WASP News

There are two new Greece appearances for W.A.S.P. that have been added for the upcoming month of July.

W.A.S.P. have been confirmed for this year's edition of UNAJA OPEN AIR w/ Reckless Love, Battle Beast & Like Tomorrow.

set to take place July 30, 2011 in 'Unajan Arena', Unajan Entertainment Park, Rauma, Finland.

more info: unajanviihdepuisto.fi

W.A.S.P. has been confirmed for this year's Kuopio RockCock Festival, to be held on Friday July 29, in Väinölänniemi, Kuopio, Finland.

The lineup for the festival is as follows:

Friday, July 29:
W.A.S.P.
Paleface
Reckless Love
Stam1na
Jukka Poika & Sound Explosion Band
Crazy Cavan & The Rhythm Rockers
Kaksinen
Raakaversio
Rosy Dream
Uniklubi
Turmion Kätilöt

Saturday, July 30:
The Exploited
Danko Jones
Sparzanza
Mokoma
Petri Nygård
Kosmikud
Klamydia
Pariisin Kevät
Multi Climex
Slapping Handlers
Blockbuster
Fintelligens

more info: kuopiorock.com

Paper gets new logo, 100 ordered and on way
(originally posted by Pete Movida on alibi.com Fri Apr 1 2011)

The latest logo design

The Weekly Alibi has had several logo designs over the years. The weekly alternative paper started off as NuCity before becoming Alibi, which has gone through at least two logo changes.
Circulation Manager Geoff Plant thought it was time for a new one. A rabid music fan, Plant wanted to pay tribute to his all time favorite band: W.A.S.P.

"I just thought, you know, these guys have been a real important part of my life, and I wanted to pay homage to them, especially Blackie Lawless."

Lawless is, of course, the front man for the notoriously offensive W.A.S.P. He could not be reached for comment.

Plant approached Heiko Vick at Bright Ideas, a graphic design firm, and the new logo came to life. A test newspaper box now sits in front of the Alibi offices (413 Central NW).

Plant said there are plans to make more of the boxes. 100 have been ordered from Newspaper Box Corp. and should be hitting the streets within a few weeks.

to see the full article click HERE

W.A.S.P. has been officially confirmed for this year's SKOGSRÖJET FESTIVAL. The event is set to take place August 12-13, 2011 in Rejmyre, Sweden, they will be the headliners for the saturday 13th.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

U.D.O.
D-A-D
Entombed
Electric Boys
Smash Into Pieces
Killer Clan of F.U.N.
BloodBound
Bullet
Hardcore Superstar
Rock 'n Roll Allstars
Dirty Passion
Dynazty
Badmouth
Fatal Smile
Pretty Boy Floyd
Sparzanza

more info & tickets: skogsrojet

W.A.S.P. have officially been confirmed to headline the first day (Friday, Aug 12th 2011) of the 'BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR' Festival, set to take place Aug 12-14, 2011 in Catton Hall, Walton-On-Trent, Derbyshire, DE12 8LN, England.

more info: B.O.A.

Recently Sleaze Roxx spoke with Michael Sweet about the new album and Stryper's upcoming tour, here are some excerpts of the interview related to W.A.S.P. & Blackie Lawless:

Sleaze Roxx: One of the things that I saw regularly in Hit Parader Magazine back in the day was stories on Stryper vs. W.A.S.P. What did you make of those articles? That publication in particular entered the tabloid arena with not just you, but several bands.

Michael Sweet: They were definitely about stirring the pot. People liked to stir the pot of the controversial band wagon. I remember the rumors and talk of 'Heaven & Hell" tours with W.A.S.P. or with Motley Crue. None of those ever happened, but the funny thing is that, to this day, I have people coming up to me saying, 'I saw you in '89 with Motley Crue' or 'I saw you with W.A.S.P.' -- neither of those tours ever happened.

Sleaze Roxx: It's interesting that Blackie Lawless has become more spiritual throughout the years. I spoke to him about a year ago and he uses biblical references in his music and has stopped playing one of his signature and most controversial songs, "Animal", in recent years. Some of his fans are giving him a hard time for pulling that song out of the set-list and it hasn't been played in years.

Michael Sweet: It's amazing how people can be sometimes. I think it's great that the guy found God. Blackie chooses not to do the song because he feels convicted by doing the song. That's a stand-up guy -- that's honorable. You don't slap someone on the wrists because he's honorable. It's amazing how people are, just because he's not doing that controversial song that made him famous the guy is now a jerk? I don't understand it. A true fan wouldn't do that, a true fan would respect and honor it. I support it and applaud it.

for the complete interview click here.

my deepest condolences to the Duren Family on the passing of Rinold 'Ryne' Duren, Blackie Lawless' uncle who passed away today.

Ryne Duren was a Major League Baseball Player. For ten seasons (1954, 1957 to 1965), he was a pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and Washington Senators.

During his career and beyond, Duren battled alcoholism (which he recovered from) and later served as an alcohol abuse educator.

He died at 81, in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida.

Congratulations to my good friend Darren Upton!!! because he have now his site running for the biography of W.A.S.P. that he wrote himself:

-W.A.S.P. Sting In The Tale, The Definitive W.A.S.P. Biography-

the book is due for release in early 2011. Inside is a full history of Blackie, right from his time in The New York Dolls, Sister, Circus Circus, and finally W.A.S.P.

on the website of the biography you can read excerpts from the book as well as many other interesting facts, a link will be posted to the site when Sting in the Tale is ready to buy.

This is the site:

http://www.waspstinginthetale.co.uk

you can join the group on facebook:

Facebook sting in the tale

Blackie Lawless appears as special guest on this episode of That Metal Show.

This program was aired in Mexico on November 1, 2010 on VH1.

(sorry about the poor quality, I made it with my dvd recorder but I had some problems to convert the video)