VAN HALEN Manager Irving Azoff - "I Know Nothing About Any European Tour"
March 12, 2013, 11 years ago
According to Billboard, comments by Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth that the band will tour Europe beginning late this year are incorrect, according to Irving Azoff, manager for founders Alex and Eddie Van Halen and bassist Wolfgang Van Halen.
In comments picked up by multiple media outlets, Roth said on the Sirius Opie & Anthony radio show yesterday that Van Halen were "going to be playing Europe - probably 50 or 60 shows starting at the end of this year."
"All the announced dates, which include the date in Australia, the dates in Japan and a date in Wisconsin, are confirmed and on sale and those are real," Azoff tells Billboard exclusively. "I manage the Van Halens, and I know nothing about any European tour."Azoff confirms that Roth will indeed front the band that will play the scheduled dates, which include the Stone Music Festival in Sydney on April 20; June 21 at the Tokyo Dome; June 24 and 26 at Osaka's City Central Gymnasium and the final night of Rock USA festival July 20 at Ford Festival Park in Oshkosh, Wis.
Check out Roth's comments on Opie & Anthony below:
