31st August 2000
DRC video pre-order
29th August 2000
KISS to play Japan in November??Kiss will come to Japan for about 10 days. Nothing is confirmed yet, but they will play in Osaka (2 shows), Hiroshima, Nagoya and Tokyo. Tickets will be available soon. As soon as dates and venues get confirmed, you will be able to find out right here in the News.
28th August 2000
Sweet Pain
The
Tribute section now contains details of the Dutch KISS tribute
Sweet Pain. The band have been going since 1996 and are
different to most other tribute bands in that they don't do the
make-up - good news if like me you miss the Revenge days. Let's
hope they make the trip across the channel to play in the UK...
DTK datePlease note the Dressed To Kill -Trillians, Newcastle Show (29th Sep) MIGHT be cancelled - please watch this space....
Detroit Rock CityHappened to turn on Bravo the other day and there was something on about a porn convention in the US. There was some dodgy looking fat bloke who was showing off some promo stuff for his management company. He then picked up a poster and said 'this is a new poster for a film that I'm really proud of', it was none other than a poster for DRC. And the dodgy pimp - he was none other than Ron Jeremy who plays the MC in the strip club that Hawk finds himself in!
Don't forget, as mentioned last month the video will be
available on the 24th September, so far WH Smith & Virgin
have confirmed that they'll be stocking it.
24th August 2000
Big Breakfast/UK PlayThere was a piece on the Big Breakfast this morning about a pair of sad bastards who were going to Finland to compete in the World Air Guitar championships.... yep... you heard correctly... AIR GUITAR!!!!!! Anyway... to cut a long story short... when it got to the demonstration they gave, they played Air Guitar to "I Was made for loving You"....
Also, I don't know if you get UK Play on Satellite...but there is a trailer going about for a show starting next week called Rock Legends, basically it's where Jamie (Pencil Dick) Theakston does fake interviews with Rock Stars. In the trailer, you see Matt Lucas (the guy who is George Dawes in Shooting Stars), dressed in Full Gene Outfit and Make up and very bad northern accent (Who would have thought Mr Simmons coming from Lancashire! lol), it`s probably a piss take of Robbie Williams, but who knows...
Nightmare Child demo on cover CD
23nd August 2000
NME reviewThe latest issue of NME features an extremely favourable Kiss concert review by none other than Tim Burgess of The Charlatans (if my memory serves me right, it was the concert that Ace almost failed to make). Check it out - there are some great pics of the band, and it's great to see such good words said about them in the UK music press!
TV Listings SearcherSounds good in theory but in practice it returns all sorts of programs
with KISS in the title that are nothing to do with our boys. But it does
do a quick scan of the next 2 weeks to help make sure you don't miss
anything. Have a go, it's at:-
http://www.kissinuk.com/upcomingtv.htm
22nd August 2000
Gene Simmons biography
At
last, a second biography has been added to the site, this time
its Gene's turn. Mick from the excellent Gene Simmons site Radioactive
has very kindly donated his own Gene bio, which is one of the
best I've read on the net, I'm sure you'll agree he's done a
great job of it. And if you liked that, you'll love his site
'cause it's full of loads of other Gene info.Click here or on the button to read the bio.
More tour datesKISS today announced the addition of ten more shows:
9/24 - Lake Placid, NY
9/26 - Trenton, NJ
9/27 - State College, PA
9/29 - Columbus, OH
9/30 - Chicago, IL
10/1 - Champaign, IL
10/3 - Uncasville, CT
10/4 - Washington DC
10/6 - Charlotte, NC
10/7 - Charleston, SC
21st August 2000
Bill Starkey in new book
[From: Mandy]
The Ultimate Guide to Rock and Pop Music Official Fan Clubs and Web Sites
And when you think of fan clubs, the KISS Army comes to mind almost immediately. Included in The Ultimate Guide to Rock and Pop Music Official Fan Clubs and Web Sites is a bonus interview with KISS Army founder Bill Starkey. Hear in his own words the true story of its inception, his dismissal from the inner sanctum and rarely shared thoughts about his
involvement in this unrivaled legion. The Ultimate Guide to Rock and Pop Music Official Fan Clubs and Web Sites is sold exclusively on Mandy’s World,
www.mandystrunk.com
for only $5.95.
(NB: Mandy's site also has a cool FoxxFest
review here
- Paul)
KISS Pinball - PlaystationJust read a small article in a magazine called Playstation World, it had a pic of Paul and said a kiss were coming to the playstation vai a pinball sim. Apparently there are two different tables and would include "game missions" and extra features like Genes tongue whipping out and nicking the ball!!!!!
