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LATEST
NEWS UPDATE
June 2008
Back
In Black and Rockin On Heaven's Door...
With respect to the past and hope for the future..
TIGERTAILZ Rock On - and sooner than you might think...
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More LIVE DATES for 2008 Now Confirmed ~

** NEWS FLASH June 3
2008 **
~ New
Merch Now On Sale - Checkout the Merch Section ~
~ Interview with Matt Blakout ~
~ New shows confirmed ~
5 - 7 December - HARD ROCK HELL
FESTIVAL Pontins Prestatyn, Wales, UK
20 & 21 June - KOBETASONIK FESTIVAL Bilbao Spain
See
below for details
We
are delighted to announce the confirmed Live dates for 2008.....
- Saturday 21 June - KOBETASONIK FESTIVAL
20 & 21 June Bilbao Spain
- KISS / DIO / EUROPE /
BLIND GUARDIAN / SAXON /TESLA / OBITUARY / DEATH ANGEL / TIGERTAILZ /
LATZEN - - For details click here
- Wednesday 23 July - WHITESNAKE + EUROPE +
TIGERTAILZ
- Piazzola Sul Brenta
(Pd), Villa Contarini, Venice, Italy - For details click here
- 5 - 7 December - HARD ROCK HELL
FESTIVAL Pontins Prestatyn, Wales, UK
BLACK LABEL
SOCIETY /
THIIN LIZZY / THE WILDHEARTS / TIGERTAILZ / ORANGE GOBLIN / VIKING SCULL
- For
details click here
~ More Live Dates For
2008 To Be Added Soon ~
MATT
BLAKOUT - IN
HIS OWN WORDS
Local Welsh folk legend Rudy St Randy talks to Matt Blakout exclusively
for Tailz Online
To
read interview
Click here
To download PDF Click here
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Brand New Tailz Merch Now On Sale ~
See
Merch Section for Full Details
Brand
New 'Tailz X' Shirt Now Available
£15 +
shipping
<Click for big view
Available Sizes:
XXL, XL, L, M, S, Plus the all new Women's Strappy Vests
Brand
New 'Tailz Tattoo' Shirt Now Available
£15 +
shipping
<Click for big view
Available
Sizes:
XXL, XL, L, M, S, Plus the all new Women's Strappy Vests
KIM
HOOKER - IN
HIS OWN WORDS
To read interview
Click here
To download PDF Click here
Major thanks to
everyone who came to see TIGERTAILZ at the recent ACE FREHLEY
shows. Two fantastic Tailz shows at two maxed out venues - just
the way it should be.....
We
thank you all and we Rock On.... See you all soon in Spain...
Thursday
10 April - SHEFFIELD CORPORATION
Friday
11 April - LONDON ASTORIA
(with
Ace Frehley)
- IT'S OFFICIAL -
TIGERTAILZ WILL CONTINUE..!!
Kim, Jay and Matt have
agreed that TIGERTAILZ will continue to release music and play Live in
memory of
Pepsi. The band are looking to play a few shows later this year
and will announce details as soon as shows are confirmed.
Promoters be advised - TIGERTAILZ are open for business.....
The
money collected during the recent UK tour and other fund raising in
memory of Pepsi has raised thousands of £'s which was recently
paid to Marie Curie. The staff at the Cardiff hospice
recently sent the following letter thanking you all for your donations.
Your kindness will help many more people and we salute you. Well
done and thanks again for your continued and fantastic support.
"Dear Sirs,
Thank you so much for supporting Marie Curie Cancer Care's work with
your recent donation in memory of Justin Smith and please accept our
condolences at this time.
This year it will cost £3.5m to run the hospice, and while one
third of the costs will be covered by the NHS, we need to raise the
remainder ourselves, so you can see why your support is so very
valuable to us. We simply could not provide our care without the
generosity of our supporters such as you.
Thank you for supporting Marie Curie Cancer Care"
TAILZ online Web
site brings you the first full interview with Kim, Jay and Matt (to be
uploaded here in the coming weeks). Get the official word
straight
from the band members themselves. In the interviews the guys talk
about what they've been through over the last year and how they see the
future of TIGERTAILZ.
New TAILZ Web
site. Talks are underway to refresh this official TIGERTAILZ
site. The new site will feature a Pepsi Tribute section plus
deliver new features where fans can register
and manage their own details and get added to the TAILZ email list so
you never have to miss out on what's going on. The new site will
also move towards an ecommerce site whereby fans can purchase TAILZ
music/video directly from the band as Digital downloads.
