American rock icon Alice Cooper will be performing at Affinity Place this summer.
The City of Estevan announced Monday morning that Cooper will be bringing A Paranormal Evening with Alice Cooper to Estevan on Aug. 26. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Cooper is known for pioneering a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood and boa constrictors.
He continues to tour regularly, performing shows worldwide with the dark and horror-themed theatrics that he’s best known for.
With a schedule that includes six months of touring each year, Cooper brings his own brand of rock psycho-drama to fans both old and new, enjoying it as much as the audience does. Known as the architect of shock-rock, Cooper (in both the original Alice Cooper Band and as a solo artist) continues with his unique brand of concerts.
Cooper was born in Detroit and moved to Phoenix with his family. The Alice Cooper Band formed while band members were in high school in Phoenix, and the group was discovered in 1969 by Frank Zappa in Los Angeles, where the band was signed to his record label.
Their collaboration with young record producer Bob Ezrin led to the breakthrough third album Love It to Death, which hit the charts in 1971, followed by Killer, School’s Out, Billion Dollar Babies and Muscle of Love. Each new album release was accompanied by a bigger and more elaborate touring stage show.
A greatest hits album came out in 1974, and then Cooper released his first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare, in 1975, which was also followed by a concert tour.
Cooper’s solo career skyrocketed in the late 1970s, with a succession of hit singles, including You & Me, and albums such as Lace And Whiskey and From The Inside.
In the 1980s, Cooper explored different sounds, highlighted by the new-wavish album Flush The Fashion, the heavy metal albums Constrictor and Raise Your Fist And Yell, and then 1989’s melodic hard rock album Trash, which featured the hit single Poison. It became his biggest selling album and single worldwide.
During this period, Cooper also appeared in the horror films Monster Dog and John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, and recorded songs for the soundtracks to Roadie, Class of 1984, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, and Wes Craven’s Shocker.
In the new millennium, Cooper has remained productive and busy by writing, recording and releasing the albums Brutal Planet, Dragon Town, The Eyes of Alice Cooper, Dirty Diamonds, Along Came a Spider, and 2011’s Welcome 2 My Nightmare, plus Old School 1964-1974, a box set celebrating the original band.
Cooper has achieved platinum albums, sold-out tours and numerous honours and career achievement awards.
As he heads back out on the concert trail each year, Cooper insists he’s still motivated to continue touring and recording albums, as well as making time for such side projects as Cooper’stown (his Phoenix-based restaurant/sports bar) and his Nights With Alice Cooper nightly radio show, syndicated on over 100 stations.
Tickets for the concert in Estevan range from $65 to $115, plus service charges, and go on sale March 16 at 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster locations and on ticketmaster.ca.
