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The Mission, Chameleons, and Theatre of Hate to Team up for North American Tour Next Autumn

• October 8, 2021
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British Post-Punk legends  The Mission (UK) , Chameleons , and   Theatre of Hate have announced they are teaming up to embark on their 31 date Deja Vu Tour that will hit North American cities in the fall of 2022.

The Mission (UK) will be making their return to the States for the first time in nearly a decade. Wayne Hussey, one of the architects of Goth and Post-Punk, emerged from playing guitar in The Sisters of Mercy to form The Mission in 1986 along with Craig Adams and Simon Hinkler. They have enhanced their reputation as one of the best and most exciting live bands in the world winning countless accolades, and inspiring both lurid media stories and a fanatical following.

Chameleons  original members Mark Burgess and Reg Smithies will reunite for the first time in many moons. The Manchester post-punk legends have an endearing and untarnished legacy having released many classic albums that warm the dark hearts of fans globally. Their debut album,  Script of the Bridge , set the tone and remains an essential album to this day.

Theatre of Hate will be returning to North America after successful tours in previous years. Led by singer/songwriter, Kirk Brandon, Theatre of Hate released their iconic debut studio album, Westworld , which was produced by Mick Jones of The Clash and entered the Top 20 charts in the UK. Known for being one of the era’s best live acts, Theatre of Hate have continued building upon that legacy.

Full ticket and venue for The Mission, Chameleons, and Theatre of Hate Deja Vu North American tour via the band’s official websites below:

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Deja Vu Tour – North American Dates

• Wed, Sept 7 – Baltimore MD @ Soundstage
• Thu, Sept 8 – Millersville PA @ Phantom Power
• Fri, Sept 9 –  Richmond VA @ The Broadberry
• Sat, Sept 10 – Atlanta GA @ The Masquerade
• Sun, Sept 11 – West Palm Beach FL @ Respectable Street
• Tue, Sept 13 – Tampa FL @ The Orpheum
• Thu, Sept 15 – Houston TX @ White Oak Music Hall
• Fri, Sept 16 – Dallas TX @ Gas Monkey
• Sat, Sept 17 – Austin TX @ Elysium
• Mon, Sept 19 – Albuquerque NM @ Sunshine Theater
• Tue, Sept 20 – Mesa AZ @ Nile Theater
• Wed, Sept 21 – San Diego CA @ Music Box
• Fri, Sept 23 – Los Angeles CA @ The Belasco Theatre
• Sat, Sept 24 – San Francisco CA @ The Chapel
• Tue, Sept 27 – Portland OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
• Wed, Sept 28 – Seattle WA @ El Corazon
• Thu, Sept 29 – Boise ID @ Visual Arts Collective
• Fri, Sept 30 – Salt Lake City UT @ Metro Music Hall
• Sat, Oct 1 – Denver CO @ Oriental Theater
• Sun, Oct 2 – Kansas City MO @ Record Bar
• Tue, Oct 4 – Minneapolis MN @ PNA Hall
• Wed, Oct 5 – Milwaukee WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
• Thu, Oct 6 – Columbus OH @ Athenaeum Theatre
• Fri, Oct 7 – Ferndale MI @ The Magic Bag
• Sat, Oct 8 – Chicago IL @ Thalia Hall
• Sun, Oct 9 – Toronto ON @ Velvet Underground
• Tue, Oct 11 – Montreal QC @ Theatre Fairmount
• Wed, Oct 12 – Boston MA @ Brighton Music Hall
• Thu, Oct 13 – New York NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
• Fri, Oct 14 – Ardmore PA @ Ardmore Music Hall
• Sat, Oct 15 – Jersey City NJ @ White Eagle Hall