PEPSI
TATE 1965
- 2007
Goodnight
and God bless our dear old 'Boy'
We are absolutely
devastated to bring you the news that our beloved friend and Tigertailz
Bass player PEPSI TATE lost his battle with pancreatic cancer
today. Pepsi passed away peacefully at 10:30 this morning,
Tuesday 18th September 2007, in Holme Towers cancer hospice in Penarth
Cardiff. Pepsi's wife Shan and close family were with him.
Words
cannot describe how we feel right now. We're in bits and will
miss him so much.
Goodnight
Boy - we'll see you again soon fella. You mean the world to us.
xxx
Jay,
Kim and Matt
Pepsi
Tribute Programme - Buy it now and do your bit!
Available
here for
the first time is our tribute to our friend and Bass player Pepsi Tate.
This programme was
sold during the recent UK tour to raise money for the Marie Curie
cancer hospice who cared for Pepsi so well in his final few months.
The
programme is a 12 page booklet which includes pictures of Pepsi and his
artwork, personal tributes written by top Rock press journalists and a
story of Pepsi's life and achievements.
By buying this tribute programme you are contributing to the Marie
Curie Cancer Care charity as all profits go to the Penarth hospice in
Cardiff where Pepsi spent his final days.
BUY IT
NOW in the MERCH Section.... Click Here
WE THANK YOU
UK TOUR October/November 2007
We'd just like to
express our sincere thanks to everyone who came out to see us on this
UK tour over the last few weeks. You've all been truly amazing
and we're really humbled by your fantastic support.
Not only did many of you travel for the shows but some travelled many
times to different shows just to be there. For this we are very
grateful and hope we were worth the effort and expense.
We
also managed to raise a load of money for Marie
Curie Cancer Care which we will donate in the coming weeks. All
of this was down to you great people giving money to those who need it
most. You can all sleep well knowing you've done your bit..
Thanks also to Y&T who were fantastic with us and to all their fans
who gave us a great response.
We'll take some time to talk and think about where we go from here
. But one thing we do know is that all you great people have
given us a reason to not let this band and Pepsi's memory fade away.
It's been like a whirlwind over the last few months and we now need to
take some time to remember our friend 'Justin Boy Pepsi Tate Smith' and
sleep well knowing we've done as much as we possibly could in the short
term to pay tribute to him.
Let's just sit here a while and remember him and enjoy the moment.
Kim, Jay and Matt
TIGERTAILZ
New Tailz DVD 'BLAST'
Pepsi
was working on the 'BLAST' DVD right up until he passed away in
September. We hope to get the editing finished and release this
DVD as
a futher tribute to him. But it will take time as we have to pull
in
other people to help.
We hope to have a better idea when this will be released in the coming
months. Thanks to you all once again for hanging in there with
us......

THRILL PISTOL -
Released on August 27 2007
COCKED & LOADED - THE ONLY
GLAMS IN THE VILLAGE DISCHARGE BOTH BARRELLS.!!!
TIGERTAILZ New Album
THRILL PISTOL is released on August 27th 2007
TIGERTAILZ Announce UK
Tour With Y&T
In support of their new album
THRILL PISTOL, TIGERTAILZ are pleased to announce their first full UK
tour in over 12 years.!!!
The TAILZ have hooked
up with their good friends Y&T and will support the San Francisco
rockers on their forthcoming UK tour. Full dates as follows:
* CARDIFF DATE ADDED....
22 October - Cardiff The Point (Tigertailz own show)
With Y&T
23 October - Leeds Rio's
25 October - Glasgow Cathouse
26 October - Newcastle Carling Academy
27 October - Manchester Academy
28 October - Bristol Thekla Social
1 November - Nottingham Rock City
2 November - Dudley JB's
3 November - London Mean Fiddler
TAILZ NEW ALBUM
- THRILL PISTOL
THRILL PISTOL will be released
via SANCTUARY
RECORDS on.
UK - August 27
Europe - September 3
USA - September 12
The final track
listing (in no particular order) is as follows:
- Brain The Sucker
- Long Live The New Flesh
- Twisted
- Thrill Pistol
- Miles Away
- She'z So Wild
- Only You
- Tongwylais Fly
- Hanging By The Heels
- Serpent Queen
As previously
reported, THRILL PISTOL will be a double CD pack that will also include
a 'bonus' disc of the
original WAZBONES album which was originally recorded in 1991 but never
officially released. Track listing of the Wazbones bonus disc is:
- Tear Your Fuckin Heart Out
- Wazbones
- Make Me Bleed
- Dirty Needles
- I Believe
- Love Junkie
- One Beat Of Your Heart
- Show Me
- Love Can Kill
- The Final Solution
GODS
OF METAL Festival
in Italy
Live pics
of this show are now in the Gallery section.
GODS OF
METAL 2007 - June 2:
MOTELY
CRUE
VELVET REVOLVER
SCORPIONS
THIN LIZZY
WHITE LION
TIGERTAILZ
Update
on Pepsi's Condition
Pepsi
Tate will travel to the US next week for further consultation /
treatment on his condition.
