Steve Steven Performs Rebel Yell
Dec. 24 - 2008
Check out this video of Steve Stevens performing Rebel Yell with Billy Ray Cyrus and Steel Panther.
The video is from the Gibson "Dark Fire" launch party on Dec. 15.
Interview
Dec. 12 - 2008
Here’s a great interview/article with Billy by Pj Perez.
Check out Pj Perez blog for full info.
Hear The World Ambassador
Nov. 13 - 2008
Earlier this week Billy was announced as a global ambassador for the Hear The World initiative.
The aim of the project is to draw attention to the issue of hearing loss.
For more information visit Hear-The-World.com.
Special thx to Maria-e for providing the photo.
Wicked Wedding…
Nov. 13 - 2008
DJ Scholli has done a rather impressive mix of Billy Idol’s White Wedding and Cris Isaak’s Wicked Game, you can listen to the result here.
HoB Review
Oct. 10 - 2008
Here’s a great review of Billy’s Sep. 17 performance at the "House of Billy".
Jacks 3rd Show Webcast
Sep. 26 - 2008
Billy’s performance at Jacks 3rd show on Sep. 27 will be presented via webcast for fans who can’t attend the show.
Thx MusicLover for providing the info.
HoB Review
Sep. 26 - 2008
Encore has a review/presentation of Billy’s HoB performances last week.
Terminator 2 + Interviews
Sep. 20 - 2008
Did you know that James Cameron’s first pick for the role as T-1000 in Terminator 2 was Billy Idol? But due to the motorcycle accident it never happened. Full story here.
ETonline.com has a video interview with Billy from the scene of House Of Billy.
TheHypeToday.com has a 22min long audio interview with Billy. The interview was recorded backstage before his recent show at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
Interview + Private Show
Sep. 10 - 2008
Las Vegas Sun has a short interview with Billy.
And some more news, Billy will headline Entertainment Tonight’s annual post-Emmy Awards party with People Magazine.
Full story can be find here.
Hammerstein Ballroom Review + Interview
Aug. 28 - 2008
New York Post has a great review of Billy’s gig at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
And here is an interview from the same paper.
Winnipeg Review
Aug. 14 - 2008
WinnipegSun.om has a great review of Billy’s gig last night at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg.
London, Canada Review
Aug. 08 - 2008
Regarding to this review from The London Free Press Billy did a great job warming up the audience for Def Leppard in a nearly sold out John Labatt Centre.
More UK Reviews + Photos
Aug. 04 - 2008
It seems like Billy totally concurred the UK last week with his 2 shows.
Most of the reviews have been lyrical and Billy has been praised as a Rock N’ Roll inferno…
Here are some more great reviews of his Manchester and London gigs.
NOTW.co.uk reviews the Brixton show.
BaconMusic.co.uk reviews the Apollo show.
And finally, GIGWISE.com has some photos from Brixton show.
Great Manchester Reviews
Aug. 01 - 2008
Here is a fantastic review of Billy’s show at the Apollo in Manchester by ManchesterConfidential.co.uk.
And here is another great review from eGigs.co.uk.
Manchester Review
Jul. 31 - 2008
ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk has a great review of Billy’s Apollo gig last night.
Idolize Yourself Review
Jul. 29 - 2008
Here is a very positive review of Idolize Yourself at BlogCritics.org.
Competition & Interview
Jul. 24 - 2008
RememberTheEighties.com has a competition with some great autographed stuff to win.
Telegraph.co.uk has an interview with Billy and reports about the upcoming UK gigs.
New CD Early 2009…
Jul. 21 - 2008
Regarding to this blog Billy’s new CD is slated for an early 2009 release, with a world tour set to launch in the U.S. in the spring.
More Idolize Yourself Reviews
Jul. 20 - 2008
TheTimes.co.za and MonsterAndCritics.com reviews Idolize yourself.
Idolize Yourself Review
Jul. 17 - 2008
411Mania.com has a review of Idolize Yourself.
Review And Interviews
Jul. 10 - 2008
ReflectionsOfDarkness.com has a great review of the June 26 show at The Fillmore in San Francisco.
They also have an interesting interview with Derek and Brian.
DailyMail.co.uk also has some information about Billy.
Enoch Review
Jul. 09 - 2008
EdmontonSun.com has a review of the July 8 show at the River Cree Resort & Casino in Enoch.
White Wedding In Rock Band 2
Jul. 04 - 2008
ShackNews reports that White Wedding is strongly rumoured to be included in the upcoming Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game Rock band 2.
More California Tour Dates
Jul. 04 - 2008
3 more dates have been added to the tour schedule. Billy and the band will play at the House of Blues Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California on Sep. 16, 17 and 19.
Reno Review
Jun. 30 - 2008
Reno Gazette-Journal has a great review of the June 28 show at the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino in Reno.
