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Soundgarden Announce Europe shows

May 7th 2013

Soundgarden have announced European tour dates this fall.

Sept 4 – Helsinki, Finland @ Hartwall Arena (Tickets ) Sept 6 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Hovet ( Tickets ) Sept 7 – Oslo, Norway @ Spektrum ( Tickets ) Sept 9 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Forum ( Tickets) Sept 10 – Berlin, Germany @ Columbiahalle ( Tickets ) Sept 11 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Heineken Music Hall ( Tickets ) Sept 13 – Manchester, UK @ Apollo ( Tickets ) Sept 14 – Birmingham, UK @ Academy ( Tickets ) Sept 16 – Dublin, Ireland @ O2 ( Tickets ) Sept 18 – London, UK @ Brixton Academy ( Tickets )

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Soundgarden are an American rock band formed in 1984 in Seattle, Washington. They are considered pioneers of the grunge genre.

Soundgarden are a legendary name and a piece of US music history. The band who currently consist of Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd merge elements of punk rock with metal to create their unique, experimental grunge style. Taking influences from 70's juggernauts including Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin, the band began life under the name The Shemps before touring, writing and honing their sound as a group, preparing to release their debut album.

It took a while for Soungarden to achieve a commercial success to match the cult notoriety they were receiving on the live scene. They picked up an early Grammy nomination for Ultramega OK which led to a signing with to A & M Records. Their third album 'Badtomyfinger' gained them moderate UK and US chart success and another Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance. However it was the following album 'Superunknown' that is considered to be their most iconic and successful record to date, it topped the charts in the US and included huge singles including 'Spoonman', 'Black Hole Sun' and 'My Wave'. Incorporating experimental sounds from across the globe, the band's dark lyrical matter and evolving style captivated fans and new listeners alike to this incredible body of work. They won their first two Grammy awards with this album and toured the world extensively.

The follow-up to this album, 'Down On The Upside' was considered to be both a commercial and critical success yet it failed to emanate the stature of its predecessor. Due to inter-band disputes, they decided to split with Cameron stating that Soundgarden was "eaten up by the business." The band all continued to work on solo projects and material before an inevitable reunion occurred in 2010 and the band released their first single since 1997 which led to a new original album entitled 'King Animal' coming out in 2012. Soundgarden has left a huge legacy as band, they are cited as inspiration to some of the most iconic performers including Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam. They are hailed for their technical abilities, development of sound and pioneering qualities to the genre of grunge.

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So. friggin'. good. This is the standard to which rock concerts should be held. Soundgarden illustrated why Chris Cornell still has one of the most powerful, rafter shaking rock voices. Nine Inch Nails however, brought it. Reznor is a man of few words, but searing intensity. He and his band did not disappoint. So much electronica/alt based fury. The lightning storm that began and continued throughout both shows simply added to the intensity. So damn good.

First and foremost, however, the set lists: SOUNDGARDEN SET LIST: Searching With My Good Eye Closed Spoonman Flower Outshined Black Hole Sun Jesus Christ Pose The Day I Tried to Live My Wave Superunknown Blow Up The Outside World Fell on Black Days A Thousand Days Before Rusty Cage Beyond the Wheel

NIN SET LIST: Copy of A Sanctified Came Back Haunted 1,000,000 March of the Pigs Piggy Terrible Lie Closer Gave Up Me, I’m Not Find My Way The Great Destroyer Eraser Wish Only The Hand That Feeds Head Like a Hole ENCORE: Hurt Soundgarden opened around 7:40 and played a sonic assault for 70 minutes afterward. Starting off with 'Searching With My Good Eye Closed' Cornell set the stage for a 90s trip down memory lane. As they were celebrating the 20th anniversary of "Superunknown", their biggest selling and arguably best album, they played no new material. This really wasn't an issue as the older material is more a bit more challenging in some respects, requiring more of a vocal work out. Cornell now 47, proved he could easily attain the vocal heights he once effortlessly hit in his 20s. Spoonman was delivered with Kim Thayil's pounding guitar vibrato and stiff drum work from Matt Cameron. "Outshined" was preceded by Cornell decrying the current state of music, namely the profligation of disco style music and the world's state of affairs not really improving in the past 20 years, before dropping into a grindy rendition of "Outshined". It is with "Jesus Christ Pose" and "Beyond the Wheel" that Cornell showered (pun intended) the audience with a true vocal onslaught that easily have come from 1994. "Black Hole Sun", "My Wave" and "Superunknown" got fans moving and singing in unison. "Rusty Cage" covered beautifully by the great American country music outlaw/icon Johnny Cash, was perfectly executed, with throbbing bass, warbling alt guitar styling and of course, stellar vocal work. I would have liked to hear a little more as really these guys have been around over two decades now, but I am also aware that it is a double bill and allowances for both acts had to be made. Overall, however, Soundgarden came, saw and conquered.

