Recently, Chris Jericho teased a potential “huge show” for FOZZY surrounding AEW’s “All In” weekend in London. What is arguably AEW’s most anticipated show to date will take place Sunday, Aug. 27 at Wembley Stadium where a reported 65,000 tickets have already been sold.
On Tuesday, FOZZY announced the upcoming Aug. 25 release of a new single, “Spotlight, and on that same day the band will play a “Spotlight On London” show in London at the O2 Forum Kentish Town.
Massive Wagons and the Kris Barras Band will open the show, and tickets go on sale Thursday, June 8 at 10 a.m.
Aug. 25 will also be the on-sale date for FOZZY’s forthcoming U.K. tour set for February of 2024.
Jericho previously told Rock 96.7 that periodic singles may be the band’s blueprint for releasing new music into the future.
“We released ‘Boombox’ back, almost a year ago now,” Jericho said. “And it’s kind of a bad thing about a record, is you put all this time and all this heart and soul into 12 songs. Three of ’em are singles; all of ’em went Top 10. Three more of them we play live; they all go over great. And six of them just kind of disappear into the FOZZY song graveyard.”
Jericho lamented that the band is unable to play every song in their catalog.
“And that bothers me because there’s great songs there,” he continued. “So I think what we’re gonna do for a while is just release singles. I think that’s the business model we wanna do, ’cause I don’t want these great songs like ‘Omen’ or ‘The Worst Is Yet To Come’, ‘Army Of One’ — all of these great tunes that if you have ‘Boombox’, people go nuts for them, and they’ll never be played.”
“I think we’re gonna release another single probably in a month or two — or probably a little bit longer, ’cause we’re still kind of [putting] the finishing touches on it,” Jericho said. “But it’s awesome. And we’re excited to do that — release a song every few months rather than two years in between a record that comes and goes very quickly.”
Jericho also told ALT 105.1: “No kid knows what a record store is now. You just go on Spotify and listen to the songs you wanna hear. So you’ve gotta roll with the times. Obviously, putting out a new record is a piece of art, but I think song by song you can do the same. Plus you get a different cover for every one. So I think it just adds to more of a marketing plan. I think it’s just better for the music itself as well.”