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Described by critics as melodramatic and bombastic, the Mission nonetheless attracted a core audience of goth rock fans. The group was formed in 1986 by guitarist/singer Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams, who both left the Sisters of Mercy to do so. (Hussey had also played with the Walkie Talkies and Dead or Alive.) The two recruited Artery guitarist Simon Hinkler and former Red Lorry Yellow Lorry drummer Mick Brown and called themselves the Sisterhood, to which Sisters of Mercy leader Andrew Eldritch objected strenuously. The Mission released two successful independent singles in the U.K. and signed to Mercury in 1986. The group soon completed its debut album, God’s Own Medicine, which went on to produce a handful of U.K. hits, while critics found much of the record to be reminiscent of Led Zeppelin and Yes. Although the band toured extensively in the U.K. and America; Adams had to return home from the latter leg after suffering from exhaustion. Produced by Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, their second album Children, widened the band’s audience, reaching number two on the U.K. album charts. 1990’s Carved in Sand shed some of the Mission’s Zep fascination for more refined songwriting. Hinkler left the band midway through the supporting tour and was eventually replaced permanently by Paul Etchells. Meanwhile, several Mission members backed Slade members Noddy Holder and Jim Lea on the Christmas charity single “Merry Xmas Everybody.” By 1992, Hussey was the only original member left; following the 1994 Sum and Substance retrospective, he recorded the 1995 album Neverland with a new Mission lineup. Blue followed a year later, with the greatest-hits retrospective Resurrection appearing in fall 1999. The 2001 album Aura was followed by a world tour that slowly saw the new line-up dissolving. By the time God Is a Bullet arrived courtesy of the 2007 version of the band, Hussey was living in Brazil. He announced that the Mission would actively promote the album through early 2008, after which he would be focusing on solo work. His first release to fall into this category was Bare, a Hussey album largely made up of cover versions which appeared before the end of that year. Next, an album of outtakes from the God Is a Bullet sessions was issued in 2010, under the name Dum-Dum Bullets, before Curios — an album of covers and original material — appeared in 2011 under the Hussey & Regan moniker, re-kindling Hussey’s creative relationship with the All About Eve founder Julianne Regan. For much of 2011 and 2012, Hussey appeared live under the Mission name in celebration of their 25th anniversary, and in September 2013, the band released a new album, Brightest Light. Three years later they released their 11th studio album, the 12-string heavy Another Fall from Grace, which Hussey described as the “lost link between the Sisters of Mercy’s First and Last and Always and the Mission’s own first album.” ~ Steve Huey & James Wilkinson

Theatre of Hate

Gothic post-punks Theatre of Hate formed in Britain in 1980; led by singer/songwriter Kirk Brandon, formerly of the Pack, the original group also comprised guitarist Simon Werner, bassist Jonathan Werner and drummer Jim Walker. Immediately recognized as one of the era’s premier live acts, Theatre of Hate debuted in 1981 with the concert LP He Who Dares Wins Live at the Warehouse Leeds; soon after, Brandon dismissed the remainder of the group, assembling a new line-up comprising guitarist Billy Duffy, bassist Stan Stammers, saxophonist John Lennard and drummer Nigel Preston (who was soon after replaced by Luke Rendle). Another concert recording, Live at the Lyceum, followed in 1982 before Theatre of Pain entered the studio with producer Mick Jones of the Clash to record their proper debut, Westworld; the album went on to reach the UK Top 20, also launching the Top 40 single “Do You Believe in the Westworld?” He Who Dares Wins Live in Berlin followed in late 1982, but by this point the group was beginning to disintegrate, with Duffy exiting to form the Cult; a second studio album, Aria of the Devil, was recorded but went unreleased. By 1983, Brandon had founded a new unit, Spear of Destiny.

The atmospheric pop band the Chameleons formed in Manchester, England, in 1981 from the ashes of a number of local groups: vocalist/bassist Mark Burgess began with the Cliches, guitarists Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding arrived from the Years, and drummer John Lever (who quickly replaced founding member Brian Schofield) originated with the Politicians. After establishing themselves with a series of high-profile BBC sessions, the Chameleons signed to Epic and debuted with the tense, moody single “In Shreds,” produced by Steve Lillywhite and released in March 1982. The quartet was soon released from its contract with Epic, but then signed to Statik and returned in 1983 with the band’s first full-length effort, Script of the Bridge. What Does Anything Mean? Basically followed in 1985, and with it came a new reliance on stylish production; following its release, the Chameleons signed to Geffen and emerged the following year with Strange Times. The dark, complex record proved to be the Chameleons’ finale, however, when they split following the sudden death of manager Tony Fletcher; while Burgess and Lever continued on in the Sun & the Moon, Smithies and Fielding later reunited in the Reegs. In 1993, Burgess surfaced with his proper solo album Zima Junction. He and his band the Sons of God toured America the following year. As the ’90s came and went, the four members of the Chameleons UK continued to work on music and see one another on a personal basis. While their own musical projects kept them busy, a reunion was practically inevitable. The Chameleons reconnected in January 2000 to prep for three May dates in England. The acoustic-based, self-released Strip was available by showtime and for a limited time only. Additional European dates followed throughout the summer, and by fall the Chameleons UK played their first American shows in nearly 15 years. Several live efforts appeared shortly thereafter. Why Call It Anything? (2001) marked the Chameleons’ first studio album since 1986’s Strange Times. This Never Ending Now appeared two years later. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

