More
VOIVOD Live dates!
Here are some other
confirmed Voivod tour dates:
November 7th and 8th 2008
- Trois-Rivières
Metalfest VIII www.troisrivieresmetal.com
August.12
- supporting Judas Priest at the Bell Center Montreal
September 20 and 21
- Kawasaki Japan Thrash Domination (!!) with
Forbidden and Testament.
http://clubcitta.co.jp/001/thrash/
April 30th 2008
VOIVOD to play live for first time in 5 years
VOIVOD, who last performed live on August. 28 2003 during OzzFest
in Florida, will return to the
stage on June 22nd, 2008 as part of the Heavy MTL Festival in
Montreal
( http://www.heavymtl.com
)
The band has issued an update regarding their upcoming live
appearances.
"A lot has happened since the band's last live appearance.
The band had taken time off to begin writing what would become
the album Katorz. In April 2005 while the new album was in progress,
guitarist Denis 'Piggy' D'Amour became ill before recording
began and sadly died of colon cancer. It took awhile to recover
from the sudden passing of Denis before Michel 'Away' Langevin,
Denis 'Snake' Belanger and Jason 'Jasonic' Newsted could begin
to assemble the songs from the demos and create Katorz.
Discussions of a tribute show and possible guitar players for
it followed, yet it just did not seem right to perform without
Denis, but time does help heal wounds and this summer Voivod
feel it is time to perform the music Denis helped create once
more.
On June 22, Voivod will perform in Montreal as part of the
Heavy MTL festival and July 26th, 2008 in Calgary for the
Monsters of Rock festival
( http://www.monstersofrockfestival.com
) with original bass player Jean-Yves Theriault ('Blacky')
for the first time in 17 years.
Dan Mongrain from the Quebec band Martyr, a good friend of
the band, will play guitar. Songs from the early catalogue
will be the focus for these short festival sets. Jason Newsted
is still very much part of the Voivod family and is working
with the band on the new record (also constructed from the
2004 demos) along with Jean-Yves Theriault and Eric Forrest.
However, Newsted is unable to perform live at this point.
Denis and Michel are determined to play more shows in the
future to celebrate Denis 'Piggy' D'Amour's legacy. Stay tuned
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