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#451 Re: Guns N' Roses » European Tour 2017 Thread » 497 weeks ago
Barracuda Music are the link between Prague and Vienna. They promote both the Aerodrome festival in Prague and Krieau Rocks in Vienna. They also do Nova Rocks, but that is 40 miles from Vienna.
#452 Re: Guns N' Roses » European Tour 2017 Thread » 498 weeks ago
Paul Skinner, on limited information, is thinking festivals more than solo open air gigs. The information from Metalheads travel is also implying festivals as that is what they tend to arrange travel to.
Metallica's 2014 tour was arranged by Livenation and was all festival type gigs. For that, we would have Krieau Rocks for Vienna, Aerodrome Festival for Prague, Rock Werchter (which seems to pop up alot) for Belguim, Rock in Rome for Italy and Gardet Royal Park for Sweden as well as others. The Vienna and Prague ones would fit in with Metalheads anyway.
The Sonisphere tour is promoted by John Jackson, a promoter GN'R know well. That could make up alot of the dates. A mystical return of the 2017 Sonisphere tour could speak volumes, so that is an angle to look at. Otherwise, we could be looking at a series of " .... Rocks" festival days from Livenation
#453 Guns N' Roses » European Tour 2017 Thread » 498 weeks ago
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Download Festival tried hard but, allegedly, could not afford GN'R in 2017
Rock AM Ring, Rock IM Park, Germany - 2nd-4th June
Pinkpop, Netherlands ?? - 5th-7th June
Graspop, Belgium ?? - 16th-18th June
TW Classic, Rock Werchter, Belgium ?? - 24th June
From vk.com/gnr2017
Vienna, Austria - Probably Ernst Happel Stadium
Prague, Czech Republic
Parc Olympique, Lyon - July
Stade de France, Paris - July
San Siro, Milan - July
Croke Park, Dublin - July
Volsparkstadion, Hamburg - July
Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam - July
Estadio Olimpic, Barcelona - July
Letzigrund Stadion, Zurich - July
Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany - July
Friends Arena, Stockholm - July
Telia Parken, Copenhagen - July
Olympiastadion, Berlin - July
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Venues for July;
Stade de France - Paris
San Siro - Milan
Croke Park - Dublin
Volsparkstadion - Hamburg
Amsterdam Arena - Amsterdam
Estadio Olimpic - Barcelona
Letzigrund Stadion - Zurich
Veltins Arena - Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Friends Arena, Stockholm
Telia Parken, Copenhagen
Olympiastadion, Berlin
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Possible sequence for June
Rock AM Ring, Rock IM Park, Germany - 2nd-4th June
Pinkpop, Netherlands ?? - 5th-7th June
Download Festival, UK - 9th-11th June
Download Festival ??, France - 9th - 11th June
Aerodrome Festival, Czech Republic - 15th-17th June
Novarock, Austria - 15th-17th June
TW Classic, Rock Werchter, Belgium - 24th June
Rock in Rome, Italy - July
I cannot see GN'R playing Hellfest. I also think Novarock and Aerodrome must go together, same promoter. Novarock was moved, Pinkpop was moved.
Denmark (Roskilde?), Finland could follow Belgium. Spain and Portugal July (or Mad Cool between 17th and 24th). Switzerland could squeeze in early, or after Belgium
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All the dates so far from gathered gossip. I will expand on this as we go.
Rock AM Ring, Rock IM Park, Germany - 2nd-4th June (From promoter, via Paul Skinner, not confirmed)
Pinkpop, Netherlands - 5th-7th June (From promoter, via Paul Skinner, not confirmed)
Download Festival, UK - 9th-11th June (From promoter, via Paul Skinner, From band, via Metal Talk, implied through Andy Copping, various. supposedly confirmed, UK Exclusive gig)
Hellfest, France - 16th-18th June (From Promoter, via Paul Skinner, not confirmed)
Mad Cool Festival, Madrid, Spain - (A festival, from Promoter, via Paul Skinner. Press release from festival implying GN'R)
TW Classic, Werchter, Belgium - 24th June (from http://www.rockwerchter.com/)
Aerodrome Festival, Prague, Czech Republic - (Prague comes From Organisers, via Metalheads Travel)
NovaRock/Krieau Rocks, Vienna, Austria - (Vienna comes from Organisers, via Metalheads Travel, Ernst Happel Stadium alternative mentioned by Austrian press)
Rock in Roma, Italy - (From promoter, via Paul skinner and Italian press, San Siro Milan, mentioned by Italian Press as well)
Portugal - (From Promoter, via Paul Skinner. From band via press article. Possibly a festival, or possibly one concert based on templates of similar bands)
Sweden - (From Promoter, via Paul Skinner, Possibly a one day Livenation "..Rocks" event or Sweden Rock)
Switzerland - (Playful email from Zurich Stadium. Possibly a one day Livenation "..Rocks" event)
Download was announced 22nd October last year. Announcement expected at start of S American tour (From promoter, via Paul Skinner)
Metallica added Poland, Finland, Denmark and Norway to their 2014 tour, which could be deemed similar. Denmark Livenation confirm no news there. Poland and Bulgaria could be deemed unlikely if Metalheads travel are arranging concert travel from Ukraine to Vienna and Prague although it could be to do with the 'Organisers' who deal mainly with Czech and Austria
Please do not contact any of the above sources otherwise we might lose them 
#454 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses tour to continue through 2017(and beyond) » 498 weeks ago
Promoter, via Paul Skinner, also mention dates planned for Spain and Portugal, obvious calls. And Sweden.