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The Chameleons to release new live album ahead of U.S. tour with The Mission

Metropolis Records this spring will release a new live set from The Chameleons featuring seven songs recorded in May 2021 by founding members Mark Burgess and Reg Smithies, along with newer members Chris Oliver and Stephen Rice, plus three more songs recorded during the band’s ChameleonsVox era.

The 10-song Edge Sessions (Live From the Edge) will be released digitally and on CD and vinyl on April 25. The set can be pre-ordered now via Bandcamp and Amazon.com .

The Chameleons will tour North America later this year as part of The Mission’s Deja Vu 2002 tour, which also will feature Theatre of Hate . That tour runs from Sept. 7 through Oct. 15.

Below, check out the tracklist for Edge Sessions (Live From The Edge) and the dates for The Mission’s tour with The Chameleons and Theatre of Hate.

The Chameleons, Edge Sessions (Live From the Edge)

1. “A Person Isn’t Safe Anywhere These Days” 2. “Return of the Roughnecks” 3. “Up The Down Escalator” 4. “Anyone Alive” 5. “Soul In Isolation” 6. “Singing Rule Britannia (As The Walls Close In)” 7. “Second Skin” 8. “Sycophants” 9. “Heaven” 10. “Ever After”

The Mission’s Deja Vu Tour 2002

Sept. 7: Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage Sept. 8: Millersville, PA @ Phantom Power Sept. 9: Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry Sept. 10: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade Sept. 11: West Palm Beach, FL @ Respectable Street Sept. 13: Tampa ,FL @ The Orpheum Sept. 15: Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall Sept. 16: Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Sept. 17: Austin, TX @ Elysium Sept. 19: Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater Sept. 20: Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater Sept. 21: San Diego, CA @ Music Box Sept. 23: Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco Theatre Sept. 24: San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel Sept. 27: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge Sept. 28: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon Sept. 29: Boise, ID @ Visual Arts Collective Sept. 30: Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall Oct. 1: Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater Oct. 2: Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar Oct. 4: Minneapolis, MN @ PNA Hall Oct. 5: Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom Oct. 6: Columbus, OH @ Athenaeum Theatre Oct. 7: Ferndale, MI @ The Magic Bag Oct. 8: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall Oct. 9: Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground Oct. 11: Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount Oct. 12: Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall Oct. 13: New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge Oct. 14: Ardmore, PA @ Ardmore Music Hall Oct. 15: Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall

* All dates featuring The Chameleons and Theatre of Hate

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• John Lever, powerful drummer for The Chameleons, dies following short illness
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• ChameleonsVox performing ‘Script of the Bridge’ on North American tour in 2015

check the year. you made a mistake.

Guess I’m buying tickets to the Austin show!

Do we need another Chams live album? At what point do we say enough? What we need is for Mark to call Dave and bury the hatchet. Do one last tour and call it a day. Stop flogging the Chameleons around the world playing the same songs despite how great those songs are.

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September 14, 2023

Deja vu tour 2023: the mission, chameleons & theatre of hate.

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Napoleon's Moscow Campaign: 1812

Napoleon's determination to implement the Continental System had led him to embark on the Peninsular Campaign in a further extension of the French Wars . Although the attempt to conquer Spain was failing, Napoleon set about a greater task: the conquest of Russia. One reason for this was that Britain had become involved in a war with America and Napoleon was convinced that Britain was on the verge of collapse, provided that the blockade of trade with Britain was carried out. However, the Czar was making a big hole in the plan. The interview at Erfurt had merely checked the process of disillusionment which had been going on in Alexander's mind ever since Tilsit . There had always been a strong anti-Bonaparte party at his Court, headed by the Czar's mother; and its influence was strengthened during the next few years. For instance

• Napoleon would not give definite assurances that he would not turn the Grand Duchy of Warsaw into a Kingdom of Poland
• when Napoleon annexed northern Germany in 1811 he had dethroned the Duke of Oldenburg, the Czar's uncle, with insultingly offhand talk of compensations elsewhere
• the Czar was angry to discover the depth of Napoleon's opposition to Russia acquiring Constantinople in the war which Alexander had just begun with Turkey.

