Administrators sam_webmaster Posted December 14, 2012 Administrators Share Posted December 14, 2012 2013 Tour Dates MAR 21 – SINGAPORE – Timbre Rock & Roots Festival Tickets: www.rockandroots.sg MAR 23 – AUSTRALIA, Perth – West Coast Blues & Roots Festival Tickets: www.moshtix.com.au MAR 26 – AUSTRALIA, Adelaide – Entertainment Centre Tickets: www.ticketek.com.au MAR 28 – AUSTRALIA, Sydney – Entertainment Centre Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.au MAR 30 – AUSTRALIA, Byron Bay – Bluesfest Tickets: www.bluesfest.co.au APRIL 3 – AUSTRALIA, Melbourne – Rod Laver Arena Tickets www.ticketek.com.au APRIL 5 – TASMANIA, Launceston Silverdome Tickets: www.silverdome.com.au APRIL 9 – NEW ZEALAND, Wellington – TSB Bank Arena Tickets: www.ticketek.co.nz APRIL 11 – NEW ZEALAND, Auckland – Vector Arena Tickets: www.ticketmaster.co.nz http://www.robertpla...013-tour-dates/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallas Knebs Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Thank you Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Can't wait to see Reggie and Kiwi's response:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP78 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 so this kind of goes against the article where he says he might just "chill" for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProPlant Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Not really. Most if not all of these dates have been planned for quite a while now, just working out last minute things and then waiting on the official announcements when the various festivals decided to announce their lineup. That's nine shows taking up less than a month early in the year. I'm not saying more won't be coming with this group or another, but that still leaves plenty of time to take a bit of a break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 MAR 21 – SINGAPORE – Timbre Rock & Roots Festival Tickets: www.rockandroots.sg Thank you for the confirmation, Sam. If all goes well I'll be attending this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Can't wait to see Reggie and Kiwi's response:-) I hope I can go, but it looks unlikely. I just got laid off again, twice in 3 years from the same company!? Compared to what's going on in NY at the moment , it's no big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 (edited) Can't wait to see Reggie and Kiwi's response:-) THAT was my first response, too, Deb...but with the addition of Slave to Zep. Edited December 15, 2012 by Strider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knebby Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I hope I can go, but it looks unlikely. I just got laid off again, twice in 3 years from the same company!? Compared to what's going on in NY at the moment , it's no big deal. Reggie - I for one will be personally upset if you don't get to go to this. Please keep us informed. I'd start a "whip round" if needs be!!! You have to be there! x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led_Rock_Hard Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I am so glad that Robert's coming to Auckland! I'm almost definitely going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 (edited) Reggie - I for one will be personally upset if you don't get to go to this. Please keep us informed. I'd start a "whip round" if needs be!!! You have to be there! x Thanks for that Knebby, I really appreciate that, it made me smile. I haven't given up hope completely, yet. With a bit of luck things will turn around in the new year. Maybe you could have a word with the lad!? Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink!? Edited December 16, 2012 by Reggie29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators sam_webmaster Posted February 4, 2013 Author Administrators Share Posted February 4, 2013 MAR 31 - Hunter Valley, AUSTRALIA - Hope Estate Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.au/Robert-Plant-tickets/artist/735867 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 (edited) Edit again : Reggie, STZ...what is this??:-) http://www.therock.net.nz/Robert-Plant-interview/tabid/381/articleID/23778/Default.aspx Edited February 5, 2013 by Deborah J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperDave Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Hopefully Robert will be back to the good ole U.S. soon. We'll see. Not sure if in the plans, but certainly won't complain if so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Edit again : Reggie, STZ...what is this??:-) http://www.therock.n...78/Default.aspx Good questionj, Deb. Typical Kiwi humour, I suppose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators sam_webmaster Posted February 8, 2013 Author Administrators Share Posted February 8, 2013 Robert Plant: Winding on down the road On the eve of a New Zealand tour, former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant talks to Russell Baillie. "Come on!" shouts Robert Plant a few seconds after he's come to the phone. He's calling to Arthur, his "once and future dog", out the back