For the first time, local rock cover band Turner Up have announced a full listing of their upcoming concerts, rather than their past trend of usually announcing just the next ones a week before! Guitarist Robert Brown has posted a topic on the band's Facebook page listing upcoming concerts for the band running through December, so we likely won't have any short notice issues to deal with anymore this year! Curiously, the band are only booked at two venues through the year according to the listed dates, when there are venues they've played more than once since their inception that aren't mentioned. Turner Up will be playing at The Nicolet Tavern for shows on July 16th & 17th (THIS WEEKEND), August 6th & 7th, September 3rd & 4th, October 8th & 9th, November 12th & 13th, December 3rd & 4th, and December 31st! The band also have some sprinkled dates at The Vibe Lounge, where they'll perform on July 30th, August 27th & 28th, September 17th, and October 29th & 30th! So if you wanna hear some classic hard rock covers, you'll wanna be at some of these concerts! Also make note especially of this weekend's shows, which will mark the live debut of Turner Up's new singer, Brent Royer! An event page for them can be found at this location, and ignore the fact that it only lists a Friday show, they're definitely playing Saturday too! All of the above shows will likely have start times of 10:00 to 10:30 PM with no announced cover charge and a 19+ age limit. I'll keep you guys posted!
Now, onto the latest updates from NEXT WEEKEND'S Kewadin Casino 25th Anniversary Summer Festival! The full band schedule has just been announced on the festival's official blog, click here to check it out! There's some new bands added and a few removals, as well as two notable day changes, so here's what you should know for the schedule! Local metal band Nixxon Dixxon will be on-stage at 5:00 PM on Thursday, July 22nd for a 45 minute set, with local acoustic band Electric Motor Fish (featuring Shift drummer Tony Rogers) performing at 6:00 PM. Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil will be on stage from 7:15-8:30 PM, with Poison frontman Bret Michaels closing from 9:00-10:30 PM. Grand Rapids pop punk band Dannison open the second night of the festival (Friday, July 23rd) at 5:00 PM, and they're followed by the newest announced band: Fifth Way! Yes, the Detroit hard rock band that recently opened for Tesla at Kewadin Casino will be back here at 6:00 PM next Friday at the festival! They will be followed by Essexville, Michigan indie rockers Finding Clyde at 7:00 PM, and Boston rockers StilrizE at 8:00 PM. Three Doors Down headline that night from 9:00 PM-10:30 PM.
Saturday, July 24th's band schedule opens with another newly added performer, International Idol winner Kellan Perron, performing at 5:00 PM for just a half hour, followed by Lansing classic rockers Showdown at 5:45 PM for the normal opening time of 45 minutes. Local band Elipzis (Can anyone give me information on them?) will be on at 6:45 PM, with local funk hard rockers Clownsack performing at 7:45 PM for a full hour. Meat Loaf will close from 9:15 to 10:45 PM that night to cap off the festival! So there's the schedule, and it's nice to see a little metal on each day of the festival! Now if you've noticed some changes and omissions to previously announced bands, here's what I can confirm. Because Fifth Way and Kellan Perron were added to the lineup, there were two acts that dropped off, which I can confirm were local country singer Paul Perry and the "Rock Camp" youth group. No reason was given as to why they're off. For what it's worth, I found a YouTube video of a 2010 Rock Camp band named Aux, and though I don't know if they're the same band that were scheduled, click here to check them out! Also, two bands have had the day of their set changed, with Clownsack moved from the Thursday to the Saturday, and Electric Motor Fish being pushed back to the Thursday from their original slot on the Friday. No other previously confirmed bands have been moved.Looks good all around, it should be one hell of a festival, though it seems like each day has that one band that really contrasts the styles of the other bands. I'd switch Clownsack with Electric Motor Fish and Finding Clyde with Elipzis to fix that. Then, the different genres and sounds would be clumped better to attract more of those genre's fans! That's just me though. I'll keep you posted with festival updates, and remember, tickets are still on sale!!!
Next up, we have an apparent concert cancellation. Remember the planned hardcore show at The Oddfellows Hall on July 30th featuring Breaking The Fourth Wall and Fall City Fall? Well, it looks like it's cancelled. The bands both still list the concert on their MySpace pages, but the event page for it has been deleted from Facebook, and I know from experience that if the promoter deletes their own show's event page, then that can't be a good sign. When doing some research, I found no mention of the show at all on the promoters' Facebook pages from the last two weeks either. Now for all I know, the show could be alive and well, but I'm not comfortable enough to say that, so at least for now, I've deleted this concert from the listings on the SMS. I will of course let you guys know if it is still on, but for now though, it doesn't look terribly promising. Shame if it is cancelled, cause both bands are talented and would have been a moshing good time!
Finally for today is a video that is actually the first clip I've seen on YouTube from any of this act's local concerts! You know how Alice Cooper's played the Sault area numerous times, right? Well, until the other day, I had never seen a video from any of his shows here, be they at Sault Memorial Gardens or Kewadin Casino. That ends now, as a video has been uploaded featuring a montage of clips from his most recent concert here, at The Dreammaker's Theater on August 18, 2007! The quality is patchy, it's clearer at certain points than at others, the audio is muddled, and the first 14 seconds of the video are SIDEWAYS, but you know something? Alice Cooper videos are rare as far as local concerts go, so this is way better than nothing! The video features clips of Alice singing "Only Women Bleed", "Feed My Frankenstein", "Be My Lover", "Public Animal #9", "Muscle of Love", and many more, check it out below! Thanks to YouTube user PTStudios for the upload!That's all for today, stay tuned for more news in the next couple of days, along with the final installment of the GarageBand Profile Mini-Series on Thursday, where we take a look at Gates of Winter! Also, our current SMS poll closes Sunday, stay tuned then for results and a new poll! Lots of stuff coming up on the SMS, keep an eye out!
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