KISS tour update

Los Angeles, CA (May 18, 2009) – Celebrating its 35th Anniversary this year, legendary band KISS has just wrapped up yet another leg of their hard-rocking international trek that is dazzling fans around the world. Just like last spring's record-breaking European stadium tour, the band played to die-hard legions of the KISS Army in South America last month (see photos below), while preparing to take on North America this fall. From the Hipodroma la Rinconada in Caracas, Venezuela to the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, KISS treated fans to a set of some of rock's greatest hits, including “Rock and Roll All Nite,” “Detroit Rock City,” “God Gave Rock & Roll to You,” “Shout It Out Loud,” and more. The group's 2009 South American tour also included sold-out stadium shows in Santiago, Chile; Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bogota, Columbia and Lima, Peru.

KISS taped a major announcement for their North American fans live on the stage at Santiago, Chile's Arena Movistar. The major broadcast announced that, following the massive success of the South American concerts, the band's upcoming U.S. and Canadian tour will be the world's first to put fans in charge of where their favorite artist plays. And just for voting for their town, all KISS fans will have the opportunity to purchase pre-sale tickets prior to the general on-sale, among other envy-inducing incentives.

Now, fans have just six more weeks–until voting ends on June 30th–to “demand” where KISS will perform at www.eventful.com/kiss. No matter where the fans say–“from stadiums to cornfields”–if there are enough votes, KISS will be there! And in order to keep the competition fair for smaller cities, final site selection will weigh population size versus total votes.

More than 8,000 individual cities across North America have already mounted their own unique campaigns to bring KISS to their venues, with dozens of radio stations promoting the contest and tour as well. For example, Chief of Police Stephen Tanner of Kingston, Ontario has offered to personally escort KISS to and from the concert in the city's official 1952 Chevrolet classic car. Not to be outdone, Kingston's Fort Henry site has invited the band as special guests to set off one of their revered 1867 military cannons–which would make the KISS members the only people ever, outside of the military and Fort employees, to fire these historical weapons.

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In addition to joining in on the major campaigns launched by rock radio in each city, fans are also incentivized to create their own viral videos online, motivating their fellow residents to participate in casting votes for a KISS show in their city. City-specific “best-of” compilation reels of these videos will be shown on jumbo screens at venues before each concert.

KISS will release the name of their fall tour support act on May 29th at www.kissonline.com

KISS is currently recording its first new studio album in 11 years (produced by Paul Stanley). The band will release exciting news about the album at www.kissonline.com in early June.