Fuel headlines 'Road to Voodoo' tour to back new album
The month-long run kicks off in late September, and hits clubs throughout the U.S. before ending up in New Orleans for the three-day Voodoo Music Experience festival. Tickets for most of the shows hit the box office on Saturday (8/23), according to the tour's official webpage on tour-promoter House of Blues' website.
The Voodoo Music Experience Festival takes place from Oct. 31-Nov. 2, and boasts a roster that includes Fuel, Smile Empty Soul, Marilyn Manson, Godsmack, Staind, A Perfect Circle, Paul Oakenfold, The Donnas and more. Details are available at the festival's website. The festival's performance schedule was not available at press time.
Fuel's upcoming run supports its Sept. 23 release, "Natural Selection," which features a dozen new tracks, including first single "Falls On Me." Michael Beinhorn (Ozzy Ozbourne, Korn, Soundgarden) and Fuel guitarist and chief songwriter Carl Bell co-produced the album, while Andy Wallace (Foo Fighters, Korn, Nirvana) mixed the set.
"Natural Selection" is the follow-up to Fuel's multi-platinum sophomore full-length, 2000's "Something Like Human." Bell, who wrote the latter album while the band was on tour, took a different approach when writing material for the new collection.
"I was totally consumed with this album," he said in a statement. "I wouldn't leave the house for days at a time. I was a total mad scientist. I'd wake up, roll out of bed and over to my Pro Tools rig, work all day and night until exhaustion, roll back in to bed and then get up the next day to start all over again. It was insane."
Before its new album surfaces, and prior to the "Road to Voodoo" tour starts up, Fuel has a couple of shows planned in September, including a performance at Seattle's Experience Music Project Sky Church.
September 2003
6 - Seattle, WA - EMP Sky Church
20 - Oneonta, NY - Alumni Field House
29 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's
30 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
October 2003
1 - West Hollywood, CA - House of Blues
3 - San Diego, CA - Canes Bar & Grill
4 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
5 - Tempe, AZ - Nita's Hideaway
7 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
9 - Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
10 - Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom
14 - Atlanta, GA - Cotton Club
15 - Lake Buena Vista, FL - House of Blues
18 - North Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
19 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
21 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
22 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
23 - Boston, MA - Avalon
25 - Cleveland, OH - Odeon Concert Club
26 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall
28 - Minneapolis, MN - Quest Club
29 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
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Album Review: Fuel, "Angels and Devils" (Epic) [August 2007]
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