The supergroup formed by Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp shared the news of summer tour cancellation on their social media: “We are beyond disappointed to announce that the Hollywood Vampires must cancel our rescheduled UK/European tour this Summer.” Statement continues: “We kept trying to make it happen, but unfortunately due to the uncertainty of COVID-19 travel restrictions, it is just not possible… Thank you for understanding, and we WILL be back rocking with you once the world returns to normal!”
— Hollywood Vampires (@hollywoodvamps) March 22, 2021
The musicians postponed their 2020 tour last year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic: “The health and safety of our fans is and always will be our number one concern. It is for this reason we have made the decision to reschedule our European Tour until 2021.” The new dates were supposed to start on 5th August in Birmingham and finish on 4th September in Istanbul.
When the tour was first announced in 2019, Cooper promised: “This show has something for everyone. I like to joke that The Vampires are the world’s most expensive bar band, but what a lot of people don’t realise is that this is a real rock band, not just some novelty. I wouldn’t keep doing it if it weren’t such a great band. Everybody gets along, the musical chemistry is as good as it gets and the show will be the highest energy hard rock shows you will see all year. I never get tired of playing with these guys!” Joe Perry added: “I’m looking forward to be getting back on the road with the guys in the Vampires this summer. It’s going to be great to get to play a bunch of tunes from our new album as well as a few from our dead, drunk friends. The last tour we were firing on all cylinders and it’s because of the great support from our fans that we really push the pedal to the floor. You can expect much of the same in September. We can’t wait to get over and prove it.”
Hollywood Vampires self – titled debut album came out in 2015 and has been described by Ultimate Classic Rock as “a brilliant, brooding dissonance with bleak humour and fizzy anger against the dying of the light” and consisted of two original songs and covers of the Who, John Lennon and Jimmy Hendrix.
Their second album ‘Rise’ was released in 2019 and gained three starts by Rolling stone magazine. With thirteen original tracks and three covers, Kerrang described it: “the enterprise is taken in some interesting new directions, with its constituent members playing largely to their strengths”.