NIN was something else. Trent Reznor came out pounding on key boards with the fury of armaggdeon. He might has well have had his fists taped up as he came in fighting. As I stated earlier, the man is intense and it literally permeates through his music. Now happily married and seemingly in a good place overall, his energy while performing is undiminished. Starting off with a furious version of "Copy of A" from the fantastic, revitalizing "Hesitation Marks", Reznor showed he came to play. Smoothly flowing into "Sanctified" the fury began building. By "March of Pigs" with thunder and lightning and heavy rains bashing the place, Reznor lit the place up with "March of Pigs". Throughout his 90 minutes plus performance no one was sitting. There was just too much energy flowing.

Playing like a manic, sinister maestro, Reznor's NIN shook the stadium with a collecton of classics and newer material. "Closer" was magnificent. It is a little bit hilarious that a song with such an angry emotional core, featuring such lyrics as "I want to @#$% you like an animal" is so intensenly "singable". It is dark, scathing, intimate and amazingly danceable with its pounding beat, and "oop, oop" backing vocal tracks. "Only", "Hand That Feeds", from arguably his best album 2006's "With Teeth, rounded off the concert with powerful, energetic vibration. Everyone was up as if they had no choice in the matter. Trent Reznor is a man of few words as I have already stated, so when he thanked everyone for sticking around throughout the stormy show and for their support of over the years, it was a genuine moment.

"Head Like a Hole", one of NIN's trademark finishers closed out the show and kept everyone moving. The encore and final capper unquestionably was...and had to be... the classic "Hurt", from "Downward Spiral", covered so evocatively and beautifully by Johnny Cash. Reznor just brought so much with this final song, pouring out all he had left. That a thunder clap should strike at the end of his performance was just perfect. Simply outstanding and well, well worth one's time.

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I've followed this band since owning a cassette back in 1989 of Ultramega. I was hooked.

Listening to their music and seeing them live takes you back to when you cranked all their albums when we were younger. The band always played well together and when they play the new with the old classics like "Big Dumb Sex", "Like Suicide", "Spoon Man" especially it's a great feeling. Thayil still cranks it out. You can just close your eyes and feel the guitar.

I am disappointed however by their "Citi" show that was limited to only some fans. But for their music I guess I can forgive.

Looking forward to seeing them this summer.

Soundgarden put on a great show. Chris Cornell still has the pipes and is not afraid to show off. Kim Thayil put on a great guitar clinic as well.

In support of Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden only did about an hour-long set. Pretty much their greatest hits from Badmotorfinger and Superunknown, they also played a couple early tracks and one or two from their most recent album. For an outdoor venue, Shoreline does a great job with the mixing levels. All the instruments and vocals came through very clearly, so everyone sounded amazing for such a large venue - even in the cheap lawn seats.

I have waited years to see Chris Cornell live, he's the final act on my "bucket list" and the Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre should have been the perfect setting...

The sound crew was obviously not experienced with the acoustics of the venue and tried to blow everyone out of the arena.

There were multiple instances of uncontrolled feedback and being unable to hear Chris over the music half of the time was a profound disappointment...

Of everything they played "spoonman" was the best song of the show...

Soundgarden put on great show 7 days ago with at Rockfest it was my first time seeing them, and first time seeing Chris Cornell and I didn't know that was going to be my last time seeing him live. RIP Chris Cornell.

