Velvet Revolver tour N. America

Guns N' Roses bandmates Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, Wasted Youth guitarist Dave Kushner and Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, collectively known as Velvet Revolver, continue their world tour.

The hard rock band has already played a number of UK gigs in early 2005 before moving to a different continent for shows in Australia and New Zealand, followed by Japan in February.

This month saw Velvet Revolver performing in Canada in big indoor arenas: Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver.

In April, Velvet Revolver move south of the border for 29 concerts over a 2 month period, followed by 21 European shows beginning June 2005.

These are the forthcoming Velvet Revolver concert dates:

April

12 Coors Amphitheatre Chula Vista, CA
13 Save Mart Center Fresno, CA
15 County Bowl Santa Barbara, CA
16 The Pond Anaheim, CA
17 Events Center Reno, NV
19 Bill Graham Civic Center San Francisco, CA
21 Rose Garden Portland, OR
22 Everett Arena Everett, WA
23 Taco Bell Arena Boise, ID
25 E Center West Valley City, UT
26 Magness Arena Denver, CO
28 Xcel Energy Center St. Paul, MN
29 Metro Centre Rockford, IL
30 Palace of Auburn Hills Detroit, MI

May

2 Arena at the Harbor Yard Bridgeport, CT
3 Mullins Center Amherst, MA
5 Alltel Pavillion Raleigh, NC
6 Hifi Buys Amphitheater Atlanta, GA
7 Tinker Field Orlando, FL
13 Montage Mountain Scranton, PA
14 Jones Beach Wantagh, NY
15 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Virginia Beach, VA
17 Tower Amphitheater Cleveland, OH
18 Chevrolet Amphitheater Pittsburgh, PA
20 PNC Holmdel, NJ
21 Merriweather Columbia, MD
22 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Charlotte, NC
24 St. Pete's Times Forum Tampa, FL
25 Sound Advice Amphitheatre West Palm Beach , FL

Velvet Revolver European dates

June

3 Rock IM Park Zeppenlinfeld, Germany
5 Rock AM Ring Nürburgring, Germany
8 Odyssey Arena Belfast, Northern Ireland
9 Scottish Exhibition + Conference Center Glasgow, Scotland
11 Download Festival at Donington Park Donington Park, England
12 Heineken Music Festival at Autodromo Imola, Italy
14 Stadtpark Hamburg, Germany
17 Grugahalle Essen, Germany
18 Fields of Rock at Goffertpark Nijmegen, Netherlands
20 Wiener Stadthalle Vienna, Austria
21 Tivoli Ljubljana, Slovenia
22 Petofi Csarnok Budapest, Hungary
25 Rockwave 2005 Malakasa, Greece
28 Spodek Katowice, Poland
29 T-Mobile Arena Prague, Czech Republic

July

1 Festival Park Werchter, Belgium
3 Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland
4 Volkshaus Zürich, Switzerland
7 Arena Reyjkavik, Iceland
9 Koengen Bergen, Norway
10 Isle of Ruissalo Turku, Finland


Related links

Slash and co. rock hard (short London review)