Judas Priest

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Wed 30 Jan-19 3arena, Dublin, Ireland
Fri 01 Feb-19 Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, UK
Sun 03 Feb-19 Manchester Arena, Manchester, UK
Tue 05 Feb-19 Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, UK
Thu 07 Feb-19 Sse Hydro, Glasgow, UK
Sat 09 Feb-19 Genting Arena, Birmingham, UK
Mon 11 Feb-19 O2 Arena, London, UK
Wed 13 Feb-19 Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany
Fri 15 Feb-19 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Sun 17 Feb-19 Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, Germany
Tue 19 Feb-19 Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin, Germany
Fri 22 Feb-19 Tele2, Stockholm, Sweden
Sun 24 Feb-19 Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland
Wed 27 Feb-19 Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland
Fri 01 Mar-19 Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy
Sun 03 Mar-19 Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain
 
Black Wizard said:
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Wed 30 Jan-19 3arena, Dublin, Ireland
Fri 01 Feb-19 Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, UK
Sun 03 Feb-19 Manchester Arena, Manchester, UK
Tue 05 Feb-19 Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, UK
Thu 07 Feb-19 Sse Hydro, Glasgow, UK
Sat 09 Feb-19 Genting Arena, Birmingham, UK
Mon 11 Feb-19 O2 Arena, London, UK
Wed 13 Feb-19 Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany
Fri 15 Feb-19 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Sun 17 Feb-19 Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, Germany
Tue 19 Feb-19 Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin, Germany
Fri 22 Feb-19 Tele2, Stockholm, Sweden
Sun 24 Feb-19 Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland
Wed 27 Feb-19 Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland
Fri 01 Mar-19 Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy
Sun 03 Mar-19 Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain
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Source for this?

There's a better rumour doing the rounds of them on a bill topped by Metallica and also featuring Ghost and Alice in Chains, so I hope this isn't true.
 
srfc said:
Source for this?

There's a better rumour doing the rounds of them on a bill topped by Metallica and also featuring Ghost and Alice in Chains, so I hope this isn't true.
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This was announced this morning so it is legit.

I'm disappointed at the lack of UK headline shows, it will be over a year since the album came out at best by the time they do any of their own dates here.
 
Black Wizard said:
The Judas Priest social media accounts and various venues across the UK. ::) Do you think I'd post it as fact if I didn't already know?
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You just posted a string of dates with no explanation. I asked whether it was from a genuine source or from a rumour. Don't throw the rattle out of the pram.
 
Kalata said:
K.K. Downing on why he left Priest -> http://ultimateclassicrock.com/why-k-k-downing-quit-judas-priest/
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Was expecting something more clickbaity but this is insight I hadn’t seen before. I was always under the impression that KK was tired of nostalgia tours and unhappy about Nostradamus being shafted live. I could’ve sworn he even said as much after leaving. Am I remembering wrong? It seems like he has a different reason every time this comes up. I’m sure it was an accumulation of things, but the lack of consistency in the way he answers these questions is odd.
 
What's he talking about, Glenn's "lengthy solo career"? He only released two albums, far between each other and IIRC he never toured for either of them.

I remember reading that two of the reasons he gave for leaving were the diminishing live performances from the band (though whether he knew about Glenn's Parkinson's I don't know) and their lack of popularity now. He talked about being asked to do Live Aid and that they'd never be considered to do it today or something along those lines.
 
"I felt that a lot of the spark wasn’t there - for whatever reason - anymore on stage"... "I felt that I had it, but I felt it wasn’t what I originally signed up for. I always thought that Judas Priest should have been a high-energy outfit and ultra-sharp, but I wasn’t enjoying it as much on stage as I should have been.

"All that travelling and living out of a suitcase and spending so much time in planes, vans, cars and trains, you have to really enjoy the concerts. You have to musically get on a high and that carries you through, but if you’re not enjoying it like you should, then it becomes a lot of hard work because you’ve still got to do the interviews and be pushed and pulled around the place.

I thought that it had run its course. I miss what we had, but I don’t particularly miss what we had become when I left… You can look at You Tube and see Judas Priest playing at the US Festival or at Live Aid, and I miss being at the pinnacle of the band."

From: http://www.digitaljournal.com/a-and-e/music/interview-with-k-k-downing/article/407565
 
I keep reading that Downing and Hill were founders of Judas Priest. Priest did not have a founder in the band as soon as Al Atkins left in 1973.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Priest#Origins_(1969–1974)

Judas Priest formed in 1969 in industrial West Bromwich, in the Black Country, by vocalist Al Atkins and bassist Brian "Bruno" Stapenhill, with John Perry on guitar and John "Fezza" Partridge on drums. Perry soon died in a road accident, and amongst the replacements the band auditioned were future Judas Priest guitarist Kenny "K. K." Downing; at the time, they turned him down in favour of 17-year-old multi-instrumentalist Ernest Chataway, who had played with Birmingham band Black Sabbath when they were still called Earth.[1] Stapenhill came up with the name Judas Priest from Bob Dylan's song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" on the album John Wesley Harding.[2] No member of that early line-up lasted long enough to play on the band's recordings, though several songs co-written by Atkins appeared on their first two albums.[1]

The band gained a three-album recording contract with the label Immediate in late 1969 after a gig in Walsall,[a] but the label went out of business before an album could be recorded, and the band split in 1970. Late in the year, Atkins found a heavy rock band rehearsing without a singer called Freight, made up of K. K. Downing on guitar, his childhood friend Ian "Skull" Hill on bass, and drummer John Ellis.[3] He joined them, and they took on Atkins' defunct band's name. Their first gig was on 6 March 1971. Ellis quit later that year and was replaced with Alan Moore. Early shows included Hendrix and Quatermass covers, and in 1972 the set list included the originals "Never Satisfied", "Winter", and the show-closer "Caviar and Meths".[4]

Moore left and was replaced with Christopher Louis "Congo" Campbell, and the band joined Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi's management agency Iommi Management Agency. Atkins continued to write material for the band—including "Whiskey Woman", which became the base for the Judas Priest staple "Victim of Changes"—but as finances were tight and he had a family to support, he played his last gigs with the band in December 1972.[6] Campbell left soon afterwards, and the band enlisted two members of the band Hiroshima: drummer John Hinch and vocalist Rob Halford, the brother of Hill's girlfriend.[c] Judas Priest made their first tour of continental Europe in early 1974 and returned to England that April to sign a recording deal with the label Gull.[8] Gull suggested adding a fifth member to fill in the band's sound; they took on as a second lead guitarist Glenn Tipton,[8] whose group The Flying Hat Band were also managed by Iommi's agency.[5]
 
Well, Priest definitely sounds much better live now, than in 2008 - especially Rob, singing way better than 2008/2009. Faulkner also brought new life in the band !
 
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