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AUSTRALIA! We can't wait to finally bring you the End Of The Road Tour spectacle!

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Aug 20     Melbourne, VIC - Rod Laver Arena
Aug 21     Melbourne, VIC - Rod Laver Arena
Aug 23     Melbourne, VIC - Rod Laver Arena
Aug 26     Sydney, NSW - Qudos Bank Arena
Aug 27     Sydney, NSW - Qudos Bank Arena
Aug 30     Adelaide, SA - Adelaide Ent Centre
Sep 2       Perth, WA - RAC Arena
Sep 6       Brisbane, QLD - Brisbane Ent Centre
Sep 10     Gold Coast, QLD - CBUS Super Stadium

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Photo: Ross Halfin

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By Mark Diggins / www.therockpit.ne

When I was in my teens my Mum and Dad took me and my best mate to see Kiss at a venue in the UK called Stafford Bingley Hall. It was an unusual venue that doubled as a cattle market and concert venue. That was the start for me and every tour wherever I was in the world I was there. This year Kiss play Australia for the last time before bowing out next year on their 50th Anniversary. Kiss is the only band I’ve seen more than 30 times, and the only band I’ve seen on four continents, both with make-up and without. It’s been a remarkable career for a remarkable band who over the years have rolled with the punches and adapted to the changes but always, above all, have stayed true to the fans. I had the pleasure of chatting with Tommy Thayer back in 2019 when the first Australian dates were announced and now it’s time to talk again with the 2022 Covid-delayed dates just around the corner. It’s going to be an emotional time for legions of Australian fans of all generations, me included.
 

Tommy: Hey Mark.

Mark: Hi Tommy, thank you so much for talking to The Rockpit today. It’s great to catch up again, it seems like only the other day we were talking about Kiss heading to Australia for the the Final tour, I think that was back in November 2019! And her were are again!

Tommy: Yeah and we’re still talking about it! (laughs)

Mark: It’s really going to happen this time though isn’t it?! (Laughs)

Tommy: (Laughs) Well I really have a good feeling this time.

Mark: 49 years of Kiss and I guess with the new dates Gene announced the other day coming into 2023  we’re going to hit that 50th Anniversary. This year is also your 20th Anniversary if I’m not mistaken?

Tommy: It is yeah, I’ve been in the band 20 years now and still going strong!

Mark: It must be an interesting time with the end in sight and so many possibilities ahead of what happens next?

Tommy: Yeah, I’ve ben thinking about that a little bit and thinking about what happens after Kiss.

Mark: I’m going to ask you a lot of fan questions today some of them from the Kiss Army here in Perth. But I’ll get mine in first – if you could sneak one song into the set what would it be?

Tommy: (laughs) Well one Kiss song that I’ve always really loved that we’ve never played since I’ve been in the band is  ‘All Hell’s Breaking Loose’

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Bryan Rolli / ultimateclassicrock.com

The KISS World museum recently opened in Las Vegas, giving fans a glimpse of 50 years' worth of the face-painted rockers' memorabilia.

You can see photos from the opening — including myriad instruments, vinyl records, video games, clothing, comic books, trading cards and much more — in the gallery below.

The KISS World museum is located next to the KISS by Monster Mini Golf indoor course in Masquerade Village at the Rio Hotel and Casino. The exhibition totals 15,000 square feet, and the museum will continually rotate its on-display memorabilia. "You can play golf, you can have your photo taken, you can take videos of yourself onstage with KISS and then go visit my private collection," co-bandleader Gene Simmons said in December.

The singer and bassist revealed that he brought "three tractor-trailers full of stuff" from his collection to the museum. Simmons previously took viewers on a televised tour of his Kiss Room, which featured a slew of platinum records, leather pants, Zippo lighters and the iconic ax bass that he's "had to use against many a deranged fan."

KISS is currently in the midst of the End of the Road farewell tour, which is expected to run through 2023. "I'll be crying like a 12-year-old kid whose foot you're stepping on," Simmons said of the band's final show. "On the other hand, it's going to be happy because it's the next chapter."

Read More: KISS World Museum Opens in Las Vegas: Photos