POISON: Announce First Headlining Tour In Over 10 Years
March 1, 2017
Poison, one of rock's most high-energy and iconic bands, will perform all its greatest hits as they headline select dates for the first time in over a decade. This spring will see all four original members -Bret Michaels,Bobby Dall,Rikki RockettandC.C. DeVille- join together to play these limited headline dates in the U.S. and Canada.
The dates will coincide withPoison's co-headlining tour withDef Leppardand special guestTeslathroughout the spring and summer. The firstPoisonheadline date will be Raleigh, North Carolina on April 28, followed by Charlotte, North Carolina on April 29. Huntington, West Virginia (May 7), Albany, New York (May 9), Rapid City, South Dakota (May 26), and Grand Forks, ND (May 27) have all been added as stand-alone headline dates with several more in the works.
Although they have co-headlined in the past withDef Leppard,Motley CrueandKiss, to name a few, these will bePoison's first headline dates in select markets in over ten years.
StatesMichaels: "I'm really looking forward to thePoison tour. It's going to be incredible playing all the hits and putting on a hell of a high-energy rock show for the three generations of awesome fans."
Poison's tour withDef Leppardwill kick off on April 8 in Manchester, New Hampshire and will wrap on June 25 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
PoisonandDef Leppard first hit the road together back in 2009, and then again three years later.
Poisonappeared at the 2013 Indy 500 Miller Lite Carb Day, but has otherwise been mostly playing private shows, including one in January 2015.
The band hasn't done any major touring since taking part in the 2012"Rock Of Ages"trek with Def LeppardandLita Ford.
Rockettwas recently declared cancer free after undergoing an experimental treatment. He was diagnosed with oral cancer back in 2015.
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