Here's KISS in front of the packed Key Arena in Seattle!

Photo by Dean Snowden for KISSONLINE

Band, complete with makeup, will play Saturday at Save Mart Center

By EDNA GUNDERSEN

"Look at Kiss culture," says Gene Simmons, radiating pride. "People tattoo their bodies with Kiss faces, name their children after our songs, have Kiss conventions."

"This is Planet Kiss; we just live on it. The stage is holy ground, and what we do is electric church."

Holy hyperbole! The kabuki kibitzers of big-top rock are back in greasepaint and spandex, armed with a new album and a fresh stage spectacle to solidify a legacy built on thundering riffs, pyrotechnics, superheroic role-playing and hucksterism. That new stage spectacle comes Saturday to the Save Mart Center on the campus of California State University, Fresno.

There is a story and review on KISS' SONIC BOOM album in the latest issue of the German Playboy Magazine!

Thanks to Harald Streibl for sending KOL the image!

Here's a corrected version of a story that ran earlier in the week throughout Canada. The original story stated that the boot repaired belonged to Gene Simmons'.

A Winnipeg cobbler was called to action early this week to perform an emergency repair on one of the world's most famous pairs of boots.

Brian Layte, owner of The Shoe Doctor shop in Winnipeg's Wolseley neighbourhood, was given just hours on Monday to fix the heel of one of Tommy Thayer's boots.

The guitarist's flamboyant, pyrotechnic-loving rock band, KISS, was in town to play a concert at the MTS Centre that night.

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Hey KISS and KISSARMY!!!

Hello from Singapore! Im 15, and im in Netball (my Co-curricular Activity in school). We had our seniors farewell Netball camp recently, and it was my batch's turn to run the camp. And our theme was Music Hall Of Fame :) So we all were supposed to dress up as our favourite Band or Aritsts. Dressing up as KISS was the first idea that immediately popped into my head, after all, they're my favourite band.

I managed to convince the other netballers to paint our faces and be KISS! We also lip-synched Rock And Roll All Nite for our seniors during the concert. We were definately the hottest topic that night! Everyone wanted a picture taken with us! It really was an awsome night, playing our cardboard guitars, me sticking out my tongue, all four of us jumping, ripping our guitars apart, doing all the KISS moves!

And according to everyone, our camp this year was the BEST, and it was all thanks to us dressing up and performing as KISS! The seniors absoultely LOVED our performance. And this camp really opened everyone's eyes to the world of KISS!

WITH LOVE FROM SINGAPORE,
RINNAH :P (Im the one as Gene Simmons in the picture)

LETTERS

Here are the most recent merchandise additions to the KISS Alive 35 Tour. Both are now available in KISSONLINE's KISS SHOP.

The KISS Alive 35 3D T-shirt features a band photo on the front and includes the 2009 North American tour dates on back.

Click here to order the KISS ALIVE 35 3D T-shirt

The KISS Youth Tour T-shirt features the four faces artwork "I Was There" on the front. The back features the 2009 tour dates.

Click here to order the KISS Youth Tour T-shirt

KISS was featured in a recent edition of the national Mexican newspaper, Milenio. The story focused on Tommy's birthday, SONIC BOOM and the Alive 35 tour.

Thanks to Carlos Cantu for sending KISSONLINE the image.

Hello KISS!

Here's a photo of my family getting ready for the big concert in Vancouver this past weekend. Front and center is our 3 year-old Scott. Almost everyday he pretends he's Gene. Thanks for an excellent concert. You guys are still the best!

Thanks,
Lana Williams

LETTERS

Hi KISS & the KISS Army!

I wanted you to know about the KISS exhibit in the Turku City Library in Finland. I work at the library and the the KISS items on display are mine. We are celebrating the awesome SONIC BOOM album!

Thanks,
Petri Kipina

LETTERS

By Jim Harrington

TWO THINGS usually happen after I tell someone what I do for a living. First, I find myself saying, "Yes, I do realize how fortunate I am." Second, I'm asked, "What's the best concert you've ever seen?"

That should be a hard one, given that I've seen thousands of shows and hundreds of really good ones. Yet it's not that tough; if I'm being honest and not trying to impress some hipster, I'll just answer: "My first Kiss concert."

Check out this fan-filmed clip of Gene's solo and flight in Seattle!

By Andy Pemberton


"I have been asking for quite a while to put together a show in Dubai," says Paul Stanley, the lead singer of Kiss. "It's a fascinating region. I plan on playing there in the not too distant future."

It's hard to imagine that Kiss will not make it to the United Arab Emirates. They've played everywhere else in their storied career.

Right now, they are in the middle of their biggest superstar schlep around the world. The Kiss 35 tour, to support Sonic Boom, their first original album for 11 years, started in March 2008 and will play 101 venues before it closes on December 15, having taken in Bulgaria, Greece, Latvia, Russia, Luxembourg, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela for the first time in the band's career. According to Stanley, 57, who's never afraid of a little self-promotion, it's all going swimmingly.

"It's Kiss business as usual," he says. "It couldn't be much better. Bigger, better, more is how I would describe this tour. We've got 20 songs in the set list right now and I consider every one of them a classic."

Written by MAX BLAU / Photo by BARRY BRECHEISEN

Despite the fact that I have attended many a festival in the past few years; I must say that Halloween at Voodoo has become my favorite single day of any festival I have experienced. This was not necessarily due to the lineup itself, albeit a solid one at that. Rather, the combination of numerous energetic, entertaining shows with everyone dressed up in costumes (including the artists) turned the day into a large costume party.

While each of the earlier acts on Saturday impressed throughout the day, the night belonged to KISS. These Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members may have not originated the 'rock star,' but they sure as hell refined it with the grungiest of fashions. Their swaggered distortion was cool in the most uncool of ways. Whether you have been a lifelong KISS fan, or a first time listener, after seeing Saturday night's performance, you have to admit one thing-this band is the master of their domain.

KISS is featured on the cover of the most prominent Chilean rock magazine, ROCKAXIS.

Thanks to Jorge Gonzalez for sending the image to KOL.