Despite playing the Gods Of Metal show, Pepsi's been in and out of
hospital a number of times recently in his fight against Pancreatic
cancer. He continues to keep in good spirits despite his illness
and we're all hoping the US doctors can offer him a full
recovery.
We're hopeful Pepsi will be back with us to play the UK shows with
Y&T.
"Pepsi - you are our friend, our brother and we love you. Be well
soon fella!"
From Jay, Kim, Matt.
PREVIOUS NEWS ON
PEPSI'S CONDITION:
"Following a series of
MRI and CT scans an abnormal growth has been discovered in the area
of Pepsi's pancreas. A biopsy will be performed on the 9th of February
(the day before the St David's Hall gig), and news of the results will
be made
available as soon as possible. Pepsi would like to the thank the many
fans and
friends who've extended their best wishes, and looks forward to getting
back to
work with the band later this year".
The
Wildside Festival, Nottingham, 18/11/2006 - Review
Well we'd just like to
say we had a fantastic time playing the Wildside Festival last
Saturday. It was really great to see so many long lost friends
and make many new ones. You guys were fantastic and Nottingham
really is like a second home to us. We tried to stay around for
as long as possible and meet all of you. Hopefully you all got
your stuff signed and pics taken and let's hope it's not to long before
we meet again. It was also a huge relief to see Pepsi make it
through the gig. Let's hope there's many more to come.
As usual there's a fine body of men (and women) to thank for making the
Tailz
engine fire on all cylinders. These are as follows:
DJEvAL and Adrian at Wildside for booking us & making us feel so
welcome. Thanks guys
The Tailz Message Board crew for being so loyal and supportive .
We love you
Our Crew, Mark 'Insane' Kane and Keith Stuart. The best crew any
band could ever have!
Our Merch guy 'Fast' Eddie Kelly. Just the funniest (and most
honest) man in the world
Dave Tedder - for never losing the faith
And finally, our PR guy Mikey Evans for dealing with all the
crap. We just couldn't do it without you. Many many thanks
from us all.!
Kim, Jay, Pepsi , Matt
IT's
BIG and EXCITING.. It's The New Video FALLING DOWN
Fast on
the heels of the release of BEZERK 2.0 comes the first 'official' TAILZ
promo video. Today sees the release of FALLING DOWN, the first
TAILZ promo video in over 10 years. The video was Directed by Pepsi and
visually compliments the fantastic tune of FALLING DOWN with people
falling off buildings, cars, bikes etc. This video should get
airplay on the Music TV Channels (MTV, Kerrang, Scuzz etc.) in the
coming weeks but all you TAILZ MANIACS can start writing/calling them
now to request it. To download for FREE got to the Media/Video
section here..
TIGERTAILZ
BEZERK 2.0 OUT NOW, NOW, NOWWWW.!!!
We are
pleased
to announce that our new album BEZERK 2.0 has finally been
released.. The album is available via European & UK retail
and Web outlets - NOW!!! We are just agreeing some LIVE shows and
as soon as these dates are confirmed we'll get them added to the site,
hopefully in the next few weeks. In the mean time, the US release
on WTO Records
is looking good for September as planned, we'll provide a definite date
for this ASAP.
The US release of B2 contains extra content in the form of an interview
where we discuss how each
B2 song came into being. This interview is exclusive to the US and not
included on the European release.. It's taken us nearly 3 years
to get this album out and, without your help, we couldn't have done it.
We would sincerely like to thank each and everyone one of you
for making it happen.. Many Many thanks! We'll see you all soon at the
next shows. Kim, Pepsi,
Jay, Matt
Tailz
Rock In Spain
WOW -
what a fantastic show we had at the Lorca Rock Festival, Spain.
You guys were totally amazing to us and we thank you all so
much.. We were honoured to be asked to open the main
festival stage and were almost in tears at the sight of 10,000 people
singing our songs and going MENTAL - just totally amazing.!!!.
We're already planning our next shows in Spain so we'll see you all
real soon... In the mean time check out the 'Gallery' section
for a full Live review, Pics AND video clips - thanks to Metal
Symphony. We'll see you Spanish Tailz Maniacs soon...
Tailz Win Name Dispute
After 2
years of legal action we are pleased to let everyone know that the
dispute involving the TIGERTAILZ name is now finally over! Most
of you know there has been a dispute with former members of the band
regarding ownership of the TIGERTAILZ name. However, what most
people don't know is that this involved a very long legal process with
the UK Patent Office - this being due to former members of the band
registering the TIGERTAILZ name as a Trademark in 2004 without our
knowledge. This process recently reached it's conclusion on
30/05/06 via a formal hearing where the Patent Hearing Officer upheld
our opposition to the registration of the TIGERTAILZ name.
