They just announced on Twitter and they’re officially website that Mötley Crüe is back from the dead!!!
MÖTLEY CRÜE IS BACK!!!
— Mötley Crüe (@MotleyCrue) November 18, 2019
Read the official statement here – https://t.co/bvBDlVHHVB pic.twitter.com/2XmmgezBrf
omg get all the details here:
While it had seemed it was all said and done when Vince said the rumors were just that, rumors. It has now moved on from click-bait tabloids to big sources like Rolling Stone confirming that Mötley is coming back in 2020.
(Rolling Stone article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/motley-crue-def-leppard-poison-set-2020-stadium-tour-913823/)
But the band has now been silent on this evolving topic. Vince was the only one to say anything about it. Still nothing from Nikki, Tommy, or Mick, and nothing from the band’s official accounts.
Just days ago they shared a link to a petition (that yes, yours truly most definitely signed) asking for them to tear up the contract and tour again, saying the petition it was “interesting”. But since then they have deleted the post!
Nikki was teasing about big news during the spring saying he’d tell us in July, but no announcement ever came. He’s still teasing us about something big saying that in 2021 since the band will be 40 we should have a big party (by party does he mean tour?)
Those early days were all about NEW music, laser focused work ethic and pushing buttons. Glad we did it together. Hey in #2021 we will be 40 years old. Maybe a good thing to celebrate??? Let’s throw a massive party. 🤘🏽 https://t.co/xG9qDf5owi
— xxıS ıʞʞıN (@NikkiSixx) November 17, 2019
So while I am maintaining that it is just a rumor until such time as the band or one of it’s members makes an announcement, I have heard from a source connected to the band that the tour is legitimately happening. And I at least will begin setting money aside for a ticket.
That said, despite what Rolling Stone has to say, there is NO official word from Mötley on this and I will update if that changes!!!
Amidst rampant rumors that a Mötley Crüe reunion was in the works the band members were eerily silent. While silence from Vince and even mystery man Mick Mars is fairly normal, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee are usually quick to kill weird rumors that pop up in clickbait internet tabloids. So when they stayed quiet fans began to wonder if there was any truth to the rumors. Articles began popping up earlier this week claiming a source close to Tommy Lee had “leaked” the news that the band had been offered $150 million to reunite and tour again despite the 2015 cessation of touring contract the band signed. The contract would not permit any of the members (even all of them together) to tour under the name Mötley Crüe. Of course if all four members agreed, they could make the contract void. According to the rumors the bandmates were considering the offer, but only if Vince Neil went to rehab and lost 40lbs and, at Vince’s request, Tommy Lee also went to rehab.
But last night Vince broke the silence (and broke my heart) saying that not only was there no reunion tour in the works, but that he hadn’t even spoke to any of his band mates since The Dirt premiered last spring!
It’s super disappointing but we’re all happy to finally have some clarification. Of course For myself, I’ll still be praying for a “Back from the Dead” tour.
Mötley Crüe has always embraced Halloween. And since the band started, fans have dresses up as them and this year is no different. Thankfully the band loves it:
Even I couldn’t help but head out dressed up as Nikki this year. My hair was not even remotely big enough:
And of course the Sixx family celebrated in style:
Yesterday on his verified Instagram, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx shared a “self portrait” of himself standing alone in a hallway backstage explaining that:
“I feel in a lot of ways it capture’s the road and the grey hallways of isolation that IS backstage. This could be of a million photos taken of a million performers who leave home for months on end.”
Photography has been a hobby of Sixx’s for sometime now, calling it his “new drug” on his photography page.
He mentions he’s just finished setting up his new studio and has been going through several years worth of photos and promises there’s more to come.
You can follow Sixx’s photography on his dedicated account here.