Kenneth “Okay.Okay.” Downing just isn’t technically a founding member of Judas Priest, however solely as a result of not one of the true founding members of the band nonetheless stay. Downing was, nevertheless, a part of one of many earliest incarnations of the band, the primary to file an album with the band, and he appeared on each Judas Priest album up by means of 2008’s Nostradamus. Thus, when he’s mistakenly known as a founding member of Judas Priest, which he typically is, all of us simply type of roll with it as a result of it’s roughly true.
Now at 72-years-old, Downing hasn’t performed a present with Priest in about 13 years, and plainly he and the band intend to maintain it that approach. In a latest interview with German website WDR on the latest Rock Arduous Pageant in Germany, Downing defined what it could take for him to reunite with Judas Priest: cash, and plenty of it. Right here’s what he instructed WDR, as transcribed by Blabbermouth:
“Properly, let me see the verify. [Laughs] It must be very, very massive. No. I’m completely satisfied. I’m content material. I humbly approached the fellows a few years in the past and mentioned, ‘Look, what do you concentrate on me being again? You’re desirous about being a four-piece and doing stuff.’ And so they mentioned, ‘No.’ And in order that’s it. It’s closure, I suppose — which, it’s unhappy.”
In the meantime, Downing is touring together with his band that he calls Okay.Okay.’s Priest, and so they’re doing a run of European tour dates earlier than returning to North America. Take a look at the total record of dates under:
MAY 11 – BOMAL-SUR-OURTHE, BELGIUM – DURBUY ROCK FESTIVAL
MAY 12 – UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS – TIVOLIVREDENBURG
MAY 14 – STUTTGART, GERMANY – LKA LONGHORN
MAY 15 – ASCHAFFENBURG, GERMANY – COLOS-SAAL
MAY 16 – HAMBURG, GERMANY – GRUENSPAN (*NEW VENUE)
MAY 18 – GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY – ROCK HARD FESTIVAL
MAY 19 – MUNICH, GERMANY – BACKSTAGE WERK
JUNE 15 – ZAMORA, SPAIN – Z! LIVE FESTIVAL
JULY 5 – BARCELONA, SPAIN – BARCELONA ROCK FEST
JULY 7 – BILBAO, SPAIN – SANTANA 27
JULY 10 – PRATTELN, SWITZERLAND – Z 7
JULY 12 – LEOBEN, AUSTRIA – AREA 53 FESTIVAL
JULY 13 – WROCLAW, POLAND – CENTRUM KONCERTOWE A2
JULY 14 – VIZOVICE, CZECH REPUBLIC – MASTERS OF ROCK FESTIVAL
AUGUST 1 – WACKEN, GERMANY – WACKEN OPEN AIR FESTIVAL
AUGUST 3 – SZEKESFEHERVAR, HUNGARY – FEZEN FESTIVAL
AUGUST 4 – RASNOV, ROMANIA – ROCKSTADT EXTREME FEST
AUGUST 16 – CARHAIX, FRANCE – MOTOCULTOR FESTIVAL
AUGUST 18 – CARDIFF, UK – TRAMSHED
AUGUST 20 – BELFAST, UK – LIMELIGHT
AUGUST 21 – DUBLIN, IRELAND – ACADEMY
AUGUST 23 – NEWCASTLE, UK – NX
AUGUST 24 – NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, UK – STONEDEAD FESTIVAL
AUGUST 31- WHISKY A GO-GO – LOS ANGELES, CA
SEPTEMBER 1 – THE RAINBOW BACKYARD BASH 2024 – LOS ANGELES, CA
SEPTEMBER 3 – ORIENTAL THEATER – DENVER, CO
SEPTEMBER 5 – THE RUST BELT – EAST MOLINE, IL
SEPTEMBER 6 – EPIC EVENTS CENTER – GREEN BAY, WI
SEPTEMBER 7 – DES PLAINES THEATER – DES PLAINES, IL
SEPTEMBER 8 – DISTRICT 142 – DETROIT, MI
SEPTEMBER 10 – QET – TORONTO, ON
SEPTEMBER 11 – RIALTO THEATRE – MONTREAL, QC
SEPTEMBER 13 – THE PALLADIUM – NEW YORK, NY
SEPTEMBER 14 – TUPELO MUSIC HALL – DERRY, NH
SEPTEMBER 15 – THE WILBUR THEATRE – BOSTON, MA
SEPTEMBER 16 – RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE – RIDGEFIELD, CT
SEPTEMBER 18 – MICKEY’S BLACK BOX – LITITZ, PA
SEPTEMBER 20 – SHERMAN THEATER – STROUDSBURG, PA
SEPTEMBER 21 – THE STRAND BALLROOM – PROVIDENCE, RI
SEPTEMBER 22 – TALLY HO THEATER – LEESBURG, VA
SEPTEMBER 24 – BROOKLYN BOWL – NASHVILLE, TN
SEPTEMBER 26 – THE FILLMORE – NEW ORLEANS, LA
SEPTEMBER 27 – THE HALL – LITTLE ROCK, AR
SEPTEMBER 28 – TANNAHILL’S – FORT WORTH, TX
SEPTEMBER 29 – PARAMOUNT THEATRE – AUSTIN, TX
OCTOBER 1 – SUNSHINE THEATER – ALBUQUERQUE, NM
OCTOBER 2 – CELEBRITY THEATRE – PHOENIX, AZ
OCTOBER 4 – FOX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER – RIVERSIDE, CA
OCTOBER 5 – THE MAGNOLIA – SAN DIEGO, CA
OCTOBER 6 – ACE OF SPADES – SACRAMENTO, CA
OCTOBER 7 – THE REGENCY BALLROOM – SAN FRANCISCO, CA
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