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Cornell announces 22-date European tour

Soundgarden man hits the road in support of latest solo effort Higher Truth

Chris Cornell has announced a string of European tour dates for next year.

The Soundgarden frontman is currently on a North American tour in support of latest solo album Higher Truth , with shows in New Zealand and Australia to follow. He has now confirmed 22 European dates, kicking off in Iceland on March 23, 2016.

Cornell will perform the shows unplugged in small, hand-picked venues, according to a press release. Five UK dates are included on the tour.

The vocalist recently said Soundgarden have spent their career being underrated . The band are working on their seventh album .

EUROPEAN TOUR 2016

Mar 23: Reykjavik Harpa Eldborg Hall, Iceland Mar 26: Moscow Vegas Concert Hall, Russia Mar 28: Helsinki Finlandia Hall, Finland Mar 30: Stockholm DR Konserthuset, Sweden Mar 31: Oslo Folketeatret, Norway Apr 02: Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Germany Apr 03: Aalborg Musikkens Hus, Denmark Apr 05: Copenhagen Koncerthuset, Denmark Apr 09: Utrecht TivoliVredenburg, Netherlands Apr 10: Antwerp Bourla Theater, Belgium Apr 14: Zagreb Lisinski Concert Hall, Croatia Apr 15: Trieste Teatro Rossetti, Italy Apr 18: Rome Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Italy Apr 19: Milan Teatro Degli Arcimboldi, Italy Apr 22: Paris Trianon, France Apr 27: Manchester Bridgewater Hall, UK Apr 29: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, UK Apr 30: Bristol Colston Hall, UK May 02: Birmingham Symphony Hall, UK May 03: London Royal Albert Hall, UK May 06: Tel Aviv Mann Auditorium, Israel May 07: Caesarea Roman Amphitheatre, Israel

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AC/DC Announce The Pretty Reckless as Opener on 2024 European Tour

On May 17, AC/DC will kick off their first tour since 2016 and they've just announced the opening band for the European run.

The Pretty Reckless have been tabbed as special guests for the 21 dates ahead, as announced this morning (March 25) on AC/DC's social media pages .

READ MORE:  The 79 Songs AC/DC Have Never Played Live

About The Pretty Reckless

The Pretty Reckless formed in 2009 and have released four full length albums:  Light Me Up (2010), Going to Hell (2014),  Who You Selling For (2016) and  Death by Rock and Roll (2021). They're currently working on a new record, titled  Other Worlds , which is expected sometime this year.

Fronted by Taylor Momsen , the band solidified themselves among the biggest new acts in rocks throughout the 2010s, with enduring hits in "Heaven Knows," "Make Me Wanna Die" and the title track from their last release.

The group was also the support act for Soundgarden on what was ultimately their last tour with Chris Cornell , who took his own life during the run.

See all of the tour dates further down the page.

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The pretty reckless, "death by rock and roll", ac/dc 2024 tour dates.

May 17 — Gelsenkirchen, Germany @ Veltins Arena May 21 — Gelsenkirchen, Germany @ Veltins Arena May 25 — Reggio Emilia, Italy @ RCF Arena May 29 — Seville, Spain @ La Cartuja Stadium June 05 — Amsterdam, the Netherlands @ Johan Cruyff Arena June 09 — Munich, Germany @ Olympic Stadium June 12 — Munich, Germany @ Olympic Stadium June 16 — Dresden, German @ Messe June 23 — Vienna, Austria @ Ernst Happel Stadium June 26 — Vienna, Austria @ Ernst Happel Stadium June 29 — Zurich, Switzerland @ Letzigrund Stadium July 03 — London, England @ Wembley Stadium July 07 — London, England @ Wembley Stadium July 13 — Hockenheim, Germany @ Ring July 17 — Stuttgart, Germany @ Wasen July 21 — Bratislava, Slovakia @ Old Airport July 27 — Nuremberg, Germany @ Zeppelinfeld July 21 — Hannover, Germany @ Messe Aug. 09 — Dessel, Belgium @ Festivalpark Stenehei Aug. 13 — Paris, France @ Hippodrome Paris Longchamp Aug. 17 — Dublin, Ireland @ Croke Park

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European cities hope jet-setting Taylor Swift fans will splash the cash for Eras tour

The superstar arrives in Europe next month – and Swifties, tourist boards and venues are already preparing

T im Brown, 44, and his wife, Marcella, 34, may not consider themselves bona fide “Swifties”, but when it was announced last June that Taylor Swift would be visiting their corner of the globe this summer they could not resist joining the scramble for a pair of tickets.