20th August 2000
KISS Solo on All Back To MineI just read in the latest Melody Maker that on one of the up-coming episodes of All Back To Mine (the one to feature Huey from Fun Lovin' Criminals), one of the choice albums is reported to be "a Kiss solo album."
Not sure whether there will be any Kiss footage shown, but the programme is based on Huey's favourite records, so there should at least be some discussion on whichever album it turns out to be. Sorry I don't know the broadcast date. (NB If anyone knows this please let me know - Paul)
17th August 2000
KISS Trivia Challenge
TracksNew KISS products available and all are in stock now:
http://www.tracks.co.uk/kissnew/kiss_update.htm
Best regards
Roger Wane r-wane@tracks.co.uk
14th August 2000
Dressed To Kill gigsFri 29th September - Trillians, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Sat 30th September - Club Rio's, Bradford.
Fri 27th October - venue tba., Worthing.
Sat 28th October - Standard music venue (Royal Standard), Walthamstow -
Halloween Special/ 9th Birthday show!!!!
Fri 10th November - Limelight club, Crewe.
Sat 11th November - Rock Cafe 2000, Stourbridge.
N.B. Please contact the venue BEFORE traveling to any venue - some of the 'later' dates are still subject to contract.
13th August 2000
Ace goes AWOL (almost!)KISS fans at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Laguna Hills, California on Friday night didn't know it, but they very nearly did not see Ace Frehley perform. Tommy Thayer, KISS' road manager who'd impersonated Ace in the tribute band COLD GIN in the early '90s, dug out his old costume and wig and put on the SpaceAce makeup, because Frehley was missing in action. KISS had had a few days' break in the tour, and Frehley had gone home. Trouble was, he missed three flights over two days that would return him to California. Ultimately, he arrived at the venue less than an hour before showtime, only because a helicopter airlifted him from Los Angeles International to the Orange County location.
Psycho's Back!
The latest issue of KISS Psychos has just been released, and as usual it's
worth the wait. Dave's been busy changing jobs and wot not
recently so
there'll probably only be another 1 copy this year, but he still managed to
put together a great mag that includes:-
- Details of the KISS auction
- Eric Singer interview (great interview with Eric taken during his UK tour with Alice Cooper)
- Detroit Concert Review - Dan Bach's write up of his trip to the states
- News from the net
- Special feature on KISS action figures, detailing various versions that have been released, very useful if you're a collector
Full details of KISS Psychos can be found at psychos.kissinuk.com
News bitsUSA MAGAZINES
GIG magazine July 2000, Kiss cover + 4 page int. (Title:The Art of The Show)
Rolling Stone magazine: very short article + Ace pic. (review from Bristow, Virginia July 1st.)
Hit Parader magazine September 2000: 2 pages.(1 page article + 1 page pic. Paul Stanley)
UK MAGAZINES
Classic Rock magazine September 2000- 1/2 page advert "KISS UnAuthorized" video
- 3/4 page concert review New Jersey 27/06/00 with Gene Simmons pic.
PC Gamer magazine September 2000
2 page article + photos about KPC: The nightmare child.BENELUX
PC Gamer magazine August 20002 page article + photos - KPC: The nightmare child
PC ZONE magazine August 20004 page article+ photos - KPC: The nightmare child
TELEVISION
CNN Europe has a program called WorldBeat and they are currently running a 1 hour special called "Rock Special". The special contains some footage from the current Farewell Tour + a short interview with Gene & Paul. On Tuesday they are showing the special again at 17.00 CET.
Another tour rumorOK, here's the latest RUMOR-there will be no Madison Square Garden show this year. The rumor is that the tour is being extended until 2001. For those overseas, this can only mean good things for you! Europe, Aussie and Japan with the Garden show to end it all in Febuary 2001. There is also talk of adding a show at Nassau Colisuem, here on Long Island, NY, in late September. John www.deadendkidz.com
13th August 2000
Parasite Farewell gigParasite's Farewell gig
Friday 25th August, Spiders Web, Cleethorpes.
Thats about it really.. If anyone wants any details on how to get there or where to stay just give me (Sam) a shout and I'll let you know. Carl is very excited about this one, there's new 'tricks' and an exciting new set list, the kinda set list we all hoped KISS would do, but no they've decided to stick with the tried and tried again same old same old.
Hope at least some of you can come as it may well be the last time you'll
get to see Parasite in this country. But I have been asked to state that Parasite are NOT, I repeat NOT splitting
up, far from it, they are going on to HUGE things very shortly.
