Parti Gras Tour will run in 2023
Bret Michaels is plotting an “incredible amphitheater tour” in 2023 with his solo band called the Parti Gras Tour. The Poison frontman shared the news on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk today (Mon, Aug 1st), stating his solo run has been pushed back due to this year’s launch of The Stadium Tour with Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and Joan Jett after a two year delay due to the pandemic.
“I put something together incredible and now we’re gonna launch that in ’23,” Michaels shares. “And when I tell you what this is and the way we’ve designed it with everybody, it’s an incredible amphitheater tour that’s just gonna be, again, I think it’s gonna be insane, and gonna be what we call ‘The All Thriller, No Filler Summer Party,’ and you’ll know what I mean when it hits the stage. It’s really an exciting idea. We have a few of those select dates til the end of the year, but the big thing kicks off in ’23.”
Michaels didn’t reveal any further information as to who will be joining him on the trek, but teases it’ll be big.
“We know [who will be performing], but we just don’t want to say it yet,” he says after being asked about the lineup. “When you see the concept that I wrote up, I think, I think people — it’s just a great. Like I said, it’s an ‘all thriller no filler, all original singer, nothing but hits’ [tour] that’s just gonna roll. It’s gonna be — truly I’m gonna use the words, ‘nothing but a good vibe’ or ‘nothing but a good time’ — it is gonna be that kinda night. And we’re only gonna pick select dates in all the amphitheaters — Live Nation amphitheaters — and then take it out to the festivals and everything along with it.”
Michaels also confirmed that Poison will be taking a break after The Stadium Tour concludes.
“In ’25 is probably when Poison will put a humungous world tour together and go back and be incredible,” he adds. “My Parti Gras, this entire amphitheater thing we’re doing and festivals — as soon as we knew we were doing The Stadium Tour, we moved that to ’23, and we got to do The Stadium Tour which is incredible and the Poison standalone shows.”
Michaels also reiterated that he’d love to see Poison record a new song, something they were initially planning to coincide with a 2020 tour.
“I make new music everyday. Like now, as we’re talking, just finishing up stuff with [Bret Michaels Band leader and guitarist] Pete [Evick] that we’re working on everyday,” Michaels says. “And yes, without a doubt, here is what I would do with Poison — I’m having this opening because we’ve had this discussion — if we could all just pick out one, just one good song, make it amazing, make it fun like you’re seeing on The Stadium Tour. What happens when you say put together 12 songs and everyone, you know, starts this or ‘I want it to be that’ — let’s just go in and make a really great rock song, a really good new — when I say this, new version of ‘Nothing’ But A Good Time,’ a new ‘Talk Dirty To Me’ or ‘[Look What] The Cat Dragged In’ and come out with the only expectation that it’s just a great new song to play, I think we would have blast doing it. And I know with the songwriting of C.C. [Deville], Bobby [Dall], Rikki [Rockett] and myself, we would write a good song and then we just go out and have an amazing time just playing that when we go out and do stuff hopefully in ’25.”
It’s unclear how the Michaels-curated trek will work if Poison joins The Stadium Tour overseas next year. Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen says those plans are currently being finalized.
“That’s what they’re talking about. I think Motley Crue have signed up. So hopefully that’s all gonna come, and Joan Jett and Poison. That would be amazing,” Collen shares.
“I can’t reveal when or where it will happen because I haven’t been told that it’s okay to say anything yet,” Collen tells Louder Sound. “One gig is absolutely confirmed so far, and we’re looking at a second one in a different city. There will be another in Dublin, and loads around Europe. Some of them will just be festivals [with different bands], but others will be what we’re currently doing here in North America.”
Further details of Michaels’ new tour, any new Poison music and The Stadium Tour expansion will be shared as it’s announced.
In February, The Stadium was expanded in the United States after 25 stops sold out, amassing over one million tickets sold to eager fans wanting to see Mötley Crüe return seven years after their Cessation of Touring agreement. The band destroyed the contract following a massive surge in new audience after the huge success of their Netflix biopic The Dirt. The North American run of The Stadium Tour wraps in September in Las Vegas.