Reviews
Jun. 29 - 2008
HardRockChick.com has a review of the June 26 show at The Fillmore in San Francisco.
DailyVault.com has a review of Idolize Yourself.
Billy Idol Photos
Jun. 26 - 2008
Joe Streno wants to share his photos from a 1982 show at The Fast Lane in Asbury Park, NJ.
Fractured Available At ITunes
Jun. 24 - 2008
EMI.de has launched BillyIdol.de to promote the new CD. The best news on the site thou are that Fractured is available exclusively for download at ITunes!
John Wayne Review
Jun. 23 - 2008
ILikeMusic.com reports about the release of the single "John Wayne" and states that Billy is back in superb form.
Idolize Yourself Review
Jun. 23 - 2008
MusicTap.net has a rather good review of Idolize Yourself.
Rebel Yell In Guitar Hero
Jun. 22 - 2008
Activision Blizzard has announced that Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell will be included in Guitar Hero World Tour for PS3. The game will be released around Q4 2008.
Tour Starts Tonight
Jun. 22 - 2008
BFI will kick off his Idolize Yourself Tour tonight at the 4th & B in San Diego.
Be there if you can!
Rebel Yell In Guitar Hero
Jun. 22 - 2008
Activision Blizzard has announced that Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell will be included in Guitar Hero World Tour for PS3. The game will be released around Q4 2008.
Storytellers Re-release
Jun. 19 - 2008
Warner Music is re-releasing Storytellers in a CD/DVD combo pack on June 30.
Regarding to Amazon and other online retailers the CD is going to contain 15 tracks, the original release only had 14 (Untouchables was out-edited).
It can be pre-ordered from Amazon.co.uk for just £4.98.
Idolize Yourself Review
Jun. 14 - 2008
TheCelebrityCafe.com has a review of Idolize Yourself, the new CD get 9 out of 10!
Why Billy Idol Interview
Jun. 14 - 2008
Billy Idol talks drugs and Rock n’ Roll with Pat O’Brien of the Insider.
Why Billy Idol Still Matters
Jun. 12 - 2008
Culturespill has a great story on why BFI still matters!
German Single Release
Jun. 11 - 2008
John Wayne is being released as a single(CD-maxi) in Germany on June 27.
For more info. visit EMI.de.
Wolfgang's Vault
Jun. 04 - 2008
Wolfgang's Vault has added another Billy Idol show to their site.
To listen to the show you must login but it‘s free!
Thx Henning for providing the info.
Listen To "John Wayne" and "New Future Weapon"
Jun. 03 - 2008
30 sec. audio snippets of the 2 new songs "John Wayne" and "New Future Weapon" are available at Amazon.com.
And yes, they sounds GREAT!
Billy Idol Interview
Jun. 03 - 2008
Check out this Interview with Billy from ZOO Magazine.
Thx robincobb77 for providing the link.
Billy And Camp Freddy At The Roxy
May. 31 - 2008
Billy, Steve and Brian teamed up with Camp Freddy for a sold out show at the Roxy on May. 29. Billy was the 'closing' guest and they played Rebel Yell, Dancing With Myself and L.A. Woman.
There are some great reviews of the performance at Los Angeles Time and EW.com.
Rebel Yell, Dancing With Myself and L.A. Woman are all available at YouTube.com.
More Dates With Def Leppard
May. 21 - 2008
Regarding to DefLeppard.com Billy will support them in Des Moines and Omaha on Aug. 16 and 17.
The New Songs
May. 18 - 2008
I found some info. about the new songs that are going to be on Idolize Yourself.
"John Wayne" is co. written by Idol/Tichy/Sherinian.
"New Future Weapon" is co. written by Idol/Tichy.
And the song "Fractured" that didn’t make it to the final release is co. written by Idol/Tichy.
For more info. about songs that never made it to the final visit, "The Lost songs…" section.
Billy Idol DVD To Be Released
May. 17 - 2008
Liberator Music, the jointly owned company between Nick Dunshea and Michael Gudinski's Liberation Music, will soon release the SoundStage series of DVDs.
The SoundStage catalogue will make available classic music performances from artists such as Sheryl Crow, Heart, John Mayer, Billy Idol, Tori Amos, REO Speedwagon, Chris Isaak, Cyndi Lauper, Counting Crows, Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt, and Alanis Morissette. There are many more in the series.
"The Soundstage series brings to us a huge range of phenomenal artists to enrich our existing music repertoire; I'm very excited to present this great range of DVD's. The first titles should be ready in July and with the schedule I've seen we will have 2-3 titles per month for the next few years," Liberators Nick Dunshea said in a statement.
Source: Undercover
BillyIdol.net
May. 14 - 2008
Billy Idol’s official site BillyIdol.net in now up and running.
There are some dead links but hopefully they will be fixed soon.
Discuss all about the new BillyIdol.net in the message board.