door of his country home at Machynlleth, near the Welsh border. No, Arthur isn't, as Led Zeppelin fans might find amusing, a black dog. Though Machynlleth isn't far from Bron-Yr-Aur, the Welsh cottage where he and Jimmy Page wrote some of the pastoral folky tunes - including Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp - which appeared on 1970's Led Zeppelin III. No, Arthur's a lurcher and Plant would rather he was inside, out of the cold, as he talks to TimeOut about his forthcoming tour, which brings him back to New Zealand for the first time in 30 years. He claims he can't remember Led Zeppelin's visit here in 1972. But he does recall the excursion he made post the break-up of the band, early on in what's been an often haphazard solo career but which, of late, has proved him a rare restless spirit among Britrock's elder statesmen. "I had a hit called Big Log in 1982 and I played the raceway in Auckland and it was very, very funny because it was full of Hell's Angels singing a ballad about stolen romance. Great big f***ing guys. It was bit of a brouhaha, really." This time Plant heads here, not as the 20-something golden god who was the definition of the leonine 70s rock frontman, but as the 64-year-old who has spent much of the past decade following various musical muses. There's been Raising Sand, the big-selling Grammy-winning Americana excursion with bluegrass star Alison Krauss. There's been his genre-bending World music-plus albums and tours with groups the Band of Joy and the Sensational Space Shifters (the group he brings to Auckland in April). And, of course, there has been his brief return to being the howling voice of Led Zeppelin. The band played a one-off highly acclaimed reunion show - with Jason Bonham taking over the drums from his father John, whose death in 1980 finished the band - in 2007 at London's O2 Arena. The show, its tickets sold by lottery, was ostensibly a tribute to their old Atlantic Records boss, Ahmet Ertegun. The resulting Celebration Day concert film and album finally emerged late last year, meaning Plant, Page and John Paul Jones were back in the spotlight - with Plant remaining the hold-out against what could undoubtedly be lucrative further reunion shows. "It was good what we did and it felt okay, you know?" says Plant, patiently explaining once more why he's not entertaining any further last blasts for Led Zeppelin. "Did you ever see that film Grumpy Old Men? It can be like that when you have done something together and you stopped doing it when you were 32 and then half a lifetime goes by and you do a few things in between. The expectation and the media wind-up is what it is. So every time you say hello to one another the pundits are at it. "So that bit of it is quite tedious but of course it is to be expected. But we had a good time. We played well that night. That was a fantastic thing to be able to do to, play that well and only do one gig. So it was all or nothing." So after that show Plant went back to touring with Krauss, then eventually back into the studio with his Band of Joy cohorts for their 2010 self-titled album. Plant, it seems, is a man who would rather get on with the next thing that excites him than cash in on his past. Though online set lists of his recent touring with the Sensational Space Shifters show that Led Zep songs, like Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog, and Rock and Roll, still constitute about half his shows, albeit played by a seven-piece band which features one-stringed African violins, African banjos and the like among the usual rock band instrumentation. But he's not being a World music cover band of himself. "The difference is about 300mph," he says. "This is powerful trance-driven music centred on loops and West African rhythms, which are not some sedate prog-music excursion. It's like a sort of West African juggernaut where Led Zeppelin finally go on holiday to Africa." And if a Led Zep fan came along just wanting to hear Stairway to Heaven? "It will be as exciting as you want it to be. But one thing is for sure, it is relentless and it won't be polite." Plant was reunited again briefly with his Led Zeppelin colleagues when they received Kennedy Center honours late last year from President Obama. Something for the Machynlleth mantelpiece with the Grammys and his 2009 Commander of the British Empire? "My kids just wanted to have a look in the house and a look at the decorations." he laughs about his excursion to Buckingham Palace. "I got stuck in the line with some postmasters from the Isle of Skye and they were in the gallery checking everybody out." But as for the current and former residents of the White House, "that's a whole other world of appreciation for the arts - people are much more clued in ... Bill Clinton did a 15-minute oration of black Mississippi blues travelling through Chicago and stuff to invest Buddy Guy. These guys are switched on, they are cool, they are very funny on that level they got it covered. It's slightly different to Buckingham Palace." But if he has an increasingly official number of