VELVET REVOLVER Confirmed For Italy's GODS OF METAL Festival

[FunkyMonkey]

 VELVET REVOLVER, THIN LIZZY and TRAMP'S WHITE LION have been confirmed to appear at this year's Gods of Metal festival, which will take place in two separate installments at Idroscalo in Milan, Italy. The first part of the festival will be held on June 2-3 while the second installment will take place June 30. There will be eight bands performing each day (a total of 24 artists over the three days). So far the following artists have been confirmed:

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
BLIND GUARDIAN
DIMMU BORGIR
DREAM THEATER
HEAVEN AND HELL
KORN
MEGADETH
OZZY OSBOURNE
PORCUPINE TREE
SADIST
SCORPIONS
SYMPHONY X
THIN LIZZY
TRAMP'S WHITE LION
VELVET REVOLVER

Source: Blabbermouth.net

[tomass74]

Great to see all these international dates lined up... I really think VR is going to gain some more fans and respect this time around.  I am looking forward to some exciting times ahead...

[FunkyMonkey]

 M?TLEY CR?E, ANATHEMA and TIGERTAILZ are among the newly confirmed bands for this year's Gods of Metal festival, which will take place in two separate installments at Idropark in Milan, Italy. The first part of the festival will be held on June 2-3 while the second installment will take place June 30. There will be eight bands performing each day (a total of 24 artists over the three days). So far the following artists have been confirmed:

June 2:

M?TLEY CR?E
VELVET REVOLVER
SCORPIONS
THIN LIZZY
TRAMP'S WHITE LION
ELDRITCH
TIGERTAILZ
TBA

June 3:

HEAVEN AND HELL
DREAM THEATER
BLIND GUARDIAN
DIMMU BORGIR
PORCUPINE TREE
SYMPHONY X
ANATHEMA
DGM

June 30:

OZZY OSBOURNE
KORN
MEGADETH
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
TBA
TBA
TBA
SADIST

[GNRreunioneventually]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=67208

seems like a good list wish i could go *sniff sniff*

[Nighteyes]

i want to live in italy.why cant motley crue, bls and vr play in sweden too?

[evergreen_layne]

June 2:

M?TLEY CR?E
VELVET REVOLVER
SCORPIONS
THIN LIZZY
TRAMP'S WHITE LION
ELDRITCH
TIGERTAILZ
TBA

There is no way Motley Crue should be headlining over VR. 

[mikegiuliana]

June 2:

M?TLEY CR?E
VELVET REVOLVER
SCORPIONS
THIN LIZZY
TRAMP'S WHITE LION
ELDRITCH
TIGERTAILZ
TBA

There is no way Motley Crue should be headlining over VR.?

it's because motley crue is a well established band who has sold many millions of albums... Now old true gnr would have been a headliner..

[Edrose]

June 2:

M?TLEY CR?E
VELVET REVOLVER
SCORPIONS
THIN LIZZY
TRAMP'S WHITE LION
ELDRITCH
TIGERTAILZ
TBA

There is no way Motley Crue should be headlining over VR.?

it's because motley crue is a well established band who has sold many millions of albums... Now old true gnr would have been a headliner..

new gnr headlined last year

[GNRreunioneventually]

i think its a better choice to have the Crue before VR cause i personally like Motely better

now that i think about it i think that the Crue, Heaven and Hell, OZZY, and VR are the best on the list so far.

[Dayle1066]

Im from england but me n a few mates are gonna be goin over for this. Anyone know how i cud go about bookin tickets? ive tried ticketmaster.co.uk with no luck

[FunkyMonkey]

M?TLEY CR?E, VELVET REVOLVER, SCORPIONS At Italy's GODS OF METAL; Photos Available - June 3, 2007

M?TLEY CR?E, THIN LIZZY, SCORPIONS, VELVET REVOLVER, TIGERTAILZ and WHITE LION are among the bands that performed yesterday (Saturday, June 2) on the first day of this year's Gods of Metal festival, which is taking take place in two separate installments at Idroscalo in Milan, Italy. The first part of the festival is being held on June 2-3 while the second installment will take place June 30.

Check out a few photos of all the above-mentioned bands' performances at the Italian news blog Musica Metal.

http://musicametal.blogosfere.it/2007/06/gods-of-metal-le-prime-foto-del-2-giugno.html

[Ines_rocks!]

cool for italian fans... but what about the portuguese,  and the fans who were going to the gigs  that were cancelled? 

[metallex78]

Thanks to Saikin at roses of velvet forum.

Setlist:

Let it Roll
Do It For The kids
Suckertrain Blues
Superhuman
The Last Fight
She Mine
Vasoline
Fall To Pieces
Just 16
It's So Easy
Sex Type Thing
Mr. Brownstone
Wish You Were Here
Slither
Psycho Killer
Set Me Free

[AdZ]

40% covers?  Cool.

[metallex78]

I suppose being at a festival they're better off playing more familiar songs than at one of their own headling gigs.

[AdZ]

Yeah that's the sensible thing to do when you have the chance to show your material to a group of people that wouldn't necessarily listen to it normally.

[metallex78]

I think four brand new Libertad songs is more than enough in front of a festival crowd, and I don't consider the GN'R/STP tracks covers so much in the fact the band is made of the guys that actually wrote those songs.

[vietnow138]

They played 16 songs, 10 of them being originals and like metallex78 said 4 of them were brand new, i think they got their point across enough.

[Mikkamakka]

I wish they'd play less covers. Their material is strong enough, they should rid of at least 1 STP song and 1 'other cover'. Their Wish You Were Here is great, but they played it on the CB tour, no need for playing it again.

[Booker Floyd]

Yeah that's the sensible thing to do when you have the chance to show your material to a group of people that wouldn't necessarily listen to it normally.

Or, perhaps more sensible, you do both.  It seems youre too determined to be negative to realize thats whats being done.

I would assume you of all people would be more mindful of criticizing a bands setlist.