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Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell and Eric Avery Talk Reunion, New Songs and Touring Without Dave Navarro

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“What’s beautiful about life is not always winning,” Perry Farrell says. “It’s getting knocked down and getting back up and then winning. Sometimes, that can be even sweeter.”

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The band has kicked off a fall North American arena tour, “Spirits on Fire,” with another icon of the alternative era, the Smashing Pumpkins. While the two acts share plenty of history – the Pumpkins headlined the 1994 Lollapalooza festival, for one – in those days they seemed to be situated, musically and perhaps even spiritually, in distinct corners of the alt-rock universe, with Jane’s geared more toward punk, goth and arty exotica, the Pumpkins prog, classic rock and angsty metal.

Smashing Pumpkins, which currently features three of the band’s four original members – Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin – have marked the “Spirits on “Fire tour with the announcement of a new record, “ATUM,” a 33-track “rock opera in three acts” intended to hearken back to grandiloquent efforts like 1995’s sprawling “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.”

For Jane’s Addiction, these shows arrive as the band faces a personal inflection point: a re-embrace of what had seemed to be an out-of-reach past, and a tentative first step toward an unknown future.

The “past” piece is represented by the return of original bassist Eric Avery. A key component of the Jane’s Addiction sound, Avery was the first member to play in the band alongside Farrell in 1985, and it is his insistent, hypnotic bass lines that provide much of the power and thrust to classic tracks like “Mountain Song” and “Whores.” Avery’s history with Jane’s Addiction, and with Farrell in particular, has been marked by tension; he last played with the band for a short stint earlier in the 2000s before departing again in 2010. Over the years, his spot has been filled by everyone from Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea to, in most cases, prolific studio and stage bassist Chris Chaney.

Avery’s path back to Jane’s Addiction began a few years ago, when he and Farrell reconnected on a phone call that, according to the bassist, was brokered by a mutual friend, late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. When Farrell reached out again more recently, he says, “I thought maybe it had something to do with [Hawkins’] death, because we both loved him a lot. I thought maybe he wanted to do a song or something like that for Taylor.”

Instead, the conversation was focused on the future of Jane’s Addiction, and Avery’s place in it. “We had what I considered to be the most meaningful and honest and respectful talk that we’ve had since the Jane’s 1.0 days,” Avery says. “I don’t mean to sound so ‘new age-y’ about it, but it was sort of a healing of a rift.”

That healing, Farrell says, was long overdue. “It’s time. We’re not getting any younger, and I wanted to start working with Eric again before it’s all too late.”

Says Farrell, “Dave told us he’s hoping to be back at a certain date [on the tour], but… look, this is very important. Today, you’ve gotta look out for your friends and your family. It’s a tough time to be alive. You have to be thinking smart. When a person doesn’t feel well, you have to be okay with them slowing down for a minute. There’s nothing else you can do.”

“My heart is broken to not have Dave here with us,” Perkins adds. “But I just want my friend to be healthy. And the best thing we can do for him right now is to not interrupt the healing process.”

In the meantime, the show must go on. And for that to happen, Jane’s Addiction, for the first time in their history, had to find a guitar player to step into Navarro’s shoes. For the tour, at least, that guitar player will be Troy Van Leeuwen, a record producer and multi-instrumentalist who has played with the likes of A Perfect Circle, Iggy Pop and, most notably, Queens of the Stone Age. Additionally, Farrell reports that several shows will feature guest guitarists joining the band onstage. These names, however, are still top secret. “I wish I could tell you, but I can’t,” he says. “But they’re guitar peers, shall we say, of Jane’s. Friends first and foremost, but musical allies for sure.”

Regarding Van Leeuwen, he continues, “I would’ve never wanted to go out without Dave. But these days are a time for collaboration. So with Troy, we sat down and talked about stage style and, most importantly, musical style. And we found a common ground.”

“I came at it from the angle of respecting the material and respecting the history, because Dave is such a big presence in the band,” Van Leeuwen says. “Then as we started playing more and more, they all said, ‘Well, do your own thing, too.’ So I have some space to add my flair here and there.”

“We really approached it as, this is an opportunity for Jane’s to have a little bit of a different sound,” Avery says. “A little bit of a different experience.”