12th August 2000
Giorgio
Please
note that Giorgio is no longer located in his shop in Bridgnorth,
he can now be found in his wife's shop in Wolverhampton on
Tuesdays & Saturdays (full details can be found on the Ordering
Page).
As well as the shirts Giorgio now offers:-
Canvas work (literally any size!!)
Air-brush lessons - Beginners
Air-brush lessons - Advanced / rock portraits
Click for Giorgio's page
11th August 2000
NewsbitsHead On Comedy
Last nights edition (10 August) of Head on Comedy with Jo Brand featured a 15 second clip of KISS with Paul singing I stole Your Love and a close up of Gene blood spitting. They were debating 'This house wants to be in America'. They showed the clip and Bill Bailey said "that's real Rock, this is what the UK have", cut to a clip of Chas and Dave!!
Dreamcast
The Nightmare Child will appear on Sega Dreamcast on the 25th of August.
Classic Rock
The new edition of Classic Rock carries a review of the latest
KISS tour and the review is really positive about KISS.
KIZZ Gig
Another triumph!!!!!!!!!!!
Capacity crowd all paid to see the almighty Kizz play their home town. The band had problems fighting their way through the mass to the stage and couldn't believe the turnout. Alas no pyro but smoking guitar and blood and solos!! It was all in the name of charity and raised a considerable amount of money for the Marie Curie cancer foundation. It is a warm up to the big show in the Belfast music Empire music hall with TREX 2000.
The set list was as follows:
Deuce, King of the nighttime world, Do you Love Me?, Cold Gin, Strutter, Coming Home, Firehouse, 2000 Man, Lead Solo, Lick it up/C'mon and love me, Shout it out loud, Beth, Love Gun, Bass Solo, God of thunder, Drum Solo, Detroit rock city, Rhythm Solo, Black Diamond, Rock n Roll all nite
Fot the crowd Marty A.K.A Paul also played God gave rock 'n' roll to you and Crazy Crazy Nights during his raps!! All in All a very cool nite indeed!!!!
Cheers Dave(A.K.A) Gene
8th August 2000
Nightmare Child UK patchftp://ftp.godgames.com/3rdlaw/kiss/patches/uk_client_fix.zip
As far as I know you just copy this file (client.exe) over the old file.
7th August 2000
Nightmare Child problems
If
you have bought the UK version of The Nightmare Child and it
crashes back to the desktop after pressing the 'Play' button
then read on...
According to Third Law over in the States the copy protection
put on by the UK distributors Take 2 has messed up part of the
disk and is causing this on happen on some machines. There is a
possible solution in the works and Third Law have promised to
release it as soon as possible, as you can imagine they are
pretty pissed off with Take 2.....
Gene's Vegas cake
[From:
KNAC.COM, picture copyright of KNAC]KNAC.COM recently joined KISS in Las Vegas for their spectacular show at Mandalay Bay and were invited back to their hotel room for pre-show festivities. Well, boy were we surprised when we walked into Gene's room and were greeted by the demon himself and formally introduced to a giant breast cake! Yes, you heard us right! We were just as surprised as Gene by the monster mammary cake presented to Gene by the head chef of The Bellagio when he checked into the hotel. The single mammary was about 12" in circumference and made of marzipan and devils food, although we suspect there was some "milk" chocolate in there somewhere. Check out the picture if you want to "cop a feel" of what this sweet baby was like!!! Enjoy!!!
6th August 2000
PC Format review Nightmare Child
5th August 2000
Clown White issue 5 out now
Issue
5 of the excellent UK magazine Clown White is out now, another
great mag this time focusing on a trip to Canada to see a
recent farewell show:-
Access All Areas Article about Clown Whites trip to
Toronto, all didn't quite go to plan but they got to meet the
band eventually!
Internet news compiled by KISS Asylum
Reviews Includes a review of Revenge plus The Second
Coming, KISS Of Death and more
The Nightmare Child Review of the cool new PC game
Media Blitz Cool article written by a student who had the
job of writing a dissertation about PR in the world of KISS!
KISS Takes Toronto A review of the show mentioned above
along with some great photos
Clownwhite.kissinuk.com
has been updated with more info....
3rd August 2000
Egos & Icons
ToyFare interviewGene mentions having a part in the film Wish You Were Dead,
details of which can be found at the IMDB here.
1st August 2000
BURRN! Magazine
[From:
Gerhard Wimmer]Gene and Paul are on the cover of the current issue of "BURRN!"-magazine (August 2000), Japanese leading heavy metal magazine. This is the fifth time KISS are on the cover of this magazine. It includes an exclusive report (6 pages) about the current Farewell-tour.
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