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NilsHolgersson |
Hey does anyone know if it has already started, and what songs they are playing? |
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Martha |
It's quarter past 8 over there.....getting close!
xxoo,
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Rolling Stones kick off European leg of "A Bigger
Bang" tour on Tuesday
The Associated Press
Published: June 5, 2007
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Forty-five years after the creation
of the Rolling Stones, the band kicks off its latest
European tour on Tuesday in Werchter, Belgium,
performing for increasingly gray-haired fans.
Keith Richards said he now sees original Stones fans
bringing their grandchildren to performances, a
testament to the band's continuing draw.
"I don't know quite what it is," said Keith Richards.
"I don't know Charlie (Watts) and I quite see the
attraction, but it must be something to do with the
music."
And guitarist Richards doesn't want to give up yet.
"I'll do it in my wheelchair."
The "A Bigger Bang" tour will include 30 shows across
Europe, including performances in Belgrade, Serbia,
and in St. Petersburg, Russia, which the band members
- Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Watts and Richards - have
never visited.
"Lots of new territories. Every show is different,"
Jagger told AP. "Europe's a very diverse place ... and
so every time you get to the next city it tends to be
a different language and different culture. Different
this, that, so for me touring Europe in the summer is
a really fun event."
Wood agreed. "It's good for Mick to try out his
languages."
In addition to making stops in Eastern Europe, the
band will play in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands,
Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland and Scandinavia.
The Stones previous "A Bigger Bang" tour became the
highest-grossing one in concert history in November
2006, netting the band over US$100 million last year
and putting them at the top of Forbes's annual list of
music's biggest earners.
Although the band has spent decades touring, band
members said they remain enthusiastic about
performing.
"It's more like a strange pastime," Jagger explained.
"It's very odd because you live for the next show,
which could be the next day. All the time you're
building up and in that way it's akin to sports
because you're working up - you practice, you run
about, you play the song, you rehearse, but the actual
thing's only two hours and then it's over."
For drummer Watts, the size of the venue becomes
immaterial once the music kicks in.
"We have as good a time rehearsing up there with no
one in the room at two o'clock in the morning as when
you're doing a big show," he said.
In addition to his live performances this summer,
Richards has a cameo as Captain Jack Sparrow's (Johnny
Depp) father in "Pirates of the Caribbean 3." |
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Gazza |
quote: NilsHolgersson wrote:
Hey does anyone know if it has already started, and what songs they are playing?
We'll be updating it as the show progresses in the 'sticky' thread at the top of the page.
They havent started yet |
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NilsHolgersson |
Oh ok I'll be checking that sticky topic then! |
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