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Voivod Set For First Performance In Five Years |
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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 VOIVOD, who last performed live on July 30th, 2003 during OzzFest in
Florida, will return to the stage on June 22nd, 2008 as part of the
Heavy MTL Festival in Montreal.
The band commented "A lot has happened since the band's last live appearance. The band had
taken time off to begin writing what would become the album Katorz. In
April 2005 while the new album was in progress, guitarist Denis 'Piggy'
D'Amour became ill before recording began and sadly died of colon
cancer. It took awhile to recover from the sudden passing of Denis
before Michel 'Away' Langevin, Denis 'Snake' Belanger and Jason
'Jasonic' Newsted could begin to assemble the songs from the demos and
create Katorz.
Discussions of a tribute show and possible guitar players for it
followed, yet it just did not seem right to perform without Denis, but
time does help heal wounds and this summer Voivod feel it is time to
perform the music Denis helped create once more.
On June 22, Voivod will perform in Montreal as part of the Heavy MTL
festival and July 26th, 2008 in Calgary for the Monsters of Rock
festival ( http://www.monstersofrockfestival.com ) with original bass player Jean-Yves Theriault ('Blacky') for the first time in 17 years.
Dan Mongrain from the Quebec band Martyr, a good friend of the band,
will play guitar. Songs from the early catalogue will be the focus for
these short festival sets. Jason Newsted is still very much part of the
Voivod family and is working with the band on the new record (also
constructed from the 2004 demos) along with Jean-Yves Theriault and
Eric Forrest. However, Newsted is unable to perform live at this point.
Denis and Michel are determined to play more shows in the future to celebrate Denis 'Piggy' D'Amour's legacy. Stay tuned."
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