Foreigner - Juillet 2013

[Mr. Gig]

Les premières dates :

01.09.2013 Hard Rock Live Hollywood, FL
01.10.2013 Rock Legends Cruise II Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas
01.18.2013 Treasure Island Event Center Red Wing, MN
01.19.2013 Otter Creek Event Center Carlton, MN

02.01.2013 Island Showroom Harris, MI
02.02.2013 Island Showroom Harris, MI
02.28.2013 Strawberry Festival Plant City, FL

03.02.2013 Soaring Eagle Entertainment Stage Mount Pleasant, MI
03.08.2013 Casino Rama Rama, Ontario
03.09.2013 Casino Rama Rama, Ontario
03.15.2013 Hard Rock Live Biloxi, MS

04.02.2013 Centro de Convenciones Maria Angola Miraflores Lima, Peru
04.04.2013 Teatro Caupolican Santiago, Chile
04.06.2013 HSBC Brasil São Paulo, Brasil
04.15.2013 Majestic Theatre San Antonio San Antonio, TX
04.20.2013 Fox Performing Arts Theatre Riverside, CA

05.04.2013 Springfest 2013 - Oc Inlet Parking Lot Ocean City, MD

07.18.2013 Mangfallpark Süd Rossenheim, Germany
07.19.2013 Himmeroder Wall Rheinbach, Germany
07.20.2013 Schloßplatz Emmendingen Emmendingen, Germany
07.21.2013 Guitare en Scene Festival Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France
07.23.2013 Zeltspektakel Winterbach Winterbach, Germany
07.25.2013 Amphitheater Hanau Hanau, Germany
07.26.2013 Großer Elzpark Mosbach, Germany
07.27.2013 Parkbühne (Clara Zetkin Park) Leipzig, Germany
07.28.2013 Biberach Open Air Biberach, Germany

08.03.2013 Festplatz Hainallee / Pop am Fluss Gelände Weilburg, Germany

[Miki]

Est-ce une tournée support d'un nouvel album?

[Mr. Gig]

Pas que je sache non, leur dernière parution en date est un coffret triple regroupant des versions acoustiques sur le premier disque, compilant leurs classiques ainsi que le nouveau simple "Save Me" sur le deuxième, et joignant l'enregistrement d'un récent concert à Chicago sur le troisième.

On notera bien entendu le clin d’œil à la pochette de leur premier disque :

[Mr. Gig]

07.18.2013 Mangfallpark Süd Rossenheim, Germany
07.19.2013 Himmeroder Wall Rheinbach, Germany
07.20.2013 Schloßplatz Emmendingen Emmendingen, Germany
07.21.2013 Guitare en Scene Festival Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France
07.23.2013 Zeltspektakel Winterbach Winterbach, Germany
07.25.2013 Amphitheater Hanau Hanau, Germany
07.26.2013 Großer Elzpark Mosbach, Germany
07.27.2013 Parkbühne (Clara Zetkin Park) Leipzig, Germany
07.28.2013 Biberach Open Air Biberach, Germany

08.02.2013 Schutzenanger Lichtenfels Lichtenfels, Germany
08.03.2013 Festplatz Hainallee / Pop am Fluss Gelände Weilburg, Germany

[L'Ostrogauxe]

Ah, ces étrangers, ils croient que l'Europe continentale se limite à l'Allemagne !

[Graptemiss]

Si seulement, si seulement.

[Psyko Killer]

Ah, ces étrangers, ils croient que l'Europe continentale se limite à l'Allemagne !

Bah non il y a la France aussi!

[L'Ostrogauxe]

Personne n'a donc pigé ma vanne?

[Graptemiss]

Si si, j'ajouterais même concernant l'Allemagne qu'il faut régner sur l'Europe!

[L'Ostrogauxe]

Joli!

[Mr. Gig]

Lu hier après-midi dans le dernier Ultimate Classic Rock :

Lou Gramm et Mick Jones seront à nouveau réunis sur scène début Juin le temps d'un concert à New York le 13 Juin prochain.

Malheureusement aucune reformation dans ce prolongement n'est d'actualité pour le moment, ce qui n'a, soit dit en passant, absolument rien d'étonnant étant donné que Kelly Hansen fait toujours partie intégrante du groupe.

Foreigner stars Mick Jones and Lou Gramm will perform on stage together for the first time in over a decade at the Songwriters Hall of Fame awards ceremony in New York City on June 13.

In an exclusive interview, the guitarist, who has been leading a highly regarded new lineup of Foreigner since 2005, reveals that the pair will perform two songs — ‘Juke Box Hero’ and ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’ — together at the event. Apparently there wasn’t much debate in terms of song choices: “Lou suggested both of them.”

Jones goes on to explain that he’s “very much looking forward” to the event. “I’m so proud of what Lou and I achieved in those early years and throughout the time that we were together. I think it’s the first time that we’ve been recognized for our work and our writing, which was really the foundation of what we did together, as much as the performing.”

He’s particularly happy for the chance to celebrate with Gramm, who left the group because he and Jones “weren’t really communicating” back in 2003. “I think this band has always been a song-driven band and so that has its place for me and it’s very important and it’s going to be great to share that with Lou. It will help us to move along in our relationship, which has been fairly quiet in the last seven or eight years.”

For more information on the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and for ticket information about this event, visit the organization’s official website. We’ll have more from our interview with Jones in the coming days.

Au passage, Jones et Gramm font désormais partie des Songwriters Hall Of Fame :

Foreigner’s legendary songwriting partners, Mick Jones and Lou Gramm, have together propelled an arsenal of ten multi-platinum albums and multiple Top 30 hits. Universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world, the band is responsible for some of the greatest rock anthems of our time, including the worldwide #1 hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” which today remains as one of the 25 most performed songs in the ASCAP catalog. Other iconic songs include “Feels Like The First Time,” “Cold As Ice” and “Long, Long Way From Home” from their self-titled 1977 debut album. Major songs in the Jones and Gramm catalog include “Juke Box Hero,” “Hot Blooded” and “Waiting For A Girl Like You.” A multi-talented and multi-dimensional “musician’s musician,” Jones has also written songs such as “Bad Love” with Eric Clapton and “Dreamer” with Ozzy Osbourne, and produced records for others including Billy Joel’s Storm Front and Van Halen’s 5150. A Grammy® and Golden Globe-nominated songwriter, Jones is the winner of the prestigious British Ivor Novello songwriter award for the song “The Flame Still Burns,” from the soundtrack Still Crazy. In the late 80s, Gramm released two solo albums to critical and commercial acclaim entitled Ready or Not and Long Hard Look, respectively, which produced several Top 10 hit singles including, “Midnight Blue”, “Just Between You And Me” and the Top 40 hit “True Blue Love.” Gramm also contributed a song to the soundtrack for the 1987 movie The Lost Boys, titled “Lost In The Shadows.” In May 2013, Triumph Books will release Gramm’s biography, Juke Box Hero.