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Todd Rundgren UK Arena Tour Announcement
TODD RUNDGREN - THE ARENA TOUR - HITS ENGLAND IN NOVEMBER
LONDON (PETER NOBLE PR CONSULTANCY LTD.) -- 11 JULY 2008 -- Rock'n'roll icon, guitar genius, interactive progenitor, consummate singer/songwriter and record producer, Todd Rundgren, returns to the UK shores for his first concerts since 2005.
Todd Rundgren, the man who gave us classic albums like Something/Anything?, A Wizard/A True Star, Todd, Faithful, Hermit of Mink Hollow and 2004's critically acclaimed Liars, will play four rare UK concerts that will follow the September 29th UK release of his long awaited new studio album Arena.
"Arena is a definite return to riff-oriented guitar rock," says Rundgren. "It's supposed to make you reflexively pump your fist and wave a lighter in the air."
The Arena Tour band will consist of Jesse Gress (guitar), Rachel Haden (bass), Matt Bolton (guitar and keyboards), Prairie Prince (drums), and Todd Rundgren (guitar and vocals).
"The concerts will be a straight-ahead, guitar-rock extravaganza," assures Rundgren. "We can't afford the flamethrowers yet, but we'll make up for it with aggression."
Rundgren is universally hailed as the most innovative rock star on the planet. He was the first pioneering recording and performing artist responsible for interactive audio and video. In 1981, his video for the song "Time Heals" was the second video ever aired on MTV in America.
By 1992, Todd focused his creative energies on the ground-breaking No World Order, rock's first interactive music album on the CD-i format. The album enabled music enthusiasts to create their own mixes of the album, something unheard of in the early nineties. Appropriately, when Rundgren filmed the world's first interactive concert tour for video release in 1994, London's Forum was the venue of choice, making this November's show a homecoming of sorts.
Two years later, Rundgren proved that he was two steps ahead of the music technology game by releasing what was to be rock's very first full-length Enhanced CD, The Individualist, which featured the combined song and interactive video game Cast The First Stone.
In 1998 he was the first artist to launch an online music service entitled PatroNet, years before Apple launched iTunes. PatroNet enabled its online subscribers to directly download new, previously unreleased songs, cutting out the major record labels. Sounds familiar?
It was Rundgren who predicted the future, and now, with Arena, his rockiest guitar album in decades, he's back to rock the house. Always the innovator, Rundgren continues to enhance his reputation as the ultimate Wizard, A True Star.
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