Kiss News

TONIGHT! Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany! See you there, KISS ARMY!

Huge crowd attended yesterday's Tommy Thayer in-store appearance at Tomassone in Bologna, Italy! Tommy was promoting his new Epiphone Explorer Signature Guitar model. Thank you, KISS ARMY Italy!

Thanks to Barbara Caserta for the photo!

Thanks to everyone at Westfalenhallen & of course the 12,000+ KISS ARMY members that packed the arena!

TONIGHT! Unipol Arena in Bologna, Italy! See you there, KISS ARMY!

KISS will bring the KISSWORLD Tour to the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion in Rogers, AR on September 28th!

An Exclusive KISS ARMY Fan Club pre-sale will begin May 16th at 10am local time.

If you are not a member of the KISS Army, join now at http://www.kissonline.com/kiss-army to get access to the pre-sale.

General public tickets go on sale May 19th at 10am.

www.arkansasmusicpavilion.com

TONIGHT! Pala Alpitour in Torino, Italy! See you there, KISS ARMY!

KISS IS EVERYWHERE!

KISS ARMY T-shirt & clip of "I Was Made For Lovin' You" featured in trailer for new Argentine Film - "You Only Live Once!" KISS ARMY shirt is also featured on the film's promo poster.

Thanks to Mart�n Zamorano for sharing the news with us!

KISS IS EVERYWHERE!

KISS graces the cover of latest "Power Play" issue in UK.

Thanks to Aleksandr Volva for sharing this great art with us! We LOVE it! The KISS ARMY Rocks!

Hi! My name is Volva, I live in Russia. Thank you for the wonderful show in Moscow!!! You wanted the best, and you got the best. the hottest band in world KISS!!!

On this day in KISSTORY - May 13th, 1976 - KISS played their first ever UK show at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. The show before a sellout crowd of over 2500 was the beginning of KISS' first European tour. In addition to shows in England, KISS performed in France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Germany where the Scorpions were the opening act. KISS wrapped up the tour with a final show on June 6th at Ontmoetingscentrum in Harelbeke, Belgium.

Gene recalls KISS' first visit to England:

"On the way over to our first English tour, I was struck by the notion that this was the Land Of The Beatles. To me, the English Kings and Queens never meant anything. I have always looked at it as an archaic and rather silly posturing about past glories. But as cultural oddities, I suppose it had its own innocence.

Still, I was nervous to set foot on Holy Ground. We got off the jet in full makeup and the fotogs were waiting for us. We came through customs and jumped on street cars at the airport for foto ops.

I was aware it was drizzly and grey. I was hoping that would change in the next few days to sunshine. It didn't.

We had a female chaperone/record company person with us. And, she showed us the sites. I thought the least I could do was return the favor. I did.

We visited the Palace and posed with street Bobbies (the English police) and were soon to hit the stage in front of an English audience. Would they like us? Truth was, we never thought much about it. We had a job to do and that was to punish the audience. They had, for too long, stood still for sub par live bands.

It was our job to show them that there was at least one band who had the balls to introduce themselves with: YOU WANTED THE BEST, YOU GOT THE BEST...THE HOTTEST BAND IN THE LAND, KISS."

Set List for the Manchester show:

Deuce / Strutter / Flaming Youth / Hotter Than Hell / Firehouse / She / Nothin' To Lose / Shout It Out Loud / 100,000 Years / Black Diamond / Detroit Rock City / Rock And Roll All Nite / Let Me Go, Rock And Roll

The great footage above is from the British TV show "So It Goes" covering KISS while they were touring Europe for the first time in 1976!