KISS: Helsinki Show Sells Out In Less Than Seven Minutes

February 26, 2008

All 13,000 tickets for KISS' May 28 concert at the Hartwell Arena in Helsinki, Finland sold out within seven minutes of going on sale this morning. Other sold-out shows include June 6 in Prague, Czech Republic at the O2 Arena; May 30 concert in Stockholm, Sweden at at Stockholm Stadium (where 30,000 tickets were gone within 25 minutes); and May 31 in Oslo, Norway at Valhall.

In a recent interview with Australia's ABC News, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons explained that the idea behind the band was that they would "take no prisoners." While Simmons admitted that "we didn't quite know what that meant," the group took on a bold bravado onstage that made it famous.

"At the beginning, this was a four-headed beast called 'KISS' that had the balls to get up onstage and grab the world by the scruff of its neck and proclaim. 'You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest band in the world,'" Simmons said. "The rally cry, the manifesto, is 'Rock and Roll All Night and Party Every Day' … it's a feel-good manifesto of a party."

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