laurels to rest on, Plant prefers to stay moving. There's another Band of Joy album on the way this year, which will again feature the supporting voice of his partner, Texas singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, whom he was reported to have married."No I didn't ... I like being a little bit silly." As for musical marriages, Plant remains an enthusiastic international polygamist. "I have always kept relationships with other generations of musicians who really mean what they are doing. Not flowery stuff. I am not at all interested in the confetti of popular music that much, but there are good tunes everywhere. You wouldn't be talking to me if I wasn't partly responsible for a lot of good tunes along the line and what I am doing now is putting them through the grinder and they are spitting out in a particular way. "I've just played through Latin America for five weeks and I experienced amazing moments I would never have expected and the kind of Latino mix of German, Spanish, Italian, Welsh, Aztec, Inca ... whatever it is, their response to rhythm is amazing. An amazing melding of temperament and personality, it was great. "You ain't going to get that by walking the Welsh Mountains. You might find Arthur but you won't get that great collision." Who: Robert Plant, the former voice of Led Zeppelin What: The Sensational Space Shifters When: Wellington's TSB Bank Arena, Tuesday April 9; Vector Arena, Auckland, Thursday April 11 - TimeOutBy Russell Baillie http://www.nzherald....jectid=10863791 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 He claims he can't remember Led Zeppelin's visit here in 1972. http://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/february-25-1972 According to my notes after the show they visited a local strip club for a drink. They were followed back to their hotel (it was almost certainly The White Heron at 138 St. Stephens Avenue) by one of the strippers and she was later thrown into the hotel pool at 5am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percys_Plant Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Interesting article. Thanks for sharing, Sam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom kid Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Just got my tickets for the Auckland show. If anyone here from Auckland is going shoot me a pm and we can have a beer or something beforehand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom kid Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 (edited) http://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/february-25-1972 According to my notes after the show they visited a local strip club for a drink. They were followed back to their hotel (it was almost certainly The White Heron at 138 St. Stephens Avenue) by one of the strippers and she was later thrown into the hotel pool at 5am. It most likely was the White Heron, however it is now demolished and apartments stand in its place. By the way, what's up with the quote function? Ahh The Rock, certainly not representative of everyone in New Zealand. The worst part is they hardly ever play anything like Zeppelin on that station, more rubbish like Nickleback and Green Day. Edited March 6, 2013 by tom kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knebby Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Just got my tickets for the Auckland show. If anyone here from Auckland is going shoot me a pm and we can have a beer or something beforehand? Great! Really pleased for you Wish I could join you ( especially if you're buying the beers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopie Cat Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 I'm going to the Sydney, Entertainment Centre show with friends from both RO and here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 From today's Sydney Daily Telegraph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperDave Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 (edited) Just got my tickets for the Auckland show. If anyone here from Auckland is going shoot me a pm and we can have a beer or something beforehand? Tom, Well, I'm too far away but I have been to Auckland as well as Rotorua, Christchurch, Queenstown and the Milford Sound region. Would be fun to join you, but perhaps you can send me a symbolic frosty one back to the NYC area for me! Edited March 7, 2013 by SuperDave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom kid Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Great! Really pleased for you Wish I could join you ( especially if you're buying the beers) Thanks Knebby. Not much chance of me shouting the beers since I'm a poor student, the price of the ticket almost broke the bank haha. After I see Robert the only member (apart from Bonzo of course) I wouldn't have seen live will be the elusive Mr. Page. Sadly I don't see much chance of that ever happening. Thanks Dave, if I ever make it to New York I'll be sure to try and get in touch with you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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