December 2000
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430th December 2000 KISS 4th top concert of 2001
[From: Mike, KISS Online]
Concerts With Top Ticket Sales 2000
http://www.kissonline.com/news/ 
The top 20 in ticket sales on the concert circuit during 2000, according to the industry trade publication Pollstar:

1. Tina Turner - $80.2 million.
2. 'N Sync - $76.4 million.
3. Dave Matthews Band - $68.2 million.
4. Kiss - $62.7 million.
5. Tim McGraw/Faith Hill - $48.8 million.
6. Dixie Chicks - $47.3 million.
7. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - $45.9 million.
8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - $42.1 million.
9. Metallica - $42 million.
10. Britney Spears - $40.5 million.
11. Ricky Martin - $37.2 million.
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - $31.3 million.
13. Sting - $28.9 million.
14. Barbra Streisand - $27 million.
15. Creed - $26.2 million.
16. Santana - $26.1 million.
17. Backstreet Boys - $25.8 million.
18. Jimmy Buffett - $24.1 million.
19. "Up in Smoke Tour" - $22.2 million.
20. Phish - $21.4 million.

 

4Dreamcast - Nightmare Child demo
[From: Graeme B Piper]
Just a quick note to say that 'KISS: The Nightmare Child' will be released in mid January on Dreamcast format and there is a fully playable demo of the first level on the new issue of the Official Dreamcast Magazine which is out now (issue 16).
 
429th December 2000 Paul Stanley meeting
Mary from the USA has just sent in a story & pic for the KISStories section  of her & Paul Stanley backstage at the Dayton, Ohio show last September.

"Just wanted to share my Paul Stanley story with you. I'm a huge fan & have been to 7 shows during this Farewell Tour. I have been in front row 21/2 times this year. ( 1/2 time because KISS Manager Doc McGhee told me to go to the front row but since my ticket wasn't marked such the arena's security made me go back to 5th row) During the Psycho Circus Tour I was front row 
once & couldn't believe the one on one interaction that you have with the band especially Paul....."
<<Click to read the full story>>
 

4KISS Collectibles - New UK site
[From: Mark Narusberg]
I'm another UK KISS fan and my site is solely dealing in merchandise and collectibles. It's a little small at the moment, but it's only been on the net a week, so there's plenty of time for it to grow. The URL for my
site is:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/narusberg 

Let me know what you think.

All the best
Mark Narusberg
 
4KISS mention in Mirror
[From: Pat Lee via mailing list]
KISS mentioned in the DAILY MIRROR,eh? £43.8m(or £43.5m ,they give 2 figures. Good old blighty press...) worth of concert ticket sales in the U.S. this year. I suppose the U.K would let the figures down, eh, boys?
 
426th December 2000 Ace on WNEW
Last Saturday Ace Frehley was on WNEW radio station over in the States, amongst other things Ace mentioned that there will be a series of shows at MSG, New York and the tour should be ending there. He also said that he very much wants to get the Ace Frehley band back together and he also wants to do some acting.

Eric Singer was one of the callers on the show. Thanks to Terri for the info.
 

4New KISS Strike
[From: Nico]
HALLO EVERYBODY
KISS ARMY INTERNATIONAL & STRIKE MAGAZINE WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A GREAT 2001!!

THE NEW ISSUE OF STRIKE N.47 IT AT THE PRINTER AT THE MOMENT AND WILL BE SHIPPED OUT ON THE 5TH OF JANUARY 2001... SO THE NEW YEAR WILL START IN A GREAT WAY!!!

ALSO FINALLY WE ARE AVAILABLE TO ACCEPT PAYMENTS WITH CREDIT CARDS... VISA & MASTERCARD SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THIS SERVICE PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS...

TO CHECK THE COVER OF THE NEW STRIKE OR TO CHECK OUR NEW MERCHANDISE CATALOGUE THAT WE JUST UP-DATED GO VISIT OUR WEB PAGE AT: http://www.nicostrike.com 

ALL THE BEST
CIAO NICO
 
422nd December 2000 Help KISS enter Hall Of Fame
KISS-Forever.net  are taking up a petition to try and get The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame to do the right thing and induct KISS. Lets face it is a complete joke that they aren't in their already, the site prints some of the conditions a band needs to pass before it is eligible - just to show how ludicrous it is. Please head on over and register your name on the petition if you think they should be in there. Thanks to Stuart Addis from Aberdeen for the info.
 
419th December 2000 Eric Carr items for auction
[From: Lorreta Carravello]
Please check www.ericcarr.com Rock for the Cure website.. I just put some cool handwritten items for auction from 1965- written by Eric Carr and also a rare Kiss Itiniery folder with all the band tour, flights, hotels and more info from 1984 european tour.

