Gene Simmons lives in Argentina with Kiss in April 2022, at the Campo de Polo. Photo: Martin Bonetto.
The current Kiss tour is expected to be the last, but it shows no signs of ending. In fact, the band has announced that it plans to add another 100 dates to its tour, and so on until 2024.
Gene Simmons broke the news in a recent report with the Chaoszine site. Asked when the tour will end and his formal retirement from the stage will begin, the bassist was unable to provide a precise date, but said the tour is still far from over.
Kiss live in Argentina in April 2022, at Campo de Polo. Photo: Martin Bonetto.
“We don’t know,” he said, “we’ve never retired before. It’s like painting a picture or writing a book, where you can’t tell when you will finish it. If you are in the middle of the process, you don’t know when it will be ready. “
Changes due to the pandemic
Kiss had initially said that everything would end on July 17, 2021, the date of the last concert of their tour, but plans have been postponed and upset by the pandemic. When the itinerary was rearranged, Paul Stanley said they would definitely be finished in early 2023, but now 100 dates have just been added and it is not known exactly when the end will come.
Paul Stranley with Kiss live in Argentina in April 2022, at the Campo de Polo. Photo: Martin Bonetto.
“The team is happy, everyone is happy,” said Simmons. “So we decided to add 100 dates before we stop. I don’t know how long it will take to make them because we haven’t put together the new schedule yet.”
In this context, he was asked if they will be able to add more dates and replied “probably not”, but added: “I know I said ‘probably not’ before”.
The “End of the Road Tour” is currently in Europe and will return to the United States afterwards. Everything indicates that those 100 new dates will include another tour in North America and Europe, where they have been hugely successful.
And Latin America? Will they return to Argentina? It’s still a big unknown, but local fans shouldn’t give up hope. Apparently, Kiss will continue to go where the band is hired. And only then will they rest.
the kiss goodbye
In 2018, after almost half a century of career, the band of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley announced that they would definitely greet their fans around the world with one last international tour.
Historical photo of Kiss at the Grammys.
Without a doubt, Kiss have already left a mark in the history of world music: they have sold more than 100 million albums around the world and have gathered thousands of fans from different generations through the KISS Army family.
“Everything we have built and achieved in the past four decades could never have happened without the millions of people around the world who filled clubs, theaters and stadiums in those years,” Kiss said in a statement.
He added: “This will be the last celebration for those who have seen us and a last chance for those who haven’t. We are saying goodbye to our final tour with our biggest show ever and we will leave in the same. way we entered.. Unrepentant and unstoppable. “
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Source: Clarin
