Alice In Chains have scheduled its first headlining performances in Australia in over a decade next month during the band's Soundwave Festival run. The details are as follows:
02/21 - Brisbane, AUS - Soundwave Festival
02/22 - Sydney, AUS - Soundwave Festival
02/25 - Sydney, AUS - Enmore Theatre *
02/26 - Melbourne, AUS - Palais Theatre *
02/27 - Melbourne, AUS - Soundwave Festival
02/28 - Adelaide, AUS - Soundwave Festival
03/02 - Perth, AUS - Soundwave Festival
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Alice In Chains headlining performances
Alice In Chains entered a Los Angeles studio in October with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Rush, Stone Sour, Trivium, Shadows Fall, Death Angel) to begin recording its first all-new studio effort since 1995's self-titled third album.
Alice In Chains have mostly stayed off the road since 2007, but played at a radio station festival in Peoria, Arizona on September 20.
Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell recently spoke to Neala Johnson of the Herald Sun about the band's decision to reunite following the death of singer Layne Staley in 2002.
"I don't think there's one of us who expected to be where we are today," he said. "We started from a very cool place — Sean [Kinney, drums] organized a benefit in our home town to raise some money for the tsunami relief, and it was a hit.
"It was a pretty heavy moment, playing together for the first time since we had lost Layne, but it was also really cool to see our fans' reaction — that was really inspiring. It led to the next step of us saying, 'That was fun, why don't we get together and just play in a room?'
"So we did. And that led us to William [DuVall, current Alice In Chains singer], who was a friend of mine for several years. And that led to the tours, which led us to writing. And the material we were coming up with was really cool . . . so here we are today."
"Am I worried we're gonna fall on our face? Dirty our memory? Is that what I'm worried about?" Cantrell asked.
"Fuck no, I'm not worried about that at all. If we didn't believe in what we're doing, and why we're doing it, we wouldn't be doing it.
"The reasons are all pure to us, and as long as we stick to that we can't go wrong. People will say whatever they're going to say, but they're not inside this band."
"There's no replacing Layne, and we're not intending to replace Layne," Cantrell added.
"William performs the old material very well, and very respectfully — not trying to be Layne — but we don't even feel like Will is a new lead singer of Alice In Chains.
"There's also myself, who's been a big part of the vocal sound in this band with the support of Layne. Layne was really instrumental in me growing as a vocalist.
"So we feel like we've added a really talented member in Will and the unit is strong, we're growing together."
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