Pete Wells band will be playing their traditional New Years Eve Show at the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Here's all the details from SydneyBlues.com :NEW YEARS EVE - PETE WELLS BAND + GUESTS $5 NEW YEARS EVE at the Empire means PETE WELLS BAND rocking in the New Year again! Pete returns to his home turf at the Empire Hotel after a recent international tour with Rose Tattoo. Pete fuels his local band with the energy that one can only gain from playing to international stadiums with capacity crowds. He is itching to set the room alive with his authentic brand of hard, earth trembling electric Australian rock blues. Pete is the real deal, come and experience an international music icon up close. Plus, there is always the chance of one of his esteemed friends dropping in.
Reviews for PAIN are available from the Discography page.
Check out the show report and an amazing photo gallery from the 8/31 Doyalson RSL gig!!! It's all on the Live page.
Check out the show report and an amazing photo gallery from the 8/31 Doyalson RSL gig!!! It's all on the Live page.
Just a week and a half to go before the Tatts Sydney dates, which take place 8/29 - 8/31. Pete Wells will back on slide duties for these shows...he had to miss the recent UK and European dates due to recurrence of a leg injury...but Pete reports that he's ready to go for the Sydney dates.
New songs you can expect include Black Magic, 17 Stitches, Kisses & Hugs, and One More Drink With The Boys!
The Tatts other slide player...Greg Jordan (Southern Stars) admirably filled in for Pete...check out some pics of Greg on stage at the Australian Rose Tattoo home page...
Less than a month to go before the party for Rose Tattoo fans being held in Germany. The party is being organized by the German Tatts home page...more info here...
The Tatts have announced a gig at the garage in London on July 29th. Full details can be found at the Workhard P.R. website.
The German Tatts Fansite is conducting a poll for fans to vote on the songs they'd like to hear on the next Tatts tour. To make it fair...everyone should vote for their 5 favourite songs! You can be part of the voting here!
There is now an Australian Rose Tattoo home page. Check it out!
The Tatts are playing at the UK Rock & Blues Festival in Pentrich, Derbyshire July 27th, check out a link to the Festival Site on the Live page.
Some initial Australian tour dates have been announced, with more to follow! Check them out on the Live page.
The new Tatts disc Pain is now available in Europe! Buy it from your local shop...or if you are not in Europe, order it online from your favorite seller of European cd's. One option is the fine folks at German Music Express. Rock On!
SPV records has announced the release dates for the new Tatts album "Pain". The dates are June 3rd in Europe, and July 2nd in America. The album is an amazing 16 tracks, running nearly an hour in length! The track listing is as follows:
* Black Magic * The Devil Does It Well * No Mercy * Pain´s My Friend * Someone To Fuck * 17 Stitches * House Of Pain * Can´t Help It * Union Man * Satan´s Eyes * Hard Rockin` Man * Stir Crazy * Livin` Outside My Means * Heat Of The Moment * Illustrated Man * One More Drink For a great read...check out the 2002 Bio from SPV/Steamhammer.
European tour dates are now available on the Live page. More dates will be listed as they become available!
The Tatts may be part of an Australian "Legends Of Rock Tour" which is being put together due to the success of the ABC TV AusRock documentary "It's A Long Way To The Top". The Tatts would play four songs (old faves like "Bad Boy", etc.) No info yet on an Oz "Pain" tour.
The Tatts recently had a photo shoot for the PAIN album in Sydney. Former Angels bass player Jim Hilbun took the pictures, and he says that the photos were sent off to SPV in Germany to decide how they will be used. According to Jim, the pictures could end up on the cd cover...posters...t-shirts...or the trash bin! He also says that the Tatts really liked how the photos came out...which is what really counts!
"PAIN" is the title of the upcoming new Tatts studio album. It will have 12 tracks...still no release date set.18.05.2002 - Berlin, Biesenthal Festival
European tour dates for 2002 have been announced...the Tatts will be in Germany and also will make a stop for the first time ever in Norway. The dates are:
Got the word that Angry is back home after finishing vocals for the new album. The album is described as "pretty much finished", but the release date is still up in the air, nothing is definite as of yet. Stay tuned...
Looks like the Tatts will be back in the UK this coming July. TotalRock is reporting that the Tatts are confirmed for the 19th annual Rock & Blues festival, July 25-27 at Penritch in Derbyshire.
With the backing tracks completed on the Tatts new album, all that's left is for Angry to add his unique brand of "throat" to the mix. That is currently happening in Germany, as the rest of the band have returned to Australia. The time grows nearer...
The UK based tattoo magazine Skin Deep features an interview with the Tatts in their March 2002 issue. Pick up a copy and check it out...
Herko Schmidt reports on the Tatts in the studio in Germany:
Just visited the boys in the studio in Hamburg last weekend.
Pete, Rockin´ Rob, Paul and Steve are recording since one week
together, with former Accept ("Restless & Wild", "Balls to the Wall")
guitar player Hermann Frank as engineer and Rainer Hänsel as producer.
There´s also ex-Whitesnake guitar player and song writer ("Here we go
again") Bernie Mardsen working on some vocal lines for Angry. Angry
will start doing the vocals in the beginning of March. Till then, the
boys plan to record around 15 to 20 songs. So far I heard some roughs
of 9 songs, and they already show, that the Tatts are still the Tatts
and we can expect a real wild lesson of some dirty old rock´n´roll.
So be excited...wait and see for more stuff to come!
Thanks for that exciting news Herko!
The new Pete Wells cd "Solo" is scheduled for release January 25th! It's a true solo outing, with Pete handling all the instrumentation: guitars, bass, drum tracks...and of course the vocals. The disc features PW playing some wicked down home blues, and the song list is a combination of originals and blues classics. Complete info is available on the PW Discography page.