Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Planet Rock, Uriah Heep guitarist Mick Box discussed the band’s farewell tour. Notably, he also confirmed that the band still plan to play more shows after the trek.

Box said the following:

“Well, it’ll take two to three years to go around [laughs], and then once we’ve done that, we’ll still be doing festivals and weekend work and stuff like that, but the long arduous tours we’re not gonna do anymore. And I don’t think it’s logistically possible now with the way things are with carnets for equipment to get through territories. Bus prices tripled. And we did 11 flights the other month and five of them were cancelled, so it’s getting really hard to make those things work.”

He continued when asked about his future plans following the tour:

“I guess we’ll do [some] writing and go in the recording studio and do other aspects of the of the game, but as I say, we’re still gonna be touring, still gonna be playing. It’s just that we’re not doing the really long stuff. We’ll do it in sections rather than a whole long splurge.”

He also added the following when asked what the setlist might look like:

“I guess a setlist really writes itself to a degree, because there’s so many songs that people expect to hear — you know, the ‘Easy Livin” to ‘July Morning’ and stuff like that and ‘Stealin” and whatever — so we kind of use that as the template. Then we’ll add in some of the latest-album songs, and then build it from there. And maybe revisit something that we haven’t revisited for a while, or even something we haven’t played before. So we kind of just put it in the mixing pot, really. But it kind of works itself out because the popularity of the songs we’ve got, which is marvelous.”

[via Blabbermouth]