{"id":50658,"date":"2016-09-25T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T21:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=50658"},"modified":"2016-09-25T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T02:40:17","slug":"geoff-tate-acoustic-european-tour-dates-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=50658","title":{"rendered":"GEOFF TATE &#8211; European Acoustic Tour Dates Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?attachment_id=50659\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50659\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/geofftate.jpg\" alt=\"geofftate\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50659\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tmdsite435x751lk-2-1.gif\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOPERATION: MINDCRIME (ex-Queensr\u00ffche) vocalist Geoff Tate has announced an acoustic European tour for this December, which will feature a storyteller format. Tate will perform material from his Queensr\u00ffche catalogue and from Operation Mindcrime backed by a six-piece acoustic band. <\/p>\n<p>Tour dates are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>December<br \/>\n8 &#8211; Ingolstadt, Germany &#8211; Eventhalle Westpark<br \/>\n10 &#8211; Borgo Priolo, Italy &#8211; venue tba<br \/>\n15 &#8211; Bochum, Germany &#8211; Matrix<br \/>\n17 &#8211; Zoetermeer, Netherlands &#8211; Boerderij<br \/>\n18 &#8211; Eindhoven, Netherlands &#8211; Dynamo<br \/>\n19 &#8211; London, UK &#8211; O2 Academy Islington<br \/>\n20 &#8211; Norwich, UK &#8211; Waterfront<br \/>\n21 &#8211; Glasgow, Scotland &#8211; Cat House<br \/>\n22 &#8211; Dublin, Ireland &#8211; Voodoo<br \/>\n23 &#8211; Belfast, Northern Ireland &#8211; Empire<br \/>\n26 &#8211; Burgrieden, Germany &#8211; Riffelhof<br \/>\n27 &#8211; Muenchen, Germany &#8211; Backstage<br \/>\n28 &#8211; Ludwigsburg, Germany &#8211; Rockfabrik<br \/>\n29 &#8211; Mannheim, Germany &#8211; 7er<\/p>\n<p>January<br \/>\n3 &#8211; Aschaffenburg, Germany &#8211; Colos Saal<br \/>\n4 &#8211; Heerlen, Netherlands &#8211; Parkstad Limburg Theater<\/p>\n<p>Come November, heavy metal fans in at least eight east coast cities will be in for a night full of hell-raising fun as three of the genre&#8217;s finest vocalists &#8211; Geoff Tate, Tim &#8220;Ripper&#8221; Owens and Blaze Bayley &#8211; will be performing the hits from their respective bands on stage together for what is hoped to be just the beginning of several dates over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Tate, who&#8217;s Operation: Mindcrime will be releasing their second CD of a trilogy in September titled, Resurrection, states that the collaboration between the three first came about while recently in the studio. &#8220;We were recording a song together that will appear on the new Operation: Mindcrime album called Taking On The World and immediately realized just how much fun it would be if we went out and did a couple of dates together. We want to give fans a great selection of hits and rarities along with songs we just enjoy performing&#8230; and the Trinity tour was born!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The three vocalists will be backed by the same group of excellent musicians throughout the evening in a show that promises to be loaded with memorable metal for the music masses to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can expect to hear such songs as &#8220;Empire,&#8221; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Believe In Love,&#8221; &#8220;Eyes Of A Stranger,&#8221; &#8220;Living After Midnight,&#8221; &#8220;Breaking The Law,&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;ve Got Another Thing Comin&#8217;,&#8221; &#8220;Burn In Hell,&#8221; &#8220;Man On The Edge,&#8221; &#8220;The Number Of The Beast&#8221; and &#8220;Run To The Hills&#8221; among others.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geofftate.com\/\">http:\/\/geofftate.com\/<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPERATION: MINDCRIME (ex-Queensr\u00ffche) vocalist Geoff Tate has announced an acoustic European tour for this December,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}