Guns N’ Roses’ will bring their “Chinese Democracy World Tour” to Canada in January 2010. The Winnipeg, Manitoba concert at the MTS Centre on January 13th is the first of thirteen Canadian concerts on the GN’R world tour, which begins in Asia on December 11th, with tour updates and announcements planned throughout 2010.
Guns N’ Roses – Axl Rose, Frank Ferrer, Tommy Stinson, Richard Fortus, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Dizzy Reed, and Chris Pitman – welcomed guitarist Dj Ashba into the band earlier this year and are scheduled to begin rehearsals in Los Angeles shortly.
The upcoming worldwide tour promotes the band’s latest album, Chinese Democracy, which debuted at #1 on the charts in thirteen countries including Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, as well as the European Top 100 Albums survey.
Chinese Democracy was released on Black Frog/Geffen Records in November 2008 and reached 3 times Platinum in Canada, Platinum in Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, UK, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. The album is Gold in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Holland, Sweden, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Brazil and Colombia. In the U.S., the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 3, 2009.
Overwhelming response to the album’s release poured in from around the world from fans and critics alike:
“This record is an uncompromising, fully-focused, hard rock monster.”
- BBC News
“...a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record. In other words, it sounds a lot like the Guns n' Roses you know.”
- Rolling Stone
“… Axl pumping out a riveting collection of songs filtered straight from his tortured soul to the world.”
-The Calgary Herald
“Chinese Democracy—finally!—brings to mind a fascinating notion: What if the old Guns N’ Roses was actually holding Axl back? This record lives up to the hype!”
- Time Out New York
“...it's an exhilarating album. Seriously, after finally hearing these 14 tracks in their finished form I was so energized I wanted to climb a mountain.”
-The Boston Globe
“…a remarkable and often exhilarating album. Rose sings in many voices - sneering, raging, crowing, opening his battered heart. Yet his presence, beyond question, is phenomenal, unrivalled in contemporary rock.”
- The Telegraph UK |