Going forward, the Jane’s Addiction experience, in another break from recent operating procedure, will not be confined solely to the stage. The band’s most recent studio album, “The Great Escape Artist,” was released in 2011. But this past August, they reconvened to work on new material, which will also constitute their first recordings with Avery since 1990’s landmark “Ritual de lo Habitual.” The sessions, Farrell says, “actually exceeded expectations. We wrote three songs – one is very, very raw, but there’s two in particular that I love. One’s called ‘True Love,’ and the other one’s called ‘The Imminent Redemption.’ ”

“I started playing it with Stephen, and Perry started singing, and I felt a feeling that I hadn’t felt in many years,” Avery says. “It reminded me of surfing. When you’re paddling for a wave, there’s an inflection point where the wave has you, and you’ve put the effort in and can stop paddling. You just stand up and begin to ride. I thought, wow, we can still plug into this…”

“When you hear what we came up with, it just instantly has that vibe that you hear in things like ‘Mountain Song’ or ‘Whores,’ ” Perkins adds. “It’s dark. It’s cinematic. It’s voodoo. It sounds like us.”

Even so, Farrell stresses there’s still work to be done, as Navarro has yet to add his guitar to the new material. “These songs are hanging,” he says. “Dave hasn’t recorded on them yet, and they’re not going to be completed until he does.”

As for whether there’s a full album in Jane’s Addiction’s future, Perkins, for one, hopes so. “Fuck yeah, that’s all I want,” he says. “Get in a room together, just do it. The last three years been a nightmare for everybody – let’s energize that pain, that fear, that uncertainty, all that shit we went through together. Let’s funnel that into a Jane’s record. That’s my dream.”

At the very least, the music will continue in one form or another. “We’re all on the universal clock, so I’m gonna ride it as long as I live,” Farrell says. “I don’t know what the music’s going to sound like when I’m in my seventies, but I want to give it a go, and I will.”

Calling it quits, he continues, is out of the question. “I don’t ever have to retire,” Farrell says. “I could ask anybody – I could ask Tom Brady, and he would tell you he’s envious of me . Because I can go until I can’t breathe anymore. That’s what’s beautiful about being a musician. You keep moving, and along the way you gain music knowledge, you gain poetic knowledge. You gain political knowledge and spiritual knowledge and universal knowledge. And then you put all of that into your art.”

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JANE'S ADDICTION Announces March 2023 U.S. Tour Dates

JANE'S ADDICTION has announced a series of West Coast dates leading up to the band's participation in the Lollapalooza festivals in South America.

The Perry Farrell -fronted outfit, which completed a fall 2022 U.S. tour with SMASHING PUMPKINS , will play the following shows in March:

March 05 - Bakersfield, CA - Mechanics Bank Theater March 07 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre March 09 - Los Angeles, CA - The Hollywood Palladium March 11 - Las Vegas, NV - The Chelsea Theatre at The Cosmopolitan March 12 - Reno, NV - Grand Sierra Resort March 18 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Lollapalooza Argentina March 19 - Santiago, Chile - Lollapalooza Chile March 25 - São Paulo, Brazil - Lollapalooza Brazil

JANE'S ADDICTION guitarist Dave Navarro sat out the fall 2022 tour due to his battle with long COVID. He was replaced at the shows by QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE 's Troy Van Leeuwen .

"Spirit On Fire" marked the first JANE'S ADDICTION tour in more than a decade to feature returning original bassist Eric Avery . Prior to the latest trek, Avery last played with the band for a short stint in the 2000s before departing again in 2010.

Last fall, Farrell told Alternative Press that it wasn't easy finding a temporary replacement for Navarro . "At first, there was a lot of weight on my shoulders," he said. "This was our return tour right after COVID, and we didn't have Dave . JANE'S is a unique band, and you can't just grab any guitar player and they'll pick it up. That's Dave Navarro we're talking about — those are big shoes to fill."

Even though JANE'S ADDICTION was forced to cancel several shows on the tour after Farrell sustained an injury, he still described it "one of the best tours of my life. I just love at the end of the show seeing how many happy people there were," he told Alternative Press . "We got to them, and that's the best feeling in the world."

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Jane’s Addiction Announce 2023 US Tour Dates

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Jane’s Addiction have mapped out a brief west coast tour for March, in advance of their performances at three Lollapalooza festivals in South America.

The alt-rock legends will hit the road beginning March 4th in Bakersfield, California, and wrap up the five-show stint with a March 12th gig in Reno, Nevada. Afterward, they’ll play Lollapalooza Argentina (March 18th), Lollapalooza Chile (March 19th), and Lollapalooza Brazil (March 25th).