A post-pandemic appetite for live music events has fuelled huge worldwide interest in the American singer-songwriter’s Eras tour, which surpassed in $1bn sales in November to become the highest-grossing series of concerts in history.

The pop culture event of the summer will arrive in Europe next month, kicking off in Paris on 9 May and wrapping up in London on 20 August with 49 dates in between in Sweden, Ireland, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Austria, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

The unique nature of the tour’s ticketing system, which was tweaked after a number of hitches last year, means there will be a mass movement of travelling fans who will not only be Swiftie in affiliation but swift-like in their willingness to travel across the continent.

In expectation of intense demand, Ticketmaster introduced a pre-registration system that rewarded some early applicants with access codes to the ticket sale proper, via staggered windows for each city.

Notionally designed to prioritise genuine fans over “scalpers” – people who buy and resell tickets for a quick profit – the pre-sales system also meant many fans registered for tickets in multiple destinations across Europe to increase their chances.

Tim and Marcella, who live in Norwich, registered not just for the nearest concerts – in London and Liverpool – but also in Amsterdam and Lisbon. The pair got lucky with a pair of €91 tickets in the Portuguese capital and have turned the trip into a weekend break. “I used to live in Lisbon so I thought why not kill two birds with one stone,” Tim said. “We booked ourselves flights and four nights’ accommodation the same day.” They are far from alone.

Katie Soo, the chief business officer of DICE, a rival ticketing company, said: “The excitement and uncertainty inherent in the ticket-purchasing process might have inadvertently incentivised fans to apply for tickets in multiple cities, thereby increasing the likelihood of travelling across Europe to attend the concerts.”

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Several European cities have already reported a sharp rise in demand for hotel and short-term rental accommodation over the summer, when the Swift hurricane will arrive. In Edinburgh, Liverpool and Cardiff, rooms at the Travelodge chain around Swift’s June dates have been sold out since August 2023, a month after tickets for the shows went on sale.

In Paris, where fans anticipate Swift to debut an updated version of the Eras show with songs from the new Tortured Poets Department album, 80% of hotels and apartments listed on Booking.com are already full up. In Warsaw on 2 August, only 9% of hotels listed on the same site are still available.

Not all of the 18 cities covered by the Eras tour are obvious tourism destinations. From 17-19 July, Swift will play three concerts at the 65,000-capacity home ground of the football club Schalke 04 in Gelsenkirchen in Ruhr valley, western Germany. The city’s less-than-familiar name prompted one US chatshow host to quip that “the place might not even exist”.

Yet even in Germany’s rust belt the influx of Swift fans is temporarily transforming the hotel market: any two-bedroom apartments that remain available are going for €800-2,000 a night, with cheaper accommodation available only in surrounding cities that are just as off the usual tourist track as Gelsenkirchen, such as Essen, Bochum or Herne.

Cities with stricter rules on allowing Airbnb-style holiday lets and a more limited stock of short-term rental apartments are reporting a particularly marked increase in rates during Swift’s visit, with about 30% year-on-year spikes in rental rates in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Milan, according to AirDNA, a data analytics company specialising in the short-term rentals market.

Of all the tour’s European stops, Vienna is experiencing the most notable impact on its rental market, with booking rates for the nights of Swift’s concerts recorded in February 44% higher than at the same point the previous year. By the end of March the number of nights booked in the Austrian capital for the length of Swift’s stay in the second week of August had risen by 430% compared with the same period in 2023.

When Luke Tilden’s wife, Tatjana, suggested last summer that the couple buy their 13- and 15-year-old daughters, Lena and Maya, tickets to a Taylor Swift gig for Christmas, the 53-year-old Briton initially waved it off. “There’s no chance in hell we’d get a ticket without paying through our noses, I thought,” said Tilden, who works as an interpreter at the European parliament in Brussels.

