The ANVIL Experience Tour Dates Announced
March 8, 2009, 15 years ago
VH1 Classic is presenting The ANVIL Experience - advanced screenings of the movie Anvil! The Story Of Anvil followed by a live performance by the band themselves. The tour bus stops in the following cities:
Monday, April 6 - New York, NY
Blender Theatre At The Gramercy
127 E. 23rd Street
Doors at 7:00 PM - Show at 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 12 - San Francisco, CA
Slim's
333 11th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Doors at 7:00 PM - Show at 8:00 PM
Tuesday April 14 - Seattle, WA
El Corazon
109 Eastlake Avenue E.
Seattle, WA 98109
Doors at 6:30 PM - Show at 7:30 PM
Thursday, April 16 - Worcester, MA:
The Palladium
261 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01608
Doors at 6:00 PM - Show at 7:00 PM
Friday, April 17 - Philadelphia, PA:
Trocadero
1003 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Doors at 7:00 PM - Show at 8:00 PM
Tuesday, April 21 - Detroit, MI:
Crofoot Ballroom
1 S. Saginaw
Pontiac, MI 48342
Doors at 6:30 PM - Show at 7:30 PM
Wednesday, April 22 - Chicago, IL:
Metro
3730 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60613
Doors at 6:30 PM - Show at 7:30 PM
Amazon.co.uk has begun shipping the book tie-in to Anvil! The Story Of Anvil. The book can also be preorder from Amazon.com (released March 13th) or directly from Transworld Publishers.
In other news, Amazon.co.uk lists the DVD on the movie to be released on June 15th (PAL format).
At 14, Toronto school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, went on to become the "demigods of Canadian metal," releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982's Metal on Metal. The album influenced a musical generation, including METALLICA, SLAYER, and ANTHRAX, that went on to sell millions of records. But Anvil's career took a different path - straight to obscurity.
Picking up on their story 26 years later, director Sacha Gervasi has concocted an achingly touching and often hilarious account of Anvil's last-ditch quest for elusive fame and fortune. Not since Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster has such an incredibly raw, candid, hearbreaking and truly inspirational story been captured on film. At its core, Anvil! The True Story of Anvil is a timeless tale of survival and the unadulterated passion it takes to follow your dream, year after year. Anvil rocks - it has no other choice.
View a UK trailer for the film below: