Saxon Planning US Tour

SAXON drummer Nigel Glockler has posted a lengthy update on his official web site. A couple of excerpts from his message follow: "The first proper tour I've undertaken in seven years has come to an end and now we're entering a period of summer festivals, inbetween which we'll be continuing with the writing of the next album. It was great to renew old aquaintances and also to finally meet some of the SAXON forum contributors in the flesh. "Outstanding gig? For me it had to be London - who else but SAXON could play on St. George's Day? I've never seen so many flags at one of our gigs before! And the singing? Wow!!!!! However, thanks to everyone that attended any of our concerts, especially for making me feel like I'm back home - the 'Nigel' chants really brought a lump to my throat wherever they occurred. I hope my playing lived up to your expectations!! And I honestly loved every gig. "As I'm sure you already know, the 2007 tour is being booked. I've read a few things on the forum about the fact we seem to be ignoring certain towns, or not playing as many gigs over here as people would like. We have to promote the albums everywhere so I'm sure you can appreciate the tight scheduling that has to be adhered to. Add to that the willingness of a promoter to actually put the gigs on. . . It's the same situation with the States and Canada. We really are desperate to get over there, but not at any price - a band has a lot of overheads; gear, crew, travel - so it has to make sense financially. As long as those things can be covered, and we don't actually lose money, we're ready. We do know how frustrating it must be for the U.S. fans - it's annoying for us too! Same old story - it's down to promoters over there. Again, I read a comment on the forum a while back that we'd priced ourselves out of the Canadian/U.S. market - rubbish! No way! Whoever gave out that info is on another planet - but we're certainly not going to do a gig for the price of a couple of pizzas as happened when the band toured over there with Fritz! That's financial suicide. Rest assured, we're working on it." Read Nigel's entire message here.