But after pre-registering for tickets in London, Paris and Munich, the Tildens got unexpectedly lucky for four tickets in southern Germany and have turned the concert visit into a mini-holiday: “We’ll visit the in-laws in Bavaria, enjoy the countryside, do a bit of hiking.”

The hope in cities across Europe is that this will be replicated on a massive scale, with fans’ excitement translating into generous spending sprees on food, shopping and leisure. In Stockholm, for example, where authorities are expecting 159,000 visitors to arrive from 135 countries in mid-May, the chamber of commerce has forecast a spending boost of €50m. “We hope the whole town will buzz from the Eras tour,” said Tomas Andersson, a spokesperson for the Swedish capital’s tourism board.

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Whether fans will necessarily act like ordinary tourists, however, is up for debate. “Pop-culture tourists do not necessarily care about traditional buildings and authentic restaurants,” said Maria Lexhagen, a professor at the European Tourism Research Institute, Mid Sweden University.

“Joining up with other fan communities is stronger motivation, as is the idea that they might get closer to the stars themselves. Many of them will map out where Swift is spending her time in the city – they will seek out seemingly marginal but meaningful places like back alleys or coffee shops.” Venues may be hoping for a repeat of Sydney in February, when Swift swept into an unassuming Italian restaurant in the suburbs and sent its name into global media headlines.

In Stockholm the tourism board said it was expecting bookshops and secondhand clothes stores, rather than museums and royal palaces, to attract most of the arriving visitors. Some venues are being proactive: one restaurant within walking distance of the multipurpose Friends Arena in the Solna municipality is putting on a “Taylor Swift brunch experience” with a karaoke stage; the waterfront nightclub Debaser is hosting a pre-concert party on 16 May, an all-ages all-day party with a Swift-themed quiz on 19 May and an afterparty the day after.

Environment

As the Swift circus rolls across the continent, the transport infrastructure of urban centres will also be put to the test. Around the tour’s three-night stop in Dublin at the end of June, Irish Rail has announced additional late-night services to Cork and Limerick to meet an expected increase in demand. Extra tram and bus services are likely to be announced nearer the time.

Unlike rail operators, most airlines do not have capacity to charter additional flights. Due to yield management – airlines adjusting prices based on expected demand – a scramble for airborne journeys into cities that host the Eras tour is more likely to result in more expensive tickets rather than additional flights.

Officials at Lisbon airport said no additional flights had been chartered around Swift’s concerts on 24 and 25 May but that demand would probably be reflected in slightly higher load factors. A spokesperson for Amsterdam Schiphol said general aviation slots could be requested at short notice but nothing out of the ordinary had been logged so far.

Calculating the environmental impact of the tour with any certainty was difficult, experts said. “We can expect that some Swift fans will travel a long way to see one, if not several, shows across Europe”, said Stefan Gössling, a professor of tourism at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. “But measuring the environmental impact of these trips is extremely difficult – it would involve a lot of guesswork.”

This did not mean the carbon footprint was negligible. “Every flight taken by a person adds to demand and hence influences supply considerations,” Gössling said. “The greater the demand, the more aircrafts are in service.”

The pop star’s carbon footprint is easier to estimate. Swift owns two jets by the French manufacturer Dassault, whose journeys are trackable. During the 2023 leg of the Eras tour, Swift’s planes spent 166 hours crisscrossing the US in about 75 individual journeys, though it is possible they were used by people other than the singer.

According to data available through the open-access aviation tracker ADS-B exchange, Swift’s jets caused carbon emissions of about 2,830 tonnes of CO 2 equivalent over the course of the US Eras tour – about 1,700 times the annual contribution of an average person.

A spokesperson for Swift told US media last year that in advance of the tour’s start in March 2023, the pop star bought more than double the carbon credits needed to offset all tour travel. Carbon offset credits are tradable certificates that allow purchasers to compensate for emissions by investing in environmental projects that claim to reduce carbon emissions, though recent studies have questioned the efficacy of these schemes.

Additional reporting by Ajit Niranjan

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