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Hell or Hallelujah live, London July 4, 2012
100,000 Years live, London July 4, 2012
Detroit Rock City live, London July 4, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P1FQ6ZQ40M
Shout it out Loud, live London July 4, 2012
KISS: UK July 4 charity show
Alan Cole | Xperedon
US glam rockers are extending the hand of reconciliation between America and the British on the occasion of American Independence Day…
The band, known for their outrageous make-up and performances as well as selling more than 100 million albums, are supporting the British military charity Help for Heroes today, July 4, on American Independence Day with a benefit concert in London.
Although the Fourth of July holiday is not widely celebrated in the UK for obvious reasons…something to do perhaps with the British defeat at the hands of American independence forces in 1776…
Despite all that being largely forgotten now, the move by Kiss will no doubt be welcomed as a move to further enhance the international relations between the two countries for the ‘minor troubles’ that involved colonisation of America by Britain and later a protracted war in the 18th Century over tea prices that spilled into a global conflict.
Putting that to one side Kiss have taken it on themselves to pay tribute to the UK forces charity Help for Heroes on American Independence Day as a mark of respect for the modern military charity and as part of celebrations of democracy taking place…
The Fourth of July fundraiser at The Forum in London for Help for Heroes sees all proceeds from the concert go to the charity that cares for sick and injured troops. The band are also donating proceeds from a new single ‘Hell or Hallelujah’ to Help for Heroes.
Help for Heroes founder Bryn Parry says the money raised will be used to provide practical support for wounded service persons…
Kiss want new album to be classic
Michael Porter | Music Room
Kiss are confident their new record Monster will impress rock fans worldwide.
Frontman Paul Stanley told BBC Newsbeat: “What we wanted to do this time was not make a great Kiss album, but make a great classic rock album. I think it’s more sure of itself.
“I don’t think that the heaviness or harder feel comes from anything other than being that much more sure of what we’re doing.”
And Stanley said the UK is a special place for the band, with respect for the nation’s musical heritage.
“The UK for us is the holy land. It’s where all our heroes come from. Rock n’ roll may have been invented in America but what it became over here is what we emulated.”
The band released their new single Hell Or Hallelujah this week, which Stanley described as ‘a battle-cry’.
And the legendary rockers recently supported military charity Help For Heroes after playing a charity gig at the Kentish Town Forum.
Gene Simmons said: “No matter what your political persuasions, the reality is that any freedoms that England and America have, has to do not with politicians but the brave men and women in uniform here, in the US and in the free world.
“They actually put their lives on the line. The least we can do is to show them respect and appreciation.”
New KISS London concert photos: Proceeds given to Help for Heroes charity
Jodi Jill | Examiner
KISS rocked London on Independence Day. The legendary band was performing a show as a fundraiser for the Help for Heroes charity, at the Kentish Town Forum on Wednesday and couldn’t have been more excited to sing for the fans while helping others. Proceeds of the tickets went to the charity and it was such a symbolic gesture of the Fourth of July.
While the band might not have been in town for the event, there was a scheduling conflict when this weekend’s Sonisphere rock festival at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire was cancelled. With an opening on their calendar and already being in London promoting their new book KISS Monster, it seemed like the perfect venue.
View slideshow: KISS performs at London concert
The night was full on rock and roll. Dressed in costume and pulling out the guitars, the band brought the music to the stage as the fans got her hear some of the latest hits. Such a generous gift from KISS had the fans and the charity appreciative for the donations.
KISS London Forum show review
Alexis Petridis | The Guardian
Kiss have fetched up in a venue slightly smaller than their usual arenas in aid of a charity. Help For Heroes benefits servicemen wounded in the line of duty: “So that we can rock,” avers singer-guitarist Paul Stanley, a man reassuringly steadfast in the belief that Iraq was invaded largely for Kiss’s benefit. Lest any long-term fans think the self-styled Hottest Rock Band in the World have taken leave of their senses and started acting entirely out of munificence, it’s worth noting that they’re also over here flogging something. Not a record but a book of photos: Monster, which is three feet high and retails at $4,299. “Kiss got an up close and personal look at a ‘finished proof’,” offers the book’s website, “and were quite impressed” – not perhaps the ringing endorsement you might hope for were you considering spending $4,299.
A three-foot-high photo book is obviously a ridiculous idea, which means, of course, that it’s entirely in keeping with Kiss’s ethos. Without wishing to underplay the band’s music – which tonight veers from the grunty glam-rock plod of 1974’s Deuce to the gleaming pop-metal ofCrazy Crazy Nights and Shout It Out Loud – ridiculousness is their very lifeblood, a state of affairs underlined in no uncertain terms by their live show. Bearing in mind Kiss have not one, not two, but three walls of speaker cabinets on stage, the sound is oddly weedy and muffled – anyone would think the cabinets were empty – but it’s difficult to find the energy to worry about it, bombarded as you are by other distractions. There are fireworks and flashbombs going off almost continually. Gene Simmons concludes one song by breathing fire. Tommy Thayer finishes a guitar solo by shooting fireworks out of his guitar. Drummer Eric Singer ends his own solo by extravagantly tossing his sticks in the air. He fails to catch one of them, but nil desperandum: he’s got a fake bazooka, and that shoots fireworks as well.
