In 2008, six years after their tumultuous split and to the delight of fans world-wide,
Stone Temple Pilots announced they were reuniting. And finally, after two years of endless tour rumours and two decades of waiting,
FasterLouder can confirm that
Scott Weiland,
Eric Kretz and the
DeLeo brothers are coming down under for their first ever tour of Australia next March.
Speaking with FasterLouder about the reunion earlier this year drummer Eric Ketz admitted he always believed the band would eventually reform: With each passing year you come to a new place of tolerance and hopefully wisdom and kindness and you kind of implement that in your being [and] weve come to a better understanding of what were capable of when we do work together.
And reform they did.
For the past two years the band has been busy appearing at festivals across the globe and have even managed to release their sixth studio album, which according to Ketz is chock full of tunes the band wrote over twenty years ago: [Some of] these are songs that weve had weve had sitting around since 1986 and some of which were written in the [recording] sessions
I mean, I think thats why we got back together to do this cause we were sitting on a wealth of material.
So its time to break out your copy of
Purple because Stone Temple Pilots are headed to Australia in March 2011, supported by Australian rock stalwarts
Grinspoon.
FasterLouder presents Stone Temple Pilots:
Wednesday 16th March Challenge Stadium, Perth
Saturday 19th March Festival Hall, Melbourne
Sunday 20th March Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
Wednesday 23rd March Riverstage, Brisbane
Thursday 24th March Newcastle Entertainment Centre
Tickets on sale 9am local time, Friday 17 December.
