Paul Stanley says “immersive” KISS avatar present shall be “past” contemplation
Paul Stanley has teased an “immersive” KISS avatar present, saying that it will likely be “past something that anybody else has contemplated.”
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In an interview with Billboard on podcast Behind The Setlist, printed final Thursday (September 12), Stanley spoke at size concerning the present following the acquisition of the band’s catalogue, model title and IP by Pophouse Leisure, the corporate behind ABBA‘s ‘Voyage’ present.
“Folks simply are thrilled with [‘Voyage’]. I took my spouse final month, and I had seen it final 12 months,” Stanley says, as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net. “So Pophouse understood what we wished to do and that what we wanna create is one thing that’s cutting-edge in the present day.”
He teases that, since ‘Voyage’ has been performed for audiences, the know-how behind such live shows has since been improved – and with added assist by George Lucas’ Industrial Mild & Magic, followers can count on an much more state-of-the-art present from the KISS avatars.
Stanley additionally circles again to the terminology used to explain the digital fashions of the KISS band members – he bristles at the usage of calling the present a “hologram” live performance.
“That time period appears to get thrown round rather a lot, however the concept of a simulated live performance shouldn’t be what we wanna do. Frankly, I might discover that that boring,” he says. “What we’re creating is an immersive expertise that KISS followers will love and individuals who have by no means been uncovered to KISS or may not like sure points of the band should see.”
Gene Simmons of KISS performs throughout KISS: Finish of the Highway World Tour at Madison Sq. Backyard on December 01, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Kevin Mazur/Getty Photos)
“It’s a must-see go-to expertise. So it’s past something that anybody else has contemplated. The entire concept, once more, of doing a simulated live performance is — that’s the darkish ages to us.”
Stanley can also be retaining mum on a premiere date for the present. When requested about studies that declare the present will debut in Las Vegas in 2027, Stanley says: “What I can inform you is that the know-how that’s getting used, which is a furthering of the know-how used on the ABBA present, needs to be put in and principally a constructing needs to be constructed round it.”
“So this isn’t one thing the place you’re in Kansas Metropolis in the present day, and tomorrow you fly along with your projector to do it. It calls for an area, so to talk that’s actually solely used for a present like this.”
Throughout the band’s farewell efficiency final December, they unveiled a “new period” of KISS as a digital band. “[It was] an early model of what’s to return and remains to be being labored on,” Stanley tells Billboard concerning the dwell reveal. “It bears little resemblance to what was there. What we had been displaying was simply the inception of the concept we are able to proceed on outdoors of flesh and blood.”
On the Pophouse deal, bandmate Gene Simmons acknowledged that it was a “pure factor” to do. “Life occurs when you’re busy making necessary plans,” he continued in an interview with PEOPLE. “We had been planning our respectful, proud strolling off into the sundown, as a result of we’ve been touring, we had been touring for half a century.”
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