As we all know, at least some of us, Ratt is coming to Sweden Rock Festival this year, along with other great 80s band. But one thing we havent added is that they are also playing other countries here in Europe. Check the list below:

May 30 - Sheffield, UK - Corporation
May 31 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City
Jun. 01 - Belfast, IRE - Spring & Airbrake
Jun. 03 - Dudley, UK - JB’s
Jun. 04 - London UK - Astoria 2
Jun. 05 - Leeds, UK - Rio’s
Jun. 07 - Sölvesborg, SWE - Sweden Rock Festival
Jun. 09 - Bilbao, ESP - Rock Star Live
Jun. 10 - Barcelona, ESP - Razzmatazz

Source: Blabbermouth.net

Copied Directly from the bands myspace

The bands album “Out For Blood” will be released in a few weeks finally, in CD format, to buy. I will be reviewing the album a little prior to that date if all goes well so be sure to check back to see whether Peep Show really are Out For Blood…..

” 23 Apr 2008, 20:00 08:00 PM - Johnny Thunders Memorial - ROCKERS
, GLASGOW, -

W/ DRUGDEALER CHEERLEADER
24 Apr 2008, 20:00 08:00 PM - Johnny Thunders Memorial - SATANS HOLLOW
, MANCHESTER, -

W/ DRUGDEALER CHEERLEADER
25 Apr 2008, 20:00 08:00 PM - LEGENDS
, NEWCASTLE, -

W/ DRUGDEALER CHEERLEADER
27 Apr 2008, 20:00 08:00 PM - Johnny Thunders Memorial - SOUND
, LONDON, -

W/ DRUGDEALER CHEERLEADER
09 May 2008, 20:00 08:00 PM - BANNERMANS
, EDINBURGH, -

AuldReekieRollerGirls are having their very first ever fundraiser!!! Zombie theme night … W/ Certain Death and The Dirty Pick Ups
16 May 2008, 20:00 08:00 PM - OFFICIAL ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY * CATHOUSE
, GLASGOW, -

The official album launch party * Come celebrate the release of our bedut album on CD! Be the first to buy it! LETS MAKE SOME NOIZE CHILDREN!!! *
25 May 2008, 20:00 08:00 PM - STUDIO 24
, EDINBURGH, -

MAYHEM 3 - ALL DAY LIVE METAL - OVER 2 FLOORS feat. PEEP SHOW, THE TYRANT LIZARD KINGS, CERTAIN DEATH, FLAT IRON, SHITBALL, PAPER BEATS ROCK and more tbc
04 Jul 2008, 20:00 08:00 PM - ROCKERS
, GLASGOW, -

W/ Zodiac Mindwarp”

Jeff Scott Soto (Talisman, Axel Rudi Pell) will be joining Uli Jon Roth on stage for 2 songs on this years Sweden Rock Festival. Soto is currently working on a new album whit The Transiberian Orchestra called Night Castle. Apart from this he´s allso working on a solo album that hopefully will be out mid September.

http://jeffscottsoto.com/

The swedish guitar extravagant Yngwie Malmsteen has released this summer tourdates.

wich includes 3 scandinavian shows. July 16 Gothenburg, Sweden Trädgårn , July 17 Stockholm, Sweden Berns and July 19 Rockperry Festival,Vaasa, Finland . The line-up on this tour will be besides Yngwie himself handling all the guitar playing , Ripper owens (ex Judas Priest , Iced Earth) on vocals , Bjorn Englen on bass , Patrik “Putte” johansson (ex Wasp , Stormwind, Whitout Grief) on drums and Michael Troy on Keyboards.

Beside these scandinavian shows there are a couple of European festivals and some UK shows made officiall. the complete tourdates are:

European Festivals/Shows:

June 27 - Graspop Metal Meeting - Dessel, Belgium

June 28 - Bang Your Head Festival- Balingen, Germany

June 29 - Gods Of Metal Festival - Bologna, Italy

July 16 Gothenburg, Sweden Trädgårn
July 17 Stockholm, Sweden Berns
July 19 - Rockperry Festival,Vaasa, Finland

U.K. Concert Dates:

7th July - Oxford Carling Academy

8th July - Bristol Carling Academy

9th July - Glasgow Carling Academy

10th July - Birmingham Carling Academy

11th July - London Shepherds Bush Empire

12th July - Manchester, Manchester Academy 2

13th July - Sheffield Carling Academy

14th July - Newcastle Carling Academy

www.yngwie.org

The guys of Gemini Five have been searching for a new guitarist for quite some time now, but now THAT time is over. They have found some new blood to the scene, Dee Dee is his name. He will, quote: “bring some lixx, shedding mind blowing moves. All this with the looks that kill!”.

