Motley Crue Announce Lineup, Dates For Inaugural Crue Fest
On Tues, Mötley Crüe threw their collective hat into the summer-festival ring, introducing the lineup for the first-ever Crüe Fest. The tour launches July 1 in Benjamin West Palm tree Beach, Everglade State, and volition bump off 40 cities — with openers Buckcherry, Pappa Roach, Trapt and bassist Nikki Sixx's Sixx:A.M. — ahead twist down August 31 in Pittsburgh.
Crüe Fest is the latest starter in what's already becoming a festival-filled summer, and will face off against this year's Projekt Gyration circuit, as advantageously as the Rockstar Mayhem Festival — which will feature Disturbed, Slipknot and others — and the Warped Circuit. Tickets for Crüe Fest will go on sale this weekend.
"We are so excited not only to headline our have annual summer festival, merely likewise to be able to share the stage with the next generation of great rock bands," Sixx said in a financial statement. "There's not a bunch Mötley Crüe hasn't done, so to say this summer's festival is sledding to be about rock candy and turn over excess is an understatement: A nighttime of tally songs by great bands and a hang back of panties seashore to coast."
During Tuesday's press out conference in Hollywood, the Crüe as well revealed that they'll discharge Saints of Los Angeles, the band's low gear studio record album in more than 10 years to feature wholly of the band's original members, on June 17. In addition to "Kickstart My Bosom," the band performed the fresh album's title track live at the event; the song is currently available on iTunes and as a download for the "Rock Band" tV game.
Crüe Fest '08 term of enlistment dates, according to the band's publicist:
· 7/1 - West Palm Beach, FL @ Cruzan Coliseum
· 7/3 - Tampa, FL @ Crossing Amphitheater
· 7/5 - Queen City, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Queen City
· 7/6 - VA Beach, VA @ Verizon Radio Virginia Beach Amphitheatre
· 7/8 - Wantagh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre
· 7/9 - Old World buffalo, NY @ Darien Lake Playacting Arts Center
· 7/10 - Sarnia, ONT @ Bayfest
· 7/12 - City of Brotherly Love, PA @ Susquehanna Bank Plaza
· 7/13 - President Washington, DC @ Nissan Pavilion
· 7/15 - Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Dramaturgy
· 7/16 - Boodle, IL @ First Middle west Bank building Amphitheatre
· 7/18 - Indianapolis, IN @ Verizon Wireless Medicine Center Indianapolis
· 7/19 - Milwaukee, WI @ Marcus Amphitheatre
· 7/20 - St. Joe Louis, MO @ Verizon Radiocommunication Amphitheatre St. Joseph Louis Barrow
· 7/22 - Sam Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
· 7/23 - San Antonio, TX @ Verizon Radio Amphitheatre
· 7/24 - Dallas, TX @ Superpages.com Center
· 7/26 - Albuquerque, NM @ Journal Marquee
· 7/27 - Capital of Colorado, CO @ Fiddler's Green Amphitheater
· 7/29 - Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheater
· 7/31 - Genus Phoenix, AZ @ Cricket Tuner Marquee
· 8/1 - Las Vegas, NV @ Mandalay Bay Events Center
· 8/2 - Los Angeles, CA @ Glen Helen Pavilion
· 8/5 - Capital of California, CA @ Sleep Prepare Marquee
· 8/6 - Mountain Scene, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheater at Mountain View
· 8/8 - Seattle, WA @ White River Amphitheater
· 8/9 - Portland, OR @ Rose Garden
· 8/11 - Vancouver, BC @ General Motors Spot
· 8/13 - Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Position
· 8/14 - Calgary, AB @ Pengrowth Saddledome
· 8/15 - Saskatoon, SK @ Credit Union Eye
· 8/17 - Lake Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre
· 8/19 - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Amphitheatre
· 8/20 - Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Centre
· 8/22 - Beantown, MA @ Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
· 8/23 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank building Humanistic discipline Centerfield
· 8/24 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Scene of action
· 8/28 - Toronto, ONT @ Molson Amphitheater
· 8/29 - Albany, NY @ Battle of Saratoga Acting Humanistic discipline Center
· 8/30 - Scranton, PA @ Toyota Marquee at Collage Raft
· 8/31 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Post-Gazette Marquee