New Site Design
May. 09 - 2008
Hi! As the release of Billy Idol’s new Greatest Hits collection emerges I thought it would be a great idea to "upgrade" the site design.
I hope you like it!
News, Tour and the Message board sections are up but the archives and the other sections will be added later.
Stay IDOL…
Tour Dates
May. 09 - 2008
There are a lot of new tour dates added to the list, check them out in the Tour section or at the front page.
BillyIdol.com
May. 09 - 2008
BillyIdol.com is back online again after some absence.
New CD And Tour Info.
May. 01 - 2008
For the latest news about Billy’s upcoming Greatest Hits CD "The Very Best Of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself" cd and tour, visit Billy’s MySpace site.
Billy To Play Netherlands
Apr. 12 - 2008
My friends at the German Billy Idol fan site Kiss-The-Skull reports that Billy will be playing at the Paradisio in Amsterdam/Netherlands on July 28.
More European Tour Dates
Jan. 12 - 2008
More European tour dates have been announced. The dates so far are:
Jul. 13 - Burg Clam, AUS
Jul. 14 - Parkbühne, Leipzig, GER
Jul. 16 – Parkbühne, Hannover, GER
Jul. 17 – Stadtpark, Hamburg, GER
Jul. 19 – Stausee Hohenfelden, Erfurt, GER
Jul. 20 – Tollwood, München, GER
Jul. 22 – Freilichtbühne, Alusried, GER
Jul. 26 – Polo Glände, Düsseldorf
For more info about the German shows visit MLK.com.
New CD Update
Apr. 08 - 2008
Regarding to news at MusicTAP.net Billy Idol’s new greatest hits collection "The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself" will be released in CD and CD/DVD packages on June 10.
First Tour Date For 2008
Apr. 08 - 2008
First tour date to get announced for 2008 is at the Burg Clam in Austria on July 13.
New CD "Idolize Yourself"
Apr. 03 - 2008
Billy has just printed a new "Shit from the Lip" on his MySpace site.
He writes that they have recorded three new songs for the upcoming re-release of the Greatest Hits CD, the new release will be called "Idolize Yourself".
The new songs are "John Wayne", "New Future Weapon" and "Fractured", the CD will be out in July.
For more info. visit MySpace.
Billy On Biography Chanel
Mar. 27 - 2008
Biography Channel is broadcasting a Biography on Billy Idol today at 10pm EST. The show will also be shown tomorrow (March 28) at 2 am EST.
Steve Stevens Interview
Mar. 13 - 2008
Jeb Wright from Classic Rock Revisited has been talking to Steve Stevens and here is the interview.
Steve mentions that Billy now is signed to EMI.
Steve Stevens Interview
Mar. 10 - 2008
Here’s another great audio interview with Steve Stevens from The Classic Metal Show.
Steve Stevens Interview And CD Reviews
Mar. 03 - 2008
ere is a great audio interview with Steve Stevens from Caustic Truths!
Steve talks about his new CD Memory Crash and a lot of other things. He also mentioning that he and Billy will go into the studio any day now to start work on new songs for the "new" Greatest Hits CD, the CD will probably will be out in June. He says that there will be 3 or 4 new songs on the CD.
To promote the CD they will tour Europe in June and July and after that they’ll tour in the US.
And here are some great Memory Crash reviews:
The Advocate
The Metal Minute
Guitar Jam Daily
Tinfoilmusic
!!! New CD And Tour !!!
Feb. 20 - 2008
Regarding to this interview with Steve Stevens there will be a new Billy Idol Greatest Hits CD with 4 new songs released later this year. To support the new album there will be a tour starting in June.
For more information visit Premier Guitar.
Steve Stevens Update
Jan. 25 - 2008
The release date of Steve Stevens new solo CD "Memory Crash" has been rescheduled to March 4.
Brian Tichy To Perform At Club Vodka
Jan. 25 - 2008
Brian Tichy is going to play with "THE BIG BALL STARS" at Club Vodka on Jan. 25.
Check out the show flyer here.
Steve Stevens On MySpace
Jan. 25 - 2008
Check out Steve Stevens new MySpace site.
Audio Snippets Available From "Memory Crash"
Jan. 16 - 2008
Audio snippets from Steve Stevens new solo CD "Memory Crash" is now available for listening at MagnaCarta.net.
Steve Stevens New CD Info.
Jan. 16 - 2008
More new promo pictures are available at MagnaCarta.net.
There is also an article about the new CD at Blabbermouth.net.
Billy Idol As "The Bishop"
Jan. 14 - 2008
There is information at IMDB.com that Billy is going to play the character "The Bishop" in the new motion picture "Break".
The movie is scheduled for a July 9 release in the USA.
New Message Board
Jan. 12 - 2008
As the message board at BillyIdol.com seems to have vanished I decided to put one up here.
Follow the link, register and let the fun begin!
