Alice Cooper is just great isn’t he? He’s the old dame of rock ‘n’ roll, pissing about with snakes, guillotines and fake blood, all the while, churning out goth-pop and stadium horror rock with a cheeky glint in his eye.
He takes his work about as seriously as hecklerspray takes writing.
Yet somehow, despite the Iggy Stooge shock-tactics and releasing LPs that come in schoolgirl knickers, he’s become a hugely famous star. Your mum probably likes some of his tunes. And so, you should have a nice family day-out to his UK Halloween shows which, in fairness, look like they’re going to be one gigantic laughathon. With cobwebs. However, Alice Cooper needs you… if you’re a freakshow of a human that is.
So why are we doing appeals for Alice Cooper? Well, this is a naked, unashamed attempt to get free tickets for his show. We write words and hopefully, we get to see Alice and his band, alongside the New York Dolls and potentially The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.
There’s an intimate gig where Cooper will take his ghoulish pop to the 100 Club on June 26th. That’ll be a good gig for Cooperites. However, it’s the big-ass tour in Autumn that will be the shows to catch.
In October, he’ll roll out ‘Alice Cooper’s Halloween Night Of Fear’ to promote new LP ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare’, which is nice and all, but we just want to hear ‘Under My Wheels’, ‘Poison’ and all the hits. Sorry Alice, you know how it works.
Alice says:
“This show comes with a health warning – We don’t do acoustic, this will be loud.”
Being a Detroit kid, we should bloody well think so. So where do you come in? Well, Alice is calling together the depraved weirdos and fire breathing loons to star in his show. He’s holding auditions for freaks to gross out everyone.
Says Alice:
“It takes a lot to shock me, but last year even my stomach was churning, Britain really has got freaks. That’s what’s Halloween is all about. It’s my favourite time of the year, bring on the gore!”
Auditions are June 27th in London?s Hyde park. Go to alicecooper.com to find out about it all. You’ve got ’til June 22nd. Start making people puke with glee. It is your duty.
Now, here are the tour dates. Can we have some free tickets now? Thanks.
Tour Dates
JUNE 2011
SUNDAY 26 LONDON 100 CLUB – Doors 7pm
OCTOBER 2011
TUESDAY 25 SHEFFIELD CITY HALL
WEDNESDAY 26 BRISTOL COLSTON HALL
THURSDAY 27 BIRMINGHAM NIA
SATURDAY 29 LONDON ALEXANDRA PALACE
SUNDAY 30 02 APOLLO MANCHESTER
MONDAY 31 GLASGOW CLYDE AUDITORIUM
Tickets go on sale 9am on Friday 17th June 2011 and should cost around ?35.
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EssBen says
Noooooo, did not need to know about this, if I’m bin diving by the end of the month it’s your fault!