Kiss concert dates and Kiss tour dates

KISS tour heats up summer with 'Hottest Show on Earth' concerts. Hard rock heavyweight KISS will reclaim the road for its latest North American tour leg at the end of the summer. The Hottest Show on Earth Tour kicks off July 23 at Frontier Days in Cheyenne, WY.

The 28-date itinerary is currently booked through September 24 at Cricket Wireless Pavilion in Phoenix, AZ. Live Nation is producing the late summer outing, which will visit a mix of arenas and amphitheatres across North America.
Performance dates include August 6 at Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ; August 21 at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, VA; and September 11 at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, MI. One Canadian market is featured on the current itinerary in the form of a September 10 gig at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in Toronto, ON.
Tickets are already on sale for a couple special events on KISS' calendar: an August 9 appearance at the Indiana State Fair, and a September 4 set at the Minnesota State Fair.

Onsales for the Hottest Show on Earth begin June 4 for select dates of the tour.
The summer 2010 calendar is a follow-up to last year's Alive 35 Tour, which celebrated the 35th anniversary of KISS's 1974 debut album while simultaneously promoting "Sonic Boom," the band's first studio album in more than a decade.
The band is currently overseas completing the Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour. That trek continues on May 25 with a show at Leipzig Arena in Leipzig, GER, and concludes June 27 at the Graspop Festival in Dessel, BEL. ...Source...

A complete list of Kiss tour dates and Kiss concert dates follow below.

KISS announce North American Summer Tour 2010
Throughout their 37-year career, KISS has sold 80 million albums, played in front of millions of people and become an integral part of American culture. Now, rock’s most iconic band is unleashing another assault on North America with The Hottest Show on Earth tour starting on July 23. KISS will perform such classics as “Detroit Rock City” and “Rock and Roll All Nite” as well as hits that they haven’t played in the US in many years.

The Hottest Show on Earth tour, produced by Live Nation, will trek through a mix of arenas and amphitheaters throughout North America. Tickets for shows produced by Live Nation go on sale to the general public in select markets beginning June 4 at LiveNation.com. Citi cardmembers can access presale tickets beginning Wednesday, June 2 at 10 a.m. local time through Citi’s Private Pass Program. For complete presale details visit http://www.citiprivatepass.com/. KISS is also giving back to the United States Armed Forces by donating one dollar from each ticket sold to benefit the Wounded Warriors Project.

Dr Pepper is a proud sponsor of the KISS tour and will be offering exciting contests and prizes in tour markets. Watch and listen for the Dr Pepper Cherry and KISS TV and radio spots that will be back on the air in late June.

KISS has given some of today’s now-legendary bands their first shot by opening for the band at sold out arenas and stadiums around the world — AC/DC, BON JOVI, RUSH, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST and many others. Now, the legendary rockers are partnering with Guitar Center, the world’s largest musical instrument retailer, for Guitar Center On-Stage, an unsigned band competition that will provide emerging artists the chance to open for KISS at 22 of the band’s tour stops. In addition, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley will choose one grand-prize winner to receive a $10,000 Guitar Center shopping spree among other prizes.

For the first time, KISS will host a live internet chat on Facebook via Ustream on June 1 to give fans an opportunity to speak directly with the band about the tour. Users can watch and interact by visiting the official KISS Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/KISS ...Source...

2010 Kiss concert dates and Kiss tour dates
Fri, Jul 23 Cheyenne, WY Cheyenne Frontier Days
Thu, Jul 24 Minot, ND North Dakota State Fair
Thu, Jul 29 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagra Pavilion
Fri, Jul 30 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Sat, Jul 31 Hershey, PA Hershey Park Stadium
Fri, Aug 06 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Bank Center
Sat, Aug 07 Boston, MA Comcast Center
Mon, Aug 09 Indianapolis, IN Indiana State Fairgrounds
Fri, Aug 13 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake PAC
Sat, Aug 14 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Sun, Aug 15 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
Thu, Aug 19 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Fri, Aug 20 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Sat, Aug 21 Washington, DC Jiffy Lube Live
Fri, Aug 27 Virginia Beach, VA Virginia Beach Amphitheater
Sat, Aug 28 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Sun, Aug 29 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
Thu, Sep 02 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
Fri, Sep 03 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Sat, Sep 04 St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair
Fri, Sep 10 Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheatre
Sat, Sep 11 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Sun, Sep 12 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
Fri, Sep 17 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sat, Sep 18 Dallas, TX Pizza Hut Park
Sun, Sep 19 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
Wed, Sep 22 Sandy, UT Rio Tinto Stadium
Fri, Sep 24 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion

Kiss unveils ‘Hottest Show on Earth’ U.S. tour
Paul Stanley promises enough fireworks ‘to bring down low-flying aircraft’. A decade after KISS embarked on a farewell tour, the rock band on Monday unveiled a three-month series of U.S. concerts starting in July and modestly titled the "Hottest Show on Earth."

The band is currently playing Europe, and will take a month off before beginning their U.S. trek in Cheyenne, Wyo., on July 23. Dates are on tap through Sept. 24 in Phoenix.

KISS, a relentless rock 'n' roll merchandising machine, is out promoting its first album in 11 years, "Sonic Boom," which debuted at No. 2 on the U.S. pop chart last October. But the flamboyant foursome is in the enviable position of not having to worry about either album or ticket sales in the recessionary environment.

"The bands that have to worry about the recession are the ones who don't give their money's worth to the audience," singer/guitarist Paul Stanley told Reuters by telephone from Prague. "If you come to see us, your money will blind you and deafen you and pummel you."

He promised there would be enough fireworks "to bring down low-flying aircraft," which explains the name of the tour.

Stanley's business partner, singer/bassist Gene Simmons, said in a separate interview from the Czech capital that it was OK in principle to be "piggish" about ticket prices and let capitalism take its course.

KISS, however, generally keeps prices to a relatively modest range of $60 to $80, and offers VIP packages to those who want to pay upward of $1,000 to meet them backstage, Simmons said. A spokeswoman for concert promoter Live Nation Entertainment Inc. said pricing had not yet been confirmed for the U.S. tour. The band is donating $1 from each ticket to the Wounded Warriors Project, a group that helps rehabilitate veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

The new tour will mostly take place during the weekends so that Stanley can maintain a semblance of domestic weekday normalcy with his young family in Beverly Hills.
The show clocks in at about two hours, composed largely of old favorites from the band's 36-year career, such as "Lick It Up" and "Shout It Out Loud." The U.S. set list will likely be the same as that for Europe, with no changes from show to show.

KISS, rounded out by guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer, has dusted off a pair of old hits for European fans, "Crazy Crazy Nights" and "God Gave Rock 'n' Roll To You II." It is also playing three tunes from "Sonic Boom." Neither Simmons nor Stanley was inclined to unveil additional tunes from the album.

Stanley, who produced "Sonic Boom," said he hoped to start work on a follow-up by the end of the year. Simmons seemed less enthusiastic about returning to the studio.

Merchandising is Simmons' specialty, with the band granting licenses to about 3,000 products, ranging from coffins to coffeehouses to condoms. Simmons, who stars with his family in the reality TV show "Gene Simmons: Family Jewels" and appears in a commercial for tour sponsor Dr Pepper, regrets that he has barely begun to tap the band's potential.
"I want this world to be called Planet KISS — oh, by the way, we already own that trademark," he said. "I want every breath of air you take to be KISS air. You should be charged for every breath of KISS air that you take."   ... Source ...