Tickets for the US shows go on sale to the general public beginning Friday (January 20th) via Ticketmaster, with a presale beginning Thursday (January 19th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code SOUND . Fans can also pick up tickets via StubHub .

Last year, Jane’s Addiction welcomed back original bassist Eric Avery for their tour with the Smashing Pumpkins. However, guitarist Dave Navarro ’s ongoing battle with long COVID kept him off the road, thus preventing a reunion of the band’s classic lineup. Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen filled in on guitar for that tour, and as of now, it is unclear whether Navarro will be back for the March shows.

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When Consequence spoke with frontman Perry Farrell last year, he expressed confidence that Jane’s Addiction would record their first new songs in more than a decade. Subsequently, Farrell was pictured in social media posts with Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins in the studio, offering further hope that new music is on the way.

See Jane’s Addiction’s tour dates below, followed by our video interview with Perry Farrell. Pick up tickets to the upcoming shows via Ticketmaster or StubHub .

Jane’s Addiction’s 2023 Tour Dates: 03/05 – Bakersfield, CA @ Mechanics Bank Theater 03/07 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre 03/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Hollywood Palladium 03/11 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Chelsea Theatre at The Cosmopolitan 03/12 – Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort 03/18 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Lollapalooza Argentina 03/19 – Santiago, CL @ Lollapalooza Chile 03/25 – São Paulo, BR @ Lollapalooza Brazil

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by Jacob Uitti January 19, 2023, 11:39 am

Legendary rock band Jane’s Addiction announced a string of 2023 U.S. tour dates.

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The slated gigs will take place on the west coast in March ahead of the band’s shows at three Lollapalooza festivals in South America.

The band will commence their shows on March 4 in Bakersfield, California. There are also shows slated for Tuscan, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Reno, Nevada on March 12. Then the three Lollapalooza performances.

Tickets for the U.S. shows will go on sale Friday (January 20) via  Ticketmaster . Presale begins today at 10 a.m. using the code SOUND. Those interested can also pick up tickets via  StubHub .

In 2022, the band brought back original bassist Eric Avery for their tour with another legendary band, Smashing Pumpkins. Guitarist Dave Navarro wasn’t along for the ride after a battle with long COVID. Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen filled in on the six-string for that tour. As of now, it’s unclear who will play guitar for the group.

Perry Farrell, the lead singer for the band, has talked about the band recording new music recently.

Check out the band’s tour dates below.

Jane’s Addiction’s 2023 Tour Dates:

03/05 – Bakersfield, CA @ Mechanics Bank Theater 03/07 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre 03/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Hollywood Palladium 03/11 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Chelsea Theatre at The Cosmopolitan 03/12 – Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort 03/18 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Lollapalooza Argentina 03/19 – Santiago, CL @ Lollapalooza Chile 03/25 – São Paulo, BR @ Lollapalooza Brazil

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Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 597 from February 7, 1991 . This issue and the rest of the Rolling Stone archives are available via Rolling Stone Plus, Rolling Stone’s premium subscription plan. If you are already a subscriber, you can click here to see the full story . Not a member? Click here to learn more about All Access .

Attention in the compound, attention in the den,” crackle the speakers throughout the Jane’s Addiction tour bus. “We have a cop right behind us, so please refrain from smoking in the rear window.”

Though there’s hash aboard that must be consumed or discarded before the border crossing between the Netherlands and Germany, this broadcast warning causes hardly a ripple among the four band members — who are sitting as far apart from one another as a bus will allow.

Both bassist Eric A., up front beside the driver, and guitarist Dave Navarro, in his bunk, are currently wrestling with drug recovery and are abstaining; drummer Steve Perkins, though lounging in the back in full view of the police, is simply grooving to a tape of last night’s concert. Only lead singer Perry Farrell is partaking, and he’s sequestered in the lavatory cubicle, using a pipe fashioned out of a soda can.

The mischievous Farrell was recently rumored to be a candidate for rehab himself, but he prefers the occasional self-cleansing with herbal teas. Last year, when the band split from manager Gary Kurfirst, he sued, contending that drugs had clouded the band’s judgment. Kurfirst’s replacement, Lippman Kahane Entertainment, tried to make Farrell take a urine test, causing Farrell to retort — between two songs on the band’s recent album Ritual de lo Habitual — “Get your fucking piss cup out of my fucking face.” And Lippman Kahane, too, was soon gone.

