Today, W.A.S.P. announced The 40th Never Stops World Tour 2023. Produced by Live Nation, the 33-city run kicks off on Saturday, August 5 in Wheatland, CA, making stops across North America in Vancouver, BC, Omaha, NE, New York, NY, Memphis, TN and more before wrapping up on Saturday, September 16 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, CA. Special guest Armored Saint will join the band across all dates of the tour.
The 2023 North American tour comes following the band’s first U.S. tour in 10 years wrapping up in 2022, ending with 18 sold-out shows. The tour was selected by Metal Edge as one of the 10 Best Hard Rock and Metal Tours of 2022 and one of the 22 Memorable Rock Tours of 2022 by Ultimate Classic Rock. BraveWords writers listed the tour as the Top Concert of 2022 and selected by the Detroit radio station WRIF as one of the Top Concerts of 2022.
Comments vocalist John Bush: “Hello SAINT loyalists! We’re happy to inform you guys that, due to the overwhelming response we got on the W.A.S.P./Saint tour we did last Winter, we decided to do another leg this late Summer/early Fall: The W.A.S.P./Armored Saint 40th Anniversary tour part 2! This is going to happen in August and September. We will be doing about thirty more shows. The plan is to go to cities we didn’t do on the last run with a few exceptions of some places where we will be returning. There will be some cities that Armored Saint hasn’t played in many, many years as well as some we’ve never played in our history! We’re also happy to be going to Canada including Vancouver, which we haven’t played since 1985. Too bad it won’t be hockey season. It’s gonna be awesome! Thanks as always for all your support, and who knows, maybe we can bring this tour to some other continents on planet earth. Thanks also to [W.A.S.P.]’s Blackie [Lawless] and the guys for making it happen again. Stay healthy and metal”!
W.A.S.P. is currently playing off their massive European leg of the 2022 40th Anniversary World Tour, with upcoming shows taking place in Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and more before wrapping on May 18 in Sofia, Bulgaria at Universidada Sports Hall.
Tickets will be available starting with the Artist presale beginning today at 12 PM ET. Additional presales will run throughout the week with all presales ending Thursday, April 13 at 10 PM local time. The general on sale will begin Friday, April 14 at 10 AM local time, plus the VIP meet and greet tickets here.
North American Tour Dates 2023:
Aug 04 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Fremont Theatre *
Aug 05 – Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live Sacramento
Aug 07 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
Aug 08 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre *
Aug 10 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
Aug 11 – Spokane, WA – The Podium
Aug 12 – Garden City, ID – Revolution Concert House and Event Center
Aug 13 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
Aug 15 – Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha
Aug 16 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Minneapolis presented by Affinity Plus
Aug 17 – Moline, IL – The Rust Belt *
Aug 18 – Eau Claire, WI – RCU Theater *
Aug 19 – Clive, IA – Horizon Events Center *
Aug 20 – Gary, IN – Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana
Aug 22 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live @ 20 Monroe
Aug 23 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room @ Old National Centre
Aug 24 – Wheeling, WV – Capitol Theatre *
Aug 25 – Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theater *
Aug 26 – New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
Aug 27 – Hampton, NH – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
Aug 29 – Wallingford, CT – The Dome At Oakdale Theatre
Aug 30 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia
Aug 31 – Warren, OH – Packard Music Hall *
Sep 01 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
Sep 03 – Montreal, QC – Mtelus
Sep 05 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center
Sep 07 – Memphis, TN – The Soundstage at Graceland
Sep 08 – Little Rock, AR – The Hall
Sep 09 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
Sep 10 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
Sep 13 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre *
Sep 14 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
Sep 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
* (not a Live Nation Date)
Few Bands in the history of Rock N’ Roll have ever incited the love, the hate, the raw emotional effect this Band has had on the world. From the very beginning, in the small venues of Los Angeles California, and later to the numerous countries worldwide that banned these Winged Assassins from performing live, the band’s unique style of Shock and Rock caused Religious organizations, Local City Councils, Parlaments, and the Washington D.C. Senate to hold hearings in an effort to bar this group from selling records and trashing stages everywhere they played.
The band’s founding member, frontman Blackie Lawless, has led the group as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold out shows across the globe for 4 decades.
Joined by bassist Mike Duda and guitarist Doug Blair, whose tenures in the band span 26 and 18 years respectively, along with drummer extraordinaire Aquiles Priester, will take the Band and the Fans back to where it all started. Complete with the stage show extravaganza that many fans never saw live.
Witness Live the Winged Assassins specticle of “SHOCK and ROLL” as they take you Back… Back to the Beginning!
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