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On June 1, KISS will answer YOUR questions as they host a half-hour live Internet chat on the official KISS Facebook page! Tune in at 1:45pm EST, and you'll have the opportunity to speak directly with the band via Ustream, as they chat live backstage from Koenig Pilsner Arena in Oberhausen, Germany! Watch and interact with KISS by visiting http://www.facebook.com/KISS.

You won't want to miss this, as a special, unique concert ticket pre-sale code will be revealed exclusively to fans during the chat!

Due to the undoubtedly large number of KISS Army Members who will be participating, if you'd like to ask the band your question in advance of the chat, please visit the KISS CHAT EVENT PAGE to confirm your attendance and leave a question on the Event Wall.

Chat begins at 10:45am in Los Angeles; 1:45pm in New York City; 6:45pm in London, and 3:45am in Tokyo.

2 KISS songs will be feautred on Glee next week - Beth & Shout It Out Loud. Not entirely sure what to make of that yet!

E4 Monday @ 9PM.

Here's my report on the fantastic UK tour (or at least Birmingham & London). Good news is that the tour continues and is now into Switzerland, bad news is that for the UK that's it. For now.

Click here to read the report

What a fantastic fortnight this has been, KISS finished the UK leg of their 2010 Sonic Boom Over Europe tour in style at Wembley. I'm still going through all my photos and will post some more in a write up later, but here's a few of them:-

There's a video interview with Gene and Paul at the Scottish TV website here.

John Kilbride interviewed them in Glasgow and a slightly different version of the interview is scheduled for broadcast on stv news on Saturday May 15. Had
been planned for Monday, but the stv news was cancelled on account of the election.

A nice KISS article appeared in The News Of The World yesterday, really nice to see a lot of positive comments coming out of the UK press this tour. The full article can be read here.

Thanks to Andy for the info.

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The following review is from the Birmingham Mail (where was your special KISS edition this year??!!). 

THEIR career spans 35 years but New York rockers Kiss can still kick the opposition into touch when it comes to staging a show that’s bigger, bolder and brighter than anything else.

Fireworks, explosions, flame jets and flying guitarists made for a spectacle that proved why the Kiss motto ‘‘You wanted the best, you got the best’’ is so apt.

They may have released their debut album in 1974 but songs from last year’s long player, Sonic Boom, peppered the two hour 15 minute set and did not seem out of place among classics like Deuce and Shock Me. They even opened with recent single, Modern Day Delilah, before plunging back to ‘74 for Cold Gin.

A string of hits followed, including Crazy Crazy Nights, Calling Dr Love and Love Gun.

And during I Love It Loud 60-year-old bassist Gene Simmons was hoisted high above the stage to the lighting gantry, his famous tongue waggling and fake blood dribbling down his chin.

This was as much about theatricals as music. As 58-year-old frontman Paul Stanley commented before the show, ‘‘We’ve got to a point where we can’t do bigger – we can only do better and different.’’

Innovative video screens and a barrage of lights added to the excitement and the drum kit at times was hovering in mid-air.

There was solid support from guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer, both, like Simmons and Stanley, sporting that famous black and white make up which transforms them into alter egos The Starchild, The Demon, The Catman and The Spaceman.

On the eve of our General Election it was Kiss that got the vote of the LG Arena faithful.

Verdict: *****