Ironically, when the band formed in 1986, its name had nothing to do with drugs. Jane was a prostitute who supported the band in its early days; depending on his mood, Farrell would identify her addiction as anything from “wrapping herself in wet blankets” or “life’s violent strobes and erotic colors” to, most convincingly, music.

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And it was Jane’s Addiction’s glam-gloom music, a wondrous fusion of funk, metal, punk and pretty acoustics, that created a hallucinatory major-label bidding war, landing the band a juicy deal at Warner Bros. and initiating the recent feeding frenzy for alternative bands. But the signing brought with it the classic rock & roll drama: the pressure, the management changes, the funds squandered on experimentation both in the studio and out.

Even as his band mates were getting clean, Farrell was informing the trade publication Hits that heroin is “great” “I don’t think it’s anybody’s business if I want to sit there and bang myself on the head with a board,” Farrell said. Asked if the drug was dangerous, he replied, “So’s driving … You take your chances.”

In its short life, Jane’s Addiction has made taking chances an art form, poking at slumbering, flabby, middle-aged rock music, trying to revive the intensity and personal passion that used to beat at its core. In this era of Just Say No, lip-syncing and power ballads, the only other band that comes close is fellow L.A. export Guns n’ Roses, but as Farrell has said: “There’s a lot of bands like Guns n’ Roses. There’s not a lot of bands like us.”

In a business most comfortable with categories, however, Jane’s often falls through the cracks. Eric A., for Avery, says: “An interviewer in Amsterdam told us that intellectuals and art students there totally overlook us, view us as some stupid metal band. I sometimes worry about that when I see the bruisers who come backstage.”

Despite the self-consciously attitudinal presentation — Farrell recently cavorted onstage in a black S&M vinyl bodysuit, Perkins often wears skirts, and Navarro and Avery sport tangled, neon dreadlocks — Jane’s isn’t a band of dopey posers. Avery absently quotes authors like Lawrence Durrell and Sylvia Plath; though Navarro sports a tattoo, it’s of Hope II, the portrait of a pregnant woman by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. Navarro had it done in memory of his mother, who was brutally murdered by her former boyfriend.

Farrell, too, experienced violence at home; his mother killed herself when he was four. In Ritual’s “Then She Did…,” his multitracked, old man’s voice sings to an ex-lover who overdosed, “Will you say hello to my ma? … She was an artist, just as you were … She was unhappy, just as you were.” The eight-minute song builds, Zepstyle, from quiet meditation to transcendent yowl.

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“Our music is an escape, a journey,” says Perkins. “And it represents drug-ridden, fucked-up people — whether we are or not. I like when people are inspired by the music, not just going to see some industry band out to sell records. We might make choices that are harmful to us moneywise, but I don’t want to see a bunch of bored old fellas playing just like the record.”

The choices are usually initiated by the control freak Farrell, 31, an inveterate extremist who is one of rock’s only true multimedia artists. Well before Madonna warranted an episode of Nightline to justify her video, Farrell had codirected with his longtime girlfriend, Casey Niccoli, a riveting R-rated clip for “Mountain Song” and refused to cut it for MTV, which initially banned it. His arresting nude sculptures adorning the album covers for both Nothing’s Shocking and Ritual were at first refused by several record-store chains. To film the Ritual videos, including the irresistible shoplifting romp for “Been Caught Stealing,” Farrell got Warner Bros. to fund a $250,000, hour-long movie, called Gift, to be released as a home video. And then, for the first single off Ritual, the band audaciously released its ten-minute-plus ménage à trois epic “Three Days,” which radio adamantly rejected.

Even without the airplay, Ritual still broke Billboard’s Top Twenty and went gold, yet Farrell was soon quoted announcing: “This is going to be my last record, and then I’m out of here…. I don’t want to be a rock star.”

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Although Ritual is ballsier, more personal and more ambitious than its predecessors (the band also released an independent live album), all but two of its songs were written before the band was signed to Warner Bros., and Farrell says, “I don’t think I’ll better Ritual; the songs I’m working on I plan to save for other projects.”

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Jane’s Addiction announce surprise, intimate London show

The alt-rock icons will kick off their UK tour with a slot at Bush Hall

Jane’s Addiction have announced a surprise, intimate show in London, set for later this month. Find details below.