The main trouble was over the Continental System. The stoppage of trade with England meant the ruin of Russian commerce, and therefore of the Czar's revenues; also of the corn-growing on which the Russian nobles depended for their own incomes. Alexander grew slacker and slacker in the enforcement of the Decrees, and Napoleon's protests grew more and more heated. In 1810 the Czar forbade the importation of a number of luxury articles, such as wines and lace, most of which came from France, in order to redress his trade-balance. A year later he openly admitted British shipping to his ports.

Napoleon thought that he could not let this go on. Ruinous as the defection of Russia was in itself, even worse was the effect it would have on other countries groaning under the System. He believed that he must make an example of the Czar that would intimidate other rulers who were "willing to wound yet half afraid to strike": He intended to give a demonstration of his overwhelming strength and determination but he was no longer the man he had been.

Napoleon was growing old at an age when others were just coming into their prime. He was becoming fatter, less energetic and more cautious. He made more military mistakes and his run of success had robbed him of all sense of the attainable. He had begun to shut his eyes to unpleasant facts, and to ignore the voice of common sense.

When in the middle of 1811 the clash became inevitable, Czar and Emperor competed with each other in the search for alliances. Austria was now bound to Napoleon by family ties following his marriage to Princess Marie Louise; moreover, however much the Emperor Francis of Austria- Hungary chafed against his dependence, he was haunted by memories of Campo Formio, Lunéville, Pressburg and Schönbrunn. He therefore agreed to mobilise an army on his Galician frontier with an understanding that he was to recover his Illyrian provinces at the end of the campaign. However, his new Chancellor, Metternich, had seen enough while he was the Austrian ambassador at Paris to realise that the Napoleonic Empire would not last much longer, and he privately made a "gentleman's agreement" with Alexander that his army should do nothing in particular.

In Prussia, patriotic fervour was strong, but the King's nerve had been even more shaken than that of the Emperor Francis. He was forced to send an army to cover the Baltic flank of the coming invasion, and to feed the invading host as it passed through his dominions. The Poles, too, remained faithful to Napoleon; he had done much for them, and would, they hoped, do more when he had conquered Russia.

Napoleon hoped that Sweden and Turkey would join in attacking Russia, but in these countries he was outdone by his rival. The King of Sweden, being a childless old man, had adopted Marshal Bernadotte as his heir, with Napoleon's grudging consent 1810; and the new "Prince Royal", who at once became the moving spirit of the kingdom, put the interests of his adopted country before those of his old master. That meant repudiating the Continental System. Napoleon offered to restore Finland to Sweden if Bernadotte would help him against the Czar; but Alexander countered this with the more attractive suggestion that he should annex Norway instead - Norway being a province of Denmark, which had adhered to the French alliance ever since the days of Tilsit and Copenhagen. By the Treaty of Abo in April 1812 a Russo-Swedish alliance was made. As for the Sultan, Alexander had little difficulty in convincing him that he had more to fear from France than from Russia, and by the Treaty of Bucharest in May 1812 Turkey received back the Danubian Principalities, but ceded Bessarabia to Russia. Two months later Alexander also signed a formal treaty of alliance with Britain, with whom nominally he had been at war ever since 1807.

Meanwhile Napoleon was pushing on with preparations for war on a colossal scale. By the summer of 1812 he had about 750,000 men under arms, of whom 450,000 were destined for the actual invasion. Only half of them were French, the rest were made up of Poles, Italians, Saxons, Bavarians, Swiss, Austrians, Prussians and Illyrians. He passed the elite of these forces in review at Dresden, before a throng of vassal rulers, including an Emperor and five kings, with Marie Louise treating her father with lofty condescension. Then on 28 May this army of armies set out towards the east. Immense stores were collected: two million pairs of boots were held in reserve at Danzig, for instance. The baggage was hauled by 18,000 heavy draft horses, the siege-guns and pontoons by 10,000 oxen. A million greatcoats had been bought from the West Riding of Yorkshire, helping the English woollen trade in a time of desperate need. However, Napoleon had sought to cut the cost of these coats by ordering tin buttons instead of brass ones. He did not know that tin undergoes an allotropic transformation at low temperatures and turns to dust. His men discovered this fact the hard way. [1]

