GUNS N' ROSES Announce UK Dates
February 27, 2012, 12 years ago
According to Guardian.co.uk, GUNS N' ROSES have announced a short UK tour to follow their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Axl Rose's and co. will return to England and Scotland for the first time since their disastrous Reading and Leeds festival gigs in 2010.
The band will play seven shows, beginning at the Nottingham Arena on May 19 and finishing at London's O2 on May 31. Dates are also scheduled in Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester.
More information will be revealed soon.
Billboard.com reports that it appears there will be some sort of reunion of Guns N' Roses' original lineup at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony on April 14 in Cleveland.
"I know that all the original band is going to be there," keyboardist Dizzy Reed, the longest-standing member of the current GN'R and an inductee that night, tells Billboard.com. "I don't know exactly what's going to go down. It's one of those things I'm sure will all come together and be really cool. I'm just going to go in with a good attitude and a clear head and a grateful heart."
Fans have been abuzz about whether the GNR crew - which will also include continuing frontman Axl Rose, guitarists Slash, Izzy Stradlin and Gilby Clarke, bassist Duff McKagen and drummers Steven Adler and Matt Sorum - would put aside well-publicized differences at the ceremony and pick up their instruments together. Nobody has said for sure what will happen, and Adler has even expressed open doubts about the possibility. Reed, meanwhile, says it's not even been a topic of conversation between he and Rose since the Rock Hall's class of 2012 was announced in December.
"Honestly, we haven't spoken about it," Reed says. "I don't know when or why or how to bring it up. It's not an every day sort of thing. So we haven't really talked about it - but I'm sure we'll have to at some point."Read more at Billboard.com.
