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A facebook group has been set up to try and get God Gave to the number 1 spot this xmas. It's been set up by a group calling themselves 'KISS Army UK' and you can join up by clicking here.

And so it goes. Come the 4th December, I will extrapolate myself from my Peter Criss wig one last time, scrape the white, black, green, silver & red from my fizzog and prepare to hand over the DRESSED TO KILL drumstool to another poor undeserving sap.

Do I want to leave DTK? No, absolutely NOT! Since I joined in 2005, I have played my favourite songs from my favourite band to some of my favourite people – the UK KISS Army…and beyond! However, sometimes in life you have to stop doing things you love no matter how much you want to continue.

To be fair, I’ve done rather well to have lasted half a decade delicately balancing both a career and a band that demand your presence on a Saturday. If the band just played Fridays, then I’d still be clinging onto that drum stool for dear life, but the Fri/Sat gig routine is what the band needs to do in order to keep costs from getting way out of hand, and my work needs me more and more on Saturdays, so the decision has been made for me in effect.

The last 5 years have given me the best times I have ever spent in any band, whether it’s a covers/tribute act or originals. I’ve played as far afield as Spain, Norway & the Orkneys, and drummed my way through countless KISS Klassics – the band is THAT talented that adding obscurities to the set list has never ever been a problem…like adding ‘I’ve Had Enough’ to the set at the Diamond recently after one stellar run through at sound-check.

And that’s just some of the good stuff. The people I’ve met through being in DTK have been some of the friendliest and loyal folk I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing – not just the band members, of course, but also the crew members we have along for the ride, and the audiences that always always come to see us and have such a great time.

Checkout the ending of this trailer for the new Gulliver movie with Jack Black. Apparently the UK's very own Dressed To Kill were asked to play the band, great shame they didn't get enough notice for it.

Wanted you and all Kiss fans to know that KISS HDTV is giving away a KISS Custom Bike. Go to http://www.kisshdtv.com/bike.html for all the details and to view the motorcycle.

Note Shannon has since tweeted about this saying "Thanks for asking,Gene is fine,he was just tired & dehydrated fr TRYING 2 beat me in the Rally4Kidswith Cancer! Vacation is not his thing."

From TMZ:
Gene Simmons was spotted leaving Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, Calif. today after he fainted at LAX yesterday. Sources close to Simmons tell TMZ he hit his head after fainting and was rushed to the hospital. He suffered a cut on his forehead and, after tests were run, sources tell us the doctors concluded it was just dehydration.

He was released today. We actually got Gene out Saturday night and he was in good spirits

Full story over at TMZ here.

Peter Criss has taken part in the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in New Jersey. KISS Asylum have posted some great pictures (the one to the right is theres) please visit their site for more details. The following article was posted on app.com, big thanks to Marie for pointing it out.

For Peter Criss, former drummer of the rock band "Kiss," who found out he had male breast cancer and was treated in 2008, the annual walk is a living example that when people pull together for a cause they can figuratively move mountains.

"This is like Woodstock, and we're all here to find a cure for one thing, and that's cancer," said Criss, 64, the Brooklyn-born musician who now lives in Wall. "It's so strong when so many people get together for one thing. God bless you all for coming today, and being part of something that is greater than all of us."

Criss said he reacted the same way most men react when told they have breast cancer.

"I didn't think men got breast cancer," Criss said. "When you think of men, you think of them getting heart attacks or prostate cancer, and they don't get breast cancer.

Criss, who was fortunate to have his cancer diagnosed and treated in its early stages last year, joined an American Cancer Society fundraising team called "Bosom Buddies: Twin Peaks" that this year has raised an estimated $20,935 for cancer research.

Genesimmons.com has again been targeted by hackers, this time they weren't happy with the response he posted up on his site saying how the FBI were on the case and that he had pictures.

Gene's site was temporarily pointed to The Pirate Bay as well as undergoing a DOS attack, seems like he's pissed off a few too many geeks this time.

The following article appeared in The Guardian:

Never one to bite his tongue (sorry), the public face of Kiss, its bassist Gene Simmons, has become the latest target of assiduous online attackers, Anonymous.

Two of Simmons' official websites, SimmonsRecords.com and GeneSimmons.com, have been hit by the group of activists as an apparent reprisal for insisting that musicians should be far more aggressive in the pursuit of illicit filesharers. The Anonymous group, linked umbilically to influential online forum 4Chan, have forced several websites linked to copyright-protection bodies offline in recent weeks.

The offending comments were made by Simmons on a panel about building a successful entertainment brand. He said on Tuesday: "Make sure your brand is protected. Make sure there are no incursions. Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don't let anybody cross that line.

"The music industry was asleep at the wheel, and didn't have the balls to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material. And so now we're left with hundreds of thousands of people without jobs. There's no industry."

Just 3 More Weeks...
 
KISS fans, and collectors the time is almost here! This Halloween the KISS Army will once again unite at the '2010 Atlanta KISS Expo and Rock
'n' Roll Convention.' Fellow KISS fans, and collectors will come in from around the world to experience one of the best KISS weekends around.
Come join us for what looks to be one of our best shows ever! Lots of surprizes! For more details check out our website: www.kreaturesofthesouth.com Don't miss it!

A few people have mentioned this recently, the latest advert from, er, McCain has a couple of kids wearing KISS shirts, Gene must be so proud!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuuep4JNwU