On 23 June the army passed unopposed over the Niemen into Russia. By the time it reached Vilna, some fifty miles from the frontier, some of the difficulties of campaigning in Russia had become apparent. The lack of roads held up transport, and the scantiness of the population prevented living on the country. The Emperor had expected to fight pitched battles with his enemy but this was not to be. The main Russian army under Barclay de Tolley seemed to be always a day's march in front, while farther south a smaller army under Bagration had eluded King Jerome and was also retiring eastward. The Russian plan was an imitation of Wellington's at Torres Vedras. A great fortified camp had been prepared at Drissa, about a hundred and fifty miles from the frontier; there the main body was to stand on the defensive while the invaders starved and Bagration harried their communications. As they drew near, the Czar became convinced that without Wellington's covering sea-power the place would be a death trap so the Russians continued their retirement and Bagration joined the main body at Smolensk. Meanwhile Napoleon was pressing on, hoping that each day's march would bring him to grips with his enemy. " The whole Russian force is at Vitepsk ," he wrote to the Empress on 25 July; " we are on the eve of great events. " but by the next day the Russians had disappeared once more.

Nevertheless Barclay was meeting with much opposition in continuing the retirement. His officers distrusted him as a foreigner (he was of Scottish descent) and insisted on a stand in defence of Smolensk. After inflicting great losses on the French, they only escaped just as Napoleon's pincers were about to close upon them. Napoleon remained some weeks at Smolensk, debating whether to continue the chase, or to go into winter quarters there. He eventually decided that a threat to Moscow would compel the Czar either to fight or to negotiate. By this time Barclay had been dismissed in favour of Kutusoff, who gave Napoleon his pitched battle at Borodino in September. Though the losses amounted to 40,000 men on each side, neither could claim a clean-cut victory. Perhaps if Napoleon had thrown in his reserves, the Old Guard, at the critical moment he might have destroyed the enemy; but he had not the nerve to risk losing that solid core of his army so far from France so the Russians were able to continue their retreat in good order to Moscow and beyond. A few days later Napoleon rode in with his staff through echoing empty streets and squares. The population had evacuated the city, carrying off all transportable foodstuffs; and on the following night fires broke out - whether by accident or design nobody knows - until half the city was in flames.

Napoleon had won his "high victories" over professional armies; but in Russia, as in Spain, he was finding himself opposed by a force far more formidable because far less tangible - the hostility of a whole nation defending its fatherland and by way of reminder of the analogy between the two countries, he now received the dire news of Salamanca.

To Napoleon's dismay, Alexander continued to keep silence. By this time the Russians realised that their half-involuntary strategy of retirement had lured their enemy to destruction. Napoleon had thought of Moscow as the heart of Russia; but he found, all too late, that such a great sprawling country has no vital spot, a blow at which will paralyse the whole body. There were now three possible courses open to him:

• to attack the Czar at St. Petersburg
• to winter at Moscow
• to go back.

The marshals were reluctant to march northwards at that time of year while to stay at Moscow meant starvation for the troops and a free hand for lurking "treason" among the vassal states. The last humiliating alternative had to be faced, and in the middle of October the Grand Army set out to trudge the thousand miles back to civilisation.

It started by a more southerly route than it had come by, in the hope of finding fresh supplies of food but when it had got eighty miles on, it found the Russians so strongly posted at Malo-Jaroslavetz that after an obstinate fight it had to turn back and rejoin the wasted line of its advance at Borodino. For a time things did not go badly; the autumn weather was particularly fine, and the worst trouble was the lack of fodder, which necessitated killing and eating the horses and abandoning the baggage. On 6 November came the first fall of snow, and from then on the story of the march became an epic of human and animal misery. No food, no shelter, no fuel except what could be scraped together on a bare countryside by weary and famished men at the close of a day's march; icy gales that froze them, killing scores every night; snowdrifts that blotted out the landscape so that hundreds got lost or were cut down by prowling Cossacks.

Worse, the horses were kitted out for a summer campaign and therefore were not provided with winter shoes. Winter horse-shoes have hooks which point downwards to dig into the ground -- without the hooks, the horses had no grip so they slipped about, fell, broke their legs, pulled muscles and otherwise damaged themselves. They, like the soldiers, had no winter equipment.