After having Cat from Deathstars as a stand-in, Cat that introduced Dee Dee to the guys of Gemini Five. So let’s welcome him to the band, now read closely:

RELEASE PARTY! “SCREAM 4 ME” OUT MARCH 28th
The first single “Scream 4 me” from the forth coming third album; SEX DRUGS ANARCHY will be released on March 28, 2008. The single will be available for purchase as a on-line download soon. C’mon and celebrate the new album and it’s first release on March 28th at the No.1 sleaze rockclub CRAZY NIGHTS @ Harry B James, Regeringsgatan, Stockholm.

SEX DRUGS ANARCHY release on Apri 25, 2008! NEW ALBUM IS TITLED “SEX DRUGS ANARCHY”
The new GEMINI FIVE album is mixed and done The title of this third explosive album is gonna be; “SEX DRUGS ANARCHY”. (The demo version is now up at the GEMINI FIVE official MySpace)

GeminiFive.com

Hi all non swedish fans & friends!

Its only a few days left until we are competing again in the swedish melody contest “Second chance” and we sure hope we have all our fans with us this time so we can end up in the grand finale in Stockholm!

This week we will launch another great news so keep an extra eye out on www.poodles.se
Until we meet again: Take care!

/The Poodles

A huge group photo of just SOME of the people involved in the Kiss Crazy Nights tribute recording session is here. Press the image for a larger version

Ill be getting a press release issued to me soon, with a video and a list of everyone who has been or is going to be involved in the recording!!!

I maybe am a little late here, but I just got it confirm’d by aftonbladet.se that Kiss will come to Sweden 30th of May this year/summer.
It might come as a chock or something for some that haven’t heard about them playing here in Sweden, but for those who have follow’d this tic-tac it’s kinda obvious, they even announced Russia so why leave Sweden behind?
Well buy tikkets as fast as you see some, cuz these tikkets are hard to get, definetly to die for!

Ok its been a few days so plenty of time to reflect and get my hearing back ;).

As you may have read a few weeks ago i posted a review on australian rock band Airbourne kick ass debut album Runnin’ Wild. So it was by no surprise i bought tickets to the what would be the sold out show in Birmingham.

The venue was quite small and cramped, literally a bar and then small stage set up, and packed in were 200+ people. I knew things would get pretty crazy. First on were support act “SkirtBox”, who surprisingly were very good!!! They had a late 70s early 80s Judas Priest feel to there music, with Motley Crue backing vocals, and sleazy lyrics rather than mystic wasteland warrior type stuff. They mentioned there album would be out in 3 months, and the crowd seemed rather pleased and really dug the band http://www.myspace.com/skirtbox Check em out i found there myspace, it has some demos up.

Now onto Airbourne. After a bit of waiting and a few crowd chants the band finally took the stage. Now what i loved was, they walked on, picked up there guitars, plugged in, and that was it, straight into kicking our asses.

They opened with album opener and crowd pleaser “Stand Up For Rock N Roll”, the crowd consisting of old school rockers like myself, older guys and strangely enough trendy emo types (thank you mainstream coverage, people are so easily influenced by the media haha) got right into it and as the song kicked in every head banged and jumped in unison. Sadly because it was such a small venue and Airbourne do what they write about “make your ears bleed” the band plays so loud such a small PA doesnt do it justice and the sound quality was variable and worse than the support acts set up. However the band made up for the bad sound set up with a high octane no bullshit performance. It was aggressive, raw and unpredictable, the way Rock N Roll should be.

Frontman Joel O Keeffe was one wild character, taking down his beers as he went, including Jack Daniels whiskey in which i am sure he snorted it at one point but cannot confirm haha. He could certainly pull off the vocals live, and also entertained a hell of alot. Including running through the crowd to the bar, standing on the bar to do a guitar solo, picking up his mic stand and throwing it around the small stage, and practically exploding a beer can with his forehead over the crowd. He was also a very nice dude after the show and had time for all the fans and a funny photo. The rest of the band wernt as sociable but all of them were down to earth and willing to speak to all the fans, have photos, sign things etc.

Id certainly say check these guys out if you get chance, after this small UK tour they are moving to the USA to tour and live. However once the USA tour is done they are coming straight back over to the UK for another tour in larger venues. Check them out you wont regret it!

A while ago we heard that Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy would be doing a concert in Cloetta Center, here in my hometown (Linköping). I was thrill’d that Deep would come here cuz when I attended SRF’06 I was beaten down on the way to a Deep Purple concert, I just heard “Smoke on the Water” from the Red Cross tent that they had for emergenzies. So I thought this would be an opportunity for me, and I can see Thin Lizzy along the way, BUT, Thin Lizzy told the media that they will not be appearing at all this nite.

My friends went mental of course, cuz they are real Lizzy fans.
But today I heard from a video reporter here at Corren (local newspaper) that the hunt for a new opening act is over. Arenabolaget, the arranger, have book’d Europe for this evening, and that is even awesomer (if I can say that)

Well the problem is that I don’t have the money for this concert nite so I just have to run to the streets and beg for it, hehe.