Motley Crue Goes Back to Their Roots, Announce Sunset Strip Shows
Cue up “Home Sweet Home,” because Motley Crue is heading back to the Sunset Strip!
The band is performing a series of shows at three legendary Los Angeles clubs in October to coincide with the release of their new EP Cancelled. The dates and venues for these shows are:
-Monday, October 7 at the Troubadour
-Wednesday, October 9 at the Roxy
-Friday, October 11 at the Whisky a Go Go
Tickets for these shows will only be sold at the box offices of these clubs on Saturday, September 14 at 10 AM PST. So, if you want to go, you have to kick it old school and line up in person. On the plus side, tickets will be priced at $19.81, in honor of the year the Crue formed, but there will be a limit of two tickets per person.
To add to what is being dubbed their “Hollywood Takeover,” Motley Crue will also have a pop-up store opening from October 6 through October 12 at the Rainbow Bar & Grill. The pop-up store hours will be 3 PM PST to 12 AM PST every day. Complete details can be found at Motley.com.
Details on Cancelled EP
In August, Motley Crue announced they were releasing the EP titled Cancelled.
The EP features three songs: The title track, the previously released “Dogs of War” and a cover of the Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!),’ which can be heard below. The cover is also available for streaming/download here.
The Crue said in a joint statement, “It was really great getting in the studio and working on some tracks together. What started out as a couple demo ideas turned into this EP produced by Bob Rock. We look forward to getting back into the studio again soon and writing more new music, as well.”
The title track “Cancelled” was first talk about by Tommy Lee back in October 2023. The Crue drummer said in an appearance on Club Random with Bill Maher, “We just recorded a song called ‘Cancelled’ because we were just inspired by the rest of the world and things and places, like anybody else.”
Lee said the band was inspired to write the song after coming across an article questioning how the band was never “cancelled.” Lee did admit to Maher, “We snuck in under the whatever threshold, wherever that was, where we got away with f—ing murder.”
Lee did jokingly say that since the Crue was never canceled, it makes him want to try harder to get canceled. Or at least we think he was joking. Perhaps we’ll find out eventually if he was!
Cancelled comes out on October 4 and is available for pre-order here.