We're not going to overplay this great newz but we'd just
like to make everyone aware that the legal process is now complete and
we were successful. The TIGERTAILZ name belongs to us!
Click here if you
would like to read the full Press release.
Despite all that's gone on over the last 2 years we still wish Steevi
and Ace all the best with their future projects. Life's to short and we
hold no grudges against anyone.
Let's just all move on.
We're delighted this whole process is now over and thank everyone who
stuck by us through this difficult time. Many thanks to you
all - you really are the best... Kim,
Pepsi, Jay, Matt
TIGERTAILZ
KICK ASS AT SWEDEN ROCK.!!!

The
TAILZ played their first ever
show in Sweden on Friday 9th June and really ROCKED the place.
With a truly awesome 40 minute set the guys set the Zeppelin stage
alight and certainly played their part in a truly awesome festival - a
big 'thank you' must go to the promoters and all involved in Sweden
Rock as they were amazing - many thanks.
The band would also like to personally
thank everyone who came to the signing session during the day and later
to the show. We're very sorry to anyone who didn't get into the signing
but the guys just ran out of time. Please send your stuff to the
main Tailz address and we'll get it signed for you. There's a
full LIVE update now in the 'Gallery' section......
Tailz
Announce Gibson Partnership..
The Tailz
have been lucky enough to have formed a partnership
with the worlds leading guitar company Gibson!. The Tailz played
some of the 'New Century' range of Gibson's at their recent festival
appearances and they looked and sounded AWESOME! Many thanks to
Mikey Evans and Juliette at Gibson for making this happen..
Please check out the 'Gallery' section
to see the Tailz in action with their 'New Century' Rock Axes!
JUST
WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO BACK OUT IN THE STREETZ.. The
world is about to go BEZERK all over again..!!!
TIGERTAILZ BEZERK
2.0
BEZERK
2.0 was released
throughout Europe on JUNE
23rd 2006
THE
TAILZ ROCKED AT LORCA ROCK, SPAIN.!!!
LORCA ROCK FESTIVAL in
SPAIN on
Saturday June 17th ... The
TAILZ were again in company with amazing Rock Legends
such as Whitesnake and Twisted Sister at this one-day festival.
Please check out the 'Gallery' section for a full
review and pics.
MORE
LIVE
PICS NOW UPLOADED.!!!
Pics from the recent
sell-out shows at THE POINT Cardiff & ROCK CITY Nottingham UK now
in the 'Gallery'
section. Also, reviews from both shows from KERRANG & CLASSIC
ROCK magazines are available....

SWEDEN
ROCK.!!! The festival
took place between the 8th-10th June and was perfect timing for the
Tailz with the release of the bands long awaited new album BEZERK
2.0 currently scheduled for an June/July release through Demolition
Records. SWEDEN ROCK also included Deep Purple,
Whitesnake, Alice Cooper, Journey, Ted Nugent and Wasp plus
many more. The Tailz really enjoyed playing Sweden for the
first time and would like to thank all you wonderful
Swedish people for making us so welcome. It really was a
fantastic weekend...
We're
looking forward to seeing all you Swedish Tailz Maniacs again real soon!
Bezerk
2.0 - For Your Eyes Only!!!!.
Download
The
New Song 'Do It Up' Here
Right Now - It's Totally FREE.!!

Tailz
Get Mesa Boogie Sponsorship..
The Tailz have been lucky enough to have formed a partnership
with Mesa Boogie and they have recently taken delivery of the new Mesa
Triple Rectifier amps for their backline. This is another
positive step for the band who have used Marshall amps forever..
The Marshall relationship will always be there but times/sounds change
and the Tailz are delighted to add the Mesa Boogie name to their
sponsor list. Many thanks to Johnnie Allan at Sanctuary and Mark
De Neys at Westside Distribution for making this happen.
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BEZERK
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BANZAI
HAVE BEEN
REISSUED!
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More than a decade after their initial release, Tigertailz' cult
classics 'Bezerk' (featuring the smash hits "Love Bomb Baby" and
"Heaven") and 'Banzai' (with "Living Without You" and the blazing
covers of "Creeping Death" and ""Peace Sellz") have been re-issued!
Sanctuary Music (aka The Biggest Independent Record Label On Earth) has
stepped up to the plate and delivered the goods - and it's all endorsed
by Murderdolls' mainman Wednesday 13 who sez, "In a scene full of copy
cats and imitations of imitations, Tigertailz stood out like a sore,
bloody, thumb. Just upon viewing the album cover in the record store at
the age of 15, I knew this album would satisfy my glam appetite." Now,
how cool is that???
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