Date: Fri 02-Oct-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: SHANNON

Quick Words:

Motley-Crue-Oakdale-NRBQ

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ON THE ROAD/SHANNON HICKS

Going on sale Saturday, October 3, are tickets for the November 1 MOTLEY CRUE

performance at the Oakdale in Wallingford. Not surprisingly for a theatre that

has catered more to the classic rock, country and family programming crowd in

the past (prior to the purchase takeover of the theatre earlier this year by

SFX Entertainment) this will be the Crue's first performance at the Oakdale.

Tickets for the show are $31.50 and $36.50. Call the Oakdale's box office,

265-1501, for reservations.

No name has been announced for the opener yet, because the band hasn't yet

been selected. Throughout the Crue's current tour, the band is giving local

bands in each market a chance to open the show. The "Kickstart Your Career"

promotion is allowing aspiring musicians from each state to submit their tapes

to local drop-off locations. Connecticut bands can drop off two CDs or tapes,

with bio and picture, at the following locations: WCCC radio station, 1039

Asylum Avenue in Hartford; LaSalle Music, 989 Farmington Avenue in West

Hartford; or LaSalle Music, 993 Main Street in East Hartford. Deadline for

submissions is October 23 at 5 pm.

Five finalists will be selected to compete in a Battle of the Bands, and the

winners will be band to share the stage with Motley Crue next month.

Halloween at The Webster in Hartford will be taken care of by THE URGE.

Tickets are on sale, finally, next Saturday (Oct 10) for PHISH at the New

Haven Coliseum. The show marks a move by the band from its traditional

november show at the Hartford Civic Center to a smaller venue that's been very

quiet this year.

On the same night, across town, the band's lyricist, DUDE OF LIFE, will be

performing at Toad's Place.

Tickets are on sale already for a LITTLE FEAT concert at The Globe in Norwalk,

November 15.

Can't wait for the return of NRBQ to Toad's Place late next month? If you're

up for a trip to Stamford instead, the creative foursome will be at Rich Forum

on Friday, November 6. (The Toad's Place/New Haven show isn't until the 27th

of the month). Tickets for the Stamford show, which will start at 8 pm, are

$20 and $25 each. They're on sale now; call the Forum's box office, 325-4466.

SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS is back on the college campus rotation, having played at

the University of Hartford last spring. The band will now be at Jorgensen

Auditorium, on the UConn/Storrs campus, on Tuesday, October 27. Tickets went

on sale to the public Monday morning, at $20 and $22 each. Jorgensen's box

office can be reached at 860/486-4226.

Until next week, I'll be seeing you... on the road.

Questions and comments concerning "On The Road" (or anything music related)

should be sent to Shannon Hicks, c/o Bee Publishing Co., 5 Church Hill Road,

Newtown 06470, or shannon @thebee.com. Include a phone number for

confirmation, please . If you don't have a stamp or a piece of paper or a

writing utensil that works, give me a call! Phone number at the office is

426-3141. Shows listed on the calendar at club locations are for ages 21 and

over unless specified.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

OCTOBER 2 -- The Radiators at Toad's Place, New Haven, Sweeter Than Wine

opening;

October 3 -- Janet Jackson at Hartford Civic Center, Usher opening; radio 104

Big Day Off at the Meadows, Hartford, with Cracker, Dishwalla, Better Than

Ezra, The Amazing Royal Crowds, Marcy Playground, God Lives Underwater, Fuel,

Stabbing Westward, Days of the New, Spring Heeled Jack, the Joydrop, Ruth

Ruth, Stretch Princess, Preasurecrush, Guster, Rustic Overtones, et al;

October 4 -- Joshua Redman Band at Toad's Place (all ages); Dee Snider's

Strangeland Tour at The Webster Theatre, Hartford (performances by Soulfly,

Snot, (hed)pe and dayinthelife);

September 5 -- 2 Skinnee J's at Toad's Place (all ages), Gargantua Soul and

The Smittys opening;

October 8 -- Circle of Karma, Nasty Disaster, Of My Own and Bone Orchard at

Toad's Place (all ages);

October 9 -- The Marshall Tucker Band at Toad's Place, Steel Rodeo and Whiskey

River Band opening;

October 10 -- Barenaked Ladies at Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford; The Sloan

Wainwright Band at Night Lights Coffeehouse (United Methodist Church),

Norwalk;

October 11 -- Aerosmith at the Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, Fuel opening

(postponed from Aug 22, earlier tickets honored);

October 12 -- King's X at Toad's Place, Galactic Cowboys opening (all ages);

October 13 -- Less Than Jake at Webster Theatre (all ages), All opening;

October 14 -- Soulfly at the Webster Theatre;

October 16 -- Blue Oyster Cult at Toad's Place, Eclectic Nobodys and Crucible

opening; Incubus at the Webster Theatre, System of a Down opening (all ages)

October 18 -- String Cheese Incident at Toad's Place (all ages);

October 23 -- Culture at The Globe Theatre, Norwalk; Tom Tom Club at Toad's

Place, Paradise Vendors and Mollycoddle opening;

October 24 -- Moppin Sauce at Boppers, Danbury; N' Sync at The Palace, New

Haven;

October 26 -- John Taylor (Duran Duran) at Tuxedo Junction, Sixpence, None The

Richer and Atlas opening; Sepultura and Vision of Disorder at Toad's Place,

Earth Crisis opening;

October 27 -- Dokken at Tuxedo Junction; The Hornets at Toad's Place (Swing

Night, dance instruction w/ Jitterbug Bill);

October 30 -- Dokken at Toad's Place, X Factor X opening;

October 31 -- Moppin Sauce at Fat Daddy's, Watertown; The Urge at The Webster

Theatre, Hartford.