REPORT: =vh = to headline australian festival april 20-21

[mh5150]

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David Lee Roth, Billy Joel to headline Stone Music Festival
Kathy McCabe, National Music Writer
February 16, 2013 11:31PM

BILLY Joel and Van Halen will headline a surprise addition to the Australian festival calendar inspired by the '70s cult biker film Stone.

The vintage rockers will perform at the inaugural Stone Music Festival at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium over the April 20 and 21 weekend.

It will be a one-off event with hard rock supergroup Kings Of Chaos, Richie Ramone, Buckcherry, Lifehouse and Illumination Road also confirmed for the bill.

Major Australian rock acts, including some reunited 90s chart-toppers, are also expected to be named on the bill in the lead-up to tickets going on sale on Thursday.

Joel is renowned for his love of motorcycles which puts him in the frame for the event while Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth said the film had been discovered in America via “cinephiles” like Quentin Tarantino.

Van Halen have been courted by several Australian promoters to tour here in recent years.

The wonderfully eccentric Lee Roth, who lives in Tokyo with his Australian cattle dog Russell, said he had been encouraging his bandmates to tour outside of America.

“The Van Halens are watching from afar and if anything are just becoming aware that maybe he’s onto something,” Lee Roth said.

He said he was looking to “sharing some strong drink and bulls… stories” with their co-headliner Joel.

The promoters have also joined forces with fans of the 1974 film to recreate The Stone Run, a motorcycle ride down the F3 freeway which was held in 1999 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie.

Back then, about 34,000 mates and movie fans took part.

A single day ticket for the festival starts at $179 and a weekend pass at $319 and go on sale from noon on Thursday.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Added "report" to the title....

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Another one...

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/van-halen-jump-at-chance-of-anzac-gig-20130216-2ejud.html

Van Halen jump at chance of Anzac gig
February 17, 2013

Linda Morris
Features writer

IT'S BEEN off and on again for the past couple of years.

Now it's been confirmed - Van Halen, with their flamboyant frontman, David Lee Roth, is coming to Australia for the first time in a quarter of a century to headline a brand new weekend music festival.

The inaugural Stone Festival at Sydney's ANZ Stadium will also feature the original piano man, Billy Joel, the surviving Ramone, and high-profile Australian acts in what promoters bill as a once-in-a-lifetime music celebration timed for the Anzac Day weekend.

The two-day event will feature a commemorative motorcycle ride and hot rod show.

Although he is approaching 60, age has not wearied Roth. The lead singer ties back his long blond mane these days and has shed the skintight spandex tights.

He carries impact injuries from his robust stage act but continues to choreograph those aerobic leg split jumps.

''Nostalgia is the unrelaxed grip on the past because of the fear of the future,'' Roth said.

''It is an artist's sole responsibility to reflect their life - so whether you are a Beatle or an Andy Warhol or a music classic rocker, let's move ahead. If you are clinging to an old image it becomes kind of pathological, one-dimensional.''

Van Halen last toured Australia in 1998. This will be the first time the original line-up of the Van Halen brothers and Roth have graced these shores.

Their absence has not been for Roth's lack of interest. ''You'll have to ask the rhythm section [why]'', Roth quips.

He alludes to the acrimony that has mired Van Halen. ''They [the brothers] have approached their life from a much more traditional standpoint. They have families, they celebrate birthdays, they sleep regular hours more often than not; I'm truly a wanderer.''

Roth says Australian audiences can expect a playlist reflecting the band's heavy metal roots, its flamboyant pop tunes and tracks from the band's critically lauded 2012 album, A Different Kind of Truth.

''We are one of the few acts that could open for a Jimmy Buffett on one night and play with Metallica on the other and still move with alarming credibility.''

Roth remains unmarried and lives in Tokyo where he learns Japanese, sword play and Japanese fine arts.

''What I do have is groupies who are on their first and second divorces,'' he said. ''They email me in advance and describe exactly what they are going to be wearing.

''Yes, I do have issues.''

[ashstralia]

in other news, ice cream is cold.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

in other news, ice cream is cold.

If/when you find some others, link them here....

[VHscraps]

My first thought is - Is it a hoax ! ... Some DLR impersonator pulling a fast one on the Aussie media? Did the report in The Age say 'These days Roth ties his long blong hair in a ponytail'.

Really ... last pics I saw of him in Tokyo his hair was still short.

Well, whatever - maybe Dave's Rolling Stone interview last week was a way for him and Alex (the not-so-subtle mentions of regular contact) applying some pressure to Ed.

Is Wolfgang still on tour with some other band?

I'll belive it when it appears on the official VH website

[vaijuju]

what's about the festival's webside ?

seems good

http://www.stonemusicfest.com/membersarea/members/

[VAiN]

I'm getting flashbacks..

[78/84 guy]

Very cool shit......if it indeed happens.

Funny thing about VH these days. No matter what is said in print or on a contract, it's hard to believe it until WE see it wiith our naked steaming eye's ! Lol. I thought we were all getting a little carried away with thr Rolling Stone comments he had. Time will tell.

[clarathecarrot]

Ok I am corrected by the posters a...but it sure looked like to me at first DLR to headline...then VH to headline in the second article...I was like wich is it DLR or VH..?

Seems like they are promoting DLR and Billy Joel .

I was all grooving with thinking who DLR was going to line up as his band...lol..?

[clarathecarrot]

..and remember the last time they were set for Australia it all fell apart just weeks before the show I think the whole weekend concert was cancelled.

[mh5150]

VHND.COM just confirmed...

http://www.vhnd.com/2013/02/16/van-halen-to-play-australia-in-april/

[78/84 guy]

Cool. Not to far off. Hope it's filmed so I can find a boot of it. Lol.

[ZahZoo]

Hmmm... well we'll just have to sit back and see what unfolds here...

[VHscraps]

I grant you, I may be too cynical, but a "stellar lineup of legendary international and Australian acts to be announced"?

Below those announced on the bill apart from Joel & VH?

Seems pretty close to the event ... to just be lining up legends etc.