Original KISS lineup would never reunite
Paul Stanley would never be friends with Peter Criss or Ace Frehley again.
The KISS singer would never allow the band’s former guitarist and drummer – who left in the 80s, but rejoined the band between 1996 and 2002 and 2001 respectively – to play with the group again and claims they were never very close even in their 70s heyday.
Paul exclusively told BANG Showbiz: ‘Friends? No I was never really friends with them. The band was never about friendship, the band was about commitment to a cause, but friendship? We were all very different people.
‘I loved them for what we created together, I certainly don’t love them today. But the band as it is today is far more the embodiment of what we started than what we became.’
When asked when he had last spoke with his former bandmates, Paul said: ‘I spoke to Ace probably three years ago. Peter I haven’t spoken to in probably a decade.’
Paul also expanded on the reasons why he could never see the band – now made up of himself and original bassist Gene Simmons with drummer Eric Singer and guitarist Tommy Thayer – play with their original line up.
He said: ‘They were instrumental in what we created as a team, but they became impossible and intolerable, on more than one occasion necessitating their removal. And unfortunately when people don’t really learn from their mistakes they repeat them. At some point you just lose tolerance. It’s ultimately disrespectful to the fans to not give them what they deserve. I don’t miss them.’
KISS – Hell or Hallelujah – Debuted Live July 4 2012 HMV Form London England!
KISS Debuted new song Hell or Hallelujah Live July 4 2012 HMV Form London England!
KISS played their new song Hell or Hallelujah for the first time live Jul4 4th 2012! When in London promoting their Monster Book and CD, KISS performed at the HMV Forum in London, July 4th 2012 . Check back for the link of the song live as we will post it in the description of this video when available!
KISS London setlist :
‘Detroit Rock City’
‘Hell Or Hallelujah’
‘Deuce’
‘Shout It Out Loud’
‘Makin’ Love’
‘I Love It Loud’
‘Shock Me’
‘Calling Dr. Love’
‘100,000 Years’
‘Love Gun’
‘Black Diamond’
Encore:
‘Crazy Crazy Nights’
‘Lick It Up’
Rock and Roll All Nite
‘God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You II’
KISS bring ‘Monster’ to UK
U.S rock band KISS members, from left, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Eric Singer, with their new book 'Monster' which contains photographs of the band's 40 year career live on stage, following a press conference in London, ahead of a concert on July 4 in aid of Help For Heroes. Photo: Joel Ryan / AP
LONDON (AP) — American glam rockers KISS are unleashing their “Monster” on the UK public.
The band — Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer— was in London on Tuesday to launch its new retrospective book, “KISS Monster,” and to hold a news conference.
The limited edition book — which is three feet (1 meter) tall — features unseen photographs from the band’s 40-year career.
Joel Ryan / AP
“A band that is bigger than life deserves a book that’s bigger than life. You could call it a coffee table book, but if you put legs on it, it is a coffee table,” joked Stanley.
Only 1,000 copies of “KISS Monster” will be on sale and each one will be signed by the band. It will retail at a staggering >2,742 ($4,299).
“It’s not a cheap book because it is hand bound, hand put together. It’s the Rolls-Royce of books,” said Simmons.
“KISS Monster” is now on sale in the U.K.
Creatures of the net episode 43- Current Events
KISS’ Paul Stanley blasts dull looking rock stars
KISS musician Paul Stanley says rock stars shouldn’t look ‘like your neighbor’.
The rocker and his bandmates have built their career on their huge personalities, shocking make-up and elaborate stage shows, and Paul thinks bands who dress in regular clothes and don’t make an effort ‘doesn’t deserve your money’.
The singer-and-guitarist exclusively told BANG Showbiz: ‘The notion of a rock star looking like your neighbour doesn’t deserve your money. Whether its music or movies, people want something larger than life. Why aren’t there more around now? Maybe because it’s not that easy, it’s a craft.’
Despite there being a huge emphasis from the band – which also includes Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer – on their image, Paul is adamant their music is always his number one priority.
He said: ‘Ultimately it’s got to be about the music, all my heroes when I was small were preaching rock ‘n’ roll. It was like church, and I’m glad to be up there with a spectacle, but when I saw Humble Pie, Derek and The Dominoes, Led Zeppelin, they were all about the songs.
‘We may have taken it over the top and turned it into something else, but at the heart and soul of it, we’re a rock ‘n’ roll band and we understand the concept of writing a song, not an exercise in j***ing off.