#455 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses tour to continue through 2017(and beyond) » 498 weeks ago
Andy Copping has said this band accepted the offer. This would have been when GN'R were planning their tour. Copping later publicly said (around May time) he was interested in GN'R and Def Leppard for 2017 because of the anniversaries of AFD and Hysteria, I know Def Leppard are not playing.
I am not sure how many other bands would plan that far in advance.
Andy Copping was also seen hanging out with Slash and Duff backstage when ACDC with Axl played in London
#456 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses tour to continue through 2017(and beyond) » 498 weeks ago
A known insider at Efestivals has GN'R are not currently booked for Download, so it could be all to play for UK wise. I would still lean towards them playing, but it makes it more interesting
I will look at Prague venues tomorrow.
#457 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses tour to continue through 2017(and beyond) » 498 weeks ago
This Ukranian bunch are quite interesting.
They announced an Iron Maiden date months before it was officially anounced https://vk.com/maiden2016
They could, potentially, announce the Vienna and Prague GN'R dates before GN'R do.
Rock in Vienna had Iron Maiden and Rammstein, takes place the week before Download
Both Rock in Vienna and Download line-ups announced second half October last year
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These guys seem to deal mainly with festivals. So Rock in Vienna does become more interesting.
I was looking at Prague. I was wondering if they might beef up the Metronome Festival at the end of June.
It could easily be standalone concerts though
Another article about Ernst Happen in Vienna and GN'R so standalone concerts remain a strong possibility as well http://wegotit.at/wien-zittert-um-stone … ie-und-co/
#458 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses tour to continue through 2017(and beyond) » 498 weeks ago
Do festivals have impact on the practicalities & logistics of the show? Like how expensive/expansive the setup is? For example, if they're doing the festivals they'll hardly be bringing the stage/set from this current stadium run? Would they have carted that all round Europe anyway??
Good to see they're being talked of in the same breath as the mega tours of Springsteen et al again. These tours n venues are well travelled now. But yea I suppose the matter of competition it makes sense to do the festivals..
They could play two festivals one weekend. P sure they did it in '02 when they headlined Leeds but couldn't play Reading cause they'd booked another euro festival..?? Play one on the Friday the other on the Sunday.
Or even the Saturday depending on logistics..Was thinking of maybe takin in a couple of shows, but now think I'll wait for the inevitable arena run.. Don't have the stamina for festival weekends anymore..
I'll see where they're playin first.. Hopefully it's not all festivals. Amsterdam r Berlin, tho that's unlikely. Barcelona would be good. & an Irish date.
There'a an element of sense to it. Play Download and Pinkpop, then do Hellfest, because Download France would make it three in three days, too much.
Hellfest will pay no more than 2 million Euros for a band. Download would probably pay 2-3 million Euros. A Stade De France gig would make 7/8 million Euros, but from that you have to deduct expenses (stadium fees alone up to 2 million euros).
#459 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses tour to continue through 2017(and beyond) » 498 weeks ago
The band are focusing on 'live' right now, no plans for any new recordings. From two separate sources who I know have spoken with the band in recent months.
Nothing new on Europe yesterday. Paul Skinner confirmed his tweet is info not a wishlist, so that is interesting given his ticketing twitter history, and he is followed by alot of promoters(I still think Hellfest is odd, Download and Pinkpop are also same weekend, Rammstein did it, but not sure). I am checking out all the other possibilities we have so far. See what happens. I'lll have a poke around today, see if anything new is out there on the interweb
#460 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses tour to continue through 2017(and beyond) » 498 weeks ago
Some site mentioning GN'R concerts for Prague and Vienna in 2017 for trips from the Ukraine. Dates to be announced soon
There's a strange addition that there might be some focus on the Use Your Illusion albums for the tour (unless I am reading it wrong). Odd.
I think the UYI comment is referring to the line-up. Nothing musical
Calling it a day now, will check back Saturday
