rollingstones.com.

The OFFICIAL DATES:

Tickets go on general sale Friday, Feb. 14

American Express Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Wednesday, February 12 at 10am local time through Thursday, February 13 at 10pm local time.

pacificsandiego.com says: The pre-sale passwords are as follows: MISSYOU for SDCCU Stadium; RESCUE for AEG; EMOTIONAL for Ticketmaster; SHATTER for participating radio stations; and IHEART for participating IHEART radio stations.

Don’t forget the LUCKY DIP tickets: these are cheap tickets (~ $60,-) which are sold pairwise. On the day of the gig you show your receipt and your ID card and get the pair. The lucky part: until then you don’t know, which seat you will have, i.e. where. Could be nosebleed of even the Pit or anything in between. That’s the deal. I love them!

Interview by Jim Kerr with Keith (q1043.iheart.com) – they also got a contest running with a quite impressive package (airfare, hotel, signed crew-jacket, meet&greet with M&K plus you introduce them to the crowd!)

Quick hurry for the hotels if you plan to travel – prices could rise around these dates… 😉

Rolling Stone: The Rolling Stones Unveil 2020 ‘No Filter’ Tour Dates

And here’s Ron with a nice tease:

It’s likely that we get the official announcement of The Rolling Stones for the 2020 tour tomorrow, Thursday, February 06.

UPDATE 3: YESSS, folks, it’s happening again! What a joy! What a band!

Exact dates will be published tomorrow, but as for now, a few seem already likely:

• Tour start in San Diego
• Austin: May 24
• Buffalo: June 6
• Cleveland: June 19
• Pittsburgh: June 23
• St. Louis (The Dome): June 27

Still, these are just possibilities – tomorrow we’ll be much wiser, hehehe 🙂

As for the tickets: after tomorrow’s announcement, we should head over to rs.com/tickets and avoid resellers

UPDATE 2: Are the Rolling Stones about to give its St. Louis fans some ‘Satisfaction’? (stltoday.com)

Rolling Stones on tour again? Here’s a look back at their Carrier Dome shows (syracuse.com)

When exactly are The Rolling Stones coming to Cleveland? (cleveland.com)

newyorkupstate.com – The Rolling Stones to play Buffalo concert? It sure looks like it

UPDATE 1: According to cleveland.com, the Stones are expected to play the FirstEnergy stadium in Cleveland on June 19!

So far, it looks like tour-start is San Diego, maybe 02. May, and there will be possibly 15 dates. More would be fine, of course, but let’s wait for tomorrow’s official informations, including the dates for the ticket (pre)sales…

Now we have a list of likely venues, though still not officially confirmed.

The exact dates of these venues have still to be confirmed by the band. Hopefully soon!

• Atlanta
• Austin
• Buffalo
• Charlotte
• Cleveland
• Dallas
• Detroit
• Louisville
• Minneapolis
• Nashville
• Pittsburgh
• San Diego
• St. Louis
• Tampa
• Vancouver

First sightings of Rolling Stones banners are seen on murals and elsewhere!

Buffalo:

Charlotte joins in, too: our friend Frank just shared this with us: “It sure looks like the Rolling Stones will be coming to BofA Stadium this year“ (charlotteobserver.com)

Matt sends us this shot from Pittsburgh:

… and Harry just added: “A friend of mine works at the stadium, this is up now, says they will be there 6/23… i hope to be too.“

WoW! Thank you guys!

Also at Triblive.com

Tampa: The Rolling Stones are probably coming to Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium (cltampa.com)

Buffalo:

As Tony sent in this mail:
I saw a billboard in Tampa this morning (LED billboard) with the classic pre-announcment design.
Black background, tongue on the left and the lyrics “JUST A KISS AWAY” in white.
Wasn’t able to get a photo.

Well, that’s GREAT! HUGE! Wonderful! We are back on track!

==> Have you seen any billboard, poster or painting on murals? Quickly send them to me, I’ll post it here for all the others!

Here’s what we have seen so far:

And there’s an corresponding OFFICIAL tweet, too:

And here is an article from the Austin Cronicle with a pic of the ‘downtown art tag’!
The Austin360.com site also has this!

St. Louis reportedly also has a Stones tongue and ‘Miss You’ at the dome…
In Buffalo, a billboard is seen with tongue and ‘Emotional Rescue’: “Rolling Stones have scheduled a concert at Circuit of the Americas on Memorial Day weekend…”

Minneapolis – nice article at startribune.com!

Lisa did a gig in Toronto, Canada on Friday, January 31. And our friend Arthur was there!

Athur was kind enough to send in some lines of review, setlist and pictures. Thank you kindly, Arthur!

Here’s his story:

Ya she was incredible, didn’t have a chance to talk to her but key highlights were Wild Horses and Gimme Shelter. She’s 61 and still has it, she even joked about finding a canadian guy!

Lisa Fischer returned to Toronto on Friday night and did not disappoint. She played to a full room, her fourth time returning to Koerner Hall.

Her vocals flourished in the acoustic friendly room as she started her set solo, joined by her wonderful band a few minutes later. Her stage presence and humour on display all night, even joking about meeting a Canadian guy that night.

As the night wrapped up and a few standing ovations later, the Toronto fans always embrace Lisa’s return.

Setlist: January 31 – Koerner Hall

1. Come Sunday
2. Message in a Bottle
3. Blues in the Night/Dido’s Lament
4. Immigrant Song/Fragile
5. Rock n Roll
6. Killing Me Softly
7. Last Goodbye
8. Miss You
9. How Can I Ease The Pain
10. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
11. Wild Horses
12. Gimme Shelter

Nothing is official yet, but we can already name the most likely period during which the tour will take place.

As said before, venues for the tour this year can be in Vancouver (CAN), Pittsburgh, Nashville, San Diego, Louisville, Cleveland, Tampa, Buffalo, Baltimore, Atlanta and St. Louis…

As for the time schedule, a tour from May until July seems most probable!

Here, for instance, is the tweet from DJ (denajg), who claims to know that the Stones start the tour in San Diego, May 17:

Be shure not to miss this band this year, if everything goes right! And if you don’t live in the US or can afford to travel to the gigs, still, you can join in virtually by joining the live-streams we can expect.

I used them during the last tours and I definitely will enjoy and share them here again, and that’s a promise! 🙂

So please feel kindly invited to join the fun here for the next tour of the greatest Rock’n’Roll band ever to walk the surface of this planet, hehehe !!