All semblance of military discipline faded away. The climax came with the crossing of the Beresina, where the military bridges, made by devoted engineers at the cost of their lives in the half-frozen water, broke down, and 12,000 corpses were found when the winter floods abated.

Napoleon now announced to his staff that he must hurry on ahead, to reach Paris before his enemies both inside France as well as outside learned the extent of the disaster. He needed to raise a fresh army with which to face the dangers that threatened. The command devolved on Murat, but that was a mere formality: it was every man for himself, now. Ney added fresh laurels to his fame as "the bravest of the brave" by his heroic courage in holding together the rearguard and beating off the exultant pursuers.

Eventually, of the 450,000 who had crossed the Niemen to conquer Russia in June, only 20,000 frostbitten and famished scarecrows tottered back over it in December.

[1] This information was given to me many years ago by the man who was then my Head of Department. He was a metallurgist. He did not give - and I did not request - the source of the anecdote. [back]

The Retreat from Moscow by General Count Philip de Segur See also the Greville Memoirs

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Music + concerts, music + concerts | bruno mars will open the new intuit dome in inglewood with 2 shows in august, tickets for the back-to-back opening night shows go on sale at 10 a.m. thursday, april 11..

Intuit Dome , the new home of the LA Clippers , is hosting Bruno Mars as its opening act, with the performer set to play two back-to-back shows on Thursday, Aug. 15 and Friday, Aug. 16.

The Inglewood venue will serve as the 14-time Grammy winner’s first gig in Los Angeles County in more than six years.

“We are thrilled Bruno Mars will open Intuit Dome,” said Gillian Zucker, CEO of Halo Sports and Entertainment. “Bruno, who has a strong connection to Inglewood, will undoubtedly deliver an iconic performance that is worthy of this moment, and will leave a lasting impression on everyone who attends these two shows.”

Tickets for both shows go on sale to the general public starting at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 11 at Ticketmaster.com. 

The 17,700-capacity arena, nestled in the same area as the Kia Forum and SoFi Stadium, is also set to host acts such as Usher, Weezer, Sebastian Maniscalco, Phil Whickman, and Brandon Lake, Twenty One Pilots, and Billy Joel.

Mars is still set to perform in Los Vegas for his solo 2024 residency and with the R&B project Silk Sonic , featuring Anderson Paak. Silk Sonic released “An Evening With Silk Sonic” in 2021 and snagged record of the year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.

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Steven Alker’s late miscues are Retief Goosen’s golden fortune at The Galleri Classic

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Steven Alker was cruising along at The Galleri Classic, seemingly in complete control on Sunday, holding his pursuers at bay, needing just a couple of pars to put the finishing touches on what would be his second victory of the young season. And then everything flipped on him.

Alker, who had made but one bogey in his first 52 holes, three-putted the par-3 17th – making bogey there for the second time – and followed by hitting his approach into the water at the par-5 18th at Mission Hills Country Club’s famed Dinah Shore Tournament Course, leaving a door ajar.

World Golf Hall of Famer Retief Goosen, with two closing pars, stepped on through, capturing his first PGA TOUR Champions title in more than two years, stealing victory away in the Tour’s second visit to Rancho Mirage, California.

South Africa’s Goosen, 55, a two-time U.S. Open champion and World Golf Hall of Fame member, won for the third time on PGA TOUR Champions. He was just idling along on the back nine, racking up pars but making up little ground on the steady Alker, who was putting on a ball-striking display.

Even with a 10-footer for birdie at the par-4 15th, Goosen felt as if he just had not done enough to challenge. But things got hectic on the final two holes. Goosen made a great save for par out of a short-side bunker to keep his flickering chances alive at the par-3 17th, where Alker three-putted after running his slick downhill first putt 8 feet past the hole. At the 531-yard finishing hole, both he and Alker found the right rough with their drives, just a few feet apart. Both had a decision to make. Lay up or go?

Retief Goosen sticks approach to set up birdie at Galleri Classic

The approach calls for a shot over water, and Goosen went first, thinning a low 4-iron that crashed woefully into the penalty area, seemingly drowning his tournament hopes, too. He expected Alker, his opponent and World Champions Cup teammate, to lay up and make birdie that way, but Alker instead ripped a 5-iron from 199 yards out that carried the hazard but hit the steep fronting bank and trickled back into the water. Goosen wedged his fourth from the other side of the water to 8 feet. Alker was able to drop just off the green, but from a steep uphill lie, his pitch from 35 yards finished about 30 feet short. He missed his par attempt, Goosen made his, and at 13-under 203, Goosen was the winner. The finish was stunning.

