Pearl Jam warming up for Lollapalooza

Pearl Jam will play an intimate show for fan club members in Chicago on August 2nd, just three days before the band closes out the Lollapalooza festival in the city's Grant Park on the 5th. According to Reuters, tickets for the show will on sale Thursday (July 26th) and cost $150 a pair. The gig will take place at the Vic Theatre, which holds about 1,400 people. There's no word on whether Pearl Jam is planning any other North American concerts at the moment. The two Chicago dates are its only scheduled U.S. appearances for 2007.

Pearl Jam was a breakout band on the 1992 edition of Lollapalooza, back when the show was a traveling event. The band will end this year's edition of the event with its headlining performance

In addition to Pearl Jam, this year's Lollapalooza will feature Modest Mouse, Muse, Snow Patrol, the Silversun Pickups, Blue October, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and over 100 others.

Pearl Jam's only other live appearances this year were on a three-week European tour last month. The band is said to be keeping a light schedule after touring for much of 2006 in support of its self-titled eighth studio album.
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