archived stories from September 2007
26 September 2007
Chris is auctioning four meet-and-greet packages for shows in Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City and Reno on on the upcoming US leg of his tour. successful bidders will get tickets to see Chris Cornell perform live, receive a signed copy of Carry On, and meet Chris at the show! The money raised will go to children's charity Five Acres, which works to prevent child abuse through treatment and education in community-based and residential programmes. All the details about both the auctions and the charity are here.
Attention South American fans - Chris could be appearing in your part of the world later this year. According to Rolling Stone, he's strongly rumoured to be co-headlining the Personal Fest in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 7 and 8 at Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires although there has as yet been no official confirmation. The other headlining act is rumoured to be Smashing Pumpkins.
25 September 2007
Want to see Chris and his wife Vicky having a pillow fight with a journalist? Check out what looks like an uproarious interview from the Turkish press, together with a beautiful set of photos. If anyone speaks Turkish and is willing to translate into English - please do get in touch!
In more sober contrast, here's my own interview with guitarist Yogi in an autumnally grey Birmingham. No pillow fights I'm afraid, but we did have a nice chat before the recent show at the city's Academy.
22 September 2007
For those in Europe, Chris's appearance on Leno will be screened Monday night on CNBC - in the UK it's available on Sky channel 505 (thanks So02see).
20 September 2007
Chris and the band played Silence The Voices on Leno last night and the performance is available online here (thanks Jeff). Watch out for European showings on CNBC later this week or early next.
19 September 2007
Ross Halfin has uploaded more photos from his recent shoot with Chris and the band in Iceland (thanks Tina)
According to the entire band as well as the show's website, Chris will appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC in the US tonight!! If you are in Europe and have satellite TV (CNBC is on sky channel 505), you should be able to see this show a day or two later - there's nothing listed on the Sky schedules yet, but this was a last minute addition so keep checking for updates! (thanks Yogi, Peter, Sutter, Bill and BobDylanBlues20)
15 September 2007
The KROQ LA Invasion show will be webcast "complete & uncut" at KROQ.com from 2.30 pm today, local time. Chris is scheduled for about 6pm. More info here (thanks Joyce and Shantasa)
Chris's guitarist Yogi has announced that he has been offered a solo tour in Iceland following his recent one-off acoustic show there. He says he "will be taking that opportunity after the next European Chris Cornell leg" (thanks Yogi)
14 September 2007
A whole series of new US tour dates have been announced for October/November 2007 after Chris returns from Australia (thanks Mia). See tour page.
12 September 2007
Here's an interesting insight for all of you filming shows on your phones and putting them up on YouTube - Chris is plainly interested. In their music news for today, The Rock 106.9 WCCC report that "it’s a new music world and Chris Cornell is adjusting. The singer says where it was once an awkward experience having shows filmed, he’s now liberated by the YouTube generation. Cornell says that in the early days, the idea that a show might be filmed usually meant a self-conscious performance would occur. But in today’s culture, with cell phone cameras at almost every gig, that nervousness is going right out the window. The vocalist tells us he’ll even perform rare tracks at impromptu times with the idea of knowing a camera might be around so he can check out later how it comes across live."
Chris has announced two solo headlining shows in Australia directly after the arena dates with Linkin Park in October. He will play at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 24th and the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on 25th. See tour page for ticket details. (thanks Timbzy)
11 September 2007
It seems the Denver date rescheduled for October has been moved again - this time to November 20. See tour page for links to tickets (thanks Mia)
10 September 2007
As well as the recent set of shots from the London Roundhouse show which are here and here, legendary photographer Ross Halfin now has some great shots of Chris and the band in Iceland. Ross does travel photography as well as music, and these are a beautiful hybrid of the two. Read about the trip in his diary (thanks Nanci)
7 September 2007
Chris has announced another autumn show in the US. It's on October 28 at Buzzfest at the Woodlands Pavilion in Houston, Texas, and he's joined on the bill by Smashing Pumpkins, Evanescence, Alter Bridge, Sum 41, Fuel and others. More info is available here. (thanks Steph)
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