Also anyone who purchases an auction item from from Rock for the Cure this week until Dec..31st will receive a free Rockology poster and Rockology Pick.. thanks
Letters must be postmarked..
 
4Hardrock menus
[From: Martin Wombwell]
Not sure if anyone has reported this before but these pictures are contained within the "Little Rockers" Hard Rock Cafe menu in Manchester.


Click To Enlarge!

Another Gene marketing campaign?

Martin 

418th December 2000 SweetPain Robbed
[From: SweetPain]
Dutch kiss coverband SWEETPAIN has been robbed from most of their gear after last nights concert the band has got to cancel all gigs this year and early next year if you want to support the band mail your feelings at www.sweetpainonline.com 
 
414th December 2000 Clown White 6 News
[From: Deno]
A new issue of UK KISS magazine CLOWN WHITE will be published end of March/early April 2001. Featuring exclusive interviews - news - stories - reviews and much, much more. This issue we also take a look at KISS's very first UK show (and first time out of North America!) at Manchester's FREE TRADE HALL back in 1976, including rare photos and reports.
 
412th December 2000 Tracks Update
Tracks have just issued their December KISS update, you can download it in Microsoft Word format (zipped up) below:-
Click To Download The tracks Update
 
Schoolgirl KISS - UK Tribute
[From: Dave Nicholds, KISS Psychos]
Schoolgirl KISS will be appearing at the Monarch (Camden, London) on Dec 17th (this Sunday). The band is made up of ex members of the Bruce Dickinson band the Robbie Williams band and the drummer from Rachael Stamp. They only do it for a laugh but they are all professionals. The band are also releasing a KISS Tribute album in the new year. See you there? You can check out the UK's strangest kiss tribute band HERE.

Unfortunately there isn't another issue of KISS Psychos due out before the end of the year, but the zine is still alive and I'll get one out asap in 2001...still too busy at work!
 

Farewell Views
Check out the Farewell Views section for some new comments from KISSed off fans, including Carl from Parasite & Ash from Dressed To Kill.
 
410th December 2000 Pictures from UK KISS Expo
Martin Unsworth has just uploaded some great pictures from last week's KISS expo, you can see them at http://www.martinu.clara.net/ 
48th December 2000 KISS Immortals in UK
UK internet provider Freeserve have just started to boradcast the KISS Immortals series, if you haven't seen any of them yet then it's well worth checking out. The Freeserve homepage over at http://www.freeserve.com has a link to the KISS page.

Thanks to Darren Wells for the info.
 

48th December 2000 Aussie News
[From: Mark Bridge / Radioactive]
For all  the latest on the Australian KISS Farewell tour fans should check out the site of the promoter 'The International Touring Company' http://www.internationaltouring.com/  further news can be found at Radioactive The Australian KISS Fanclub http://www.kissfanclub.net You Wanted the Best!!!!!
 
47th December 2000 German Petition
[From: Edmund Barry]
Hello everybody in U.K.
Im Irish (yeah I know) living in Germany. Today we started another try to get Kiss back to Europe, by writing personal letters to Gene Simmons. Whole Germany is at it.It would be great if the U.k. and Irish fans could help us out. Just write a few lines and send them to me. The more letters we get, better the chances of having Kiss back to us. We need you're help. Send your letters to me and we will post them directly to Mr. Simmons. If Kiss doesn't want to kick our asses, we're gonna kick there's!!!!
It's worth a try, don't you think so??
EDMUND BARRY
HEUBERGSTRASSE 30
83454 ANGER
GERMANY
TEL:0049 8656 983866
EMAIL: race_eddie@gmx.de 

The Kiss-army-Germany is depending on you Thank you very much.
 
46th December 2000 KIZZ need help!
[From: Steve, KIZZ]
"We are trying to find 2 large kiss army flags to use at the shows but we are having trouble finding them and we dont really want to order from anywhere other than the uk as we need them within 2 weeks. We were hoping you might know where to try as we have had no luck so far."

If you can help then let me know and I'll pass on the message.

Also, 7 more views have been added to the Farewell Views page, keep 'em coming!
 

45th December 2000 More views
There are now 2 more KISSed off UK fans airing their views in the new section - click to read Ian Helliwell's or Helen's.
 
44th December 2000 Air your no-tour blues!
Loads of people have been asking me to set up some kind of forum for the lack of Farewell to Europe, so here it is. The first report has come from Matt Toal and several more will be added later this week. If you wanna let everyone know what you think of it then submit your views to me at Farewell@kissinuk.com

Click the logo to read the first report.
 

Expo 2000
Thanks to everyone that has E-mailed me about the Expo, seems like it was a huge success. Sadly, trains from my neck of the woods are still a joke so I had no chance of getting there, from what I've read the Parasite / DTK team up was a big hit with everyone that has sent in a report!
 


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