Paul Di'Anno Tour Postponed

Before I get into the nitty gritty of why Paul Di'anno's tour is postponed I had to share the flyer below for his Whiskey show.  I think this flyer is fabulous, and believe it or not, I did NO photoshopping on this.  This is what the actual flyer looks like!  Hilarious and amazing.

So now for the details:  As announced earlier, Paul Di'Anno's winter tour had to be put on hold while his work visa for the US was sorted out.   Nobody (Di'Anno included) seemed to think it would drag on this long.  I think Di'Anno fans can survive going Christmas without their dose of the overlooked Iron Maiden frontman, but Di'Anno himself is PISSED and he took to his facebook page to voice his frusterations.  I friggin' love when musicians bitch out other musicians or music industry people.   I am not being sarcastic, I really love it.  So merry Xmas to me.  I highlighted the best parts for your reading pleasure, enjoy:

"My personal and sincere apologies go out to all of my fans and friends (and my band LONERO) and indeed all individual show promoters and everyone involved in this supposed USA December 2012-January 2013 tour cancelation as I am deeply saddened at the total mismanagement of this whole thing. As I’m sure you can imagine, I cannot actually play the tour without first having a USA work visa.

"I would also like to point out that I have not had any news whatsoever in the past couple of weeks (despite my constant requests) on the USA work visa that I have been waiting and waiting on. Plus I was not provided with an air ticket and indeed I have not received any deposits either — just for the record.

"In brief, the only news I have ever had of this tour were the dates of the shows themselves.

"I am very sorry indeed for any fans that have not managed to get the cancelation tour information at an earlier time than this last-minute blog. This is, and has been, ALL totally out of my control, and as you can imagine, I am more than pissed off at this whole situation.
"No doubt (as usual) some (so-called) rock journalists (and their websites and blogs) will slag me off without even having any clues whatsoever as to the reasons behind this cancelation, but I guess that is what some of 'em are best at.

"The main culprit behind this mess is the arsebag guy (he'll remain nameless just for now) who was supposed to get the visa... This total tosser did 'f**k-all' and did not even tell us that he had done nothing whilst he just pissed off for Christmas and left this nightmare behind him..... He was NOT arranged by me but he WAS arranged by someone in the USA who should know better, and so I left it up to these capable people. I was supposed to be onstage tonight and thereafter with my band LONERO, and through trusting these people, it's me (as usual) who bares the brunt of all this. 

"The tour is supposed to now be resheduled to next June 2013. However, this time, if these f**kers do not bother getting my U.S. visa finalised during this coming January, then (as i have pointed out to them), there won't be no tour. So watch this space and let's see if some people get their act together whilst I await the statutory slagging."

Thank you for that!!  Gotta love a bit of metalhead drama.

Paul DiAnno lives up to his word

I saw Paul DiAnno last night at BB Kings, and that man lived up to his word.  On Monday night he declared a few things- 
1. That his knee is fucked and he needs a cane to walk comfortably (check!)
2. That he always uses a local band as his backing band- this keeps costs down and ticket prices way cheaper than they would be if a whole band had to travel. (check!  He used Pennsylvania's Icarus Witch- I gotta say they sounded pretty good.  They also had about 10x the amount of merch that DiAnno had.)
3. He plays the old Maiden shit - only faster.  (Major check on this one)
4. He'll stay after at any show and sign everything- no extra price for that. (Check!  My friend Paul had him sign 23 things!!!  The man had 2 Iron Maiden albums.... how is this ever possible!?)


All in a all, a great show- fast, heavy, and pretty much targeted to the old school Maiden fan.  He lost the crowd a little bit when going off on his solo material, but thats to expected.  His voice was a little rough, but nothing that killed the show.

Paul Di'Anno announces a NYC date after 17 years

Remember Paul Di'Anno?  Well most people do not, but us dorks metalheads have a very special place in our heart for him.  Since leaving the coveted Iron Maiden front man spot, Paul has still kept himself busy making music and such, but has never been a big touring guy (at least in the USA, he's tours loads in the rest of the world).  Well, good news for us fans of Killers is that Di'Anno plans to hit the road... in the states!    Only one date has been announced thus far, but its a NYC show, so thats good.  BB Kings in Times Square on January 27th.  See you there!!