Mötley Crüe have announced a Las Vegas residency for next year, with a run of 11 shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM in the spring – buy tickets here.
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The shows are set to begin on March 28 and will run through to April 19. It’s been 11 years since the glam metal icons’ last Vegas residency – they had ‘Mötley Crüe Takes On Sin City’ and ‘Evening In Hall’ in 2012 and 2013 respectively – and frontman Vince Neil said back in 2022 that a third residency was on the band’s radar.
They’ll be playing on March 28 and 29, as well as April 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 16, 18 and 19.
Tickets for the shows go on sale at 10am PT on October 11, and a portion of ticket proceeds will go to the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth through the band’s Giveback Initiative and Live Nation. You can find tickets here.
An exclusive pre-sale for members of the band’s S.I.N. Club will begin tomorrow (October 4) at 10am PT, and fans can sign up here. Members of MGM Rewards, as well as Live Nation and Ticketmaster customers, will receive pre-sale access from Monday, October 7, at 10am PT.
The shows will aim to take the audience back to the band’s beginnings and through their history, leading them through to ‘The Stadium Tour’, which they co-headlined with Def Leppard. The band said in a statement: “Mötley Crüe and Las Vegas have always been the perfect combination of extravagance and decadence. We’ve always loved the idea of the Vegas residency, because we’ve always loved the idea of staying in one location to build a unique show for the fans. We’re excited to get into rehearsals and work up a lot of songs that have been requested by the fans for years.”
Meanwhile, there’s a new Mötley Crüe EP, ‘Cancelled’, out tomorrow – which features a cover of the Beastie Boys’ classic ‘Fight For Your Right’ – while the band will be playing three intimate shows on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood next week, at the Troubador, The Roxy, and Whisky a Go Go.
Also on ‘Cancelled’ is the single ‘Dogs Of War’, which they shared in April as it became their first new material in five years. At the time, founding bassist Nikki Sixx told NME: “For us, the only constant in our career has been that we constantly change and that comes with hills and valleys. We’ve ridden it out over 43 years and sometimes we’re not cool, sometimes we’re the coolest band, sometimes we can’t even get a phone call back.”
He continued: “We’re just living in our own little bubble and doing what we want to do. Obviously it feels great when people really love what you’re doing, but I don’t necessarily think we’ve ever thought that we should do something to be liked or for the public reception. We do what we do, we’re passionate about it and we hope that people like it. Also, if they don’t, we get that, we understand it. It’s just part of our creative process.”
Guitarist John 5, who joined last year after touring with the band since 2022, said of working with his new bandmates and coming up with ‘Dogs Of War’: “When I went in there, we all got in one room and that was so unorthodox to me because I haven’t recorded that way in so long.
“We all got in one room and just knocked it out, and that’s how everything was tracked. I thought that was so special because nowadays you don’t really see that kind of very organic way of recording.”