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The ‘90s alt-rock icons will now be kicking off their upcoming UK and European run of shows with an opening night at the intimate Bush Hall venue in Shepherds Bush on May 23.

The new show will now be the first show of the tour, and will take place ahead of their two previously announced shows in London – set to take place at the Roundhouse in Camden on May 27 and 29.

From there, the scheduled run of tour dates will continue with shows in Glasgow and Manchester, before heading overseas for shows in Hamburg, Cologne, Paris, Dublin and Luxembourg.

Tickets for the new show at Bush Hall went on sale at 1pm on Friday (May 10), and you can visit here for any remaining tickets. Find all headline tour dates below.

Jane’s Addiction UK and European tour dates are:

MAY 23 – London, Bush Hall [NEW] 27 – London, Roundhouse 29 – London, Roundhouse 31 – Glasgow, Barrowland

JUNE 2 – Manchester, O2 Apollo 6 – Hamburg, Grosse Freiheit 25 – Cologne, Carlswerk Victoria 24 – Paris, Olympia 28 – Dublin, Trinity College

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Later this month, the Perry Farrell -led band will make their return to the UK for a headline slot at Bearded Theory festival in Derbyshire on May 25.

The dates lined up for this year mark the band’s first in the country in eight years – with them last performing in the UK back in 2016.

“Tonight the Jane’s camp is over the moon, as we’re finally able to announce UK, European headline, and festival shows. It has been far too long- my Jane’s Addiction family,” said Farrell of the new tour dates. “We can’t wait to see your faces again, (well look at you).. singing songs, and soaring to the moon in a new rocket. Togetherness- roll on 2024!”

The newly-announced gig at Bush Hall comes after the London venue has come under threat in recent months , and earlier this year revealed that it needed to raise £42,000 through crowdfunding to prevent it from losing its music status.

The iconic independent West London venue has hosted gigs over the last 23 years by the likes of REM , Amy Winehouse , Florence & The Machine , Adele , The Killers and Nick Cave. It was also the venue for Kings Of Leon’ s first UK show in 2006.

In March organisers revealed they were just four months away from “making a hideous decision” about whether to cease hosting live music events. It warned that if it were to lose its music status, “the loss will impact on local, national and international communities.”

On its Crowdfunder page , the venue said it has been left “sitting in the red month on month” for several reasons caused by the post-pandemic economy. “The marketplace and audience perspective has dramatically changed, compounded by the cost of living crisis with declining per head spend, spiralling utility and insurance costs and the end of the fixed-rate mortgage,” they said. “This leaves us with devastatingly low margins across the sector.

Bush Hall added that they’d also suffered from a 24.5 per cent drop in live music bookings in 2023, and the news arrived shortly after Music Venue Trust shared a report into the state of the sector for 2023 – describing the year as the “most challenging” yet after seeing 125 UK venues abandon live music and that over half of them close permanently.

As well as being some of their first shows since their mammoth tour with Smashing Pumpkins last year, the new 2024 tour dates will also be the first run of European shows since Eric Avery rejoined the line-up last August .

The news came as the frontman teased that new music was on the way last year, and the classic line-up was reinstated for the first time since Avery left touring in 2010.

If the new music turns out to be a full LP, it will be their first new music since the 2011 studio album ‘The Great Escape Artist’ . In the 12 years since the album was released, the band have shared a number of live records in recent years, as well as the standalone single ‘Another Soulmate’ in 2013.

Last year, the band debuted a new song called ‘True Love’ during a live show in California.

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Jane's Addiction Announce 2023 Tour Dates: Are They Coming To Your City?

By Katrina Nattress

January 19, 2023

Jane's Addiction faced plenty of adversity during their fall tour with Smashing Pumpkins , including canceling some dates due to a Perry Farrell injury and replacing Dave Navarro as he battled long COVID .

“At first, there was a lot of weight on my shoulders. This was our return tour right after COVID, and we didn’t have Dave," Farrell recalled about the pressure of finding a new guitarist. "Jane’s is a unique band, and you can’t just grab any guitar player and they’ll pick it up. That’s Dave Navarro we’re talking about — those are big shoes to fill.” Two weeks before tour, they landed on  Queens of the Stone Age 's  Troy Van Leeuwen .

Despite it all, the singer still thought the experience was a great one. “I had one of the best tours of my life," he gushed during an interview. "I just love at the end of the show seeing how many happy people there were. We got to them, and that’s the best feeling in the world.”