Retief Goosen pars the last to secure win at The Galleri

“I’m sure it’s happened, I can’t quite remember (when), but I’m glad it flipped my way,” said Goosen, who shot a bogey-free round of 3-under 69 Sunday. “It was a really bad second shot (that I hit), you know? Ball was sitting up quite nicely, and I was in between a 5 and a 4 (iron) and I thought I’d just hit a smooth 4, and I completely thinned it.

“After I hit it in the water, I thought Steve was going to lay up and just go from there. But he hit it in the water, it was kind of a shock, too. We were kind of surprised at that as well.”

Alker, 52, the Tour’s player of the year two seasons ago, was trying to win for the ninth time in only his 58 th career start on the Champions Tour. Already this season he had won the season-opener in Hawaii, and he was on the verge of winning for the third time in his last six starts, dating to November’s Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Arizona.

Steven Alker plays the flop shot to set up birdie at Galleri Classic

Alker was a runner-up for the second consecutive year at The Galleri Classic, shooting a final-round 70. He tied for second along with Alex Cejka and Ricardo Gonzalez, the Argentinian who won in Morocco (Trophy Hassan II) to earn his card for the season. Gonzalez, 54, struggled mightily with his ball-striking, especially off the tee, but survived on grit and a classy short game to somehow shoot 71. At the 18th, he laid up in two shots, wedged close, and made birdie to tie Alker and Cejka, one shot back.

Ricardo Gonzalez hits it tight to close with birdie at Galleri Classic

Alker said afterward he didn’t make many mistakes tee to green, but certainly could have converted a few more of his birdie looks to make a difference. As for going for it at 18? He thought he hit the shot.

“I had a super lie, could almost hit driver off the lie in the semi-rough there, that's how good the lie was,” Alker said. “If I hit rescue, then I flush it and it's gone through the green. So just got a little high on the face, a little grassy. It got over. I kind of flew the front, but just got maybe a little unlucky.”

Cejka, 53, of Germany, whose three Champions Tour victories all have been major championships, made a sold run on the back nine, pulling even with the leaders when he rolled in a 15-footer for birdie at the par-3 14th. Cejka did some of the best work when it started to rain mid-round, evoking his play in difficult conditions last season when he captured the Senior Open Championship in Wales. Cejka got to 6-under for his round until bogeys at Nos. 15 and 16 dropped him back to 12-under for the tournament.

David Toms, the tournament’s defending champion, became a factor early on Sunday when he went out on 5-under 31, a blistering start, at one point tying for the lead. He simply could not keep the pace. Even with a birdie at his final hole, Toms slipped to 2-over 38 on his second nine, and at 69, settled for fifth place.

One key in Goosen’s victory on Sunday was how he had finished a day earlier (4-under 68) when temperatures cooled and the wind kicked up and players were giving away shots down the homestretch of the second round. Goosen birdied four of his final five holes and came within one turn of the golf ball from making it five straight to finish.

“Conditions were tough yesterday, and I made up some ground on those finishers,” Goosen said Sunday. “Today, I got off to a slow start, managed to make a good putt on 10, and from there, I was just hanging in. ... Obviously the birdie on 15 was crucial. Then, yeah, Steven finishing bogey-bogey is all my luck.”

As Goosen stood on the final green waiting for Alker to clean up his short bogey putt, Golf Channel analyst Lanny Wadkins commented, “He looks like the cat who ate the canary. ... Five holes to go, Retief was a complete afterthought.”

He left with the trophy. Alker stepped up with an incredible week of ball-striking. His 35 (of 42) fairways led all players, and he hit 46 of 54 greens in regulation leading the field, too. With only three bogeys on his week, he tied for fewest. Two of them just happened to arrive at the worst time.

Australia’s Greg Chalmers, who made his way into the field via Monday qualifying, had a solid finish, shooting a closing 68 to tie for seventh to earn a spot into the Champions Tour’s next event, the Invited Celebrity Classic in Irving, Texas (April 19-21). That’s likely when we next will see Alker competing again. No doubt, it is going to be a long three weeks.

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