Now, he hopes to recapture that energy with a brief West Coast tour before Jane's heads to South America for three Lollapalooza performances (Lollapalooza Argentina (March 18th), Lollapalooza Chile (March 19th), and Lollapalooza Brazil (March 25th)). The stint is set to begin March 4 in Bakersfield, California, and wrap up March 12 in Reno, Nevada. Hopefully Navarro will be ready to return to the stage, and the band might even have some new music to include in setlists .

See a full list of tour dates below.

🚨TOUR TICKETS ON PRESALE 🚨 Visit https://t.co/9OTcuqyaPW for more information pic.twitter.com/PNxndwshuu — Jane's Addiction (@janesaddiction) January 19, 2023

Jane’s Addiction’s 2023 Tour Dates

03/05 – Bakersfield, CA @ Mechanics Bank Theater

03/07 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre

03/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Hollywood Palladium

03/11 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Chelsea Theatre at The Cosmopolitan

03/12 – Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort

03/18 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Lollapalooza Argentina

03/19 – Santiago, CL @ Lollapalooza Chile

03/25 – São Paulo, BR @ Lollapalooza Brazil

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Jane's Addiction Announces Surprise Show in Intimate London Venue: 'Limited Tickets Available'

Jane's Addiction has announced a surprise show in London later this month. The Los Angeles band will take over Bush Hall – a 400 capacity venue in Shepherd's Bush – on Thursday, May 23.

"Limited tickets available, get them while you can!" the band said in an Instagram post . They're available for purchase at this link for £57.50.

The concert will kick off the band's first European headlining tour in eight years. The trek includes two more shows in London and a stop at the Bearded Theory Festival in South Derbyshire. It's slated to end in Luxembourg on Wednesday, July 3.

Jane's Addiction was one of 15 bands nominated by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, but didn't ultimately make the cut . Neither did Sinead O'Connor , Oasis or Sade .

Fans were thrilled about the nomination on social media.

"Yessssss. Incredibly deserved and over due. There’s just no one like them," one Instagram commenter said .

Others shared nostalgic memories about the band.

"I got into my first and only real fight because some kid took my Ritual tape," a different user said.

" Nothing’s Shocking was THE game changer album of my life. There were others, but it was the biggest and best," a third commenter said.

"Saw them open for Iggy Pop in Dallas before this album released and the blew me out of the water. Unbelievable, undeniable, simply one of the best ever!"

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The group formed in 1985. They were named after Jane Bainter, a roommate of Perry Farrell's who was struggling with a heroin habit and her abusive drug dealer boyfriend.

"Jane was an intellectual and knew how to act aristocratic, even with a needle and a spoon on the table," the frontman told Blender .

Jane's Addiction signed to Warner Bros. ahead of their 1988 full-length debut Nothing's Shocking , which made it to No. 103 on the Billboard 200. The record has since been certified platinum in the U.S.

Their 1990 sophomore effort Ritual de lo Habitual included the hit singles "Stop!" and "Been Caught Stealing," which both made it to No. 1 on the U.S. Alternative Airplay chart.

The record made it to No. 19 on the Billboard 200 and has since been certified platinum twice over in the U.S.

Jane's Addiction broke up in 1991 and didn't release another album until 2003's Strays , which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

The band hasn't released another proper studio LP since 2011's The Great Escape Artist , but they've put out several live albums since then.

Check out a full list of the upcoming tour dates below:

Fri 23rd May – Bush Hall, London (UK) – NEWLY ANNOUNCED

Sat 24th May – Bearded Theory Festival (UK)

Mon 27 May – London – Roundhouse (UK) – SOLD OUT

Wed 29 May – London – Roundhouse (UK) – SOLD OUT

Fri 31 May – Glasgow – Barrowland (UK) – SOLD OUT

Sun 2 June – Manchester – O2 Apollo (UK) – SOLD OUT

Thu 6 June – Hamburg – Große Freiheit (Germany)

Thu 13 June – Nova Rock Festival (Austria)

Thu 20 June – Azkena Rock Festival (Spain)

Sun 23 June – Pinkpop (The Netherlands)

Tue 25 June – Cologne –Carlswerk Victoria (Germany)

Wed 26 June – Paris – L'Olympia (France)

Fri 28 June – Summer Series at Trinity College – Dublin (Ireland)

Wed 3 July – Luxembourg – Rockhal (Luxembourg)

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